When does it get better?

Some days feel like a drag with making money online.

Actually most days do. This is better than a regular job but it feels like nothing is panning out.

When does it get better?

Spiderman said:

When does it get better?

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Only 5-10% of online workers//freelancers acctually succeeds and live a good life, the rest either struggles or goes back to being employed.

You either succeed or struggle with money, you need to ask your-self if it is worth being poor and not being able to buy stuff like a house and so on. In your case you seem to found what you enjoy.

If money itself is a priority / main goal you might benefit from analyzing what actual rich people do, not necessarily online. Or big businesses, both online and offline. A lot of the time it might be impossible to do the same things like them because you don't have the same capital and connections but if you do even 1/10th of what they're doing you'll probably have better results than copying broke people and expecting to get rich by acting broke.

SilverClouds said:

analyzing what actual rich people do

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ok, have americans buy scam trump phones
got it

Well with that attitude it doesn't.

Call me harsh but it's like @Dopious said most don't make it in this industry. You need to be prepared to fail.

Because it takes work work and more work. You need to put in the effort in order to make it.

Not trying to be funny but if you have time to post on a forum about how you are struggling then you have time to keep working.

Here's an idea. You can go and plan how you can start improving your business and then post back here when you have a plan. You might actually get useful advice that way.

Just be prepared to put in the work.

Spiderman said:

When does it get better?

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It doesn't.

Define better.

As you grow your problems and challenges change and everything around it.

Things become enjoyable as you learn to hire staff around you and replace a skill set you dont have. But does it get better? No.

It does kind of but honestly no. The bigger you get the more risk you need to take to continue growing and that brings more stress.

Only 2-3% of businesses reach 1m only 5% of business makes it past 3 years. Its a tough old game.

No one understands your struggles. Not me. Not your friends and certainly not family. I got friends who are all different levels of "success" some 200k businesses some worth north of £60m all have different answers to my problems.

Working for your self no matter the capacity 1 or 100 staff members it's lonely. No two businesses are the same.

It never gets better. It gets rewarding. The challenges get more interesting.

Spiderman said:

Actually most days do. This is better than a regular job but it feels like nothing is panning out.

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Unfortunately, the reality of self-employment is that it's not always easier than having a regular job, as you're often confronted with problems you've never had to deal with before. That's why I would only recommend quitting a regular job if you know you can sustain yourself for a longer period of time.

Where you live also matters a lot, as some countries are not particularly tax-friendly for self-employed people. If you're looking for that feeling of improvement, you need to ask yourself how much income you actually need to feel better. Even then, unexpected things can always happen, so it's best not to spend your money on expensive things you don't really need. Instead, save it for the months when business isn't going so well. It's not an easy path to take, and it's certainly not something everyone is suited for.

For me? Going from paranoia and drive to passion does the trick.
Instead of focusing obsessively on income source, I can build net worth and small wealth.
I can do this, I can do that. I don't have to run a traditional business or be limited piece of fcker who has a profession. These days you have gig economy, creator economy and a lot more stuff.

I can hire people even when I have only $10 to do so. This is what it is.

Ahh, sorry, I'm not building wealth, but I pretend that it's what I do. Small difference.

And one more thing, I'd rather live on $3 a day than offer services to people.
If offering services or selling someone's basic products were the only things I could do for the living, I'd live in a tent.
But it's not because world is a fcking big place.

Champagne said:

Unfortunately, the reality of self-employment is that it's not always easier than having a regular job, as you're often confronted with problems you've never had to deal with before. That's why I would only recommend quitting a regular job if you know you can sustain yourself for a longer period of time.

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It's the same thing.
You can find beauty both in jobs and business.
It's exactly the same - you have to search and try a lot.
With jobs 1 in 5 jobs will be okay.
With business 1 in 5 ventures will be okay.

But setting up business will be a lot different process and a lot more expensive than finding a job.

t2van said:

Define better.

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I think this is my problem. I guess I don’t have a definition for better in my head so I need to define it and set goals.

Ty