AÄŸustos 12, 2025
36 yaşındayım ve hiç akademik olmadım. Hayattaki yolumu hiç bilmiyordum. Benim için işler bitti mi?
Hayattan özellikle özellikle kariyer olarak hiçbir şeye çekilmemiştim. Okulda akademik değildim ve kendimi aptal hissettim. Bu benim için kaygı ve depresyona yol açtı. Hiç yeterince iyi hissetmedim. Yıllar önce üniversiteye gitmeye yakındım, ama nihayetinde asla başarılı olamayacağımı düşünmeye devam ederken ayrıldım. Sürekli olarak asla yeterince iyi olmadığımı hissettim. Hala bugüne kadar böyle hissediyorum. Geçmişte çok sayıda iş yaptım, ama hiçbiri çekilmedim ya da özellikle keyif almadım.
Daha yaratıcı fikirli olduğumu söyleyebilirim, ama sorun şu ki, bir kariyer olarak düşüneceğim her şeyin eğitime geri dönmeyi içereceği ve bu beni ilgilendiriyor. Sadece bu değil, yaşım göz önüne alındığında, genç başvuru sahipleri üzerinde işe alınacağımdan şüpheliyim. Kendi işimi kurmayı düşündüm, ama yine de doğru fikre ihtiyacım var. Asla özellikle zeki olmamıştı ve hayatta asla hareket etmeyeceğim gibi hissediyorum. İşleri hareket ettirmek istiyorum, ama kendi kendine inanç ve güven eksikliğim beni geride bırakıyor. Ne tavsiye verebilirsin? Buna nasıl yaklaşırsın?
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For someone creative, interested in working with your hands, recession proof.
Here’s a business idea I would love to see in the world: A furniture consignment store with a furniture repair business attached, where someone can take classes in furniture repair and that also does estate sales.
Here’s my idea: You need a large space near a mid sized city that has a wide class spectrum: upper, middle & working class residents. A college town would be great.
You start with free stuff on Facebook marketplace and next door, fixing, repairing, re-doing furniture (painting, etc in your own style or esthetic). Build your inventory.
Start advertising for furniture consignment. You research what consigners are paying (40%-60%, depending on your market), and follow the market. You are very selective on what you accept by paying attention to what sells quickly on fb, etc and what they charge.
Offer classes, for a fee, in furniture repair, whatever you learn/know how to do. Small, hands on classes over a weekend or one evening a week for a month.
Offer estate sales. When someone wants to move or dies etc. And can’t do a garage sale, you take over, for a fee. You bring the furniture you want to your shop. You host a garage sale at their place. Or/ and you sell on eBay etc.
4 lines of income (store; consignment, classes, estate sales). You’d need to set up excellent bookkeeping for consignment transparency…. I talked with a woman who had opened her consignment store in 2018. 2021 was her most profitable year. It’s almost recession-proof. Students could become employees or could start their own business, furniture repair is so hard to find.
It sounds like you’re carrying a lot of weight from past experiences, and it’s completely understandable to feel overwhelmed and unsure of your path. The fact that you’re considering starting your own business and “want to get things moving” shows incredible resilience and a drive to create something meaningful, despite the self-doubt.
Many successful entrepreneurs start later in life, and often, their “lack of academic background” or “traditional path” becomes their strength, leading to unique perspectives.
If “getting the right idea” and “lack of self-belief” are the main hurdles, an AI business assistant could potentially help. It’s designed specifically for people who are confused about how to start, need help generating ideas, and benefit from an AI coach to build confidence and structure a plan. It could give you the stepping stones and the “determination to write a business plan” you mentioned, without the pressure of traditional education or needing to “move up” a corporate ladder.
It might be worth exploring tools that can help you systematically generate and vet ideas, and provide a framework to start, even if you just begin with a small side project.
At this stage in the game, I’d leverage any past job experience and start your own business. No need to go back to school and acquire any student loan debt.