Young, broke and feeling hopeless? Hereās your āmake itā plan:
1ļøā£ Get a truly āshiteā job... on purpose.
Make sure it:
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°ļø Covers your expenses/bare necessities
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±ļø Gives you the freedom to continue learning (i.e. get a job where you can mainline educational audiobooks and podcasts at 2x straight into the brain for 8 hours a dayā¦ something like Uber Eats, a warehouse gig, cutting grass, washing dishes, etc.
Even better:
Get a job where you can use a laptop/web while youāre on the clockā¦ third shift at hotels, parking garages or residential security are great candidates).
If you feel like you canāt afford a job like that, get a roommate. (I legit slept in a friendās tiny dining room for a year when I was younger)
2ļøā£ Pick a narrow vertical that you love and learn EVERYTHING you can about it.
Point every possible minute of your job at acquiring world-class depth of knowledge via LLMs, Kindle, podcasts, YouTube, etc.
Ideally, your chosen vertical has some investable liquid assets (i.e. real estate, crypto, some subsector within stocks like AI, etc.). This way, you can gain edge/alpha as youāre educating yourself.
3ļøā£ Launch a business around your vertical.
With AI, you can explore becoming an influencer (doxxed or anon, doesnāt matter). Start pumping out content on social media platform(s) (i.e. X, LinkedIn, TikTok, Insta, Reddit, etc.).
If you have a job with full web access, look at gigs like writing, graphic design, dropshipping, white-labeling products, etc.
4ļøā£ Walk through every door that opens to you, and donāt stop experimenting until youāve found a way to generate additional income or land your dream job.
I got insane opportunities once I started posting on X (you simply donāt know what will happen until you start).
5ļøā£ Plow 100% of your extra income from your side hustle into investment opportunities (ideally in your niche).
If you donāt have a niche, invest in a basket. Something simple like:
š 50% into an S&P 500 ETF
š 20% into bitcoin (or crypto)
š 20% into AI stocks
š 10% into high-yield savings
6ļøā£ Ride those investments and that growing income into an entirely new life.
CLOSING THOUGHT
Remember that money = lifeforce. You trade your lifeforce for a paycheck. Then, you spend that paycheck on goods and services that require the lifeforce of others to create.
Everything ties back to the finite nature of our lifeforce.
Once you realize thatās true, you can see that the only way to acquire more money than you have today is by expending more lifeforce than everyone around you, or by finding ways to multiply your lifeforce (via education, passive income, side hustles, high-skill jobs, etc.).
The EASIEST lifeforce multiplier on Earth is finding a way to learn and generate income WHILE SIMULTANEOUSLY collecting a paycheck (and thatās exactly where your shite job comes into play).
The next 12 months will determine your next decade. Do whatever it takes to expand your knowledge, so you can expand your wealth. 8 replies
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