What am I doing with my life?

Just for the security of a 9-5 paycheck I have to be working for a company that consistently fucks things up because they don't have their shit together yet has high expectations of me to perform incredibly without realizing the shit I have to go through to keep them satisfied and the fact I have to drive so far to just work this job because I can't afford to live in the damn city I work because the cost of living is absurd. meanwhile Elon musk just became the world's first Trillionaire today while most of us are working for $30/hr like wtf.

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Meanwhile, at home, I have a couple thousand dollars of my parents products just sitting there waiting for me to become an entrepreneur with them because they retired and moved out of the country cause they got into some tax problems. If I wasn't working this ridiculous job full time that's eating up most my time, I would have already started my website by now and made at least a few sales. I had a Tiktok shop I started a few years ago with my business partner and it's done pretty well as a side gig but I haven't had the motivation to scale it a lot better because of "income that keeps the lights on". Not to mention it's gotten shut down due to some back end Tax BS issue with Tiktok that doesn't get fixed no matter how many customer support chats I open and send whatever documents they need. My business partner also lives in a different city and I may move back there and also works a job seperately but we still talk

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I only have one partner who also lives in a different city and no idea on how to properly market and generate sales good enough to not really on a production job that pays the bills and puts a roof over my head and lights on.

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I am just looking for that indicator that shows how valuable my resources really are outside of being an employee showing that I'm wasting my potential pleasing a boss. Maybe I should go all into my business, turn it from a side gig to a full time commitment and keep a W2 job as a side gig.

I just don't know how to run this business on my own or do all the legal things like llc creation and whatever I have to do to make it successful or at least sustainable like my parents did.

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Idk, I just been so poor in my luck and needed to vent but also need advice

Posted Jun 12, 2026, 11:40 PM UTC

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