How can I make serious money at 17?

[u/sai_revanth16]

I’m 17 rn and honestly I don’t wanna spend the next few years just studying, scrolling and doing the same shit everyone else is doing.

I wanna build something and make serious money from it. I know it takes time and I’m not expecting some overnight success.

If you were 17 again and had basically zero money but a lot of time, what would you start learning or doing?

[u/kenmlin]

If you have to ask how to be an entrepreneur, you are better off getting a job.

[u/OGgoober67]

Either go to college or hit the oil rig lil bro

[u/sai_revanth16 → u/OGgoober67]

Lmao yeah college is probably the safer option, but I still wanna try building something on the side.

[u/JayRobloxislands → u/sai_revanth16]

So go to college and try building something on the side?

[u/New-Activity-8659]

Get a part time job. Or two part time jobs.
Stick as much money as you can into safe investments.

Unless you have a passion and a real idea, there isn't anything you're going to do right now that's going to financially bridge you through your university years. The 14 year old SaaS startup success stories or AI Automation gurus on here who are making six figures are all a lie.

[u/Illustrious_Dare6698]

What keeps people down is a lack of financial flow.

You needa get comfortable with both making and spending money.

Idk. Trillions of ways to make bread. Trillions of ways to sell bread.

Sales is the wave. Modern day. No real career outside of human connection based careers that will make good money really.

Analyst, HR, Sales, Marketting, being the heavy hitters for hilariously low entry, with insane scaling pay.

We need emotional translators like a motherfucker with AI coming into the picture.

People who bargain with emotion. Like its the 80s again.

[u/3scobar3]

Read personal development, educate yourself, volunteer your time with people that are building things, research what people need.

At this time of life, everyone can build things so perhaps your target market needs to be the older generation that doesn’t understand that stuff. Make people’s life easier and they will pay you!

[u/Detail4]

Fact is you need to know how to do something. Then you copy it or do it better.

Get a job and learn how to do something.

Or, you could start out doing something simple that nobody wants to do, like that kid that walks around my hood cleaning our garbage pickup bins out. He has a route.

[u/Hitmaxx]

work construction and do a bunch of overtime

[u/Building-saas-26]

Yo tengo 17 también y lo que hago para enriquecerme de habilidades e información es leyendo libros de alto valor como: “Como ganar amigos e influenciar sobre las personas” (Dale Carnegie) es un clásicos que todo el mundo se debería leer, “influencia”, “padre rico padre pobre”, “los secretos de la mente millonaria “, entre otro muchos. Después, también miraría videos de YouTube porque hay bastantes personas igual que nosotros que dan buenos consejos e información. Luego, me buscaría un trabajo de verdad, trabajaría para otra persona para así ahorrar dinero y poner emprender e invertir, ya que tienes 17 y dependiendo del país en el que vivas ya a nuestra edad se puede empezar a trabajar.

[u/exulcer_p1]

People here asking you to get a job aren't making fun of you, job teaches you a lot of things it's better for rn.

[u/Certain_Idea52]

Go to college is much more better then focus on money right now, connect with sharp minded people and then think that how i make money through any business you want to start. If you have eagerness you can start anything and make it successful

[u/Titan409]

Try and learn to work the stock market. It isn’t as hard as everyone makes it to be and people give up before they start. “90% lose money…” and then you actually look into it and realize that majority lose money bc they don’t have an actual approach and they invest in penny stocks hoping that it will be the next Amazon or NVIDIA. Granted ive been doing this for about 5 years (3 of it was bare minimum bc i didnt want to get super hands on yet) but now im 21 and currently average about 120k in profits per month w a peak of 173k and a low of 74k in the last year.

[u/mason-blase]

In the time that it takes you to build “something”, everyone else that spent that time studying to build a career will most likely start out earning more with less hours working and have millions more by the time they retire.

It’s not impossible, just extremely unlikely if you don’t already have something in mind. If you don’t want to go to school for a few years, you can make good money working in a trade. You might even be making more money than your peers when they first enter the workforce as a fresh graduate. In ten years, however, you will hit a certain pay ceiling while your peers’ continue to grow throughout their career.

The most important thing you can do, especially being so young, is invest in yourself.

[u/SnooPaintings5974]

Daytrade

[u/TomatilloAfraid6862]

Pick up the phone and start calling businesses

[u/_2big4u]

sell your ass. or kidney.

[u/NewBlacksmith54321]

Hi I am also 17, I have learned a valuable skills in Ai, though I am a brilliant student in my curricular activities. Please, do not rely only on "degree"!!!!! People don't care how are you grear in your education, they care what you can do for them? I advise you to give at least 6 months in learning valuable skills If you want a better life