Gentlemen, we live in an age of unprecedented rapidity of change. The West’s infrastructure, culture, and technology have changed more in the past 20 years than they have in the past 100. It is not an overstatement to say that job security is a thing of the past.
So, what’s a man to do in such uncertain times? Well, I propose that you must take your own financial success into your own hands. It will no longer do to trust a giant corporation to take care of you, and to be honest, this type of thinking is childish and entitled.
If you want to break free of the rat race and become financially independent, it is possible… if you’re willing to put in the work. Very many men in the manosphere have not only left their day jobs behind, but are earning far more than they ever did before.
Roosh, Victor Pride, Mike Cernovich, Matt Forney, Stefan Molyneux, and more men all over the West have started to realize the pointlessness of working your whole life for a corporation. Instead, why not choose to become a self-employed man? If you don’t think it can be done, simply look at the last five names that I rattled off. That’s only a fraction of a fraction of the men who have escaped the rat race.
Escaping the grind is 100% possible, and in fact, will only take several years if you know what you’re doing. So, with this in mind, here’s four tips for men trying to break free.
1. Learn to Invest
One of the most basic tenets of being able to escape the rat race is not just to earn money, but to protect your money and make it grow for YOU. In fact, this is probably one of the most fundamental principles of wealth: the poor work for money, the rich have money work for them.
It only takes a modicum of thought to realize the folly of working for money. If you can only work 16 hours in a day, you are limited to 16 hours’ worth of money. This is why it is crucial to shift your paradigm. Don’t think of money and time as a linear trade (aka 1 hour = $15). Think of time as an INVESTMENT in money.
There are two types of investments: time and money. That’s it. You can either invest time, or you can invest money…and I would argue that you should do both. Every time you’re faced with spending your time to earn money, ask yourself: will this earn me money for JUST this hour? Or will this time investment continue to earn me money for the following years to come?
In other words, learn to create residual income. It is better to spend 1000 hours investing in a business structure, and earning $500 during this period, but then gaining $15,000 every month for the rest of your life. Again, switch your paradigm: don’t TRADE time for money. INVEST time for money.
The second way that you can invest, is with money. Now, I’m not going to sugar coat this and bullshit you—it is very possible to lose money in the stock market, or in whatever investments you partake in. That being said, however, the stock market is not at all like “gambling,” as some people think.
If you learn to read the signs and predict the upswings and downswings with even a small amount of accuracy, you will make a very large killing in the market. “But Jon,” I’m sure you’re asking. “How do I learn to trade the market?”
That’s a great question—there’s a lot of so called gurus out there claiming that they’ll help you double or even triple your money in a year. But, when you ask them for proof, they completely shy away. Now, I’m not by any means claiming to be an expert on the market, but I did recently gain 268% in 5 months from precious metals investing. Compare that to Wall Street’s average gain of 10% per year, and it’s pretty impressive.
All in all, the key is to get started. Consider reading the article that I just linked to, or maybe buying some books on the stock market (The Intelligent Investor is a great one). The point is to get started. If you’re unsure of where to start and don’t want to take huge risks, just invest in some simple, stable stocks or bonds; save ETF’s and mutual funds for when you’re more experienced.
2. Monetize Your Passion
As many others, such as renowned entrepreneur Gary Vaynerchuk, have said before, if you want to make it big you have to follow your passion. Now, I get that this can sound like complete hippie garbage to someone who has been in the rat race for the last three decades, but let me explain.
When you’re stuck in the rat race, you don’t see things the same way that an entrepreneur does; you only see the opportunities that are GIVEN to you. “Hmm, I could get this job doing something I hate for $150,000 a year or I could follow my passion as a teacher and get paid $35,000 a year…I think I’ll choose the former.”
Obviously you can’t follow your passion if you expect others to just give you an opportunity to do so, but if you take the mindset of an entrepreneur it is entirely possible. Think about it: dozens of highly intelligent revolutionaries have told us to follow our passions. Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Richard Branson, Sam Walton, George Lucas…why is it that they all say the same thing?
Because when you take a leap of faith, and learn to monetize your passion, great things happen. Rather than taking an employee’s mindset and looking around to see who can help you, you take the mindset of an entrepreneur and look where you can SEIZE opportunities.
I know that this may not seem like a big shift, but it’s massive: employees look for others to give them success, entrepreneurs look to CREATE it themselves. I don’t care what it is that you’re passionate about; whether it’s creating the best flamenco guitar music in the world or traveling across South America and tasting expertly crafted artisan coffees.
If you’re passionate about it, there’s a way to monetize it. All you have to do is ask yourself a very simple question: how can I make others pay me to do what I love to do? I realize that this question may not be very helpful to a newbie entrepreneur, so I’ll help you answer it.
Let’s say you’re passionate about lifting weights (like I am). Okay—so how do you get others to pay you for this? Well, you don’t. Rather, you create a BRAND and get others to pay you for your KNOWLEDGE. Start a blog, a YouTube channel, a twitter, and a Facebook for your company. Start putting out content several times a week.
Over time, you’ll get a following. People will see you as an expert for simply talking about what you love to do. Talk about the best pre-workouts on the market, the best bicep exercises, how to do intermittent fasting…talk about whatever you want.
Then, once you’re getting around 1k viewers a day, launch an eBook…which brings me to my next tip.
3. Learn to Write eBooks
With the advent of the digital world, authors no longer have to go through broken, bureaucratic publishing companies to get their work out there. Prior to the internet, it was not uncommon for amazing authors to have their work turned down by 30 or 40 different publishing companies.
And then, on the off chance that they got their work accepted, they would only keep about 20% of the profits. But now, you can literally create and sell an eBook within a couple of weeks. and you get to keep anywhere from 30% to 100% of the profit.
