I dropped out of college, now I make $2.4 million / year

Okay, so one of the most frequent questions I've been getting asked lately on social media from you guys is, was it all worth it? Was it worth dropping out of college and starting a business and living your life now? So I'm going to do my best job to unpack this question inside of this video. So go grab a glass of wine or some popcorn. I would grab mine, but I don't have a bottle of wine but no bottle opener. But with that being said, I'm gonna try to unpack this with you guys. Kind of like what that is like, because I mean, the obvious answer is just straight up. Yeah, I mean it was super worth it. I made a ton of money and like, I've had a lot of success, but like, what were the trade offs that were made of doing it now? Because obviously on my end and my perspective it's like, yeah, this was super worth it. Like dropping out of college. I feel like dropping out of colleges or college is a waste of time. I think it's just a bunch of. They just charge a bunch of money because they can at this point. And you don't even like, degrees don't matter one bit in this current world that we're in. Unless you're trying to become an attorney or a doctor. I think school is complete waste of time and nobody should go. But like I said, I'm going to unpack it, kind of share my beliefs, share my thoughts, and then you guys can kind of decide for yourself what your perspective is of everything. So the question ultimately, yeah, was it all worth it dropping out of college? So for me, I went to school originally to try to make more money and I just wanted to become rich. Ultimately I wanted to make a bunch of money so then I could kind of live this dream lifestyle of living in a city, having a nice car, working my way up corporate ladder, making a ton of money, and then being able to retire at an earlier age and being done with the system sooner and being set up a lot more fine financially. And so as soon as I found a way to build a business and make a ton of money, then I decided to make the jump and go. Because I didn't know anything about business when I first got into college. I didn't know you can make hundreds of thousands of dollars a month from the Internet or from doing your own thing. I thought that that was just like a lucky thing. I thought you had to be super successful or you had to work your way up the corporate ladder or at least have a ton of experience before you Started a business. I thought you had to have all these things. And so for me, I didn't know that it was an even remote reality. So I went to school, I went to college, because I thought that was the only way of, of unlocking all of that. And so as soon as I came to the realization that you could simply just start a business whenever you want to start a business, as long as you have an Internet connection. And there's so many case studies out there of so many people that are making a lot of money, pretty quickly I came to the realization that why the fuck am I in school? Why am I going to college? Because that's all I wanted. I just wanted to get rich. I didn't really necessarily care about what I was doing. I wanted it to be something that I somewhat can be excited about because I knew that's what it took to be. Be good at something. Like, I didn't want to go be some pipe welder or something like that, knowing I could probably make 300 grand a year doing that. But sounds like a pretty hard job. I always wanted to do it in like, the, the least amount of work possible, I guess, you know, or at least in a way that like, my brain was able to, to recognize that it was like a simple process. And so as soon as I saw the opportunity that there was a way of making money. And then I started making money when I dropped out of college, I already made about 50 grand or so during my sophomore year of college. And I wasn't even really putting that much time into it. And so the way I saw it was if I put more time into this, I could probably make way more money. And so my beliefs and my, like, my thought process there was pretty accurate. As soon as I dropped out, I wasn't necessarily immediately making more money. But after probably six months of going full time in on doing this, I was able to get to where I was making a few grand a month. And then shortly thereafter, I went from 3, $4,000 a month to making over $40,000 in a single month. And so my income skyrocketed dramatically from being able to go all in. And what's funny is no one ever asked me what my college degree was. Nobody even asked me how old I was because I think I was like 19 at the time. And nobody really cared, to be quite frank with you. Like, there was nothing there other than I was just making money and I was living life on my own terms. Now there was a social pressure with my family and my parents, and it Was kind of like, you know, a little bit weird there for. For a bit, I didn't really fully communicate why I dropped out of college, but I just did it. And then I just kind of didn't really try to explain myself too much to people and I just did my own thing. And then when I had success, when I had the proof, I just showed that to everybody. That's what I did. And so for me to bring it back to the original question, pull this up. So was it worth it, dropping out of college to start a business? I will say, you know, the. The consequences of it, you know, were I. The path that I chose it. I. Because I'm trying to really reach here for you guys to try to think of, like, what the potential downsides could be for is for me, it was very isolating for a period of time before it had success. You're kind of in this weird phase after you, I guess, first job