For those of us who failed at earning a normal life. List the things you tried

So when I was trying hard, I felt like Pinocchio. Where he tried stuff to become a "real" boy. But unlike him, I got in a worse place and found it to basically be impossible with modern society. Here is the things I've tried. Note this isn't in order, it is just what I remember as I write this down. 1. Retail jobs 2. Vet helper, janitor, a general tell me what to do and pay me whatever 3. I wrote for several sites 4. I did freelance - coding, SEO, writing, and other things 5. composite tech - i hated that job and it came an inch from having me take my life 6. QA - fired for being autistic on the first day because the GM found out I was autistic due to a good news paper article on me a few years back due to something I did for NASA. NASA sent me to one of their sites, toured me around, then told me they aren't going to hire me. 7. I helped out in putting water wells in the ground. 8. Application developer - self ran company because I couldn't get hired 9. Web developer - self ran company I went door to door on this one like they did in the old days. And I was scam out of a few jobs, but nothing came from that or the app developer. I tried so hard to get with a company 10. YouTube - I actually did make a bit from it until they killed off educational videos. It still makes some, but I haven't uploaded in a few years. I tried many times, but I just physically can't do it anymore. I wanted to offload it to AI because I still have ideas but the AI is just so bad right now. I tend to get $100 every few months from it. Sometimes it takes longer. 11. I invested - it actually turned out to be the one thing I was really good at and enjoyed to a point. But it turned out if you are poor, you don't have enough resources to do this. Like my ROI was between 10%-20% depending on the year. But if you have $100, then you are only making $10 or $20 by the end of the year. And when you are poor, a single mistake can wipe everything out. And it turned out this is the real reason why the rich can make it. Talking with many of them, they make mistakes ALL THE TIME. Like some admit 70% of their trades are a mistake, and the rest offsets and does better than any mistake. The problem is, if you are poor. 1 mistake can wreck you. And since I didn't read the "how to get rich" book before I was born, and did the first step of being born into it. And because I struggled all my life. I simply didn't have enough capital to get out of the 1 mistake can wreck everything. 12. 3D printing - I made some money with this, but hobby level. The problem I have is the sells and stuff. Like I love auto cad and the like. But I am bad at sells, marketing, and the like. I asked for help but my family is too busy and I'm not sure if they have the skills to start with. They only helped me get a 3D printer because I use it to help fix their stuff all the time. And in that, it paid for itself many times over. Like this year I made a 20 cent part for a car that kept it alive, and you couldn't get it anywhere else. Meaning you had to get a new car or that. There has been a number of moments like that over the years. One of the things that was pushed on me for the 3D printing was the engineering houses to work with them. That is a who you know thing. And virtually no one is doing that anymore 13. CNC - but nothing really came from that. I wasn't able to really get the right stuff for it, but also I ran into the same problem as I did with 3D printing. 14. Laser engraving - and I tried this one hard. It was with a cheap laser system I made myself, but again I couldn't get any orders from it. 15. I tried to work with a local store where I would convert people's pictures into a 3D printed light box thing. But ya.... again. 16. Art, music, and 3D modeling - I haven't sold a single thing. My art isn't great or anything, but ya. It is what it is. I came to the conclusion there is too many trying and without knowing the right people. It is impossible to get your work seen by anyone to be bought. 17. I have 4 degrees. Aerospace, general computer, network, and a higher network degree focus on cyber security. I also have a ton of certs. I've seen so many people able to make it with so little, and the last one broke me because I still wasn't getting anywhere. 18. I wrote a few books but nothing came from them. I hated writing so IDK if this would've been worth while long term anyways. 19. Etsy, Ebay, and other stores. I'm not good at sells. But also I found when people don't have money which is 99% of the time that is when all of this dry up. 20. I've been in the news a few times. As mention with the NASA thing, for a few writing things, and some other things. I tried to use it to pad my resume to help get a job that will keep me, but ya.... 21. I've made jewelry and that didn't sell. There is likely a ton more I'm missing but now I'm exhausted. There is smaller things like learning how LLM work in detail to find ways for it to make me money, but I don't feel the need of listing all of those things. When I talk to people about being unemployed. They come back with starting your own company, but the above shows you I've tried, tried, tried, and tried. Some say do remote. But no one is hiring remote unless it is senior level and a who you know. And to be honest I looked into porn, but being a dude that is a no go. And it appears many who went into that, because the competition has grown so much over the years. Many in that don't last no matter the extremes they put themselves in. So it likely wouldn't matter anyways. One of the other major things people say is. "You accomplished so much and should be proud of what you done so far." Which makes 0 sense. These are all the things I've tired to be a "real" boy. But it failed. Others say, "if you did even a fraction of this, then you didn't try hard enough." I don't run into this that often however. That is unless if they are like, well you can work at Walmart. And I get into the story how working in retail about sent me in the hospital and I was drinking a solid gallon of energy drinks a day to just function. I've tried virtually everything I can think of legally. Now I'm basically trying to accept the situation and trying to find a way to be happy. # NOTE: A big reason why I'm making this is so anyone can link it to whomever pull yourself up by the bootstraps people says some over used thing like start your own company as a solution, or when a country like Australia put having us start our own companies as a real solution to end our unemployment rate. Anyways, list the things you have tried. Try to list as many as you can remember.