If you don’t have a blog, which I’m assuming most of you reading this probably don’t, then I would opt to sell an eBook through Amazon’s Kindle store. You keep a relatively decent percentage of the profits (I believe from 30-60% depending on how high you price it) and you expose your work to literally millions of book browsers every day.
If you have your own blog with a relatively large following, however, creating an eBook and selling it through your blog will allow you to keep 100% of the profit. This is what guys like Roosh, Matt Forney, Victor Pride, and I do. By selling eBooks through our blogs we can charge whatever we want for it, create a sales page, and keep 100% of the profits. Sure, it’s more work—but it pays off in the long run.
“But Jon! What if I have nothing to write about?” I can hear someone ask. Trust me, you have something to write about. What are you knowledgeable about? All of that nerdy stuff that never got you laid is an opportunity to make some money now.
Do you know how to create a computer from scratch? Okay, then write about that. Are you an expert at cultivating your own garden? Then write about that. Or maybe you’re an expert at banging girls that you meet during the day. Then write about that.
Whatever you write about, the point is that you need to be very knowledgeable about it. Guys can sense when you’re bullshitting them, and that’s no way to sell a quality product. If you’re going to write an eBook, be sure that you have at least a few years of experience with what it is that you’re writing about—preferably even more.
4. Utilize Freelancing Platforms
Over the past five years, tons and tons of online freelancing platforms have emerged. Sites like Fiverr, 99Designs, DogVacay, Upwork, and Elance, have created a new type of economy, where artists and skilled individuals don’t have to rely on any sort of boss or location to get paid.
I actually decided to make a Fiverr around 2 years back as a joke; my friend told me that there were people who sold spells on eBay and made $100’s of dollars a day. “There’s no way anyone can be that stupid,” I thought. “Look it up,” he said.
After verifying his claim, I decided to make a Fiverr “removing curses,” for the low, low fee of $5 per curse. Within a couple of weeks I was earning around $20 a day, sometimes earning up to $50 a day if someone needed a very powerful, ancient curse removed (for an extra fee, of course).
I actually shut it down a while back, because I felt kind of like a dick for taking advantage of complete retards (although if you choose to do so, I won’t judge you), but the point is that there’s some good money to be made online if you’re willing to put in the work.
If you have any sort of skill or product that can be sold digitally, I guarantee you, there’s a market for it. Are you a good writer? You can get paid anywhere from $25-100 an hour to write high quality articles or proofread others’ work.
Can you use Adobe Photoshop? There’s guys out there who literally make $100’s of dollars a day just from photo-shopping abs into peoples’ pictures. Literally any skill that you have can be used to make money online. “But Jon, I don’t have any skills!” I can hear you say.
Can you talk? Okay—there’s people who will pay you to record testimonials or to record a few hundred words. And if you actually have a highly sought-after skill like coding or graphic design, you can forget about it. You’ll easily rake in a six figure salary.
Summary
Although this isn’t the “definitive guide” to making money online, it’s certainly a start. Remember, though: it all starts with your mindset. Learn to see the opportunities that others can’t see, and learn to believe that if you put in the work, you’ll get the results.
If you’re looking for a quick buck, definitely don’t go the blogging route—blogging takes a long time to make money from, but if you’re willing to put in the effort, it’s worth it. If you’re looking for slow and steady income gains, consider investing in the stock market as well.
For a much faster income, go with the freelancing option or consider writing eBooks and selling them on Amazon. There’s an infinite amount of opportunity out there, you just have to develop the confidence and drive to take advantage of it. I have, millions of other men have, and you can too.
I hope you guys enjoyed the article—if you have any questions, comments, or concerns, be sure to leave a comment down below. And as always, be sure to tune in for my column next Wednesday.
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You guys remember a few years ago when the manosphere was all “enjoy the decline” and “Western Civ is fucked” ?
Well, this is our one chance to make a meaningful change. Donald Trump is the best opportunity we’ll ever get to restore sanity to this culture and make some macro level changes.
Vote.
Oh, I member.
I ‘member
I would also add, look at what everyone else is up to, and then do the opposite. Always be a contrarian.
In everyone else is studying some computer stuff, maybe you should learn how to operate a fishing vessel, or become a farmer!
I know it sounds crazy, but the average age of farmers in many countries is like 60+, so where will people get their food in the near future? The demand is certainly not decreasing, particularly for good quality food.
The legendary investor Jim Rogers have stated many times that in the future the Farmers will be driving the Lamborghinis, while the Wall street people will have to learn how to operate a tractor.
Seems like it`s heading in that direction.
Interesting thoughts. I like the contrarian approach. I use this a lot in stock trading as well. Whatever industry everyone is avoiding typically means it’s at a discount price.
Whatever industry people are flocking to usually means there’s a bubble.
Old adage, when there’s blood in the streets buy.
In the modern stock market, this is the only way to trade. The value of a stock has two components: The underlying value of the company, and the social premium the crowd adds to it.
So take a company like Facebook, and there is the value it has from the revenue it generates, that gives it some worth, then there is the premium based on people thinking “Facebook is cool” or “Facebook will be a great long term investment” or “I use Facebook all the time so I want to own some of it” and that premium is the second component. Add these two together and you get the current stock price.
This is why stock values fluctuate so much on a short term basis. Apple is worth no more or less than it was yesterday, but the stock price dropped half a percent. That doesn’t mean Apple is only 99.5% as strong a company as it was yesterday, just that the “buyer premium” on it is slightly lower today.
The key is to either buy stocks that have a low to negligible social premium, or to “play” the market by going contrarian. I tried to find some examples, and almost every stock I pulled up seems vastly overpriced. The social premium today is a huge component of the stock price, whereas in past it was a much lower component.
