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Hello, I just want to say thank you for taking the time to read this, it is difficult for me to put myself out there but I'm not sure what else to do
I’ve read both Millionaire Fastlane and Unscripted . I keep re-reading both of them but I keep spinning my tires and I find I'm stuck with issues that I'm trying to work through but I keep hitting a brick wall and there has to be a solution, another way. I think because I am so burned out from the burden of my job and health stuff, and that my head has been in it so long I cannot see the solution.
The key problem is my health. I have a job that has excellent health care but it doesn’t meet my financial goals and most of all I want freedom so I can enjoy what I have left of my life. Also my job is now negatively affecting my health as the building I work in has severe mold issues. Every day I go to work my face turns red I get headaches and severely tired. I am fully ready for a FTE but my health insurance and mortgage payments stop me.
Some backstory... my health; I spent my entire 30’s being in and out of emergency rooms and operating rooms. In ‘06 I started my computer repair biz, got it incorporated in July, already had clients in Nov. I was getting ready to advertise my biz on billboards and at my main job that same month I fell down a flight of stairs while carrying a PC, the irony. Tore my shoulder had to have it operated on twice over the next two years. Early 2009 discovered a huge ascending aortic aneurysm (caused by antibiotics) had to have open heart surgery and now have to take expensive name brand blood thinners and other heart meds for life as the generics don't work. I also had to have other operations as well. I now have an abdominal aortic aneurysm that may take me out or I may not make it through surgery. All of this killed my PC biz. Due to lifting restrictions I had to abandon it before it got going and due to my job I have no interest in fixing pc’s anymore I've been doing it 20 years and just the sight of a Windows PC stresses me out.
I tried slinging shirts on several platforms but just ended up spending tons of money on designs that never sold and now on the main platform I use they constantly change the rules and give you 30 days or less to modify thousands of listings while providing no tool to bulk download all the listings and change them. In addition I have to check for frivolous trademarks constantly for new and even existing designs, constantly file DMCA takedowns on copycats (as I lose sales whenever copies appear). It has caused way to much stress, costed way too much time input vs reward. In a nutshell to me it’s an unsustainable business model IMHO and it’s someone else’s playground and rules so it’s really not a business. I also sell mugs on these platforms as well but I'm making only 10-15% of the price of it after the platform takes their cut, manufacturing, shipping and ad costs.
I’m currently 44, I feel completely trapped, I want freedom, I had the OHS a decade ago to save my life and yet I ask myself for what? To live a scripted life of mediocrity? All I have done is pissed it away in this job that means nothing and on fruitless pursuits. I want out, I want to start something, anything. I feel the clock is ticking down on me all the time (the constant physical reminder from my metal heart valve does not help), leading to overwhelm and feeling like I've just wasted my life away and continue to do so. I don’t have 10 or 20 years to build something successful as its unlikely I’ll be around that long, if I am great but I doubt it given my health track history.
I am willing to put in the work but I just don’t know what I can get started in that can generate enough money that I can fund my own top of the line health care plan and/or where I have enough money that health bills become irrelevant. I have looked at solving problems like becoming a Print on Demand manufacturer for sellers or making custom products using CNC machines or Laser engravers but that may be a really stupid idea. I have about $5,000 from my shirt sales that I can put into a new business. I’m not looking for handouts or pity just some direction or actionable suggestions or even types of businesses to look into as there may be a type of business I am not aware of. Thank you for your time.
I’ve read both Millionaire Fastlane and Unscripted . I keep re-reading both of them but I keep spinning my tires and I find I'm stuck with issues that I'm trying to work through but I keep hitting a brick wall and there has to be a solution, another way. I think because I am so burned out from the burden of my job and health stuff, and that my head has been in it so long I cannot see the solution.
The key problem is my health. I have a job that has excellent health care but it doesn’t meet my financial goals and most of all I want freedom so I can enjoy what I have left of my life. Also my job is now negatively affecting my health as the building I work in has severe mold issues. Every day I go to work my face turns red I get headaches and severely tired. I am fully ready for a FTE but my health insurance and mortgage payments stop me.
Some backstory... my health; I spent my entire 30’s being in and out of emergency rooms and operating rooms. In ‘06 I started my computer repair biz, got it incorporated in July, already had clients in Nov. I was getting ready to advertise my biz on billboards and at my main job that same month I fell down a flight of stairs while carrying a PC, the irony. Tore my shoulder had to have it operated on twice over the next two years. Early 2009 discovered a huge ascending aortic aneurysm (caused by antibiotics) had to have open heart surgery and now have to take expensive name brand blood thinners and other heart meds for life as the generics don't work. I also had to have other operations as well. I now have an abdominal aortic aneurysm that may take me out or I may not make it through surgery. All of this killed my PC biz. Due to lifting restrictions I had to abandon it before it got going and due to my job I have no interest in fixing pc’s anymore I've been doing it 20 years and just the sight of a Windows PC stresses me out.
I tried slinging shirts on several platforms but just ended up spending tons of money on designs that never sold and now on the main platform I use they constantly change the rules and give you 30 days or less to modify thousands of listings while providing no tool to bulk download all the listings and change them. In addition I have to check for frivolous trademarks constantly for new and even existing designs, constantly file DMCA takedowns on copycats (as I lose sales whenever copies appear). It has caused way to much stress, costed way too much time input vs reward. In a nutshell to me it’s an unsustainable business model IMHO and it’s someone else’s playground and rules so it’s really not a business. I also sell mugs on these platforms as well but I'm making only 10-15% of the price of it after the platform takes their cut, manufacturing, shipping and ad costs.
I’m currently 44, I feel completely trapped, I want freedom, I had the OHS a decade ago to save my life and yet I ask myself for what? To live a scripted life of mediocrity? All I have done is pissed it away in this job that means nothing and on fruitless pursuits. I want out, I want to start something, anything. I feel the clock is ticking down on me all the time (the constant physical reminder from my metal heart valve does not help), leading to overwhelm and feeling like I've just wasted my life away and continue to do so. I don’t have 10 or 20 years to build something successful as its unlikely I’ll be around that long, if I am great but I doubt it given my health track history.
I am willing to put in the work but I just don’t know what I can get started in that can generate enough money that I can fund my own top of the line health care plan and/or where I have enough money that health bills become irrelevant. I have looked at solving problems like becoming a Print on Demand manufacturer for sellers or making custom products using CNC machines or Laser engravers but that may be a really stupid idea. I have about $5,000 from my shirt sales that I can put into a new business. I’m not looking for handouts or pity just some direction or actionable suggestions or even types of businesses to look into as there may be a type of business I am not aware of. Thank you for your time.
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