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Scotian helped people who were willing to work hard and freeze their asses off in the oil fields of Alberta. Then they can drive 25 hours to vacation in Florida and snort cocaine off a hooker's ass. It's a lifestyle choice. But Scotian has a college degree and is no dummy.

This forum has been a trainwreck of career advice. Don't forget that OneEyedJack gave $1,000 to thank NASA Test Pilot for his phony advice. Other people suggest gambling, trading, or copywriting (which pays $60K per year).

Side hustles are dumb. Just get a good job. You are not going to get rich by travelling and drop-shipping off EBay. Quant, technology, and health care degrees pay well. Consider the actuary exams if you are smart and want an easy lifestyle.

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I don't recall Scotian's major (bachelors degree). Many bachelors degrees are not especially employable, e.g., psychology, sociology, or humanities. Unlike Roosh, English major Matt Forney, philosophy major MikeCF, and Samseau never had careers. Many posters on this forum were broke, living with parents.

Mark Manson worked on Wall Street, quit, travelled briefly, and then became a writer. Neil Strauss and Tim Ferriss also travelled briefly before becoming writers. All these guys had solid degrees and career opportunities. Mark "Naughty Nomad" Zolo got a masters in economics, travelled and ran businesses internationally. These guys went anywhere they wanted (Japan, Mediterranean, NYC, Antarctica) instead of specializing in third-world countries with cheap hookers.

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Mark Zolo was a small bearded man who was doing bartending if I recall correctly. He looks a bit like the midget "Alpha M" who gives tips to future alpha males : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tI5nmPXMZo

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Professional gambling(for ex poker)
SEO consulting/affiliate marketing etc (I guess you already tried that one though)
Ponzi schemes
Anything to do with Bitcoin, cryptocurrency, ICOs etc (see 3)
Direct marketing of things like health supplements (see 3)
Drug dealing
Becoming a productivity/healthy living guru

LOL, that is a good list of things to avoid, along with copywriting.

Tearful Shoes:  Mark Zolo has a YouTube channel to see what he looks like.
https://www.youtube.com/user/naughtynomadtv

Yes, Zolo he was a bartender in NYC while trying to market his travel stories.  Similarly, old forum member Neil Skywalker sold the screenplay rights to his travel book.

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^ I guess copywriting is a dead career anyway, now that LLM models can do the work by themselves

As for Mark Zolo, he had an interesting game website back in the day, but I never dug his whole pirate style thing