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  1. Zarathustra

    Investing in index funds without the wrinkly old grandpa age limitations of IRAs/401ks?

    INVESTING 
    I'm 22, see the government printing a lot of money, see the stock market going up, and I simply want to put my savings in index/mutual funds to get in on the rising market and beat inflation. I have $25k in USD just sitting in my bank and inflating away. Looking into IRAs/401k's, they have this...
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    Is city life about to change forever?

    HOT! OFF-TOPIC 
    Let's wait til after the vaccine comes until we make any long-term predictions about cities being changed "forever". Altho, I tend to think that there will be residual effects and an afterglow of sorts from the pandemic/riots. Remember when remote work used to seem wacky/ineffective in the...
  3. Zarathustra

    Spent years pursuing the wrong business/career. Am I making the same mistake again?

    "How long have they been making $10k/mo semi-passively for?" and "Have you been able to make a similar amount?" are the crucial questions here.
  4. Zarathustra

    Spent years pursuing the wrong business/career. Am I making the same mistake again?

    Thank you, this brilliantly put it in perspective. I actually did learn a lot about sales, marketing, and customer service since I did have successful ventures and that was one of the main tools you could wield. Sales/marketing/customer service are not necessarily quantifiable "hard skills"...
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    Spent years pursuing the wrong business/career. Am I making the same mistake again?

    Yes, you can't make my life decisions for me. But advice/insight is always helpful and appreciated. My end goal has always been financial freedom through entrepreneurship. I just spent the past three years involved in a variety of "no college required" career paths. These are widely labeled as...
  6. Zarathustra

    23 years old software engineer

    INTRO 
    Welcome :) What type of bot/s are you interested in?
  7. Zarathustra

    Whats the best type of sales job for SaaS entrepreneurs to learn sales?

    SAAS / APPS 
    Ah okay, I see. In a company, it definitely becomes more measurable and not vague (since you have other salespeople to compare against). But as a business owner being the only one selling your product/s, I've always found measuring overall sales ability quite vague.
  8. Zarathustra

    Whats the best type of sales job for SaaS entrepreneurs to learn sales?

    SAAS / APPS 
    Am I the only one who feels like "learning sales" is such a fluffy, vague endeavor? I'm not saying you shouldn't learn sales and even try practicing. But it can be pretty vague whether or not you're making progress in your "sales skill". A large contrast when compared to progress in coding and...
  9. Zarathustra

    I'm 21 right now and i think i lost the will to live

    MINDSET RANT 
    @MoneyHacker I'm 21 too, USA. Also went down a similar route as you with the blackhat marketing shit. It's money chasing garbage that provides income for a while (if you're fortunate) but doesn't last, which is the worst. If you could make money off that, you can make money off other things...
  10. Zarathustra

    Young software dev seeking to escape slow lane dogma

    INTRO 
    Welcome man, I'm 21 and actually wish I was more so in your position than the one I'm in now (exited an internet marketing business and am sitting on a nest egg, not sure what further to do). You have a ton of software development knowledge under your belt. Question: Have you considered...
  11. Zarathustra

    Feel too old to learn to code? here some motivation

    MINDSET 
    The more I look at it, the more I see coding as a Fastlane superpower. Very interested in getting proficient at this.
  12. Zarathustra

    Building a business living on a nest egg, not a stable 9-5?

    The more I think about it, the more I'm thinking that having a solid coding/dev background could be very useful to transitioning into Fastlane projects like software development. There's so many things that can be done with software it's crazy. I think my biggest hurdles right now are: 1. I...
  13. Zarathustra

    Building a business living on a nest egg, not a stable 9-5?

    I think the credential part is the problem. Have you gotten a part-time or full-time remote job solely off Udemy courses?
  14. Zarathustra

    Building a business living on a nest egg, not a stable 9-5?

    This whole software/coder thing is actually starting to become much more interesting, since it's so high in demand. I'm really curious where exactly you're learning from? Is this a credentialed situation? What's your background experience like (any related college degrees or a history coding as...
  15. Zarathustra

    Building a business living on a nest egg, not a stable 9-5?

    After my last business ran its course, I'm now left with a somewhat large nest egg that could last me maybe a year or two. It feels like such a different experience running on a nest egg with zero net income versus having a stable 9-5 in case your business ventures don't pan out. I've never had...
  16. Zarathustra

    How hard is it to actually find a good business idea?

    HOT! IDEA 
    After my last business ran its cycle, I've been looking for a new business to start. I don't know if I'm overthinking or if it's actually this hard to find a good business idea that fits NECST. It's been about a month and I'm sorta paralyzed right now because every idea I come up with seems to...
  17. Zarathustra

    Jordan Peterson on Entrepreneurship

    That's honestly just the tip of the iceberg. If you actually dive into his works like Maps Of Meaning and his Biblical Series, he blows your F*cking mind about crazy shit that completely reorients how you see the world.
  18. Zarathustra

    Tired of my life.

    INTRO 
    Bookmarked this thread as an example of hell and something to avoid. Wish you the best of luck mate.
  19. Zarathustra

    How to break the cycle of "Hard times➡️Discipline➡️Good Times➡️Laziness➡️Hard Times"?

    HOT! MINDSET 
    Read the first bit of this book and saw it more as a team leadership book (doesn't apply to me yet as I'm a solopreneur). But will push through it on audio while I eat and travel. It seems like the general consensus in this thread is the same old not so pleasant advice around discipline. It's...
  20. Zarathustra

    How to break the cycle of "Hard times➡️Discipline➡️Good Times➡️Laziness➡️Hard Times"?

    HOT! MINDSET 
    There this famous adage, "Hard times create strong men, strong men create good times, good times create weak men and weak men create hard times" has been applied widely to history (i.e. the rise and fall of Rome, the path of the United States, economic bubbles, etc) I'm seeing parallels in...
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