07-17-2017, 03:39 PM
(07-17-2017, 02:22 PM)Cainite Wrote: [
I like to do things that require thinking and specially creativity. I have had different jobs as the computer guy (photoshop, programming, ...)
I am talented in music and martial arts. I can develop my skills and teach. I'm not in a hurry to make much money. I don't want to start my own family or get rich. I can live like a monk.
But then I think about being ''realistic'' as you suggested and having more money and using it to serve others. I still can afford buying food and water for hungry cats in the streets or help out the homeless and beggar kids that I come across.. but I like to do these things more.. maybe I begin to like myself that way..
Right now I'm confused and don't know what exactly I should do. hopefully I'll figure it out soon.
Tnx for responding.
It sounds like you have a lot to work with as far as skills. As a programmer, you could definitely work at home and make money. There is a website, Unity3D.com, where you can offer your services, with 2 categories: revenue share and paid service. An app developer gave me this resource to use and I haven't been there yet, so I'm not sure if it's specific to apps. I will add that if you can combine creativity with the left-brain thinking as an app programmer, you will definitely have an edge.
I am entrepreneurial so I always think that way in a very practical sense. I am a martial artist as well, and have known many who have had and have studios. It's difficult to make money teaching at a studio due to overhead and maintaining a student base (but that by no means indicates it's impossible); however, there is the option of creating teaching videos. Udemy.com is one website where you can sell teaching videos and they have traffic; in other words you can promote your video(s) in a platform where you know people are looking for instructions, rather than just having a website and endeavoring to SEO it and drive traffic to it (which you would also want to do).
I love it that you help animals and the homeless. That you are doing it at all is wonderful.
It's helpful to me at times to make lists of possibilities and canvass how viable each one is, and how it makes me feel. There is a book titled, The 4-Hour Workweek. In it the author brings up a great point (and I am paraphrasing as I haven't read that book for some time), and the example he uses is going on a possible vacation. He gives 2 different scenarios—one is to vacation by going home to visit relatives; the other is to do some wild trip that may be really expensive but it totally gets you excited. He says, and I agree, that you will be more likely to make the wild trip happen, because you will want it so much more than the boring trip to visit relatives.
Good luck.