The Broke Entrepreneur’s Journey: The Best One, Yet the Worst One
Let me explain.
At some point in our lives, some of us catch the seizure of the entrepreneur. It’s that moment when you realize that working for a corporation, enticed by their 5% match to your 401k contribution, isn’t going to do shit for you when you turn 65. It’s the moment you understand that the job you’re doing for "the man" could be done for yourself.
I had this realization at a very early age. Was it cockiness or confidence? Maybe a little bit of both.
Yet, to protect my ideas—and myself—from going nuts while achieving each milestone I’ve set for my business journey, I need to maintain a place with four walls to produce more ideas and act on them. This forces me to keep a dead-end job to pay the bills while I hustle to fund my own operations.
However, between the matrix job, the grind of dealing with my emotions, the nostalgia of good times gone, and the fallout from poor financial decisions, I’ve been unable to escape crypto theory and move into crypto trading.
I’m stuck in a cycle: I either have to find more clients or get a higher-paying matrix job. The first one feels impossible; the latter seems like yet another manic decision in a vicious loop that will continue until I die.
Thinking about all of this keeps me stuck in a place where wallet forensics, copy trading, meme coin research, and learning to code with AI all seem impossible. Sometimes, going back to NPC life—the one without the effort of entrepreneurship—seems like the easier route. But it’s also a bitch move, and I won’t take it.
Even if I lose the last few friends I have, I won’t quit.
I see the future of gaming, medicine, education, and telecommunications. And let me tell you—it’s not a utopia.
Why do I write this? It’s a scream for help, a decompression tool, a coping strategy, and a way to organize my thoughts in this season where the blues are approaching fast.
Keep working, and I’ll keep doing the same. Just find a way out from under the thumb of the man. I promise: this is not the path you want to stay on until you die.