Hi and welcome to the forum (I know you've been here for a year).
It's been a while since I answered similar topics but here we go again. I actually noticed that all these types of threads have one thing in common: The lack of extra information about what the person did. How can someone help you if they didn't get the full picture? It's like asking someone what was wrong with your cake and why it has that awful taste without mentioning what the ingredients were. So I'm gonna help you by asking you some questions related to each venture you've been into:
1- Dropshipping: You said you tried 5 times and got only one sale:
- What did you try?
- How did you find which products to dropship?
- How did you market the store?
- How did you advertise your products?
- Did you use any marketing technique? (funnels, upsells, abandoned cards recovery...)
- Did you put some efforts into SEO?
- Did you care to check what your competitors did?
- Did you advertise via Facebook or IG? Did you have a pixel integrated to collect data?
- Did you try email and bot messenger marketing?
2- CPA and streaming website: So you put up a site together related to streaming movies prior to you knowing that it's illegal and Google might take it down:
- What was your plan B in case big G took the site down? No mirrors? No backups? Some Cpa companies allow and fully support streaming websites, so monetization wasn't the issue here.
- What did you do with that $500 earned? Did you reinvest it?
- Clearly you knew how to drive traffic and get conversions. What didn't you do it for a more whitehat niche? (I.E: Streaming services pay per install)
3- Selling services and getting no clients: I assume we're falling under the same category here and I can relate to that, but:
- How were you looking for clients?
- Were you trying to get leads?
- Do you have a portfolio and a website?
- Did you try Linkedin?
- Did you try getting a membership here and start selling your services?
- Did you try to find other channels to advertise your services? (There are thousands).
- Did you treat this as a business?
4- Affiliate - Time spent - 0 results:
- In what did you exactly spend time.
- Getting free traffic isn't impossible, but you will suffer, still: how were you getting traffic?
- Affiliate products were the first thing I did online, I'm sure it wasn't that hard back then but I'm more than sure that the game is still the same. How did you play it? What products were you promoting?
Once you answer all these, someone on the forum can point you in the right direction. Remember, failing is the best way to get you back to the right track. From what you said on your OP, I noticed that you have multiple skills (Website design, traffic generation, marketing, advertising). I'm sure you'll just need to organize yourself and stick to one thing. All the categories you mentioned have proven to be working business models, so I don't see why you won't make it with at least one of them.
Good luck!