Dilemma

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.

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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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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.

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.

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.

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.

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?

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.

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 ...

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.

You're right. I learned nothing in uni that I didn't already know in 100x more detail. All I got was a degree. I feel like I'm in too deep, I kinda hope I get let go because of the global financial situation so then at least it's not from my own doing.

The job is highly sought-after, something like 15k graduates applied and only 100 got positions. That's another thing that's playing on my mind.

>The job is highly sought-after
then give it up for someone who actually needs it.
you unironically do everyone a favor by working on your own business.

You stop larping and fuck off.
If you were early bitcoin investor you wouldn't have any of those problems so go kys retarded shitfuck.

I'm curious why you say that? Sure, I have a lot of money but I'm always forward-thinking.

>has a lot of money
>works some shitty job
something doesnt add up here

Because you're retard who lives in his mommy's basement and pretends to do CS and business while most you did put some eth into another scam shitcoin using mew.
Say you were early btc investor for real and bought like 10k worth, that would put you into hundred mils by now. People who have that amount of money don't have your kind of troubles and don't need building a career. So shut up and fuck off you nigger larper.

Your early life is literally like mine. But I’m a bit older.
Quit the job, I did and never been better. Make more passive income streams, you know what you’re doing and trust me you’re one of the few.
I made almost all my passive streams still running 6 years ago and honestly, I haven’t actually “worked” on anything for the past 4 years or so.
All of them are recession and corona proof, in fact the cost to advertise was so cheap because these physical brands stopped advertising, I scaled the revenue up 4x during the lockdowns.
About parents, mine were conservative as well, but I just asked them for 6 months.
They were supportive when I filed 3 times higher income tax in the first year compared to them who are senior position at government job.

Fair enough. Yeah I don't know how I got in this position which is kinda the point of this thread.

I didn't put 10k in lol. I started accepting BTC as a payment method for some of my SaaS sites in ~2011 and got a number of payments that way. Most of it actually comes from my Bitcoin gambling site. I still have a substantial amount of coin but of course I sold a lot when it hit $100, then $1000 because I never thought it would even reach $50 let alone the prices it's at today. I have money, but I'm not a hundred-millionaire.

right now your job is what's actually keeping you from taking your business to the next level. Once you shed yourself of the safety and distraction of your cushy job you will be much more driven to keep things going in the right direction. your parents are right in that you shouldn't be splitting your focus, and if your business is already operating in a stable fashion that's providing you income, then that is certainly the most attractive option. In fact, if i were you I would be taking huge risks like looking into ways to expand and bringing people in as partners/investors/employees. It sounds like you already have something good going. so why not see how far you can take it? Reach for the dream friend, you wont regret it.

Ayyy! How good are the cost per clicks nowadays, right? That's a big reason I'm thriving right now. Now if only we could stop the big brands coming back and pushing the bids back up...

Whats your gambling site?

Also good point mate. A lot of people have the same mindset of my parents in that the only way to make a living is by climbing the wageslave ladder. I've tried explaining it to them and they've come around a bit more but are still of the impression that anyday it could all collapse and I'd be back at square one. I know I should just stop caring what they think/say, I feel I am moving towards that more now.

I won't say the exact name as it's basically on my CV and I've already given away too much identifying info. All I'll say is it's in the top-3 most-replied threads of all time in the Bitcointalk gambling section.

You’re god damn right. If I wasn’t too lazy I’d have scaled it up more.
I’m literally getting top of the barrel clicks from T1 countries for pennies. There is literally no way a corona proof business dies with these ad costs.
But, now is your time my dude, don’t slack off, I could afford to do it but for you this is the time to prove you can do it.
When I was in your position, I grinded almost 16 hours a day looking for ways to make more passive income streams. Remember the only way you lose is if you slack off. Get out of this board, do not engage in any social media. When you come out of this, they will still be there.

Definitely mate. I'm getting traffic mainly from FR, BE, US, CA and AU/NZ. Goldrush time for sure. I've scaled to a lot of different ad formats too. Good on you. And yeah, same here.After work I grind until I sleep.

>I won't say but I will also say I make at least 1btc a day from degen gamblers owning popular casino
Ye, you just went full retard there, buddy.

Cool buddy. I don't need to justify myself to you.

Those countries... is it native ads?

It’s a matter of value. Can you bring substantial value for yourself if you had 40 extra hours per week? As you probably already know, it’s good to keep looking for a new tool Instead of trusting the old shovel. World changes too often to think you’ll operate the same business for your entire life. If you can take on the extra stress of finding the next good thing to take your cut of the pie on, then quit. If you rather want your work to be handed over on a plate in which you quickly consume for the rest of your life, do it.
You have the right idea with working for only yourself, but if you’re charismatic and a natural leader, you’ll find much wealth in a career, as well as a much easier time because you make your lackeys fix the problems. If it takes 20 yrs in the field to become a leadership role, I wouldn’t do it, though.

>So I've been making good money online since I was 13
Stopped reading, kys larp