3 Month To Learn Some New Skills & Leave Dead End Job

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Okay, right now I'm sorta stuck at a dead end job. I'm lucky enough to have 3 months of extremely low bills ($200 a month) while working a 35 hour a week job. Here's what I want to do. I am tired of working at this job and I would like to learn a few skills so I can freelance out and start building my own business.

I'm asking what would you recommend I learn to do (coding, graphics, copy?). I'm thinking about learning iphone development, but not sure if they're a huge market for freelancers in that area.

any help is appreciated.

If it helps, I've tried to set up a few blogs in the past but I am just terrible with consistency because I'm a perfectionist, and I never seem to get anything done thanks to that. I do however make $10 - $20 freelance writing right now, but I would like to move away from this.
 


Johnathan said:
If it helps, I've tried to set up a few blogs in the past but I am just terrible with consistency because I'm a perfectionist, and I never seem to get anything done thanks to that.
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This is a red hearing. More likely, you are afraid to fail, and so you abandon rather than risk failure.

Suck it up and set your balls on the counter - can't keep them in your purse forever. Unless you like working at burger king.
 
I have 3 months to learn something, so please tell me what to do. I want to do freelance work but dunno what, dunno wheres demand, dunno whats hot. how about DO SOME FUCKING RESEARCH? wanna be an entrepreneur, be one.

inb4 you lament about how mean i am. thats the problem with guys like you. sometimes the world has to be to keep pieces of shit like you out of the profitable areas. ive found profitable things in the past. if i ran around telling everyone how what exactly im doing, it would lose profitability. money is not in innovation. its in first to market. you know how many engineers are broke because their great ideas were stolen by semi retarded corporate assholes?

if you want to become good at "copy" (selling), walk into a car store and become a sales guy. if you want to do homepages, learn some php, or css, or whatever. theres no money in that. buying a half decent sites runs about no more than $200. if you wanna do graphics, i dont even know what to tell you. theres truckloads of unemployed design grads in the 99% fad.

heres an idea for you, because i know id never pursue it anyway. theres this site called stronglifts.com. its for losing weight. that is, btw, an example of great content. people want to lose weight, people lose weight applying the content. you could spend a day or two reading that site. get the basic info. then become a personal trainer. youll be better than your competition because they apply the useless shit they learn in physical education. couple months down the line, you get so many customers youll need to hire a second guy. after another couple months youll focus solely on managing your employees. thats how a business grows. i know you wont pursue it because nobody ever does but fast forward another couple years and youll cry your broke ass to sleep complaining about how you let that chance slip.

good luck bro
 
Thanks I think I know what direction I'm going in. Just so you know wayn3 I'm not really asking what to do step by step. Just looking for some feedback. I originally sold my first company when I was 15 so I'm not brand new to this. Just kind of been dicking around for the past few years.

My first company that I sold was a virtual currency shop. Similar to ige.com. So outsourcing, scaling, and building something from nothing is not new to me. This was a shitty thread though.

Thanks everyone for their 2 cents.
 
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WARNING:SIMPLE METHOD TO SCALE

Find some Philippino whores, have them dirty up some panties and get into them Philippino dirt panty niches. You could gain some solid ground right out of the gate by having a killer offer. Like get 2 for 1 sale or something! Quit your 9-5!

WARNING:SIMPLE METHOD TO SCALE
 
Learn to write decent content.
Write 5000 words a day until you perfect it.
Use this cash to build a reserve.
Or Give your self a skill assessment test.
What do you do well
What can you learn to do well. Outsource rest
Figure 2 years of 40 hours a week on this project When you look at your free time don't say I will work 40 hours, schedule it daily Treat it like a job. Good Luck
 
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No answers just a suggestion on perspective.

While you search for what you should do, realize you are one of the most fortunate. $200 / month expense with only 35 hours of obligation per week? Many work your week every two days. The incredible luxury you have of the remaining 133 hours per week makes you very rich. What you do with that time will determine your wealth and more important what really counts. Appreciate the advantage of time you have at the moment. Tomorrow could be quite different.

You asked a question on what you should do. Hopefully you will find better answers. Just don't take for granted the conditions you have now.
 
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No answers just a suggestion on perspective.

While you search for what you should do, realize you are one of the most fortunate. $200 / month expense with only 35 hours of obligation per week? Many work your week every two days. The incredible luxury you have of the remaining 133 hours per week makes you very rich. What you do with that time will determine your wealth and more important what really counts. Appreciate the advantage of time you have at the moment. Tomorrow could be quite different.

You asked a question on what you should do. Hopefully you will find better answers. Just don't take for granted the conditions you have now.
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I know I am. I just recently got out from being homeless for 5 months. Picking cans out in 100 degree heat 6 - 9 hours a day for a measly $10 changes your focus and priorities quickly. I'm extremely blessed.

Edit: I should also mention how grateful I am just to have electricity, a bed that isn't soaking when it rains, and a roof over my head. A shower is also an awesome luxury.
 
Johnathan said:
I know I am. I just recently got out from being homeless for 5 months. Picking cans out in 100 degree heat 6 - 9 hours a day for a measly $10 changes your focus and priorities quickly. I'm extremely blessed.

Edit: I should also mention how grateful I am just to have electricity, a bed that isn't soaking when it rains, and a roof over my head. A shower is also an awesome luxury.
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Don't feel pregnant, there was a time in my life that I actually had to shower at the public beach facilities and use their rest rooms for a couple of months.

I finally got back on my feet using The Public Library's computers to get my online business going again. It took almost a year, but proved to "me" that if you want it bad enough you WILL find a way.

You'll be FINE!!

You've already hit close to bottom and done what most people wouldn't do.
 
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