Hi everybody!
I just joined this forum and I look forward to get ideas and knowledge I need to kick off my own business and find full independence!
My situation: I am 37 y.o. currently on a 9-5 job as project manager that quite honestly I like and pays just over 50k €/year. I am home based, so despite not working for myself I have quite a bit of freedom and do not spend time commuting in and out of an office (which I hate). I also have an extra income from a hobby of mine (poker), which brought me around 250k in the past 5 years and make some extra money by coaching players and making videos for a poker school. I dedicate about 15/week to poker on average and despite of liking it I wouldn't like to play full time. Said this my realistic yearly expectation from poker is more like 30k €/year now as the game it is getting tougher with time.
I am married and my wife also works (in an office). I spend an average of around 2.5k/3k per/month everything included to live.
The reason I am here is that although I am overall happy with my life, I still don't feel 100% independent. I don't want to work for someone else for the next 30 years and want to be able to work when and where I decide to. I love travelling and being able to work from wherever I am around. I always had a lot of ideas, but I never make the real change and put them in action as I should have.
In the last couple of months I started studying programming on my own free time, I would like to be able to design/develop my own website with more than basic functionality when I finally figured out what business to kick off. I don't even know is this makes sense, or should I just outsource, but I like to have control and the more skills I have the more I feel like I can progress without depending on externals. I am not yet sure though whether website advertising (once I generate enough traffic) is a worthy business or should I focus on selling something. Or what other potential internet business are out there. I have many unanswered question I hope to find clarification to in the next days/weeks via this forum.
I don't care about becoming millionaire to be honest, but want to make good money and be able to work at my own pace without reporting to anyone except me!
Any help/suggestion is very much appreciated.
I just joined this forum and I look forward to get ideas and knowledge I need to kick off my own business and find full independence!
My situation: I am 37 y.o. currently on a 9-5 job as project manager that quite honestly I like and pays just over 50k €/year. I am home based, so despite not working for myself I have quite a bit of freedom and do not spend time commuting in and out of an office (which I hate). I also have an extra income from a hobby of mine (poker), which brought me around 250k in the past 5 years and make some extra money by coaching players and making videos for a poker school. I dedicate about 15/week to poker on average and despite of liking it I wouldn't like to play full time. Said this my realistic yearly expectation from poker is more like 30k €/year now as the game it is getting tougher with time.
I am married and my wife also works (in an office). I spend an average of around 2.5k/3k per/month everything included to live.
The reason I am here is that although I am overall happy with my life, I still don't feel 100% independent. I don't want to work for someone else for the next 30 years and want to be able to work when and where I decide to. I love travelling and being able to work from wherever I am around. I always had a lot of ideas, but I never make the real change and put them in action as I should have.
In the last couple of months I started studying programming on my own free time, I would like to be able to design/develop my own website with more than basic functionality when I finally figured out what business to kick off. I don't even know is this makes sense, or should I just outsource, but I like to have control and the more skills I have the more I feel like I can progress without depending on externals. I am not yet sure though whether website advertising (once I generate enough traffic) is a worthy business or should I focus on selling something. Or what other potential internet business are out there. I have many unanswered question I hope to find clarification to in the next days/weeks via this forum.
I don't care about becoming millionaire to be honest, but want to make good money and be able to work at my own pace without reporting to anyone except me!
Any help/suggestion is very much appreciated.
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