Sup,
I was up to building at least 8 businesses in the last 4 years, which were software and hardware products, fairly diverse. At the moment, I'm running a window cleaning business/hustle to pay rent and finance further prototypes.
I declared all previous projects failures. My last three were mostly to build resume as I realized I wasn't able to build real products, because I wasn't working a job and needed money. I couldn't finish 3 of the last projects either, because the debugging slop involved was incredible. I've spent 2-3 months full time on each and still I need to refactor and fix and debug and test and refactor and fix.
I'm surprised that, every day, after day of cleaning windows I have nothing to do. And it's been like that for a month now. Because all projects "failed", and are commerically unviable, there is no point in developing them any further. So I don't.
Of course, I'm earning little money doing window cleaning. 200$/day, if that. Doing that 30 days a mo is 6k.
So I'm just wasting my evenings. Of course, I'm tired after working 7 days a week walking 12km a day on average.
I've tried scaling my window cleaning business but after blowing a 1.5k on ads/software/hiring people I'm cautious to do any further. Nothing worked better than simply going out d2d.
Uuh. Where do I go from here? I haven't read any books except about technology e.g. software or mechanical engineering. As I'm sitting down, I realize that I need a job in software for money and visa purposes, and last time I applied to those jobs, I failed technical interviews. Heck, most jobs didn't even consider me as I don't have a degree.
I'm starting my Masters in AI degree in just a week (mid january)... but even then - I have one project in mind (posted on the speedway), but that requires more investment and I don't know... I need to pay tuition and rent, and money is scarce.
building things just for the sake of building them? well, I don't know if that will work. I have failed so much in tech recently I don't know where to go anymore.
Note: this is after I spent 24/7 for the last years building things. I took pride in working so much like nobody does. But that didn't lead to anything, as here I am, with less than 1k$ to my name.
What would you do in the evenings after college and stuff ends?
I was up to building at least 8 businesses in the last 4 years, which were software and hardware products, fairly diverse. At the moment, I'm running a window cleaning business/hustle to pay rent and finance further prototypes.
I declared all previous projects failures. My last three were mostly to build resume as I realized I wasn't able to build real products, because I wasn't working a job and needed money. I couldn't finish 3 of the last projects either, because the debugging slop involved was incredible. I've spent 2-3 months full time on each and still I need to refactor and fix and debug and test and refactor and fix.
I'm surprised that, every day, after day of cleaning windows I have nothing to do. And it's been like that for a month now. Because all projects "failed", and are commerically unviable, there is no point in developing them any further. So I don't.
Of course, I'm earning little money doing window cleaning. 200$/day, if that. Doing that 30 days a mo is 6k.
So I'm just wasting my evenings. Of course, I'm tired after working 7 days a week walking 12km a day on average.
I've tried scaling my window cleaning business but after blowing a 1.5k on ads/software/hiring people I'm cautious to do any further. Nothing worked better than simply going out d2d.
Uuh. Where do I go from here? I haven't read any books except about technology e.g. software or mechanical engineering. As I'm sitting down, I realize that I need a job in software for money and visa purposes, and last time I applied to those jobs, I failed technical interviews. Heck, most jobs didn't even consider me as I don't have a degree.
I'm starting my Masters in AI degree in just a week (mid january)... but even then - I have one project in mind (posted on the speedway), but that requires more investment and I don't know... I need to pay tuition and rent, and money is scarce.
building things just for the sake of building them? well, I don't know if that will work. I have failed so much in tech recently I don't know where to go anymore.
Note: this is after I spent 24/7 for the last years building things. I took pride in working so much like nobody does. But that didn't lead to anything, as here I am, with less than 1k$ to my name.
What would you do in the evenings after college and stuff ends?
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