should I stay on my path or find a new one?
I’m a 20 year old male who’s had my own online business for about 3 years now about to be 4 next May. Being a business owner is incredibly stressful at times, I earn anywhere from 4-6k per month take home after tax. Recently I’ve been disliking doing the work, and have been seriously contemplating looking for a job the only issue is I have no actual work experience besides my own business. It’s in the digital marketing field and most of the job is sales. I genuinely do like sales, but only if it’s something that I can confidently sell to a customer that I know will improve their business or life. I never completed high-school and no college. I know finding a job making 50k out the gate would be pretty difficult but I kind of want something that I can grow in, where my company has felt very stagnant and my income has been the exact same for the last 2 years, although I could scale if I put in some more hours It’s just hard to motivate myself to do that when It feels pointless at times. Another issue is that everyone has been telling me AI will take my business eventually and that’s scary.
I’ve seen friends my age go from making 24k a year to 48k a year in the last 2-3 years and seeing them be able to do that without all of the stress that I handle from my own business is incredibly demotivating.
Do I have any other options? Should I stick with what I’m doing or should I try and find something else?
Posted Dec 7, 2025, 4:48 AM UTC