Hi all
I am 23.
I've always worked a minimum of two jobs at a time.
I've been in the same company for 10 years and on the side been working 12 hour graveyard shift work for the past year and a half.
I don't drink. I don't smoke. I don't gamble. So I don't have any unnecessary expenses that send me broke. I save, I work my ass off and barely make that much money really.
I'm just below average annually.
I'm tired of working. It's not the way I'm meant to live my life. I don't want to work all my life just to be given 2 week holiday and live just above drowning level to then retire not that much better off and die.
If I want one day off from my current job it needs to be put in 7 weeks in advance or else it will be denied.
I have a multitude of business ideas and app ideas but I have no idea how or where to begin. I've been an actor and writer all through school and beat 30K people to get into the top 4% of the International Songwriters Comp. I write short stories aswell.
I feel like I have too many avenues I can persue but unsure how to start.
What's worse is my family tell me to think realistically and that I'm not going to find success in any of them because it's 1 in a million and too risky. They tell me that working your whole life is just the way life is and has always been.
It really puts me down, especially because my parents are incredibly intelligent and business minded people so I trust their opinion and insight.
I'm lost and depressed and dunno what to do.