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On being laid off & unplanned entrepreneurship - Deep South Ventures

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Most folks dream of being entrepreneur; “a path that seemed inevitable“, they say. None of that shit applies to me. I’m only here cause I kept getting laid off and that nonsense infuriated me. I treated my first layoff as a joke, as I’d seen them in movies & TV; “now they’re happening to me – how funny“. My second felt like a whispered “fuck-you”, as the company had been acquired and I was deemed useless. The third and fourth scrambled my brain and forced me down a path I never intended to travel. I remember thinking: I can’t trust them anymore; I gotta figure out a way to generate revenue myself; from my own business; that I control. Online preferably. That’s where I started. Daunting for someone with a History degree. I had no other choice. So, I took stock of my background at that moment. Web analytics, Paid Search, and pittance of SEO. Ok, I’ll start there. I’ll skip coding for now. I’d recently been exposed to a new online ad network, that paid by lead and/or click. I had previous

〰️ it’s weird to look back; I sometimes get confused on how I got here 〰️ Whiteside Mountain in Highlands NC Most folks dream of being an entrepreneur; “ a path that seemed inevitable “, they say. None of that shit applies to me. I’m only here cause I kept getting laid off and that nonsense infuriated me. I treated my first layoff as a joke, as I’d seen them in movies & TV; “ now they’re happening to me – how funny “. My second felt like a whispered “fuck-you”, as the company had been acquired and I was deemed useless. The third

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