How to work for yourself?

[Drathnoxis]

I'd like to quit my job and get out of the corporate employee slave life. What are some ways to earn a living that don't involve working for someone else? I have substantial savings and no wife or kids so I think I should have some options available to me. I am terrible at stocks so that's not an option.

 

[Bedinsis]

Define "work for someone else". To live you need money, which requires a job, which requires you to do something that benefits someone other than yourself or else they have no reason to pay you.

I mean, subsistence farming exists but I doubt you find that appealing.

If you could monetize your way to end world hunger I am sure you won't need to work for another day of your life.

 

[hanselthecaretaker2]

I'd like to quit my job and get out of the corporate employee slave life. What are some ways to earn a living that don't involve working for someone else? I have substantial savings and no wife or kids so I think I should have some options available to me. I am terrible at stocks so that's not an option.

Ha.

Well, perhaps it’s possible to have a good idea>get it patented>pursue ideally something with an economies of scale effect>relax and enjoy life.


Glad I could be of help!

 

[XsjadoBlaydette]

You can get ppl to advise you with stock options who take into account what level of risk, morals and knowledge you're most comfortable with. Recently met someone who does it for a living. Tho am personally too destitute and mentally fractured to get in on all the funsies.

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Oki now the good advice is out the way, time for own self-destructive bad advice am told am particularly experienced in;

Obvs drugs, everyone wants them. It's a solid evergreen demand.

Bank heist. Preferably one of those charismatic comedy capers with minimal fatalities and maximum funky soundtrack.

Stream. Hot tub, bath tub, videogame tub, don't matter, as long as mildly entertaining and friendly persona, the lonelies will come. And when it's too late for them to back out, harvest your parasocial crops without apology. Rinse, repeat.

Podcast. Hm, this may require other consenting, unsuspecting humans for the energy to get off the ground. If thems a possibility, go for it. If not, no biggie.

Sing! Not quite sure yet how this connect to big monies, but a lot of other ppl seem to have it figured. So kidnap them and get them to reveal their secrets.

Write. Write. And write some more! Eventually some semblance of a marketable story can be hastily scrabbled together from all the unhinged ramblings strewn upon the walls amongst the wasteland of each littered apartment room.

 

[Drathnoxis]

Define "work for someone else". To live you need money, which requires a job, which requires you to do something that benefits someone other than yourself or else they have no reason to pay you.

I mean, subsistence farming exists but I doubt you find that appealing.

If you could monetize your way to end world hunger I am sure you won't need to work for another day of your life.

Actually, I have thought about subsistence farming, but I don't have that much in savings.

If I were to monetize my plan to end world hunger I'd just be another competitor to McDonalds and it wouldn't work.

You can get ppl to advise you with stock options who take into account what level of risk, morals and knowledge you're most comfortable with. Recently met someone who does it for a living. Tho am personally too destitute and mentally fractured to get in on all the funsies.

-

Oki now the good advice is out the way, time for own self-destructive bad advice am told am particularly experienced in;

Obvs drugs, everyone wants them. It's a solid evergreen demand.

Bank heist. Preferably one of those charismatic comedy capers with minimal fatalities and maximum funky soundtrack.

Stream. Hot tub, bath tub, videogame tub, don't matter, as long as mildly entertaining and friendly persona, the lonelies will come. And when it's too late for them to back out, harvest your parasocial crops without apology. Rinse, repeat.

Podcast. Hm, this may require other consenting, unsuspecting humans for the energy to get off the ground. If thems a possibility, go for it. If not, no biggie.

Sing! Not quite sure yet how this connect to big monies, but a lot of other ppl seem to have it figured. So kidnap them and get them to reveal their secrets.

Write. Write. And write some more! Eventually some semblance of a marketable story can be hastily scrabbled together from all the unhinged ramblings strewn upon the walls amongst the wasteland of each littered apartment room.

Oh, I have some investments in the bank of course, but you don't make any real money unless you do it yourself and are good at it or can afford one of the stock brokers that the millionaires use.

These other ideas are pretty good except for the fact that I have no creative talents and don't really want to end up in jail.

 

[Thaluikhain]

Actually, I have thought about subsistence farming, but I don't have that much in savings.