out of college. And especially if you don't like and you start doing business and you don't immediately surround yourself. And if you're not immediately or already surrounded with other people that are in a similar world, it was kind of hard because I had no friends really doing it. I kind of saw people and would kind of slightly connect with some people on Instagram or some of these other social media platforms. Like, there was one guy I made a bet with that I was going to hit a thousand subscribers on YouTube first before him. And this was whatever like six years ago. And so I. I did like a race with him. There's like a couple of those figures out there, but there was nobody I really had to go to. If I had like any real stuff going, like really real stuff going on. Like things going on in my relationship at the time, things going on with, like, how to work with people, how to make decisions, how to deal with setbacks, how to deal with failures. I kind of had to figure all that stuff myself. And to be honest, what I did is I, you know, I. I don't want to paint it as a bad picture, but I would say, like, I kind of sought after smoking weed and just like, I would say probably drinking was what I did. I'm just trying to recall this for you guys. Like, I just smoked a ton of weed and built my businesses and I just kind of like suppressed a lot of that stuff. And it wasn't until later on that that I was able to finally have people to kind of relate to and communicate some of the stuff with. Where it started to. Where I started to have these people to kind of go to with these things now, I mean, that I'm at a place where I make millions of dollars a year. It's really easy to connect with people. I can just go travel to a new city at the drop of a hat. I can go anywhere I want. I can join masterminds. I can go to the same places, I'm in some of the same clubs as people that are doing things with their lives, that are successful. And so now it's like significantly easier and it's so much easier to do anything. But there was a very long period of time, probably three, four years, where it was very isolating. I would try connecting with people, like I tried connecting with people in my past life and it was just still really unrelatable. They were still kind of young and naive and I was still young and naive. And they were just finishing college. They were just, you know, starting up their families or they were just starting up their career. And I was able to have freedom at that point. Like I could go do whatever I want whenever I wanted to. And it was, you know, most of the people that are in that place are like 10, 15, 20 years older than me. So it was a little bit weird there, but. And then anybody that was my age that I went to college with or with the school with, I tried to connect with them. And it was like really difficult to do so because it was just. We were completely different people. Like, not to say that we couldn't connect and kind of talk about things in the past, but it's just. That's all there was to really talk about was the past. Not about the present or the future and kind of future plans and stuff like that. Those conversations only go so far. That's just like. It was hard for me for a long time because I just personally didn't have a lot of business friends or people that were doing things with their lives. You know, I think a lot of it was just purely like social pressure and kind of like the, the dealing with self of like how to. How to self navigate through all that stuff. I'm just trying to really think like, was it all worth it? But considering that was the trade off that I had to make with everything, I would say getting rich was extremely worth it. Like, and starting a business and now making hundreds of thousands of dollars a month. It was, you know, I would say now it's like I'm. I'm living my dream life every single day. Like you literally see me in this robe, like sitting next to A fireplace and wearing a robe. And I have like the ocean view right in front of me. And I decided to come here on a last minute trip. Like, the ability to be able to do that is so, I guess it's, it's so freeing. Like, you could just do whatever you want. You can be whoever you want to be. You can do whatever you want. You can change yourself. You can be whoever you want to be at any moment. Like, I've probably changed myself probably four or five, six times over the past, like a few years or so. I've had different personalities. If you go watch any of my old content, you'll see, like, I'm completely a different person than I was a couple years ago or especially like six years ago. Like my, you know, who I am, how I present myself, the mindset I have, the personality I have, and you know, the character I am has changed dramatically over the years. And it's like I get to choose who I want to be. Nobody holds me to a past version of myself. So I can change quickly. And it's not like I'm forced. Like, it's not like I have all my friends, like, oh, you're not that person. You know, whatever new direction I want to go and it's okay. Like, I can, you know, I get to, I'm in a place where it's like, I get to record these videos because I want to record these videos. I do it because it's smart for, you know, my future self making this, this content, getting my knowledge out there and getting my information out there and helping people's lives. But also on top of that, I do it because I want to do it. Like, I enjoy making these videos. I. And like, I prefer doing this than any other source, like sort of way of, of generating leads or building relationships with people or, or changing people's lives or, or doing business. Like I