I have 2 options. First off let me start off by saying that I live with my single mom, I am turning 19 this summer, I am NOT planning on attending post-secondary school because I quite frankly do not want that kind of debt and I can't afford to pay for it. I normally spend 6-7 days a week reading books like MFL, business books in general and doing some 2D or 3D art for games on the side for money, mind you I don't make enough to live off of.
Now here are my two options:
1. Spend a few months building a new art portfolio, get a $40,000 - $60,000 / year job and save for a year or two so I can move out and have some savings to start a business.
2. Stay with my Mom who supports me by paying for internet, food, and etc. and use the small bit of savings I have from doing side art jobs (assume this is a minimum wage salary essentially), and try to build passive income streams with little to no money, but with success I'd be saving 2-3 years of time I'd otherwise be trading for 80-120k in savings.
I've read MFL from start to finish a couple times now (by the way how do I put that on my forum profile?) and I know that it is really targeted more towards people who have gone to post-secondary school and have either a crap minimum wage job or a corporate job working for a company.
See, my original plan was to self-teach art which was going quite smoothly until a friend of mine sent me a thread on this forum, which caused me to stumble upon MJ's book. I have employable art skills, but I also know that I have the discipline to self-educate on any subject (thank you books and internet!), in fact doing art has taught me a lot about self directed learning, failure, persistence and the importance of mindset, which I hope will come in handy when I start my first business.
I have 15 or so business ideas that I've written down while reading MFL, and of those 15, about 5 of them, I believe are profitable and more importantly will teach me what I need to learn about being a successful entrepreneur.
So, what do you fast-laner's suggest I do? I don't want to continue leeching off of my Mom for any longer, it's pathetic and I hate myself for it enough as it is.
My dilemma really lies between choosing whether to trade off 2 - 3 valuable years of my life, as MFL suggests is a BAD idea for money so that I can move out on my own and have some money to invest in my businesses, OR saving 2 - 3 years of my life, but trying to hit a homerun with peanuts to invest.
I really appreciate any help from anyone, especially if you started out like me.
Now here are my two options:
1. Spend a few months building a new art portfolio, get a $40,000 - $60,000 / year job and save for a year or two so I can move out and have some savings to start a business.
2. Stay with my Mom who supports me by paying for internet, food, and etc. and use the small bit of savings I have from doing side art jobs (assume this is a minimum wage salary essentially), and try to build passive income streams with little to no money, but with success I'd be saving 2-3 years of time I'd otherwise be trading for 80-120k in savings.
I've read MFL from start to finish a couple times now (by the way how do I put that on my forum profile?) and I know that it is really targeted more towards people who have gone to post-secondary school and have either a crap minimum wage job or a corporate job working for a company.
See, my original plan was to self-teach art which was going quite smoothly until a friend of mine sent me a thread on this forum, which caused me to stumble upon MJ's book. I have employable art skills, but I also know that I have the discipline to self-educate on any subject (thank you books and internet!), in fact doing art has taught me a lot about self directed learning, failure, persistence and the importance of mindset, which I hope will come in handy when I start my first business.
I have 15 or so business ideas that I've written down while reading MFL, and of those 15, about 5 of them, I believe are profitable and more importantly will teach me what I need to learn about being a successful entrepreneur.
So, what do you fast-laner's suggest I do? I don't want to continue leeching off of my Mom for any longer, it's pathetic and I hate myself for it enough as it is.
My dilemma really lies between choosing whether to trade off 2 - 3 valuable years of my life, as MFL suggests is a BAD idea for money so that I can move out on my own and have some money to invest in my businesses, OR saving 2 - 3 years of my life, but trying to hit a homerun with peanuts to invest.
I really appreciate any help from anyone, especially if you started out like me.
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