I finished my final paper in university 4 months ago, it was then where I decided to take a leap of faith and embark on a journey of self-employment.
To keep it short, I failed. I was overambitious and quite frankly all over the place. I ventured into many opportunities and quickly realised that I am doing it wrong. In the short span of 4 months, I launched a YouTube channel, created several dropshipping stores, started a snack subscription company, traded full time, studied for the CFA exam. Living each day full of anxiety.
Having been a trader for almost a decade, I have grown to be very comfortable with admitting mistakes and cutting my losses swiftly. 4 months is a very short period of time to evaluate unbiasedly the success of anything. However, I felt that I was not thriving in anything that I was doing. I was wasting time and resources. I knew I needed to pivot.
I started job hunting — something that I never thought I would do my entire life in university. Couple that with the rough economic climate we are facing right now, I thought I was going to take a long time to find employment.
I applied for numerous graduate and MA programs in various fields like private equity, investment banking, sales & trading, consulting, etc. Spoiler alert — got rejected for all of them. All but one.
I am happy to share that I have enthusiastically accepted the opportunity to learn more about consulting at Accenture in their Technology Analyst Program.
What about my core plan of creating multiple sources of income? I will still be trading and building a dividend portfolio. I hope to continue to provide valuable insights regarding forex trading and dividend investing on YouTube.
I would like to end by saying that failure is part of the journey and that we do not share it enough. It is alright to dream big and fail big. The experience was really fun and I have grown a lot(unfortunately in size too) in the past 4 months.