Interestingly enough, Apple seems to be one of the more reasonably priced stocks, which is very odd to me. (Note: I do NOT buy individual stocks).
In stocks this approach has caused me to catch 2 falling knives and I will never recover that loss. I forever stay away from the stock exchange now.
I know little about trading, but many commodities have been in a bear market for a long time.
With the rise of the middle class in China etc. I like to think that the demand for things like coffee, chocolate and meat for example will skyrocket.
That`s one of the reasons I mentioned farming, but if you know how to trade in commodities and have a longer horizon those things might be a very good trade.
Or maybe just buy the Yuan, they have to let it appreciate at some point.
Plenty of life left in “computer stuff”
My current employer has an advert for an intermediate PHP vacancy paying £40,000 ($60,000) – still not filled after 5 months.
Massive skills gap to exploit
How come? Do they have asinine requirements such as being 18 yet have 10 years experience (sarcasm) or is there a genuine lack of php coders?
Genuine lack of genuine talent
I you can deal with HR-bitches
That’s based on continued bubble economy and ZIRP. Won’t last.
Ok, Jesus
Ok, douche.
60,000 minus taxes/living expenses just to grind at a draining job for 50 weeks a year (USA) and use ‘game’ on 180 pound land cunts sounds like a crap life in all honesty.
This is very good advice. For one thing, no matter how good a field is, it’s not great if everyone else is doing it and you have tons of competition. Case in point: Lawyers. Lawyers used to make really good money, but now there are so many of them, that they can’t really command high prices.
I’d say with all the push for everyone to go to college, there will be a dearth of manual labor jobs, like electrician, plumbing, etc. Especially since men will be discouraged from doing these jobs, and women won’t do them. In 20 years or so it should be a great field. Hell, my plumber today already lives pretty happily. He’s not rich, but he doesn’t work very much and he has no boss. He’s also redpill as hell. That’s a win in my book.
I saw a billboard for “robotic spine surgery” the other day. If robots are doing surgery, the days of surgeons earning quarter-million a year salaries are coming to a close.
Often when I travel to Central America, I will meet guys who are traveling there for medical tourism. The cost of many procedures is so much lower, and the quality of care is so much higher (ie you can rest up in a resort-like atmosphere for 2 weeks after the operation vs being kicked out on the street in 2 hours in America) that there is big demand for this. The doctors are typically US trained and probably under less stress working in a more laid back environment and not under the control of insurance companies. I would think with technology, the ability for guys like this to “remotely operate” on you from their home would put further pressure on US doctors.
Haha, I became a lawyer and now my goal is to work as little as possible and start a hobby farm. Had I been self-aware so many years ago, I probably would have just taken over my grandfather’s farm.
I think every day about how I should have been a certified mechanic. After my first two years, my new goal was suddenly to work to get out of law. To this day, most lawyer interaction reminds me of the George Carlin routine where he adds unnecessary words to normal sentences just to make it all sound officious and over-important. I am always grateful when I meet another lawyer who doesn’t “issue a timely response regarding my client’s spurious allegation,” but simply “calls me back about the facts, their client’s side of things, and settlement.”
Trust me, being an auto mechanic is no walk in the park. A full set of tools that are required to work on today’s cars, can cost as much as a small house, and you never stop buying them, or taking classes to stay up to date. Add on top of that the fact that the pay really sucks, considering how difficult and dirty the work is. Small shops tend to be more pleasant an atmosphere than dealerships, but the pay is usually lower, with less benefits. If you put in the time, (10 years minimum, usually closer to 20) then it can pay off by opening your own shop. But again, opening a brick and mortar business, costs big bucks. If you manage to accomplish a well established business, then finally, the money starts to roll in. You know what they say about the grass always being greener.
Im moving into some sort of trade right now. Unions suck but they’re the way to go. 5 years of working and 1-2 nights a week of night school and you’re a journeyman making $40/hr and $65/hr after benefits.
I met a welder at a local bar (we had a good conversation) and he makes $65 an hour and works 3000 hours a year. Any hour beyond 8 in a day gets 1.5x wage and beyond 12 hours a day or weekend work gets double time. He welds well, works a lot, dont give much of a fuck and at a lot of peace because he’s got so much coin in the bank.
like george costanza
I actually think that is fantastic advice for western women. I’ve told them so.
I do the same. In subtle and not so subtle ways. E.g. I make sure the girls around me know that the woman wearing a nice skirt in a sea of yoga pants and hoodies catches my eye.
Any break from the herd is likely to yield them better results at this point. Though they are terrified – and would rather double down on ink and ball-busting “sass” rather than embrace a sliver of their god-given femininity.
I met one of my favorite ladies of the past few years because she was the only one not on her phone. Turned out she had a flip-phone and has never been on social media.
The collective WTF? from the herd was priceless when I made it clear that her choices in that regard were appealing to me and then peeled her off. Three years later those other birds are still finger-banging their phones and Tindering away their eggs.
haha tindering away their eggs. I am stealing that!
And people wonder why I’m moving out to my 40 acres in the country here in a little less than a year.
40 acres and a mule?
I figured robots would take over farming jobs in the future. Thus negating the need for migrant peasants to pick my tomatoes.
Not really possible. With corn and beans, sure. If you grow more labor intensive crops that require delicate handling, automation is nearly useless.
Right but I’m talking about the freaky, super-advanced robots which will inevitably show up. Like Terminator. Except doing farm work instead of exterminating humanity.
So it will dig up the onions, put them into storage then walk up to you and say “Ah’ll bee bahk!”?
