My college experience has been underwhelming to say the least. I was never one for formal education or academic institutions. Even at a young age, I didn’t see the point of it. I sensed that my dad shared the same frustrations when I talked to him about this at the time, and it made me feel seen. In my view, the only things that school did well was provide a space for kids to be around people their own age and go through the same struggles (sitting in class for hours, having to do homework, studying for exams, etc.), which allowed them to have a sense of community and bonding.

I woke up this morning determined to make my first cold call. I got out of bed, brushed my teeth and didn’t even go have breakfast first. I sat down an my desk and started talking to Gemini about how I should approach my first cold call. It gave me script with some different scenarios (one for if I got a receptionist on the line and another for the owner of the business). I was second guessing myself the whole time. I paced around my room for a little bit because my heart was racing and then I finally decided that I should dial the number.

I’m almost a week in from when I decided to start an AI automation business. I had initially thought of selling a financial stress testing tool on etsy, but quickly realized that it didn’t seem like such a great idea because I couldn’t think of why people would buy it. I was too focused on the product and didn’t have a clear idea about what my target audience was.

I worked on the tool for a couple days and came to the understand, after hours of research on how to start a profitable business, that I was thinking too small. Even if that business was launched and became somewhat successful, it wouldn’t help me reach my goal of financial freedom because what I was selling was too cheap to be able to make thousands of dollars from, let alone tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars.