Guys who run their own businesses, what do you?

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1. Software consulting. My previous employer couldn’t find consulting work for me, so I started my own. Very slow process getting started. Not for the faint of heart, or for people without a year of expenses saved up.

2. 7 figure Amazon seller. 10 years and counting. 95% outsourced. Started with 6k. 3k for coaching. 3k for inventory. Was a bartender before. 35. Started when I was 25. Still regret not going to med school though

3. I’m a freelance writer.

   At university, I stumbled on a website (2012) that offered like €5 for writing a short article of around 500 words. Terrible rate, but as a student, it was still a few extra drinks on a night out.

   Then, I found Upwork. Started doing bigger jobs. Ended up making about £600-£1200 a month extra from about 2015 to 2018.

   I finally got myself onto the team at a major content provider that most people would know by name. I’ve been there for a while now and made a full-time salary from it in the 40% bracket.

   I have a website and occasionally pick up ad-hoc content jobs too.

   The cool thing about this gig is I never set out to be a writer. I did a humanities degree with no idea what I wanted to do in life. And it made me realize that I love writing.

   On the side, I have been publishing fiction too. I’ve published 30+ books and have sold thousands (on Kindle). It supplements my income.

   What a day in my life looks like:

   * Wake up at <whenever>.
   * Log into my WordPress backend and research/write articles.
   * Speak to literally nobody if I don’t want to. Zero meetings aside from maybe one catch-up per month.
   * Work until I’ve “done enough” to be sure I’m regularly putting out content.
   * Stream Vlogs or listen to lo-fi all day in the background.

4. I’ve done 4.

   1) independent software consultant – it was a solo thing for the first 5 months then I scaled that to an 8 fig business. This kind of funded the rest.

   2) CEO tech recruiting agency. When that market exploded, all of the clients I had from #1 asked for help with talent. So I built that team out to about 30+ people. Then sold it.

   3) ai social media / news / podcast – lasted about 4 months but after 1&2 I just don’t want to work like that so we shut it down.

   4) I guess now i can say I own a real estate property rental company or something. I’ve moved majority of my money into real estate over the years, have a property manager that does everything . But im still the money side of it