The robot takeover might well be our era’s ‘flying car’. Some of the most advanced robotics companies have gotten nowhere in the past 25 years. It would cost 100’s of millions to design, perfect, manufacture, maintain fruit picking robots. Our Southern friends are much cheaper.
You could be right. The theory goes that the progress will proceed exponentially, not linearly. Place your bets I guess
Yeah I wouldn’t be the one who knows. I just know that Boston Dynamics is still goofing off with silly looking shit.
Long way to go.
Correction: Look at what everyone else is up to — and then figure out ways to sell them the things they need to chase those dreams.
Levis to miners, etc.
Bayer-Monsanto say hi.
Hopefully not with Trump:)
Agree wholeheartedly. I’m fleeing Seattle’s tech scene (I work in tech for a non-profit school, so pay is crap) for rural high desert. Tech will implode soon enough. Goal is to live on a small farm in the next year and start brewing ales and raising free range chicken eggs and goat cheese to start. (I grew up on a farm, so it’s not like I don’t know what I’m getting into.) My need to be more self-sufficient and out of the rat race is growing stronger with each passing year.
Sounds like a great plan.
I`ve been thinking about free range chicken farming myself.
I’ve been in Western Minnesota and heard that the banks are so full of cash that they cant loan money to anyone.
I taught myself how to sew at the end of 2010 while I was unemployed and bored. Learned how to alter my own clothing and immediately started a small operation. Today I’m the only custom tailor in my town where ppl normally have to go to Philly or NYC to get what I sell. Once I established factory production, my clientelle became like an annuity for me. Worth the few years of sacrifice it took to learn. I haven’t had a normal schedule since.
I also think smaller markets that have residents with money can be better than the large cities — depending on what one does. I lived in two large cities on West Coast and it truly felt like I was just a number. I didn’t have endless work as one would think. People know in that environment they can find 25 others doing the same service in 10 minutes. In the smaller markets which still have people with $ … you stand out more if your service is good. People tell others about you and you’re strongly favored for the work as people don’t have limitless others to choose from.
Sounds like what Eric Cantona said. People will get their food from food processing companies, which is where they get most of it now.
I will say that you are not likely to make much money investing. Getting more than the market return long term is well nigh impossible. Better consider mutual funds as more an option for long term savings (i.e. for retirement).
Depends on your time frame.
If you started buying farmland, or say cacao plants in South America I`m pretty sure you would be rich eventually, but it might take a long time.
Just trading stocks I agree, unless you get into the whole short-selling thing, which I find a bit questionable.
I take the engineering degree as Plan B (safe bet) but in the end I wanna be a writer and I will try anything to make this my main source of income.
OT: South Park airs on 10 pm. But which 10 pm do they mean? 10 pm in EST or what? Don’t the US have four different time zones?
Lol, totally off topic but that always annoys me too. I think they mean EST
Okay, thanks. That’s 4am for me. Guess I won’t watch it live.
FYI The uncensored versions of South Park aren’t uploaded until the next day, which is when I usually watch it. However, the creators sold out, and this season their new website won’t even let me view videos (probably because of my adblocking but who knows?) So there’s always torrenting.
I think the member berries are the reason Gerald Broflovski is the hateful internet troll/shitlord because the member berries are clearly xenophobic/homophobic and at the end from episode 1 you can see Gerald Broflovski logging into the shitlords account and on his desk you can see a glass of vine (=member berry juice?)
I watch Southpark on kisscarton.me
EST only relevant time zone 🙂
On this, we agree. All the other time zones are nothing but wannabes.
thats why (at least in NA), they come AFTER.
I’d like to think I’m working on my way out of the ratrace; currently prototyping a cheap, revolutionary piece of sporting equipment. Would go into details, but it would comprise my anonymity.
Great article like always Jon. But I have a problem with number two. Monetizing your passsion is great. It sounds nice on paper and stuff. However there are passions which are impossible to monetize.
Example: I am passionate about comic books. I read and know everything from comic strips to superheroes and manga. I enjoy researching about new and interesting comic book stories and art styles. But let’s be honest. Who the hell wants to read articles or watch videos with a guy who looks like Fatty Arbuckle’s long lost relative.
It’s nice to try to make money from your hobbies but it’s pointless if it doesn’t bring any green to your house.
Dude you’d be surprised. A quick google analytics search reveals that 673,000 people are searching for “comics” every month. “Comic books” is being searched 135,000 times a month with low competition.
Just make a website reviewing comics you like, and contact a few comic book distributors asking if they have affiliate programs or if they want to advertise. You can easily rake in $200-300 passive revenue a day after 6-12 months of work.
And get a ton of free merchandise too while you’re at it! Heck, maybe even start a podcast and interview the writers and artists that you like.
I will work on it. By the way Red, where can I buy your stuff? If I remember correctly you said that you make erotic comics.
http://www.redrobot3d.com
Home of masculine cuck-free comics!
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Thanks for a piece of your mind Jon. You are an excellent consultant. I will definetitely try it considering the fact that blogging is one of the few decent paying jobs for guys with history degree.
Websites die without at least daily updates. Google and others have gutted what they pay in recent years.
Plus one for the Fatty Arbuckle reference.
Passion usually isn’t the most monetary rewarding thing one can do and it certainly isn’t for me. However passion turned into a daily grind may also happen.
I decided to make a Fiverr “removing curses,” for the low, low fee of $5 per curse. […] I actually shut it down a while back, because I felt kind of like a dick for taking advantage of complete retards
This is funny stuff. Did you actually do anything at all other than collect the money? People will buy anything. A great example that made recent headlines:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3787162/Smart-sex-toy-maker-sued-tracking-users-intimate-habits-experts-warn-data-hacked.html
Basically a wifi dildo. Only the dullest of the dull could connect their genitals to the ‘net and think nothing will go wrong.
