Originally Posted by sonofsam

You've already received some good advice here and I will share some that you may find useful

1. You are Canadian. Even if you were American, you shouldn't obsess so much over the circus that is the US Election. You are wasting time and energy on something toxic that won't benefit you in any way, aside from some temporary dopamine spikes while getting into it with people online regarding politics.

2. I can speak first hand about your question "What's it like?". It's pretty much the same shit. The saying "money doesn't buy happiness" is bullshit, because it's pretty hard to be happy when you're drowning in bills and not able to make ends meet. That said, past a certain point (once your basic needs are met and some discretionary spending budget) it doesn't make much of a difference. The brokest point of my life was during the time I was active on GFY. I was 17 years old though, so it was a good learning experience and life lesson when it comes to doing business and dealing with people.

You can make a decision to improve your situation, but you need to commit. Don't reply to this with some nonsensical multi paragraph thing about art and whatever else. I will give you some advice and you can take it or not, as someone who was in your shoes at one point.

1. You probably drink and smoke weed a lot. Quit both. You're not going to go anywhere in life if you spend monday-friday waiting for the weekend to get fucked up.

2. The best way to level up in life is to use your network. Do you know anyone who is doing well, and running a business? Ask them if they have any opportunities for you. Can you get an entry level job at their company? Do they currently use any services that you can do for them instead? An example of this would be if they use local freight companies for orders. Ask them if you can do the deliveries for them instead. If you're known to be drunk all the time nobody will give you a chance though.

3. Your first priority should be to kick the booze/drugs and get enough money to live. Get a bike and do ubereats/doordash or something just so you can at least have your basic needs met. Then you can work on building something.


4. Money won't automatically make all your problems go away. I retired years ago and traveled around the world. It was incredible. Then the times I was back home I was so bored and felt like I had no purpose or something to build. Felt like a pretty empty existence. You tell yourself once you hit 6 figures you'll be super happy - then it comes and it feels like the same. Then you say okay when I hit 7 figures I'll for sure be content! Then it feels the same. You need to find a purpose. Simply having money won't do shit.


The only reason I am responding to this is because I feel like I've seen this happen so much ever since Covid and propaganda has run rampant. People get obsessed with politics, and start believing that all their problems are caused by X.. Whether that is immigrants, crime, democrats, republicans, china, russia blah blah blah. Then they go off the deep end and start believing in every conspiracy they come across because they lack a sense of belonging to something. So being a part of a group that believes they have discovered "the truth" feels like a purpose. It continues to go downhill from there.


Get off GFY (especially the cesspool that is the politics section) and go do something with your life. 46 is still young. You can even get into trades like construction and be making 6 figures within a few years. Don't invest time into trying to make money in adult because it's dead for 99.9% of people. Yes there are some people who are making money, but those people would be making money in any industry/niche they wanted to because they have the skills.

I truly wish you luck because it can feel really hopeless when you're down on your luck, but you have the power to change all of that. You just gotta put in the work.

Best of luck