ITT we discuss our attempts as self employment and how we failed and how it affected us since

ITT we discuss our attempts as self employment and how we failed and how it affected us since.

>be me
>buy shity cheap vehicles from locals
>sell shity vehicles online
>make 300-800 hundred bucks
>maybe do this 6 or 7 times a year
>also small auto salvage business
>decide if I was a licensed car dealer I could do more business
>rent location
>apply for license
>now have to carry insurance, lisc fees, utilities for new place, rent
>also now I need a larger volume of vehicles
>go to auctions
>everything cost there what I could sell it for
>bleed money from day one
>stay at it a couple years
>exhausted all capital
>close up
>start drinking every night
>lost will power
>afraid to do anything out of fear of failure

I ran a resume writing service for a bit.

>On craigslist and fiverr, charge $20
>Do 5 or 6 resumes, get the hang of it
>Up prices to $60
>Do a few more
>Up prices to $85
>Do a few more
>Declare myself a local business at the town hall
>Drop $300 on a website (made most of it myself, hired guy to fix it up)
>Up prices to $120
>No clients
>Drop $500 on advertising
>No clients
>Inquire all local town halls for boards and advertising opportunities
>Shot down immediately
>Still no clients

Paid less than minimum wage with the amount of time I had to put into getting each client to explain everything, and I couldn't get repeat customers since either they got a job or felt I failed them.

Thankfully I was making a cushy salary at my day job.

>try learning to day trade
>learn a cool strategy that seems to work most of the time
>get really cocky and throw a few grand into fx
>instantly lose it all on two simultaneous trades
>figure out that you can't beat the markets
>go back to low wage labor job
>start to understand the flaws in my strat and start improving tremendouslyI inyou understanding of the market and how it moves
>finally over figured it all out
>try day trading again with newfound knowledge
>doing well for weeks
>one bad week and I lose everything again
>go back to studying

>Wait for big news on latest dead black guy
>Buy up FirstnameLastname.com
>Post BLM bullshit
>Spam affiliate links/google adsense
>Waste approx $50 for everything
>Story dies down a week later
>Site only makes $3

FUCK, thought it was another Mike Brown.

>Try again with Milwaukee thug
>Sylville Smith.com already taken

Why live

Business 1
> Decided that helping people move for $15/hr wasn't a bad gig
> Put some ads up (2 guys, $30/hr, customer must still rent their own Uhaul)
> Not many calls, and the people who did call wanted movers who provided a truck
> Gave up after 2 months, not one customer. Only spent like $100 though

Business 2
> Car detailer
> Come to the customers house and wash and wax their car
> Put some ads on social media and stuff
> Went well fast
> Some weeks I was making $900 in cash
> Pretty happy about it, but hard work
> Stopped doing it because I became interested in Business 3

Business 3
> Learned to lay tile, via working for another guy
> After 6 months, told the boss to go fuck himself and started my own
> Like $3k total startup costs
> made a website, social media and some flyers
> Made over $1k per week from from the start
> Average about $1.5k per week

Looking good. Business really is just trial and error. It helps if you can see someone else getting an idea to work, and then just doing something similar though.

>try to do social media and guerrilla marketing
>get no clients at all
>contemplate suicide

I could sell people's product but I can't sell myself.

I saw your thread when you tried to pitch the idea on Veeky Forums.

We also told you about the legal problem, but you didn't listen.

Wasn't my thread, took the idea off OP.

OP had an easy one, easy name too.

My dood had like four names
fucking had to buy 3 domains & redirect all to 1 just to end up only making only $3

Business 1
>start business with friend #1
> Work for less than minimum wage.
> Friend doesn't want to do any work besides buy t shirts with our logo and create a facebook page.
>almost burn down customers car due to electrical issue.


Business 2
> Start web business with friend #2
> Do all the work, make a couple hundred.
> Friend doesn't want to do anything except wear suit, network, etc.

business 3
>get fucked over by partner #1 for $50,000
> sued by partner #2 ,won but wasted $70,000 in legal fees.


finally doing ok.

>be me
>be literally 11 years old
>hear about half.com somehow
>start selling all the random ass books in my house I can find
>make a few hundred dollars
>checks coming in the mail
>isthisreallife.tiff
>run out of books
>the end

It's funny, because if I had anyone at all in my life at that time to guide me in the right direction from that point on, I'd almost certainly be set for life by now, since so many opportunities were popping up back then ready to be taken advantage of.

I'm 28 now though and am successfully living off of passive income. Just sucks to know what could have happened if I had some type of guidance as a younger kid but I basically raised myself so I'm lucky to have had any success at all I guess.

R$ 120 for resume writing?

I wouldn't pay $15. You just didn't adapt to the market.

I invested my tax return in starting a computer services business in Dallas only to learn that 1) there is no demand in repairing anything other than Apple computers and 2) the market is saturated with people who charge like $10/hour to make service calls.

m8 nearly every resume website has a $150 starter kit for custom resume writing

it's a total ripoff

I need a business partner for a web based business, but cant find anyone I would trust. Seeing that I dont have any web dev knowledge, how do I pitch a partnership to someone when im just an Idea guy?

im sure would advise you as well as I would avoid partners at all cost , save your money and hire someone to build what you want and show you how to use it

If you're just an 'idea guy', the moment you give your idea to someone with web dev knowledge, you no longer have any value in that partnership. At least utilise intellectual property laws by hiring a reputable company.