Your nipples, on the other hand, go along great over a TOR network.
I knew a girl who wanted to get this but before it could happen we went our separate ways.
I actually had a sales funnel that I’d run them through, lol. Claim that upon removing the first curse, I found signs of a deep, dark ancestral blood feud all the way back to ancient Egypt.
Then I’d bust out the crazy shit telling them I have to banish a demon from them, travel to the woods and do a spell under the moonlight to remove it, etc.
The most valuable customers ended up paying me $200-300 over the course of their lifetime.
Oh hell. I only envisioned you making a little sign of the cross over the sale notification email or something.
Yeah. I started to feel like a dick after a while so I stopped it. Some girl on Fiverr has over 10k reviews though, which means she’s probably made at least a million from removing spells.
Why would you feel like a dick? You’re giving them peace of mind. Yeah, they’re idiots, but they’re just going to give their money to somebody else if not you, you’re not saving them any grief once they realize what retards they are being. Better a fool give his money to you than somebody else.
Hmmm….new Fiverr gig idea:
Words of affirmation for feminists.
“You’re a wonderful person no matter what gender/size/orientation you are and your 50 cats are awesome!”
If they’ll pay you for that, then by all means, do it. Separating fools from their money used to be a time honored tradition, and I suggest we bring it back.
I’ve been looking for a niche to drop a cult into. Unabashed’s idea is good, but if we could expand that with merchandise, conferences, and some rehashing of “The Secret,” we could be rolling in it by Tuesday.
exactly right. Is it really any different than when I go to an ultra high end hotel bar that sells Tanqueray Martini’s for 28 bucks? Everything is immaculate. The service impeccable and clad in red jackets with well tied bow ties. The place has been there 100+ years and the walls have old paintings on them. The lighting is just right. ALl the patrons are well dressed. I am buying that level of scenery and bullshit because it makes me happy. I can afford it. Why shouldn’t I enjoy it and why shouldn’t they make a buck on it.
uhm: that is called every single thing on television and in the movies, news, music, politics and advertising.
Not only fools. Like I said in my above comment. If I know it is a show but I enjoy the show and feel it is an equitable exchange (the price isn’t enough to deter me) why am I a fool. I would much rather go to an elaborate and expensive bar than go to a baseball game and in the end it will probably cost me the same. I work hard. I should be allowed to pick my pleasures without being labelled a fool.
I was going to post the excellent Calvin and Hobbes comic to this effect, but Disqus isn’t cooperating.
Attached is a link. It’s less spontaneous and enjoyable by far.
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That was my justification. Maybe you’re right. I mean rather than them spending the money on Twinkies, I’ll spend it on books or something lol, so maybe I have a duty to do this.
And if you actually have a highly sought-after skill like coding or graphic design, you can forget about it. You’ll easily rake in a six figure salary.
Well I do know some C++/C#/Java/PHP/JS but you also need good ideas for programs that people will pay for (and the skill to make them if they are truly complex, I can’t program device drivers for example)
You also need the skills to protect your program against piracy but hackers know way more than I do so it’s a losing battle.
My only half-decent idea is that I’m working on an accounting package as I know people in my surroundings who literally pay €700/year for theirs. That’s when I dropped learning Direct X 11 and videogame programming in favour of this because deep down I know that any game I’d create won’t be top notch and nobody will pay for it (also think freemium on iphones, it totally debased a game’s value)
Another thing that kinda ruined the programming market is those leftist Linux users who think everything should be free and open source.
Nope, you don’t need shit bro. I know programmers on Upwork who get paid to do some basic HTML editing for websites and shit, that get paid like $3k per week.
Hell, when I was launching Masculine Development one was going to charge me $2k just to make a landing page. I said fuck that and did it myself lmao.
This is good news but I’m surprised though as websites are increasingly more sophisticated but companies tend to pay increasingly less by the year. Over the years I’ve had a few one-shots here and there and asked about €1500 for a website with a few pages but as they were one off projects and with long gaps between I never benefited from code reuse and copy/paste and the number of hours I had to spend on creating and updating it quickly made it as bad as a low wage job so I dropped website creation. I kinda suck at the design/CSS part anyway.
Piracy is rampant. I spend at least a few hours a week sending out take down notices and DCMA to sites that are illegally posting and sharing my work. It’s getting to a point where I’m considering hiring someone to just do it for me cause it’s so time consuming.
Yeah I have a friend who is a photographer and the digital age has killed them. Not only are tons more people competing with him today, but all the “free sharing” on social media means people can usually grab images without paying for them. On top of that, the third fatal blow is when people pirate his images. Often they don’t even know they are doing it. One guy redistributes it, then once it’s out on the net, people will find it and save it and use it. His income is 1/10th what it used to be.
Yah it’s bad. At this point I actually make more doing private work with individual clients. They’re less likely to share if they’re invested quite a bit of money into a project. I was hoping that I could set myself up with a comic store and sell a monthly title. However when you find your work uploaded not even 24hrs after it’s been released, it kills potential buyer attention as they can just steal it.
I wish I could monetize my passions. I’m a great shot, but nowhere near the level where I could compete at a tier that would earn a stand-alone amount of money. I can pull 1st on a bowling pin shoot or a local range competition from time to time, but the big boys got my ass beat by a long mile.
Make a niche website reviewing bowling balls, bags, etc, etc. then monetize it through affiliate advertising.
Bowling pin shoots are gun shooting events.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bowling_pin_shooting
Gun reviewing is fine as far as it goes, but it’s a pretty saturated market, at least in the States.
Maybe you can mix the two. Make a niche website reviewing bowling bags, balls, etc. and threaten anyone who doesn’t read it with a gun.
