Replying to Satsdaddy

I could go for a bit of encouraging. I took a risk to make a better life for my family by starting a business in 2021. At the end of 2023 I was forced to close it down and had to find a W2 job. I'm slowly regaining my confidence, but I've still got a ways to go.
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HODL 1y ago

If you were to be brutally honest with yourself what did you do that caused the business to fail? Or what could you have done differently that would have caused it to succeed?

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Satsdaddy 1y ago

Probably my lack of market research on the outset. If I had understood that I couldn't be competitive on larger jobs when I had to pay a franchise fee, I wouldn't have gone that route. I got heavily disheartened when I poured everything that I had into it for a year and had nothing to show for it. That's when my performance really slipped.

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HODL 1y ago

Yeah entrepreneurship is like staring into the abyss and eating glass.

People shouldn’t glamorize it. It’s brutally hard.

How do you feel now that you’re back in a salaried position?

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Satsdaddy 1y ago

It's like using the USD. An assurance that you'll get paid each week, and that each week that amount buys you less. I'm viewing it as a bridge to get my mental and physical health back before my next adventure.