Ill be honest here, I dont have much capital to start this so I was looking at my options on things like fiverr
Are these people worth pitching an Idea to?

now sure why I had a name

You won't find anyone willing to do this. My current business is 100% about me coming up with good ideas. I pay developers to make them a reality. Get some $, then do it.

Here's my story. All on making money online

Business 1
>Do affiliate marketing crap.
>Never got the hang of it. Ended up mostly being bots following bots, following bots.
>Ended up with accounts over 10,000+, but barely any impact
>Give up after several months

Business 2
>Learned about networking though and learned from previous mistakes.
>Friend wants to buy cheap chinese crap, sell it on Amazon/Ebay
>Think that sounds fun. Working with bro.
>Wants to do it in a niche that don't sell well. Veeky Forums crap.
>Also doesn't want to initially spend money cause his job sucks and don't want to take risks.
>Ignore red flag. Naively put down $5000 in stock.
>Make it back over the course of several months, and hocking it at other LGS
>Friend isn't interested in working, just "being the boss"
>Buys me out so he can buy "company" and run it his way.
>Whatever, take the deal. Im no longer in the hole, but I don't have anything to show for it.
>He runs it into the ground, blames me when he goes broke and loses.

Lost a friend, but gained a life lesson.

Business 3
>Write decently well.
>Do Freelance websites. Fiverr, upwork, constant content, etc.
>Make decent money being a content mill.
>Get noticed and up my prices the more work I get
>Do self publishing crap
>Do other writing crap
>Actually got some stuff published too!

so far so good with Business 3. Is enough to live off of, and I literally work 4-5 hours a day.

Thanks family

I do affiliate marketing at the moment, but without any major success.
I wrote my own content and realized that I can write good quality articles, even though english is not my first language.
I'm thinking about freelancing, but I'm not sure that the quality of my writing will be good enough for clients.
How could I find out this? Just go with it?

What sorts of passive income do you have? I'm looking into starting something like this but I can't write for shit so I feel my options are limited.

> Friend doesn't want to do any work besides buy t shirts with our logo and create a facebook page.

> Friend doesn't want to do anything except wear suit, network, etc.

Seriously... its so rampant.

I started a biz and it's going fairly well at the moment. Defiantly exceeding peers expectations. Often they ask for advice on starting their own business. On the rare moments I entertain a conversation about their ideas or input on how to launch, I realize these things are as far as they have gotten or will go; facebook, google adwords, logos, slogans, websites and shit that just has a near zero impact on startup success.

>Defiantly

Good luck to you. Rofl.

Apps.

few good stories here.....continue

That misspelling triggers me so much.

Started a small flipping business just going to pawn/op shops and reselling the stuff online for profit. Went well but required a lot of time and travelling.

Very interesting and fun once you get the hang of it.

Found 2 graphics and a financial calculator at an op shop and resold them for roughly $200 within hours, cost me 6 dollars total. This was mainly just drinking money as I was studying, though.

One major tip for anyone that wants to do something similar, do not fuck around with auctioning things, always find the price and set a 'buy it now'. People ask the most retarded questions and won't buy it until you've replied to 8 questions if it's a auction.

Im 18. Tell me what you should have known

I did adapt to the market and had room to grow, the average cost for professional resume writing is $150-$300.

We obviously wouldn't pay for it, we're competent people, but a good resume (with a stranger's skillset and history) takes approximately 6 hours to finalize. It's not about how much we'd pay for something we do easily, it's about how much someone has to pay to compensate a competent writer when the client believes they can't do it themselves.

My issue was Resume Writing doesn't have a repetitive client base so Google SEO is even more important and the money was not worth competing with the dozen SEO "specialists" working for the other companies to get to Page 1 for a side gig.

Thanks brofriend.

Anyways, back to wageslaving, negotiating a raise from 81k to 102k with my boss, if that doesn't work I'm jumping ship to a cyber security offer.

I own Dindus.com

Let's build a brand together, instead of this firstnamelastname.com shit.

I tried to turn a hobby into a business. I collect toys but the last couple of decades has been more and more of a struggle. Distribution just gets worse and worse as stores close and more stuff is relegated to niche markets.

So I get a distributor account and start ordering all the stuff I wish I could buy locally. At first it went alright and then last year as I ramped up orders sales fell off a cliff. Went to more shows than ever and everybody was dirt poor. Haven't run a charge through my Square reader for a year.

At the same time, supply issues went off the charts; unprofitable prices and lies about delivery times run rampant. So I'm not selling and I'm being jerked around over my remaining orders. There is no way for me to turn this around.

I am just trying to make it to 5 years plus 1 day so as not to be a statistic.

But it still blows my mind. I love to collect this stuff and I see so many people begging for somebody like me (knowledgeable but not a scalper) to step in where the market has failed. So why can't I make a buck at this? Why is it so fucking hard to get retail prices for new products?

I seriously would've been better off scalping, if I had the access to do it.