Read my blog,or I will kill you.
Talk about direct marketing!
Or, make a sport out of shooting bowlers and write a blog about the intricacies of catching them off guard?
I don’t know much about bullets but I imagine you need a big one to get through a bowler.
superliminial advertising.
You know what’s odd…this is the only article that HASN’T had that skankbot post the spam about how much money she makes per hour from home……so much for targeted spam.
Give her time. She’s currently out earning $89.00 an hour and probably hasn’t seen the new thread as of yet. Write her for details.
You could always write erotica. A housewife made millions off her “Cum for Bigfoot” series. Put her children through college with it!
I have long thought about doing this.
Now that’s a market! How does one get started?
Having some writing talent and imagination probably help a lot. I had uploaded some of my comics to Amazon but was kicked off for being too explicit.
I’ve always thought re-writing history in an erotic way would be fun, plus a good way to get people to read history.
“Thomas Jefferson thrust his ink engorged pen deep into the pages of the Constitution as the candles burned in the room…”
What about a blog format where you add a new chapter every few days? Harder to monetize than an e-book?
Blog formats can work, you can even set up advertising and commercials on it through their services. I had a blogspot going for a bit but right before I got my first revenue check I got tagged for “inappropriate content” and lost the ability to sell ad posts.
That’s hilarious. Do it!
Or maybe tap into the growing cuckled mens market and make a shit ton of money!
“My wife’s Boyfriend is a gangsta”.
Easy enough to build your own website linked to your own registered domain that’s on your own server space (hosted abroad) so no one can content-block you. Cool idea!
Terrible movie but fantastic book
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Lincoln,_Vampire_Hunter_(novel)
I saw the movie previews. Ranked right up there with Pride and Prejudice and Zombies on my list of “Must miss” movies.
same genre. Also, Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters and Android Karenena. Most of them are just silly and all of the movies are must miss for sure, but Abe Lincoln Vamp Hunter was actually a good book,
actually, this is a very old fashioned way to publish a novel just with new technology. Dostoryevsky published The Brothers Karamozov as a serial for instance. He would get infuriated with letters written to him asking him for more plot details. Same as you suggest only with print technology rather than intertubes
Steven King released the Green Mile this way (old style)
Good lord GOJ, that’ll be the last time I ever look at the Constitution the same way. Thanks for that. 😉
5. Kratom distrubuto… aw, shit.
F U uncle sam.
You don’t distribute Kratom, Kratom distributes you!
Only in soviet america
Kratom? You mean Chuck Norris dandruff?
I prefer the Autismbux route. You just spaz out and shit yourself at the doctor’s office and get set up for life. Video games and Asian washy houses for me, fam.
THAT’S where I’m going wrong.. I’ve been doing that for years, but at the bar.
1. Initial independent travel.
2. Make your passion valuable.
3. Mentor newbies.
4. Pump and dump.
5. Understand that illusions only hurt you.
Banging pussy in foreign countries and talking about it is a great way to get a passive income.
Checkout David Bond on youtube.
The guy watched many RSD videos, is a slightly autistic PUA who swallowed only half of the redpill and pretty much gets paid for fucking asian puss.
Check this video of his lifestory out, I found it pretty instructive:
Pimping ain’t easy,unless you pimping with Kratom.
I’m setting up a mobile theme park called the Soviet Experience and going to tour the US and Canadian University scene. I reckon, communism will make me a very rich capitalist with this particular audience!
Marx was actually spot on about “Bread and Circuses”- if you can discover a novel way to prevent the rich from becoming bored you’ll make more than a million.
You could have all sorts of attractions such as book burnings and dissident shooting contests.
Wall jumps, complete with full Machine Gun chasing bullets experience!
OH yeah, fence climbing contests with German shepards hanging from the seat of the pants.
“Petition For Your Rights” – It’s a hall of mirrors with no way out.
“KGB Arrest” – lock ’em in a windowless room for a decade.
“Chernobyl Operations Center” – A face painting booth using fluorescing paint and a malfunctioning X-ray machine.
Along with the gulag demonstration where one can use sledgehammers to make little rocks from big rocks.
If you can’t beat ’em, monetize ’em. I wish, back in 1992 that, sitting in my crappy little apartment, I would have thought to silk screen fucking Che onto a black t-shirt and sell it to every teenage nitwit. I’d be rich as fuck.
The great ones are always so simple and obvious that we generally miss them. It’s a kind a type of cultural myopia that despite our best efforts hems us into not seeing the bleeding self evident sometimes!
Even the idea of facebook, which the chattering classes laud as something as profound and singular to humanity as the electric carving knife or the egg timer, is a ridiculously basic and simple idea as it’s nothing more than an electronic billboard. There’s nothing revolutionary here at all, but, what nerd-boy realized is that you don’t need to develop a brilliant, smart and elegant device to make your fortune, all you need is something that appeals to the mass mind, that’s cheap, in every sense, and makes people “think they’re important” while also “making humanity better”. This is what Zukerburg realized, it’s the same old salesman’s technique of “stack them high and sell them cheap”.
It’s kind of what all the pop-art stuff that Andy Warhol espoused was all about too. If you call garbage art for long enough, well, hey presto, perhaps it really does then become the art for the modern era and you know, despite being a bit of an ass, he was on the money when he came to this ironical conclusion, which he minted while enjoying the gullibility of the chattering art experts and connoisseurs, who he showed up to be the fools, frauds and posers he knew them to be.
facebook especially. such a simple idea. Let’s create a confessional for a world where god is dead. Amazing.
Great post by the way and you nail Warhol. I think he is fantastic if properly understood and this is as properly understood as it gets.
