So I've been making good money online since I was 13 years old when I created my first SaaS platform. All I ever wanted to do was make a living online from as far back as I can remember. It was my dream and my reality, I love it and know it's what I was destined for. I was an early investor in Bitcoin, ran one of the first Bitcoin gambling websites when I was 16. I've always had multiple streams of income, had investments from a young age. My parents are both career people, went to prestigious universities, etc. who've been quite successful in their own rights. They never really grasped or understood the idea of being entrepreneurial, especially when it comes to the computer/internet ("get off the damn computer, all you do is play games all day on that box"). They knew I was making some sort of money online but I don't know if they understand the extent of it or that it's a valid avenue of income.
The expectation was that I go to university after high-school, so I obliged. Studied computer-science at their alma-mater. I never necessarily wanted to go to uni, I'm a self-taught programmer who's had full-stack web and software development skills since I was young. Towards the end of my degree, my parents were on my back about applying for jobs. I applied for graduate roles to the big-4s and banks all the while still making a substantial income online. I ended up getting a couple of offers from the big-4s, my mother was so happy she was in tears when I told her. So like everything else, I accepted it on auto-pilot because it felt like "the right thing to do" by my parents and that it was what society expected. I chose the later intake group so it would give me almost a year of freedom after uni to travel and focus on my online businesses.
That time went by too quickly and before I knew it I had my first day. Each day I just go through the motions and use lunch breaks to manage my businesses. Since starting, my businesses have not slowed down - in fact they're bringing in more revenue than before. Compared to most of the other new employees, I'm just going through the motions with my mind elsewhere. Not that I don't do good work, because I definitely do. I'm more than qualified and have definitely provided a lot of value - I'm just not passionate about working for someone else. It doesn't help that the money I make from my businesses is multiple times more than my salary. Now my parents are on my back about spending too much time working, that "something has to give" (heavily hinting that I should focus on my career and not my businesses). I refuse to stop working on my own stuff online, as I mentioned I've known that this is what I want to do since I was literally a child.
So where to from here? What's a person like me to do? I feel torn. Logically, it's possible for all my businesses to collapse and if I didn't have my job then I'd have no source of income other than investments.And without my degree or any job experience on my CV, I'd be shit out of luck getting hired (then again, my skills would probably be needed a lot of places but without credentials idk about my chances). I just don't know. All I know is that if there were no external factors influencing my decisions I would probably never have gone to university and would have kept doing my own thing full-time.
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Luke Miller
ditch that job and manage your own business. expand it, invest your Money into Chainlink and live your life how you want. Your Parents have a Vision for you but sounds like thats not your Vision. Live your own Life and become happy and more successful than they could ever dream off.
Elijah Collins
I keep wishing that I was due to graduate this year instead of last year. With the incoming recession caused by COVID it means entry-level hiring would drop and then my chances of being hired would drop dramatically. Kind of fucked up but that's what I honestly think.
Brayden Reed
You are a little bitch and your parents try to impose their slave mentality upon you. Especially since you have clearly proven that you are far more successful by yourself. Quit the big4 job and finally stand up to your parents. You are probably autistic and shun every conflict. If you don't change that attitude you are never going to make it.
Ian Hill
fuck that job, get out and work on your business. you have a very rare opportunity here and you are not using it, thats not smart. >my chances of being hired would drop dramatically they really wouldnt drop that much, if your business fucks up for whatever reason you will still be able to come back.
Austin Ortiz
Larp
Beautiful story. Has all the money but is from crying
How about you man up and do what you want as man. Were you more of a man as a child?
Jackson Cox
I understand what you're saying. It's not that I shun conflict, I'm actually fairly ruthless in the running of my businesses. I just feel an obligation to my parents in a way. It's also partly "well I paid for uni to get a degree, to not use it is not only a waste of money but a waste of 4 years of my life."
I mean, I still put in a lot of hours to my business and revenue and profit is continuing to increase. But you're right, of course I'd have more time to devote to the businesses without a fulltime job.
Not larping but thanks.
Jason Thomas
this. stop being a bitch.
You wasted money on uni which you didnt need to waste because of them and then you accepted a shitty beta computer science job, in an office building that will degenerate you faster than living anywhere in Africa.
I'll be honest though. I went "back to college". worst decision of my life. I too already could do all the IT stuff cause I learned on my own. although a year of college costs like a thousand europoors ...
Camden Parker
just see that degree as safety net, it will allow you to get a job easily in case you fuck up. it was a good investment in many ways and I'm sure you learned a thing or two there so it wasnt wasted at all.
anyway drop that job asap and focus 100% on your business.
