I am a Field Engineer for a semiconductor company in Oregon. I work graveyard shift for 15% more pay, which makes a huge difference to my income.
Most nights we take a 3 hour lunch. Sometimes, if there is nothing to do, I can have a multitude of hours of boredom.
I want to start using my time more wisely rather than relaxing doing nothing. I already started up going back to college because my company reimbursement for tuition is a sweet deal so it's essentially a free ride but just want to do online courses to get my AA then transfer. In person is pretty awful now with all these woke faggots.
But I want to come up with a business plan possibly, create a company, maybe write a movie as I've always wanted to be a director but that may not be an option with where AI is going.
I just have so much free time during some breaks that I want to earn extra income or ultimately have a business to no longer work for someone else but be self employed.
I expect the usual comments that you all will deliver, ready to laugh at the responses but hopefully have some good insight.
If you actually want to start a business, I'd be happy to assist if you need help on getting startes. Her0n is also quite successful and I am sure he would be able to give pointers. Icemonkey knows a thing or two...
Use AI to help write and produce your own movie. It's where we are headed so you may as well be a forerunner if it's of interest to you.
Though rarely jealous/envious, the idea of having down time at work is so completely foreign to me and I want that. I'm guessing by your post that it's a "grass is greener" type situation and working for someone else is gay no matter what we are doing.
Ignore the suggestions on using AI, it's just a propaganda machine that will give you terrible self destructive advice and anyone that hasn't figured that out is too retarded to take advice from.
I want to make a movie.
If you're hoping it will be a creative stress reliver, don't. Making a movie, even one that will only show up on a video sharing sign, is a fairly difficult process that requires at a minimum dozens to thousands of hours staring at video and audio editing software depending on length. This is if you're the only voice actor/actor/filmmaker. It gets far harder the more people you include. The other issue is why are you making it? The odds it will make you money is pretty low, and given it's just a form of entertainment, it won't be useful to you or anyone you care about long term. I guess you could make a documentary for with useful information, but then it wouldn't be a movie.
I want to make a business
I don't know all your skills or all your interests so I can only give general advice. Look at what is missing from your life, necessities first. There's a lot missing since we're both in Oregon and everything is fucked in Oregon more so than other places. Once you have a list of both short term and long term things you need, look at your skills to see which are compatible. Once you have that list look at what actually interests you. Once you have something that you need, that you're skilled in, and that you are interested in focus on making a business around it. The easiest way to do that is to see what businesses in that field already exist, and having a talk with their founders. Depending on where the business is, and who is running it, they may intentionally give you bad advice to avoid competition, so the best people to ask are those who are retired and do not have family working in the businesses they started.
Hope this helps and sorry for beating on your dreams, but movies should have never existed.
Before you begin any new learning activity that you think might be helpful in any new business venture I would strongly suggest you get a chat GPT Pro account for 20 something dollars a month and you start asking it questions about all the stuff that you think you're going to need to learn in college or anywhere else.
If you're going to start a business today you want to use AI to do it because you don't need to knowledge because AI has the knowledge and you don't need a whole lot of other people that you would normally pay money to to give you advice because chat GPT can give you the same advice and it'll be better. It can help you design products that can help you set up apis to have printful or anybody else automatically print the stuff for you it can do all of those things so before you do anything else start asking chat GPT questions about your business ideas or what you want to learn or anything else because doing anything personally today is a waste of time. Would you want to do is learn what chatgypt can do and start using it.
And after you've dealt with chat GPT learn about something called AI agents ask chatgypt about AI agents and how to use AI agents and get it to design some AI agents for you which are basically little automatons that replace people that would normally do all kinds of tasks for you including answer the phone make phone calls return emails and everything else all automated and you don't have to do anything because any real business is not a business if it's just you doing it. That's not a business that's just being self-employed. A business is when you have something else automatically making you money whether it's your employees or some system.
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Though rarely jealous/envious, the idea of having down time at work is so completely foreign to me and I want that. I'm guessing by your post that it's a "grass is greener" type situation and working for someone else is gay no matter what we are doing.
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The other issue is why are you making it? The odds it will make you money is pretty low, and given it's just a form of entertainment, it won't be useful to you or anyone you care about long term. I guess you could make a documentary for with useful information, but then it wouldn't be a movie.
Look at what is missing from your life, necessities first. There's a lot missing since we're both in Oregon and everything is fucked in Oregon more so than other places.
Once you have a list of both short term and long term things you need, look at your skills to see which are compatible. Once you have that list look at what actually interests you.
Once you have something that you need, that you're skilled in, and that you are interested in focus on making a business around it. The easiest way to do that is to see what businesses in that field already exist, and having a talk with their founders. Depending on where the business is, and who is running it, they may intentionally give you bad advice to avoid competition, so the best people to ask are those who are retired and do not have family working in the businesses they started.
Hope this helps and sorry for beating on your dreams, but movies should have never existed.
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Narrow it down to one thing and goal and focus on only that
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If you're going to start a business today you want to use AI to do it because you don't need to knowledge because AI has the knowledge and you don't need a whole lot of other people that you would normally pay money to to give you advice because chat GPT can give you the same advice and it'll be better. It can help you design products that can help you set up apis to have printful or anybody else automatically print the stuff for you it can do all of those things so before you do anything else start asking chat GPT questions about your business ideas or what you want to learn or anything else because doing anything personally today is a waste of time. Would you want to do is learn what chatgypt can do and start using it.
And after you've dealt with chat GPT learn about something called AI agents ask chatgypt about AI agents and how to use AI agents and get it to design some AI agents for you which are basically little automatons that replace people that would normally do all kinds of tasks for you including answer the phone make phone calls return emails and everything else all automated and you don't have to do anything because any real business is not a business if it's just you doing it. That's not a business that's just being self-employed. A business is when you have something else automatically making you money whether it's your employees or some system.