Hey everyone, my names Liam. Im 22 and from the UK.
I work in Helpdesk 1st Line and have done for 5 painful years. Never went to university, never finished school to be honest. So I don't have any qualifications to my name
I can't stand working where I do now, the work is mundane, the people hate me, the progression is 0. Hate to sound like a millennial but the biggest pain for me is I make literally zero impact, even in the company. Resetting 50 passwords a day is not productive, it could easily be automated. If its not doing a simple fix all Im doing is raising a ticket and passing to someone who is properly technical, that could be automated too. My worth is literally worthless, an arse in a seat.
For the past 18 months Ive been doing Amazon FBA. Haven't had any real successes until a few months ago,
The big problem with Amazon for me is that it doesn't take up much time, there is so much waiting and inbetween time. Its overall a very passive business. Which is fine but my inbetween time (like 95% of my free time) is wasted because I don't know what to do, I want to be working I guess but I have no direction and just watch youtube videos/video games to pass the time
I seriously struggle with procrastinating. I guess its fear on a subconscious level, I think the only reason I went with Amazon stuff is because I could see the revenues and had some data on peoples sales volumes which gave me confidence,
I don't really know what idea to start. Everything idea I scrape up seems like there would be no demand for it, or it would require a ton of money to start, or is just a me too business with no real reason or differentiating factor to it.
Because I don't know what to do and have pissed away 2 years in this state, is it worth just furthering my career? I.e. get an IT Cert (probably AWS Associate one since they're in demand) -> move onto better job -> earn more money to invest into Amazon products. The good thing going that route is atleast Im doing SOMETHING. There is some form of expansion or growth there and I'll move out of the current painful job. But the bad side is that it feels like complete blasphemy to my goals, it also feels like wasted effort since its a means to an end. Getting more qualified to eventually just quit. The last thing is the comfort of the better paying job and potential work definitely scares me, although waking up at 5am to drive in traffic everyday is not sexy.
What advice would you give me?
I work in Helpdesk 1st Line and have done for 5 painful years. Never went to university, never finished school to be honest. So I don't have any qualifications to my name
I can't stand working where I do now, the work is mundane, the people hate me, the progression is 0. Hate to sound like a millennial but the biggest pain for me is I make literally zero impact, even in the company. Resetting 50 passwords a day is not productive, it could easily be automated. If its not doing a simple fix all Im doing is raising a ticket and passing to someone who is properly technical, that could be automated too. My worth is literally worthless, an arse in a seat.
For the past 18 months Ive been doing Amazon FBA. Haven't had any real successes until a few months ago,
The big problem with Amazon for me is that it doesn't take up much time, there is so much waiting and inbetween time. Its overall a very passive business. Which is fine but my inbetween time (like 95% of my free time) is wasted because I don't know what to do, I want to be working I guess but I have no direction and just watch youtube videos/video games to pass the time
I seriously struggle with procrastinating. I guess its fear on a subconscious level, I think the only reason I went with Amazon stuff is because I could see the revenues and had some data on peoples sales volumes which gave me confidence,
I don't really know what idea to start. Everything idea I scrape up seems like there would be no demand for it, or it would require a ton of money to start, or is just a me too business with no real reason or differentiating factor to it.
Because I don't know what to do and have pissed away 2 years in this state, is it worth just furthering my career? I.e. get an IT Cert (probably AWS Associate one since they're in demand) -> move onto better job -> earn more money to invest into Amazon products. The good thing going that route is atleast Im doing SOMETHING. There is some form of expansion or growth there and I'll move out of the current painful job. But the bad side is that it feels like complete blasphemy to my goals, it also feels like wasted effort since its a means to an end. Getting more qualified to eventually just quit. The last thing is the comfort of the better paying job and potential work definitely scares me, although waking up at 5am to drive in traffic everyday is not sexy.
What advice would you give me?
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