If You Could Buy Yourself An Income Instead of Working For It, Would You?
It only takes about 1 years worth of pay…..
It only takes about 1 years worth of pay…..
While I do not regret discovering this idea later in life, I truly wish someone had approached me at 18 and asked that one question.
Pondering this question and it’s implications changed my life at the age of 38.
I was 3 years into starting my own business at home when I first was exposed to this idea by Tim Ferriss in his book “4 Hour Workweek”, but for most of my life I had been a career employee.
Enterprise Tech Support.
I had already exchanged quite a bit of my younger life behind a keyboard in an office for $45,000 per year, then $100,000. 14 years total.
That $100,000 job took over 60 hours per week of my time average, with an on-call rotation that gobbled up my nights and weekends. I loved the income and at the time it felt like I was making really great money.
Problem was, I never really had time to enjoy that income.
When we grow up, we all have ideas about what we want to be and as we get closer and closer to our adult years, we eventually decide on school, a trade, or pursuing some other line of work where we earn on average — anywhere from $40,000 per year, to $180,000 depending on what we choose.
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Of course there are careers and jobs that pay much more, and there are numerous ways to make money, but the average career employee who is in a self-chosen career working for a company is making $40,000–100,000.
Where am I going with this?
Instead of earning $45,000 per year, or $100,000 per year, and working…. indefinitely….. until I’m “retirement” age……what if I flipped that arrangement around?
What if I took that same $100,000 salary, invested it, and that could buy me a livable residual income?
What if, as a result of that choice, I would more or less already be retired?
In 2020, I obsessively searched for a way to manifest something like this.
Turns out, the key was at my fingertips, literally.
In my pocket.
What if I told you that you could take about 1 years worth of income, and use that to generate a residual income that ends your need to work? *
Wouldn’t that be better than being obligated to show up somewhere for 40 hours per week, for 20+ years? **
What if I told you that though it took some time to accomplish, I have bought myself into a residual income that has freed me from the obligation of working? ***
*** If your first thought when reading those sentences is antagonistic, something like “As if anyone can just come up with <insert years worth of pay>!!!!”…..well….get lost. Bye.
You are not the person I am speaking to. So, go ahead and work forever. And don’t forget to leave a trollish comment on my story on your way out.
If however, if the first reaction you have is more like “How in the world do I come up with 1 years salary?”, then maybe you’ll find a way to come up with PART OF THAT, then let what I am about to share with you do the rest.
Also — if you were also antagonistic to my questions because you’ve read posts like this before and they always end with a long form funnel trying to upsell you on a product…
I forgive you. I forgive the living shit out of you. I hate those things too!
What if I told you that you that I didn’t need to buy a business, and I didn’t need to sign up for a pyramid marketing scam, and I also didn’t need to save back 1 full year of salary….. I just…. started using a trading bot that is found on an easy-to-access free mobile apps?
Don’t roll your eyes. Read on.
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It took some time to get to a livable income going from trading bots, and I am still learning.
This is not something that is purely effortless.
This is not a get rich quick scheme, nor have I gotten rich.
But it’s true.
I moved far into the country away from most jobs in 2022 just to FORCE myself to make this work. And so I have.
There aren’t many jobs where I live, 90 miles into the mountains, unless I want to work for the logging company starting at minimum wage, or one of the local seafood processing plants, or a small local retailer, or…. remote tech support…..ew gross!
Seeing as my former career is also in the process of being taken over by AI, I had to make this thing work.
As of 2024, my trading bots are now earning more than my primary online business, and more than my online affiliate marketing side projects as well.
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These trading bots are officially paying my bills.
It took over a year to grow my balance to a level that would make enough money to fully support me.
I didn’t start out having a full years worth of salary to invest.
I am working my way to having my full former salary invested into trading bots, and along the way have found that I am already earning what I wanted to earn and now I can push it further.
I want to have $50,000 into bots by the end of this year, and work my way to $100,000.
My primary business still helps me, for sure, but because of the way I have automated and outsourced my manufacturing to another USA based company, I no longer make a full time income from it. It’s now a side business!
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Crypto bots have taken over.
I have no job, nor a boss.
I started with $10,000, which is still admittedly a lot of money if you are working paycheck to paycheck, but it is more reasonable, and possible for many.
I didn’t even get that money from working, I bought some crypto miners on a credit card, then mined my way into the $10,000, paying off the card, and having enough profit left over to throw into bots. I didn’t have this plan at the time. I had crypto after mining and wanted it to start earning for me, and so I tried to find a way to make it compound.
I spent about 2 years in the crypto bot sandbox — not really being serious about it and just playing with bots, but it was great for learning.
Then I found a bot that worked well for me (Martingale).
I started with $10,000, turned that into another $10,000 in 5 months or so, and kept rolling that forward. Right now, I have $30,000 into my crypto trading bots, and they are ALREADY paying me a livable income.
Pretty neat, huh?
I would be almost to $50k already, but I had to divest a bot to help pay for a pet’s vet bills earlier this year, so I am a bit behind my goal schedule this year.
There is no upsell at the end of this story.
If you read my stories and watch my free youtube tutorial videos at the end of this story, you’ll see how I did it.
I have nothing to sell you.
Except maybe the book I am in the process of writing that will be listed on Amazon, etc. But wait…… I offer the entire book here on Medium for free, chapter by chapter.
You can use my link to Pionex and I get 20% off trading fees, but that’s not even something that I notice very much, I don’t see trading fees at all when my bots are running. Thank you if you use my link though!
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I am not an investment service, I will not take your money, I am not here to present the next scammy opportunity.
I am just sitting on something that is working for me, and I want to share it.
These mobile apps were the gateway to my new life as a crypto trader.
Now I have the mindset, knowledge, and ability to learn similar tools — even if I loose access to the exchanges that I am using now, I can pivot.
I already have a back up plan — just in case the United States passes weird laws or otherwise changes it up and kicks my strategy in the nuts, I have a Palau Digital Residence ID and I am already set up on many non-USA exchanges, ready to go in the event that bots ever get cut off from USA based exchanges.
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As long as there is a digital asset market with instant settlements, trading bots will continue to be a viable source of livable income for me.
I see friends struggling to make it, loosing their jobs and scrambling to find work, and I think to myself, I know it sucks to be there, and I am so glad I took the steps a few years ago to set myself up so I will never be there if I can help it.
I am far from rich.
The money I have in my savings would not be a retire-able amount to live off of — if I was just drawing from it, especially if it wasn’t somehow earning for me.
Yet, I will never scramble to find a job again; I have access to automated trading tools, and it FEELS like I am already retired.
Disclaimer : This is not financial advice and I am not a financial advisor. This is just what I am doing with my own money. I am NOT an expert. I am some dude on the internet who sees a path sometimes, and takes it.
Thank you for reading!
Until next time….
Onward and Upward Everybody!
-Chris
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