[tomzestatlu]

I would like to hear some advices or opinions from you on direction of my work career.

I am 25 from Eastern Europe with worthless bachelor degree. I recently quit job in military, where I served as platoon commander (~20 subordinates) at combat unit. I don´t want to give much details and don´t need comments about it. I don´t have anything against military generally, but I wanted to change unit, which was no chance, even in the future. And I was very unhappy with my life.

I thought, I will just get ordinary office job and live in my home city between bunch of people I like and they like me (ordinary job is not my life´s goal, but I wanted to get some experience in civilian area). I applied for some, but didn´t take up any, because the money isn´t worth working. As I mentioned, I live in Eastern Europe and salaries are worthless. Economy is growing, prices are growing but salaries are as high that average person will barely survive a month. I am that kind of person, who do not waste money on unnecesary things and tries to save in almost every area he can and even though, these money are just for month-to-month living. Better situation would be for me if I was IT guy or something closely specialized, but I am not.
I understand, that I don´t have any specialized skills. On the other hand, I have experience with leading and managing people, working with tons of stress, making what-ever-imaginable-tasks done and I consider myself being able to learn and do whatever. I have basic knowledge from probably all possible areas and know 2 foreign languages.

Currently I earn some money as bouncer in disco club. It´s not that much, but it´s similar to office job and there´s one big difference. I have tons of free time and am able to work on whatever. Now at the beginning, I am also about to get something back from system, since I was contributing every month with social insurance. So now at the beginning, I am able to survive well without need of spending the most of my time in work.

Here are some possible scenarious I think of:

1) Office job
As I mentioned before, it´s not the best way, because of money. More than creating savings, it would cost me my current.

2) Sales job
I am not sales kind of person. I can´t lie, I am not too much talkative and I can´t convince about something I myself don´t believe in. But never say never, I don´t refuse learning new skills.
My best friend is currently starting real estate agency franchize and he offered me I could learn this stuff. But I am very unsure about it, there are many pros but also many cons.

3) Starting own bussiness
This is my dream probably since I found this forum. But realisation is hard and there are many unknown areas for me, because since I was 15 years old, I know only military enviroment (I have even military high school).
I have few projects on my mind, but they are not something very original and competition is high in this areas (I focus on low starting capital stuff):
a) Creating websites - I already run this for few months. It can bring me some small pocket money. I am not IT guy, but I learned or revived some old skills as html, CSS or graphics, so I do low-cost websites for small entrepreneurs. But as I said, it´s just pocket money and it´s time consuming.
b) Marketing - This project I could merge with creating websites. I don´t know much about it, I only know the basic stuff I did for myself (facebook ads, basic SEO,...). But it´s the thing that can be learned by doing. But it would bring me only pocket money too.
c) Event security agency - Providing security personell for cultural or sport events. Big advantage is that I would hire people only for contracts and I know where to find them. Big disadvantage is, that there are already big players in this area.
d) Own fastfood bistro - There are plenty of them in the city centre, but they all offer kebab, pizza or burgers. I would come with something different, I have bagel on my mind. There´s not any bistro with it, nobody except whose who watch HIMYM know it and it could be branded as "true NY bagel or something like that".

4) Going back to forces
Military or police. As I mentioned before, I don´t have so much against military (I have to overlook that 4/5 of our army are bareaucrats) and if good opportunity comes, I could eventually go back. But at this moment, I can´t influence it. Police is something I never liked. But if there weren´t other options, I could try join some better police unit.

5) Oil rigs
I would love to have a chance on working on rig in Norway. I am searching for informations, sending CVs to companies, but I think there´s low chance of getting this gig, since I am not engineer.

6) Travelling
I would like to travel a lot, and I would love some adventure. But at this moment, I don´t see burning all my savings on banging chick in Thailand as good decision. I also will have to repay unfinished contract to army and I want to have few thousands as emergency money. Currently I might have to my name 8-9k USD which is not much, but here in Eastern Europe, it´s more than in US. (20-25% of the money is invested in crypto, but I don´t think I will ever go to red numbers if it didn´t last few weeks). And I have got fiancee here.

6) Ultimate adventure
French foreign legion, military volunteer... whoever knows? But this would mean giving up on life I knew until now. And probably I would choose it, when there´s not other option or future vision of life. Also there´s low possibility of coming back to normal life.


I am thankful for every idea. Thanks to bouncer gig, I have some time to think about it. But I have been thinking for long months and there´s not real outcome. I must say, that until new year, I spend all my free time on developing, studying life and learning new things. I didn´t waste even a minute. But after new year and no visible outcome, I lost the drive. I have so much energy to put into something, but I feel kinda lost and see no opportunity to put effort into. I still have decent income, but the feel of uncertainity and no future is killing me. I also feel like my self-confidence is getting lower and lower.