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Just wondering as internet "gurus" on platforms like youtube annoy me.

Also i want to someday earn money without having a job or where i am my own boss, but im young and have next too no money, and i have no talent. ive tried the "simple" ways to get a grasp of learning. Ive tried free methods like surveys, games, ebay selling, etc, but i find that those are a waste of time/effort for me atleast and im lucking to break even. I struggle to even learn new things, school pretty much failed to teach me the right way of life.

I feel lost at life right now.

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[–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Also i want to someday earn money without having a job

This is possible, but you need to have ownership of something with substantial value that others are willing to give you money for it. Unless you're given something like this (usually inheriting it) the only way to get one of these is to buy it for a very large sum of money you get from something else that will allow you to earn a small fraction of what you paid for the item of value. So unless you inherent the item, no one starts with this, but its something you can get later in life if you get enough money from elsewhere.

or where i am my own boss

This is possible to do starting with nothing, but its a very hard path. Entrepreneurship pays way WAY less than most hourly jobs for years (possible decades) and you work way WAY harder than any hourly or salary job working for someone else. Finally, the risks to your income are far FAR higher than working for someone else. Failed businesses by entrepreneurs is extremely common, and you're frequently left with less than nothing because its common to take on debt to start or grow a business. So your business could fail, but your debt doesn't disappear when your business income disappears.

ive tried the “simple” ways to get a grasp of learning. Ive tried free methods like surveys, games, ebay selling, etc, but i find that those are a waste of time/effort for me atleast and im lucking to break even.

If you're trying to succeed in areas where anyone can do the thing, you're competing with everyone that can do that thing. That's a low chance of succeeding, as you've discovered.

The winning move is to specialize. Shrink your competition by doing an activity that you, and a smaller number of people can do.

and i have no talent.

People typically categorize "talent" by specific job roles such as: music, computers, athletics. Instead of a whole career role, identify what individual traits or abilities you have. This is what career counseling is for.

  • Are you very detail oriented and can follow a list of instructions perfectly time and time again?
  • Do you have good anomaly detection where you can look at a result and realize something is wrong or missing?
  • Are there any particular extreme conditions you are quite comfortable working long hours in (high temperature, small spaces, low or no light, etc).
  • Do you have extensive cultural understanding of any particular groups (language, customs, traditions)?
  • Do you know if you are good working for long periods alone or the opposite where you are constantly with others?
  • Do you learn best by reading, hearing, or doing?

These kind of abstract questions, and your answers, can lead you to all kinds of paths that you could be particularly well suited for that others are not! This means you'd be competing with far fewer people for roles that match your specific traits.

In short, do you know yourself well enough yet? If not, seek all kinds of work or experiences that will help you answer questions like this. The most powerful thing for anyone to be successful, in however each of us defines that, is knowing who we each are. Only then do I believe we can each chart our personalized individual paths to success.