What can I do to vastly improve my life, my financial situation THIS YEAR, given my circumstances?

I got pumped up by an affiliate marketing “guru”, felt motivated, but everyone being “realistic” has me feeling hopeless again.

I’ll be 30 before the end of the year, and I haven’t succeeded at anything. I feel absolutely no direction, or even a huge reason to try anymore. Everyone (except the course sellers) say it’ll take you years before you see results, and I don’t have that kind of time to wait, nor am I likely to stick with something for that long if it doesn’t at least start making, I don’t know part time minimum wage within a few months or something.

I will never ever waste another second with online surveys again, I used to spend all day (when I had literally nothing better to do) and one day I managed to make $8 in 8 hours, or maybe 18 hours actually. There’s nothing scalable about that, they just barely compensate you for your data. I’m sick of seeing that recommended as a way to make money online.

I thought the internet was supposed to be a massive land of opportunity to make money but it doesn’t seem like it is.

I’m close to buying a course because I have literally no other paths in life, and figured buying a course to follow to a T would be better than gambling from the thousand savings I have into cryptocurrency. Because let’s face it, longterm investing isn’t helpful for people who can’t afford their own life in the foreseeable future, and short term investing (but really gambling) will barely see price change, and spread fees and capital gains tax will wipe profit out anyway.

I thought AI must surely be a goldmine of opportunities to make money, even potentially get rich quick, but everyone has free or low cost access to it, and a lot of people HATE AI.

But also it’s the people who DON’T listen to everyone telling them “you’re wasting your time, that won’t pay off” who are more likely to financially succeed than those who listen to others advice that just keeps them poor, if not also in debt (most people are poor, surviving paycheck to paycheck, and are slaves to the system).

I feel like the solutions I’m looking for MUST exist, they’re just like floating fruit in a dark tornado that I cannot see, or catch.

I also have this terrifying darkness in me, and let’s just say surely being able to improve my life on the external level would make it more likely to feel better inside.

I know this probably sounds over dramatic to most people, but I really don’t have many prospects or opportunities, I’m not sure if most people even do because it seems like most other people stay in dead end poverty paying jobs for many years too.

All the people saying it takes some years to see any real profit, like $100 a month, is discouraging. When you go to any regular job you expect to see maybe a few hundred dollars a week, more or less depending on the job, but you expect to see that within the first week or two after you start working.

I hate life, nothing about it is clear, and it sickens me that there people actively pushing to, grow the population more and more despite this system that requires most people to be in poverty.

I don’t think it’s normal for me to be near 30 unable to make even $2,000 a month from “a regular job”, I don’t believe it is reasonable to expect it to take “a few more years” to MAYBE see a few thousand dollars a month from, AM, YT, or some other job or business.

What am I missing? Am I just too scared or pointless feeling to pour time and effort into something that takes indefinite amount of time still with no guarantee of financial success?

Why does it feel so hard to do ANYTHING?

(I can’t drive, I will not discuss that either, otherwise I would be hustling on DoorDash, Uber Eats, Instacart, that kind of stuff, even though a bunch of people would say “YOU SHOULD NEVER WEAR AND TEAR YOUR OWN CAR TO MAKE MONEY”, some people have no idea how hard it is to get and/or hold onto “regular employment”. And then of course most jobs don’t even pay enough to live…..

I really need something remote with no cap or limit on earning potential.

I just keep getting older and falling more behind, I’m going to end up homeless eventually, and I don’t want to go by another year and still be stuck getting nowhere.

ANYTHING, whether it’s freelance/self employment/online business to some kind of more regular job, as long as it’s remote, maybe IT related? I hope I’m capable of learning that. I’ve always struggled with math, and I have a mental block because I just can’t see the logic in learning coding/programming language when ChatGPT/Claude/other LLMs can already understand basic instructions in English, and AI will only get more advanced and powerful. Which on one hand I think it’s great because it eliminates a massive barrier to creativity in digital creation, but it also will inevitably eliminate many jobs, and some people are good at the technical stuff while not so good in creativity ideas. In my mind it’s all about the ideas in our head and simply making them exist in real life, AI makes this easier, but most people probably don’t think the way I do. And of course not all ideas are great, and very well may be improved by working on details and having to figure out how things work manually.

I don’t know how to find the next big thing or opportunity, like AI, cryptocurrency, NFTs (which I’m pretty sure are dead now), Web 3.0, before they blow up.

Putting aside wanting to create the next big thing, I need financial security sooner than later, I owe it to my family and to myself, I’m almost 30 and stuck in deadend retail and missed out on most life experiences that give people reason to live and enjoy life.

What’s wrong with me? How do I move forward? I feel all the years have just been wasted, I feel I particularly lost an entire decade of my life that didn’t even set me up to have a better next decade.

Surely I can do better than this? Surely there’s just opportunities hidden?

Someone just showed me that Google has an online job training program to get certificates to get jobs? But I’m not sure it’s enough on its own without a regular college education?

Yes, I’m looking to catch up in less time now, fast track. Not drag on for a few more years, that honestly I might not even be able to afford to take that long now.

I’m close to getting this affiliate marketing course and just following it to a T, worth $300 if it’s good, I’m not getting anywhere in life anyway, and technically I can afford that, but I’m kind of worried it might be outdated or a sales funnel that will just ask for an even higher priced course at the end of that one (should I become a guru and sell courses?)

Literally I have nothing to look forward to and think about dying all the time, losing reason to stay alive much longer, especially since it’s going to get worse at some point.

What can I do to get ahead THIS YEAR???