have friends where they do it completely private and they never, nobody ever will know who they are. And they make a ton of money and they're totally cool with like not having anybody know who they are and not really sharing that with anybody other than just their close friends. And so I get to choose to want to make these videos. I get to choose what I want to do. I get to choose how much money I want to make at this point. I can choose if I want to go make $10 million a month or I can choose if I want to go make $30,000 a month or $20,000 a month. I get to choose to do that. Now, obviously, I have to become the person to be able to make those, like, levels of income. If I want to grow and become somebody that's doing more than I am now. But I get to choose that. I get to decide if I want to do that. I get to decide if that's the journey that I want to go to. I also get to decide if I want to be super jacked and ripped or if I want to, you know, just have an okay body that's good enough and just focus on mental health more than physical health. You know, like, I get to choose that. I get to decide. I don't like everybody around. Like, I get to build this world of like, whatever I want it to be. And I have the freedom to do that. I have the power to be able to do that. And I get to physically be wherever I want to be. If I want to be in a new city or a new country, I get to choose to do that. And there's something so powerful about that ability and that choice and that freedom to be able to do so. I mean, I know the original question was like, was it worth it, dropping out of college? I mean, we're far beyond that. Like, dropping out of college. It was just like, like I said, for me, school, college, it's a total waste of time. Like, I, I don't think anybody should go to college ultimately. Now, I know it's super against the grain status quo, but I, I think it's a complete waste of time to go to college. Unless you want to go waste a ton of money being a lot of student debt, or maybe if you want to be a doctor or a lawyer, if that's what you're dead set about and that's just what you're passionate about and that's what you want to be. I feel like at a certain point, you know, we're heading towards a direction we don't really need those people anymore as much. It's getting to a place in the world where it's like, you know, we have robots and AI and technology that are going to be able to do a lot of that stuff. So you get to choose for yourself if that's a worthy endeavor for you. Cool, Go for it. I just watched a video the other day. The guy got like 8 million views in just like 5 days talking about how he was a neuroscientist at MIT and he ended up just giving up on his career because it was all and all a total waste of time. And they're focused on solving the like, relieving the pain instead of stopping this, like, relieving symptoms instead of, like, stopping the actual problem and actually fixing the problem. Instead of fixing the problem, they're there to, to just alleviate the symptoms, you know, alleviate people from their pain instead of curing the thing or actually fixing it. And so for me, you know, I feel like school is just like you're trying to get good grades. Yeah, you get connections in the world, especially if you go to like, a nicer college and you get placed in a good job if, if you, if you go to the right school. But I think jobs are a waste of time. Unless you want to do a job, that's cool. Fine by me. But I think you should at least like. I think for me, it's like skill acquisition. Connecting with powerful people and being able to have the freedom to be whoever you want to be in this world is way more valuable than any of the accolades or having a degree. I actually had one more year left of college. I had one more school year left. I could have literally got my degree if I just went for like, whatever it was like eight more months, nine more months, I would have had a degree. And I decided no, I decided I didn't want to go. And I will never go back unless they. There's some way that I was trapped into the system or the matrix again in some way that, like, all of these skill sets that I have are robbed of me. And the only way to survive and to provide for my family and my children was to get a degree. I would do that, but we're nowhere near that being a remote reality at this point. Especially if you get to, like, my level, you become so connected that it's pretty much impossible for you to ever have to go back. Because, you know, at this point, it's like, I've probably met a thousand millionaires. I've probably met, you know, a few people that are billionaires. And it's just like, you meet these people and you realize that they're no different than, than anybody else. They're, they're, they just like you do. They eat food just like you do. They're normal people just like you. The only difference is just they chose to go towards this pathway or this direction and, and just become a person that's worthy of being able to make a ton of money. And that's pretty much it. Like, they didn't get lucky. They didn't do anything extravagant. They're not necessarily smarter than you. We just were at the right place, the right time and worked really hard. And just went all in on whatever was in front of him. And so I think as long as you have that work ethic, I think it's worth it. I think if you just want to be lazy and you don't. You want to have decisions be made for you and you're okay with being a mediocre version of yourself, then I would say it wasn't worth it. But I think if. I think if you want to do more in life, then I think you need to stop doing whatever you're wanting to do and just go build a