so tired
Disclaimer: please don't be rude. This post is not about poker or poker related people.
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What kind of society is this where I can't even make a freaking $1 on the Internet? I've been a programmer for over a decade. I make a project, spend months to years of my life on it, and then no one wants it. Or better yet, I have to either pay Zuckerberg $5 billion just to get some advertising, or I try to talk to people on social media and I get blocked by the platforms.
I've tried video game creation, overages, drop shipping, domain flipping, course creation, copyrighting, online tutoring (at least that worked until I got banned), making platform (multiple versions and different features updates), matched betting, and probably more. It's been 6 years.
I had a home care business but my business partner quit and destroyed my residence, I lost all my work and projects as well as just miscellaneous stuff that was of value to me over the many years living there (and whatever else I don't know about) due to the clean up which was very painful and hard to deal with very often for years after.
I'm just incredibly frustrated.
I come up with a new business idea, work on it and then eventually I can't find traffic, can't validate the idea, or get blocked off the social platforms, or can't get funding.
I realized today I could come up with the cure to cancer and still not find anyone who wants it.
I have no friends, or girlfriend or anything. Just stuck inside my place trying to figure out how to get out this. I'd like to at least make $100 a week at NL10 as I think that's a good starting point (which is still broke :/) and then improve from there. If I could win a $20 PKO a day that would be awesome but I don't have the roll for $20 MTTs right now.
I'm so tired of being broke. I last year was working all day everyday, started even pulling 36 hours in January last year only to eventually realize the market doesn't give a f.
I'm 25 wtf. I make more money playing poker and then I lose it again. Last year I cashed for mid $500+ 3 times in a row in 100+ field tournament, but eventually lost the money trying a different poker format. I'm definitely getting better gradually but I'm getting really tired of this life.
I just want to actually begin to live my life and not be broke.
Seems like the people that make most of the money are showing themselves on OF, or selling someone a make money online course on how to make money that is filled with basic information for $3,000+ a pop.
Do you really have to scam or sell your pictures to make money these days? That's what it feels like more and more everyday. At least with poker I can get a freaking $10 bill...
This is some B.S. so tired of this hell.
Update 11:45 AM EST:
This country sends billions and billions of dollars everywhere in the globe yet meanwhile we have a people living on the streets of our own country. This absolutely absurd. Ludacris. How about a freaking billi for the US citizens as well? How about some business funding without having to show you are the family member of someone who's already rich? This is all so f'ed up.
11:55 AM:
At this point It feels like I've lost my past work, I'm living in the bleak present and the future is just unknown and at this rate I really don't know.
12:03 PM:
Before all this I didn't understand why people end things. Now I understand. I just don't know what to do at this point. I have to figure it out.
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I've been trying to start a business online. I'm not entitled, I work more hours than the average 9 to 5 job would require. I've been on the grind for years. No extra spending. No parties, gatherings or anything. I think it's reasonable to desire there to be at least able to make some profits.
Yes, you are entitled; you just don't recognize it as such.
I don't know why you think I'm entitled. I've done many different businesses. It's not like I'm some 16 year old in here asking for a Lamborghini just because... I've been on monk mode putting in the work.
and you're telling us this why? Because you think you're entitled to profits after all that hard work. But what the world has told you is that you're not working hard at the right thing.
If I work my ass off 20 hours a day making an undesirable product or service, I'm not entitled to profits. I know how to weave baskets but there is no market for my baskets, so my hard work is meaningless financially.
I used to think you had to come up with a great idea, perfect it, spend the time to bring it to market and the people will come. Unfortunately that's backwards, and that's not how it really works and have lost many years on that thanks to all the fake information out there... Other than that I understand you.
There is a lot of good and bad info out there, but your interpretation of it is what is failing you. There are multiple planes where your product can be measured as good and multiple planes upon which you can effectively market it.
McD's is a good example. Their burgers are the absolute best. Huh? Of course they aren't the best burger in any virtually any burger taste competition, but they are the best in some weird way of meeting people's multiple demands for taste, availability, familiarity, price, and who knows what else. That's why McDs is the biggest selling burger.
Lots of people have marketed better tasting burgers but none have done as well as McD's because they don't concentrate on the other factors that make McDs better.
You'll find profits in your biz when you build a product that people want in sufficient numbers (meeting their quality, price, and availability needs) AND you market it effectively AND when you manage your biz in a profitable manner.
How this fits with poker? We all get the same cards sooner or later. Over many hands we all see 72o and AA the same number of times. If you're not winning at poker, it's bc of something you are failing to see as a weakness in your game. There's nothing wrong with admitting you're lacking in knowledge or discipline to implement the knowledge.
BTW - I'm a CFO, serial entrepreneur, and angel investor with multiple IPOs and company sales. If you want specific biz advice, you can send a DM if you prefer. Most of my time is spent evaluating businesses and founders and then coaching the founders if I choose to get involved with their company.
Read the book "the mom test"
Figuring out which problems to solve and which customers to go after is a big part of starting new businesses. It's a skill. You can only get good at it with a lot of effort. Observe every new business that is succeeding. Why are they doing well? Try to answer it without bias and prejudice.
Follow levelsio on Twitter. He's the goat at building new software products cheaply and having them work. But even he slogged for 7+ years before figuring out how to get good at building new things.
And yes, it doesn't make sense to keep yoloing all your savings into new business ideas, when you haven't yet developed the judgement to figure out what people actually want. That's poor bankroll management.
A steady source of income will give you some cushion to take more risk in business.
