[s5300]

Right as I had to stop, I was at a point where I'd created my own product that had actual demand. Could've patented it (well, had somebody of age patent it - but patents are mostly dumb and pointless IMO - hilariously, I'd also met/gotten to speak/slightly work with Ohanian and Schaaf due to some local startup stuff at the Uni in my town)

Unfortunately, becoming extremely physically ill, of which I'm still barely moving towards recovery from, and having absolutely abhorrent and parasitic parents kinda ruined everything at the same time. Always hurts to think of what could've been, but life is strange ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I've definitely developed an absolutely pessimistic, utterly cynical view towards all of the people that are coincidentally mostly my same age with their whole "build up your own brand, sell your own product" when it's just them hiring a graphic artist that they're paying practically nothing to slap "their brand" only widely available mass produced China junk/apparel. I completely realize it's not a healthy quality/habit in any way, and I actively try to fight back against the feeling... but sometimes the pettiness/fakeness of it all is just too much.

Edit - just as it popped back into my thoughts... for two years after I'd completely taken down all of my listings/sale fronts, every few months I'd get some random emails of people still trying to get the more niche things I'd sold, or old customers coming back. I guess eBay caches stuff in some weird ways with regards to Google searches. As I for the most part had everything still laying around, I filled around 20 of those orders. Eventually, things did completely stop popping back into my life, haha.

[dbancajas]

how much total did you earn for that?

[s5300]

Not something I want to specifically post on this account for some reasons, but quite a good amount. All squandered in the most misfortunate way though. Quite sad all around, haha