Yep, Facebook is little more than a big content marketing scheme. Have people post about their lives as a way to sell things to them. Other social media, Instagram for example, is equally simple.
That post really resonated; well said!
now is your chance to screen print similar style shirts but with Hillary on them. lefties will go crazy and you’ll be rich!!!
DIY gourmet dog food. 50 cents worth of organ meat, chick peas, brown rice, a touch of garlic powder, and almost no labour and you can sell it to rich idiots for 10 bucks a meal, and they’ll think they are ripping you off.
same with pre workout supplements. If you invest heavy on the front end and get high quality ingredients in bulk it comes close to about 50 cents each time as opposed to about 1.75
“You can sell it to rich idiots for 10 bucks a meal, and they’ll think they are ripping you off” You’re dam right. This point became evident when I recently went to a Warhol exhibition that happened to be on when I was in Madrid recently. I really didn’t know much about him apart from his Campbell soup cans work and a few other passing references, and, it was a rainy day, so I went along.
I must admit that I wanted to dislike him for want he did in the arts, I wanted to see him as a fraud and charlatan, a kind of dandy who pissed like a nihilist all over the great art from the past. Yet, on leaving, maybe because the quality of the exhibition was so good, I changed my perspective about what he achieved, but, his central tenet was exactly want you say above. In our age, you can create a fortune out of rubbish, out of stuff that’s discarded etc, the trick is in how you “posit” these images and ideas, so that they are “made unique” once more even if they were originally mass produced.
This I believe is where value (and not just in an economic sense) is to be derived in the modern world. If you can somehow, not necessarily create something unique, but even only adapt or reuse an idea or materials that are posited differently from their original genesis, then you might just do something incredible and also become very rich too.
Warhol was very media savy, ahead of his time in some ways. A wretched judge of character in others.
My take is this: see the illusions of this world, so you can at least navigate them and protect yourself. Hone your mind to be like a sword, able to slice through with deadly precision. Should you chose to take advantage of this knowledge, that’s on you. Personally, honour is not owed to the honour-less, nor truth to liars or respect to the disrespectful.
You can make some money doing free lancing work easily these days. But, keep in mind if that income is being reported on a 1099, after taxes, you are really only going take home about half of what you are paid. This important for two reasons. First, set aside enough of your earnings to pay your tax liability and second set your rates accordingly to take this reality into account.
Also keep in mind if you are getting paid “under the table” and not reporting your income the IRS still might audit you and find out. It probably won’t happen but if it does then after taxes, penalties, and interest your entire free lancing income is probably going to be gone. If you want to take the gamble go ahead, but just be aware that the day of reckoning may be coming if you do not report the income.
You can also sell ebooks at about a hundred other bookstores.
Apple iTunes
Kobo
B & N
Google Play
Scribd
Tolino
That’s just off the top of my head. The distribution is massive and global. Google Play outsells the Zon in Latin America.
first you have to write something interesting.
He could write a book about how to publish books.
Off topic.
I want my prediction out here as soon as possible. It will soon be released which household name big celebrity raped a young corey haim. Media seems to be guessing it is gonna be Charlie Sheen. But I am going to go with Kiefer Southerland. Lost Boys faggy vampire a little too accurate and his voice is extremely rapey.
The meme will be jack bauer screaming TAKE OFF YOUR PANTS at corey haim as if he were yelling WHERE IS THE BOMB to a terrorist on 24.
There it is. My prediction with date stamp for all to see.
Didn’t Haim die in 2010. Kinda gives plausible deniability to whomever is accused. If they outed all the pedos in Hollywood, the whole city would implode. That being said, I’m going with Pamela Anderson. She used to have that wild look in her eyes…like a hot junior high teacher on Spring Break (before she crashed into the wall).
True but Kiefer it is. You’ll see
This is old news. Charlie Sheen is the one who did it; the evidence everyone put foward made him the only person at that age (a few years older than the Coreys) and on the film set where he raped Corey. Sheens is a kike, as is his father, and they have a tradition of being child raping psychopaths. If the media say it is anyone else, its a bullshit story that will die out…though Sheen is so well connected, it’l die out anyway. Bank on it, its Charlie Sheen.
I’m sticking with Kiefer
Also, they are probably sitting on the Kiefer news until ratings time for his new show.
Remember, as young guns taught us, and I’m sure Corey knew, Kiefer never drew first but he drew first blood
You could be on to something. The letters in “Kiefer Sutherland” can be rearranged to spell “half-used tinkerer” and “refuels in the dark”. That’s some pretty damning evidence.
You are my favorite person today
I’d let you buy me a round, but I’m fairly certain your choice of venue has a sign beside the door that says “Appropriate Umbrella Required”. That’s a demand I am simply unable to meet.
Reading this while getting a pedicure
I’ve noticed language tutors charge out at around $40/hour in my city. Not a bad option if you happen to have fluency in a language that’s currently in-demand.
Living off your investments. The only impediment with this strategy is that you need quite a bit of resources to make any reasonable money in the first place. Realistically, your’re talking about 200K in spare cash and assets before you can hope to make any annual returns which you can live upon plus you have to try and reinvest some of these dividends too.
The essential problem with this article and with many men here is that they don’t actually want the cliché of a dream life of a mansion, the Bentley, the Butler and the Yacht (maybe the wife does and that can be a real problem). They know it’s BS and that they’d probably go to rot living like this anyway. What they want is not to work within the corporate/commercial system anymore because they know you’re being screwed, plus all the ass-licking and comprising of one’s values just to get up the greasy pole.
