Your family and friends, in general, wants the best for you.Hello community, I am new, I am from Peru, I would like to tell my story but it is boring and long so I will summarize that: by the standards of my society I was a little genius and now I am a failure in the eyes of my parents and my friends. I begin by saying that when I finish school, I immediately arrive at a prestigious university at the age of 17, the truth seemed to me a waste of time, and the educational system in my country is crap. I decided to leave and I told my family that I was going to earn money online, although I did not know anything, I only knew very little English and the Spanish content is pure SCAM, I fell into the lies of earning with dropshipping and Fb ads but no I had not a penny, I decided to create a Funnel agency, total failure besides that in Peru he did not care about that, I decided to improve my English to full, now I can understand better and I run into SEO, monetize with Amazon Affiliates and Adsense but I have Given that if you do not have a budget for Linkbuilding campaigns, it is very difficult to position micro-niches, so even though I have earned a few cents on the dollar, I feel like a failure. More than 1 year has passed, my family holds everything in my face and I have decided to lose many friends. Until recently I decided to be a freelancer, automate processes as a web developer, open an agency for it and get into a specific sector of web development in Europe and the US as a freelancer, I don't know how to tell my parents that I want to leave the seo, I'm sure They will put it in the face, I'm feeling lonely. I only know that I have started to read the first book by MJ DeMarco and the problem was me in many ways, I have already stepped on shit for many months, it is time for my change. I will be commenting on my process as a freelancer web developer, greetings.
Your family and friends, however, don't know anything about living a successful life, and have no ability to actually give you useful advice or direction. They mean well.. but ignore them.
My own family, even my mom who is reasonably successful all told me not to pursue the business that's now working very well for me. Why? Because they had no experience with business, and in their world, business is not how to make money.
It's fine that you "failed". You are very young, and there is no reason that you *should* succeed on your first, second, or third try. Think of business as a skill. When you started, at 17, your skill was ZERO. Why should you expect to succeed?
Start with something simple. Web development. Whatever. Don't try to make a complex, scalable business first. Just start earning some money. Don't over think. Don't try to take a shortcut with bullshit get-rich-quick schemes.
You have time. Take it slow.
Keep learning, keep trying, and you will eventually improve your skill, understanding, and results. Your family, will, at that time, start to respect you.