Hello, I hope all is well. I am an 18 year old that is looking to start a business. I have dipped into the service providing area in July where I was supposed to make websites for people but I ended up doing a free trial creating videos for a possible client. I ended up stopping that. Wasn’t leading me to earning income.

My main question here is, what would you tell your 18 year old self to start? I truly like the idea of having an online business. I am in Computer Science at the moment for school and I was thinking of getting into saas. But I also see tons of different videos on different businesses to start. I just want to mention, I do not have shiny object syndrome. I am just interested in starting & getting advice from anyone.

Also, one thing I see often is, dropshipping, smma(which I tried to go in on), trading and Amazon fba. I see this everywhere. I don’t know if truly you can make a large sum of income from it or it’s just the courses that help them.

I started learning about business at 15 where I started a YouTube automation channel and later stopped that. Then got into cutting hair for others. And ever since I have turned 18 I have been learning a lot more on stocks, credit, as well as retirement plans. But truly retirement isn’t my end goal. I just like idea of working towards something.

So if anyone that is in the business areas I have mentioned I’d be open to hear your perspective from it and any perspective from others as well.

  • TexasMadrone@alien.top
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    1 year ago

    Thank goodness I learned some trades starting at a young age. My trade knowledge put me through college with a science degree, a good one. After working a couple decent jobs I learned that if I wanted to break out of entry level pay with my science degree I needed a Masters. I was burnt out on college and decided I would take some time and do small handyman type work. That led me into now owning and operating an excavation business which I thoroughly enjoy. I use skills from every trade I learned and incorporate my degree skills as well. These particular set of skills has allowed me to be a specialist in my field which distinguishes me from competition. Best of all, I get to work outside in new places and see some amazing country. I assist people building their dreams and get to be a part of it. I also enjoy the challenges and rewards of my risk taking. I get to teach my children all the life skills that I had to learn mostly on my own and we get to home school our children and live together as a family. Life may throw curve balls at you but in the end it typically works out pretty well if you have drive and are willing to take risks and learn lessons from failing. Find things you enjoy and nail down what you enjoy about them and then create opportunities with those goals in mind.