I think the majority of men here want to be self-sufficient in the sense that nobody owes them, no company, no bank, no system essentially that says to them that you must sell out yourself so as to be a success. Perhaps, these aspirations are to idealistic, but, essentially this is what the men here seem to want. They want to contribute to society, but, not by being false to themselves, and by becoming enmeshed hook, line and sinker in the conveyor belt of college, career, social status attainment, corporate man, self satisfied grandee, and mahogany lined coffin.
Sure, in the epitaph they’ll say nice things, but, surely even the sanest man if he was witness to his own funeral would say, “God, perhaps I could of actually done or said something that was true to myself across my so-called successful life”.
The problem is that reward shareholders got went from dividends to stock price. When the gain is in the stock price it has to be sold. The income is a one shot deal unless one manages to sell at the peaks and buys at the valleys.
In other words it is entire dependent on the federal reserve induced cycle. Play at your own risk.
Not like my great grandfather’s day where it was buy preferred stock of a solid company and get dividends forever that quickly repay the price of the stock. That sort of thing just doesn’t seem to exist any longer. Or maybe I just don’t hear about it because it requires being in the right circles or having the right advisors or whatever.
Investing can help, but I wonder about the future of it when there less than 3500 companies compared to 7000 on the US exchanges 20 years ago. Plus, every retirement system and insurance company and other institutions are the bigger players and everyone is plugged into this black box it seems.
Perhaps we need to think bigger when it comes to investing. In a world where natural resources are at a premium they would seem like a sound investment, especially companies that mine materials that are highly used in the manufacturing process. Like copper and a company like Antofagasta in Chile. It’s a good time to invest in these commodities at the moment, global demand is quite low, but, they’re stocks will rise greatly when the world economy begins to grow.
Personally, I’d never go near managed funds. I invest after doing much research in companies generally by myself. The information on all companies is readily available. No big bucks, but, little bits of well calculated risks !
Off topic, but I assume you’re from South Texas, which I don’t know at all. What do people do way down there? It seems so remote…I don’t think I could live so far away from the Ocean.
The commodities boom may return according to Doug Casey and others. The time cash out was 4 years ago. Yes, managed funds are a marketing fraud but it is doable to make a modest amount from indexing. I like Vanguard myself but I’m sure there are others.
I do wish I would have bought a 1000 shares of Amazon after 9/11 and a number of other companies or GE when it went as low as $6/share from the crash.
As for south Texas, I recommend you load up Google maps and look for South Padre and Padre Island National Seashore. Pretty much the area south of San Antonio to Laredo to Victoria. The more cynical might regard it as an extension of northern Mexico with US aspects. :LOL:
Great saltwater fishing and usually hot to mild in the winter unless we get a real norther with bitter cold.
1) Passion is bullshit. Passion rarely aligns with the most market demanded skills one has.
2) This is the age of the central bank bubble. The central bank giveth and the central bank taketh away.
Passion can often come from doing something well, being recognized for it, and making nice money. Interesting to live around Chinese. They are passionate about making money and do what it take to make it. They don’t do what is fun.
I thought Robert Kiyosaki was dead, LOL.
#5: Kratom network marketing scheme. It CAN’T fail!
#6: Pretend to be a gimp with some clever prosthetic and do the talk show circuit. Eg, chinballs
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A key to freedom is keeping your needs low. Keep your spending far below your earning. It requires constant vigilance but can become a habit.
I find it helps to think of dollars as units of freedom. When I spend dollars I am spending units of freedom. It makes me stop and think before being tempted to buy an expensive car or dinner or some other consumable I absolutely don’t need.
Another way I like to think of it is “Fuck You!” money. Do you have high enough savings and low enough spending to say “Fuck You!” to your boss if you’re sick of his shit? Or do your spending habits put you in a position of accepting every shit sandwich he puts on your desk?
It’s outcome independence as applied to life. Very liberating.
Educational Circle Jerk.
Excellent post. Whatever job you’re working in right now, can probably transfer to a freelance platform. How do you start? First off don’t quit your job, yet.
You read that right.
Open up an account for upwork, the largest freelance platform right now. Begin by taking on side projects while still working at your 9-5. Because you don’t have previous upwork experience, you’ll get shit jobs at the beginning. This is fine.
Once you work the bad ones, you’ll slowly begin to crawl up to better and better paying gigs. Once this happens, say goodbye to HR forever.
Anyone else getting that annoying pop up when you are half way through the article to sign up for the email alerts? Okay, we get it, not leave me alone. It does this with every article I click.
“It will no longer do to trust a giant corporation to take care of you, and to be honest, this type of thinking is childish and entitled.”
Foolish and ill informed, perhaps, but not entitled. Entitlement is for welfare queens and the disappearing rust belt union guy who thought he could drive a fork lift for $100k a year for thirty years, with annual raises.
Aside from that, I see a couple of lines in there that could have been taken from Kiyosaki – I hope I’m wrong, as that guy is an abject fraud.
Finally, “…save ETF’s and mutual funds for when you’re more experienced.” Eh? The primary purpose of such vehicles, especially mutual funds, is to take much of the effort out of investing. Sure, some actively managed mutual funds can have outrageous fees, but the cheapest ones (those not actively managed such as stock market index funds, for example) don’t charge much and require less day to day management than a pile of individual stocks. This means if you’re less experienced, lack the time for day to day involvement and just want to invest in the market, mutual funds make more sense, generally. I won’t even get into the casino of precious metals suggested earlier.
“If you’re unsure of where to start and don’t want to take huge risks, just invest in some simple, stable stocks or bonds; save ETFs for when you’re more experienced.”
— Ummm… ETFs are waaaay less risky and much simpler than individual stocks… Eg.: a Canadian bank versus an ETF of all Canadian banks.
hi jon
i tried to post a comment on your website, specifically the Books for Men article, but several attempts got me nothing except this message –
You Lose! Good Day Sir!
just fyi