Every single niche, even the micro niches, are extremely oversaturated now and it's downright impossible to get clients without spending an absolute fortune on ads. Want to become famous on yt or tiktok? Good fucking luck with that too.

You aren't alone. You could've been me, literally invested $100k (most of my networth at the time) into crypto circa 2022 right at that $48k deadcat bounce. To make matters worse, I did it all in eventually going to die alts (I remember a couple of them being Harmony One and VRA) instead of btc. Literally right after I bought in, the Ukraine War started then soon after the aggressive rate hikes, and then later in the year the Luna and FTX collapse. I never truly recovered after that catastrophe, with me swinging from alt to alt and I kept making the wrong choices while I missed out on the SOL run from $10 to over $100 for example. Also missed out on the SOL mania coins and kept picking the wrong coins on those too.

Now? I'm 60% down from my breakeven. I've technically been in crypto since 2020 but didn't get the chance to throw big money at it until it was too late (see the story above). This year hasn't made things any easier on me and I'm seriously considering capitulating.
> $40k portfolio with $100k buy-in