- PPF Points
- 5,709
Do not lose hope, and don’t be hard on yourself if you are really trying your best
Take stock and objectively assess your own skills or get others to help you with this - you specific skills that can point you in a broad general direction. Family might not want to hurt your feelings so they might give you wishy-washy answers. Ask former colleagues or a boss or people who have seen your work for a more objective assessment. This assessment might point out that you are very technically competent, or very good with your hands, or maybe you are a master programmer or expect cake baker.
Next try find needs that overlap with what you are good at: If you are good at programming, find people who need the type of programming you can do. If you are good at baking cakes, ditto. Within the broad category, try to find a niche that not a lot of other people attend to. So within baking cakes, focus on low-fat cheesecakes delivered late at night for people who have munchies. Within programming, find something that you can train to be very good at.
Then find the most efficient want to give those clients the best solution in a way that makes you money.
If you are thinking small, look at the Facebook marketplace or classifieds for ideas. If you are thinking bigger, look at some of my other posts for more details on starting a business
Take stock and objectively assess your own skills or get others to help you with this - you specific skills that can point you in a broad general direction. Family might not want to hurt your feelings so they might give you wishy-washy answers. Ask former colleagues or a boss or people who have seen your work for a more objective assessment. This assessment might point out that you are very technically competent, or very good with your hands, or maybe you are a master programmer or expect cake baker.
Next try find needs that overlap with what you are good at: If you are good at programming, find people who need the type of programming you can do. If you are good at baking cakes, ditto. Within the broad category, try to find a niche that not a lot of other people attend to. So within baking cakes, focus on low-fat cheesecakes delivered late at night for people who have munchies. Within programming, find something that you can train to be very good at.
Then find the most efficient want to give those clients the best solution in a way that makes you money.
If you are thinking small, look at the Facebook marketplace or classifieds for ideas. If you are thinking bigger, look at some of my other posts for more details on starting a business
