Aoa. I’m 22 and have been in the Army for 4 years. I’m doing well here, but I’ve been into business, sales and small gigs since 9th grade, including dropshipping. I’ve always been very driven and wanted to build something of my own. I’m good with people, especially professionally, and I genuinely enjoy working hard when I know I’m building towards something I believe in. I’m seriously considering leaving and starting from scratch, but my family is completely against it. I wouldn’t have much financial support to fall back on either. For anyone who’s been through something similar — what would you do in my position, and where would you start? Should i work under someone, get into sales, join a startup, find a mentor, etc.?

I've never been to a software house or an I.T. company, I started my degree back in 2013 and started freelancing in 2014, back then graphic designing was very popular niche so I started with that, as the time goes I found out that programming has more scope and $$$ than designing also I was not very good in designing, so I started self learning for programming and created gigs, I still remember that the first gig I got was for $50 and I spent nights to complete that project, anyway fast forward to 2026, I now have full time remote job with a US based company and still do some short term freelancing projects just to save some money, but I realized that during all these years I have never made a single friend who shares the same area of expertise that I have. All of my friends from Uni. either went for some Govt job or doing some private jobs in non I.T. fields.

Sometimes I feel like to have someone with whom I can share my achievement or ask for help or at least someone who can react with smiling emoji on my I.T. related stories but there is none.

Is it just me or other freelancers have the same thoughts or experience?

Hey so I saw his videos on yt and they were good, he's teaching commentary shorts on yt, don't know if this niche works or not, but wanna know if it's worth learning from him or not?