In this personal monologue, Nathan Miller recounts how an uninspiring AP Computer Science class in high school convinced him that college was not for him. The experience prompted him to question what truly excited him about computers, leading him to discover a love for creation rather than abstract coding. He experimented with various online income avenues—building mining rigs, dropshipping, social‑media marketing agencies (SMMA), and e‑commerce—leveraging his technical aptitude. After persisting long enough to achieve success in e‑commerce, he is now developing a custom product, which he describes as the purest expression of his passion for building and inventing. Throughout, he reflects on how recognizing his creator identity unlocked his purpose and entrepreneurial direction.
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Taking this one class in high school convinced me to never go to college, and I just never wanted that to be a part of my life. And before I tell you what kind of class it was, basically that my whole entire life I always, always wanted to be successful in some sort of aspect. But growing up, I wasn't aware of all the different ways you can make money online. I wasn't aware of all these different things, right? And so the number one thing, I mean, I feel like any kid says is like, yo, I want to be do computer science, right? I want to do whatever. And that was like my thing. I, I liked computers. I, I was a gamer, you know, at the time, and I just liked kind of working on stuff like that. And I think even at the time— actually, no, it was a couple years later— but I ended up actually building like a mining computer, which is like super interesting. Um, but I always liked computers, so I was like, yeah, it makes sense, I want to do computer science, right? And then I took AP CS Comp or whatever it's called. I don't even remember what it's called, but that's not the point. I took the class, man, and I had never felt more drained, more out of it, and just literally more bored in my life. Like, having to memorize code to me just felt so, like, repetitive. It didn't feel, like, motivating. It didn't feel inspiring at all. It just felt like busy work. Honestly, it just felt like busy work. And I barely got through that pass, probably that class rather with a C or something like that. And ever after, ever since I took that class, I was like, dude, like, how many things are going to be like this? Like, this is the one thing that growing up I was like, oh, I'm gonna go to college for that, and I take it and I hate it. And so from then on, I tried to figure out what do I actually like? Like, if, if I like computers and I like working on computers and I don't like computer science, then what do I actually feel passionate about? What about computers actually inspires me and makes me want to do stuff? And I felt that, and I found that it was more about the creating part of it. And from then I got into, you know, I wanted to create maybe a business or create some source of income, right? Because that was something that I always looked at. And eventually from there, I was just able to find people who were trying these different things like dropshipping, you know, building mining computers, which I even tried, like SMMA. And like, I felt like, you know, I'm tech savvy, I'm nerdy enough to like actually know how to set these things up. And so actually, I want to go out and do that. And so yeah, from then on, guys, I just kept pursuing something like that, something to do with computers, and I found e-com. And eventually I had success with it. You know, I stuck with it for a long enough time and put enough work in to actually kind of figure it out to a certain extent. And so now I'm taking the next step. I'm building a custom product, which, dude, what I love, bro, and what I've really realized over the years, what I really love to do is I just love creating. I love creating. I love Even since I was a kid, bro, I would always like make little inventions and stuff. And so really understanding that part of myself has really unlocked and made me realize like what I'm meant to do and what I should be doing.
