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It's been 3 months since i read TMF and decided to go the entrepreneurial route, i'm a broken 18-year-old kid that still lives with their parents, and it has been tough, not economically as i still have people taking care of me, but all the things i have tried so far have failed miserably, my app barely got any active users, at the time i was pretty sure it fitted CENTS pretty well, except for entry, but there is still no competition, so maybe i was just wrong, my gadget to hide the bezels of triple monitors was just a massive waste of time and unpractical, as i had to scrap it in the end.
I understand that persistence is important, and my first attempts were going to be a failure regardless, it's just been frustrating to keep moving forward, it's ironic as one my posts in this forum was telling people how important it is to keep moving forward when you are stuck and frustrated in app development, but i can't think of anything anymore, i think it might be my lack of experience in the real world, most of my life has been in front of a computer, the only marketable skills i have are programming and being bilingual, and i know there are likely a bazillion opportunities for people with those skill sets out there i just can't see them, i have been thinking of getting a job in a development firm to see what kind of projects they work on, but i'm afraid that it will just slowly suck me into the slowlane, like how MJ worked as a limbo driver before building his business.
I'm in the last year of high school and have been doing the bare minimum to make my parents happy, and focusing as much as possible in finding my first business/doing my hassles to raise money, at times i really feel like just giving up and going the government employ route which everyone wants me to go, do an entrance exam, get paid for pretending to work for 40 years, and retire with all the benefits you could think of, my "reasons" go something like this: "oh well uuuuh.... entrepreneurship is for westerners! People in my third world shithole don't have the disposable income to sustain business that aren't already big!", "but... but....the WEF will take everything I own, and I will be happy in a few years, why bother building assets?!", "the world is entering a food and energy crisis, all the non-essential business will go broke and all the essential ones are already too big for me to compete!(don't bother with the fact a lot of what MJ says is that you only need to do it better in a few ways) and they will probably get nationalized either way!".
Then i come to this forum and realize all of that is just me trying to rationalize being afraid and lazy, i already decided what i wanted for my life going forward, I feel stuck in this phase of starting rolling the momentum, nothing i do works, nothing i conceive feels feasible, sorry to make you read this entire rant, if anything i really just wanted to ask if you have ever been in a situation like this, and what did you do about it.
I understand that persistence is important, and my first attempts were going to be a failure regardless, it's just been frustrating to keep moving forward, it's ironic as one my posts in this forum was telling people how important it is to keep moving forward when you are stuck and frustrated in app development, but i can't think of anything anymore, i think it might be my lack of experience in the real world, most of my life has been in front of a computer, the only marketable skills i have are programming and being bilingual, and i know there are likely a bazillion opportunities for people with those skill sets out there i just can't see them, i have been thinking of getting a job in a development firm to see what kind of projects they work on, but i'm afraid that it will just slowly suck me into the slowlane, like how MJ worked as a limbo driver before building his business.
I'm in the last year of high school and have been doing the bare minimum to make my parents happy, and focusing as much as possible in finding my first business/doing my hassles to raise money, at times i really feel like just giving up and going the government employ route which everyone wants me to go, do an entrance exam, get paid for pretending to work for 40 years, and retire with all the benefits you could think of, my "reasons" go something like this: "oh well uuuuh.... entrepreneurship is for westerners! People in my third world shithole don't have the disposable income to sustain business that aren't already big!", "but... but....the WEF will take everything I own, and I will be happy in a few years, why bother building assets?!", "the world is entering a food and energy crisis, all the non-essential business will go broke and all the essential ones are already too big for me to compete!(don't bother with the fact a lot of what MJ says is that you only need to do it better in a few ways) and they will probably get nationalized either way!".
Then i come to this forum and realize all of that is just me trying to rationalize being afraid and lazy, i already decided what i wanted for my life going forward, I feel stuck in this phase of starting rolling the momentum, nothing i do works, nothing i conceive feels feasible, sorry to make you read this entire rant, if anything i really just wanted to ask if you have ever been in a situation like this, and what did you do about it.
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