business online, go make a ton of money, and go live your dream life. I don't really have any quotes on this video. A lot of times I. I have a lot of quotes. My brain's a little bit fried from. From just enjoying my time the last couple days that my thoughts aren't fully constructed for this video. And I'm kind of getting burned up by this. This fireplace right here. But, yeah, I just wanted to answer that. Maybe I'll do. Re. Redo this video in the future. Kind of break it down like my thoughts on. On it and have a little bit more scripted on this. But I didn't script it. I just wanted to be raw with you guys, which is. I think all the people that are. That care about you and that want to see the best for you, I think for them, they're gonna understand. They may not at first. Why you go and do all these things may be really confusing to them, but in all reality, when you do start to have success, when you do start to break through, when you start to actually bring in some profits from your. From your work and you don't have to worry about money anymore, and money just becomes a tool rather than a necessity, then everybody will support you. You just have to be willing to make that sacrifice for fears of your dignity and of your ego and have your. Of your knowing of self and become obsessed and addicted to, like, this new life that you were building and your future self. And then everything gets really easy. It's just the issue with most people is they're not willing to do it For a couple years of just going all in on doing this new thing. I think it's pretty impossible to fail these days. Like, if you go hard enough, like, if you have kids and a wife or a husband, I kind of get it. Then I think you should probably build your business on the side. But if you're in college, if you're single, or you just, you know, have a spouse and you don't have kids, you could always move back in with your parents. You can always sleep on somebody's couch, you can always get roommates. You can always decrease your life expenses and always have back. There's a. There's a lot of backup plans. But I think if you're really passionate about that. I'm not saying necessarily you need to drop out of college or not drop out, quit your job. But what I will say is there's a lot of different ways of making money. You can go doordash, you can do uber, you can do some pick up some contracts on upwork or fiverr and then in the meantime you can build your business or build something that'll cash flow you. I'm just saying you got to build business like you build a faceless YouTube channel. I got to teach people all the time. It's not like a really a business. Business is when you have like a full blown like you know, accounting teams and HR and like have like a system and clients and all that stuff. Like you're just building YouTube channel to give views. Just invest everything that you can into some way of making money. And then as soon as you start making money, go all in on that thing that's making you money. Get to where you're making $30,000 a month and then you can decide what you want to do at that point. Just get to $30,000 a month is what I would say. Do whatever you can to get to 30 grand a month if you know that you're totally capable and possible of doing it. If you're watching this video, you believe in yourself, go do that and then decide if you want to go make more money or if you just want to chill, keep doing that, enjoy your life. That's what I would say. Because at that point you have freedom. You can go do whatever you want. You can be wherever you want. You can be whoever you want. And then you get to decide what you want to do with your life. That's what I would say is in the cards for you watching this video. But to answer the question, was dropping onto college worth it and start a business? Hell yeah. It was super worth it. I don't see myself living any other life. It's. It's kind of a silly question in my mind. I think I love the quote. It's like I've been a poor man, I've been a rich man, and I've been both and I choose rich every time. I'd rather deal with the problems that come with it of, you know, I'D rather deal with money problems. Having to deal with, like, payroll, having to deal with pay bills, having to, you know, figure out where my money's coming from, having to deal with the. For me, it's like a lot of the hate that I get online. I'd rather deal with like, some of the consequences of making a lot of money. I'd rather deal with like, the probability of, like, getting sued. I'd rather deal with like, the, you know, having to pay insane amounts of money towards taxes. And I'd rather just deal with all of those problems than I would wondering how I'm going to. To put food on my table, wondering, you know, having to go sit in traffic for like multiple hours a day. Having to go work at a place that I hate, having to work 40 hours, 60 hours, 80 hours a week to be able to provide for myself for, you know, my family to having to rely on external circumstances for my life. I'd much rather be. Have rich problems than I would those poor problems. That's what I would say. So that's what I got. Gosh, I'm exhausted, you guys. I'm not exhausted. I'm just like, very mentally, mentally trained in this video. And I want to. I want to post this video because I want to be raw with you guys. As lame, as awful I think this video is. Honestly, this is not. This is not feel like my best work. But, you know, but I push myself and I challenge myself to keep recording. And I may take this video down later, but I'll still upload it and I'll still publish it. So this is. This video is funny. So that's what I got you guys. Thanks for watching. Peace.