Currently at a cross road situation

[gatuje]

I've been dead broke for 3 months now. I was relieved of a job that I've spent over 7 years on. My annual pay was around $850 how stupid I was not to invest in myself, though it is never too late.
I have concluded that I'm no longer ready to sacrifice my time, doing such low end job. I'm currently in my mid 30s, no educational certificates just high school.

2 months ago I discussed with some of my friends who were living large with nice houses, and cars although these are all proceeds of online scams.

They taught me how to perform online scam. Things like sourcing for would be victims, creating or buying social media accounts to use for the operation and a whole lot of others.

But deep down in me i'm not comfortable with these, I once saw an aged woman who was recently scanned of her savings crying on a video call with one of my friends. Till date I still feel hurt by that video. Some of these scammers made me a laughing stock and called me names when I told them my feelings, they said I should smoke weed or take lots of alcohol to kill such useless guilt. But I don't smoke nor drink. I've currently left the scam training ground on the pretense of going to visit my family at the village.
At this point I'm stuck on 3 options.

1)Agree to learning how to smoke weed and alcohol, or look for other ways to kill my conscience and focus on the scams they do

2) Start a service like a blog, content creation on tiktok, Facebook, and YouTube to educate people on how most of these scams work. And do some paid consulting with scammed victims and those about to be scammed.

3) I'm already at intermediate level with python. I can scrape web pages and APIs, cleans dirty and messy CSV data, and some minor excel automation with python. So I'm considering sourcing for minor freelance jobs on Reddit, Facebook on other social medias.

I've read a lot about cyber security and my long term target is becoming a certified ethical hacker, after which I can offer and sell more robust scam detection services targeted at individuals and expose these scammers.

I already have a living expenses of $80 monthly than can sustain me and my family for at least 7 months if we live very frugal. But i will be doomed if I don't make anything after that 7 months. I can live comfortably well with my family on a $4000 annual budget. What would you all recommend? I need your honest recommendations please.

 

[josephkevogo]

I don't recommend 2 , are you sure you want to get yourself into such danger lol
what if they find out it's YOU who expose them lol

and 3 - unfortunately opus 4.6 can code similar python scripts in at most several minutes
and it can fix bugs in another several minutes

it's better you rent a smm panel at $10 to $20 per month and then go start selling

Nowadays entry level skills eg basic python can no longer save anyone unless you think you can learn & code & master programming skills faster than opus 4.6

 

[stepdub]

I've been dead broke for 3 months now. I was relieved of a job that I've spent over 7 years on. My annual pay was around $850 how stupid I was not to invest in myself, though it is never too late.
I have concluded that I'm no longer ready to sacrifice my time, doing such low end job. I'm currently in my mid 30s, no educational certificates just high school.

2 months ago I discussed with some of my friends who were living large with nice houses, and cars although these are all proceeds of online scams.

They taught me how to perform online scam. Things like sourcing for would be victims, creating or buying social media accounts to use for the operation and a whole lot of others.

But deep down in me i'm not comfortable with these, I once saw an aged woman who was recently scanned of her savings crying on a video call with one of my friends. Till date I still feel hurt by that video. Some of these scammers made me a laughing stock and called me names when I told them my feelings, they said I should smoke weed or take lots of alcohol to kill such useless guilt. But I don't smoke nor drink. I've currently left the scam training ground on the pretense of going to visit my family at the village.
At this point I'm stuck on 3 options.

1)Agree to learning how to smoke weed and alcohol, or look for other ways to kill my conscience and focus on the scams they do

2) Start a service like a blog, content creation on tiktok, Facebook, and YouTube to educate people on how most of these scams work. And do some paid consulting with scammed victims and those about to be scammed.

3) I'm already at intermediate level with python. I can scrape web pages and APIs, cleans dirty and messy CSV data, and some minor excel automation with python. So I'm considering sourcing for minor freelance jobs on Reddit, Facebook on other social medias.

I've read a lot about cyber security and my long term target is becoming a certified ethical hacker, after which I can offer and sell more robust scam detection services targeted at individuals and expose these scammers.

I already have a living expenses of $80 monthly than can sustain me and my family for at least 7 months if we live very frugal. But i will be doomed if I don't make anything after that 7 months. I can live comfortably well with my family on a $4000 annual budget. What would you all recommend? I need your honest recommendations please.

Use freelancing to generate immediate income, even if it is small in the beginning. At the same time, start building content around scam awareness in the background. That gives you both short term survival and a long term edge.

Also, do not underestimate your discipline. You do not drink, you do not smoke, and you walked away from something that felt wrong even when you are under financial pressure. That is not weakness, that is actually a huge advantage if you channel it properly.

Seven months is not zero time. It is enough to stabilize if you move consistently. You do not need a perfect plan, you just need momentum.

I would not tell you what you should do like it is some final answer, but from the outside it looks like you already know which path lets you sleep at night. And in the long run, that tends to matter more than quick money.

All the best

 

[PeterNorthpole]

2th option looks good and original to me, no idea how you’ll monetise it though.

I would t pay attention to the user who mentioned getting yourself killed. We’re talking about scammers not Mexican drug cartels. Also, you can try to stay as anonymous as possible.

By the way, weed makes you paranoid. It doesn’t ease guilt. No idea where you got that from

 

[Rawspele]

I've been dead broke for 3 months now. I was relieved of a job that I've spent over 7 years on. My annual pay was around $850 how stupid I was not to invest in myself, though it is never too late.
I have concluded that I'm no longer ready to sacrifice my time, doing such low end job. I'm currently in my mid 30s, no educational certificates just high school.

2 months ago I discussed with some of my friends who were living large with nice houses, and cars although these are all proceeds of online scams.

They taught me how to perform online scam. Things like sourcing for would be victims, creating or buying social media accounts to use for the operation and a whole lot of others.

But deep down in me i'm not comfortable with these, I once saw an aged woman who was recently scanned of her savings crying on a video call with one of my friends. Till date I still feel hurt by that video. Some of these scammers made me a laughing stock and called me names when I told them my feelings, they said I should smoke weed or take lots of alcohol to kill such useless guilt. But I don't smoke nor drink. I've currently left the scam training ground on the pretense of going to visit my family at the village.
At this point I'm stuck on 3 options.

1)Agree to learning how to smoke weed and alcohol, or look for other ways to kill my conscience and focus on the scams they do

2) Start a service like a blog, content creation on tiktok, Facebook, and YouTube to educate people on how most of these scams work. And do some paid consulting with scammed victims and those about to be scammed.

3) I'm already at intermediate level with python. I can scrape web pages and APIs, cleans dirty and messy CSV data, and some minor excel automation with python. So I'm considering sourcing for minor freelance jobs on Reddit, Facebook on other social medias.

I've read a lot about cyber security and my long term target is becoming a certified ethical hacker, after which I can offer and sell more robust scam detection services targeted at individuals and expose these scammers.

I already have a living expenses of $80 monthly than can sustain me and my family for at least 7 months if we live very frugal. But i will be doomed if I don't make anything after that 7 months. I can live comfortably well with my family on a $4000 annual budget. What would you all recommend? I need your honest recommendations please.

start with youtube and learn a few skills, put what you learn into practice