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alright, this post is going to be pretty long. I just started a new job today and feel like I have degressed in life and now feel like I need to start my entrepreneur adventures more than ever and need any type of ideas and/or suggestions... but first let me tell you what is going on in my life so you can pretend to be in my shoes.
I just turned 24 years old this past Saturday and up until today worked for the same guy for 8 years. His business hasn't been doing too well lately so he was forced to let me go and now I am doing car detailing for a very minimal amount of pay ($4 an hour pay cut from previous job) and as I started to work today I just felt almost a sense of anger that I am wasting my time detailing cars that I should be driving. I am sitting there detailing a Taurus SHO, Shelby Cobra Mustang, etc. and just thinking "why am I sitting here for peanuts detailing some rich dudes car that I want to own one day but will never be able to doing this crap"
I hate to sound ungrateful because I am very thankful to have a job but I seriously feel I have so much more to offer and accomplish than to work for such a low hourly wage. I am planning on getting married in 2012 and my fiance is going to school to be a nurse because its something shes always wanted to do, but me I just feel so confused on what to do financially. I am going to school to become an ASE cert. mechanic which would be lucky to make $50,000 a year. I love cars and that is the only thing that motivated me to go to school but I want to OWN these cars, not clean and work on them.
When I first signed up for school I hardly knew anything about entrepreneurship and how much more room there is to succeed and the more I am around other peoples cars working on them and cleaning them it just makes me not want to be a mechanic that much more and just drive the cars. The more I go through life and see ways to make money though it makes me realize that working for somebody to make them the real money is just dumb.
I have tried little entrepreneur adventures like an e-commerce site with dropshipping (long story but that site never launched), ebay sales, etc. but haven't made any real money. I am sorry guys for making this such a long post but today just really had me feeling like I need to talk to somebody more than ever and nobody around me thinks like me and just constantly say "oh the job you have is a good one, blah blah blah" no its not a good job, its consuming precious time that I could be using to make a real living. I had another offer from a friend to start working under him for an insurance company basically running my own business setting my own hours and trying to sell insurance policies and stuff but I dont know how good I would be at that.
I am basically just venting a little bit and asking anybody who has sat there and read this whole post to give me their input and advice... I cannot think of a good business to start with minimal start up costs (roughly $3-4k) that would be profitable. I just feel like with this job I have now I could literally flip a car every month and sell a few things on ebay and make the same amount of money and have all the free time to invest in important things like my family, friends, and coming up with a good business idea :huh2::huh2::huh2::huh2::huh2::huh2:
I just turned 24 years old this past Saturday and up until today worked for the same guy for 8 years. His business hasn't been doing too well lately so he was forced to let me go and now I am doing car detailing for a very minimal amount of pay ($4 an hour pay cut from previous job) and as I started to work today I just felt almost a sense of anger that I am wasting my time detailing cars that I should be driving. I am sitting there detailing a Taurus SHO, Shelby Cobra Mustang, etc. and just thinking "why am I sitting here for peanuts detailing some rich dudes car that I want to own one day but will never be able to doing this crap"
I hate to sound ungrateful because I am very thankful to have a job but I seriously feel I have so much more to offer and accomplish than to work for such a low hourly wage. I am planning on getting married in 2012 and my fiance is going to school to be a nurse because its something shes always wanted to do, but me I just feel so confused on what to do financially. I am going to school to become an ASE cert. mechanic which would be lucky to make $50,000 a year. I love cars and that is the only thing that motivated me to go to school but I want to OWN these cars, not clean and work on them.
When I first signed up for school I hardly knew anything about entrepreneurship and how much more room there is to succeed and the more I am around other peoples cars working on them and cleaning them it just makes me not want to be a mechanic that much more and just drive the cars. The more I go through life and see ways to make money though it makes me realize that working for somebody to make them the real money is just dumb.
I have tried little entrepreneur adventures like an e-commerce site with dropshipping (long story but that site never launched), ebay sales, etc. but haven't made any real money. I am sorry guys for making this such a long post but today just really had me feeling like I need to talk to somebody more than ever and nobody around me thinks like me and just constantly say "oh the job you have is a good one, blah blah blah" no its not a good job, its consuming precious time that I could be using to make a real living. I had another offer from a friend to start working under him for an insurance company basically running my own business setting my own hours and trying to sell insurance policies and stuff but I dont know how good I would be at that.
I am basically just venting a little bit and asking anybody who has sat there and read this whole post to give me their input and advice... I cannot think of a good business to start with minimal start up costs (roughly $3-4k) that would be profitable. I just feel like with this job I have now I could literally flip a car every month and sell a few things on ebay and make the same amount of money and have all the free time to invest in important things like my family, friends, and coming up with a good business idea :huh2::huh2::huh2::huh2::huh2::huh2:
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