About Me — Aaron Masse
The Habit Ghostwriter | I ghostwrite educational email courses for behavior change professionals | Jung Junkie
How’s it going?
Names Aaron. I started writing online to pass the time while I was temporarily off work. I started to enjoy writing, so I’m here for the long haul.
I was born and raised in Ontario Canada, although my mom’s side is from America. The Canadians like to joke about how bad the Americans are, but based on my experience, the citizens aren’t that much different from one another. People hate to hate I guess.
I can go into detail about my family but it’s not all that interesting. Growing up, I’ve always had a roof over my head, bills and food paid for, and anything else was on my tab. I am very grateful.
My First Ambition
Now for what is interesting, my ambitions. The first career path I wanted to go down was working for CAS which is a Canadian organization that works to protect children from abuse, neglect, and harm. With lots of experience working with children and being a young uncle, this would be perfect for me. Although, 1 year and a half in college later a scene was burned into my mind that made me reconsider my career path.
It was a stupid personality quiz. I don’t even remember what it was called but I do know it involved animals. Everyone took the test, then we were all grouped based on our results. There were 4 results. Most of the students got results 3, some got 2 and 4, while myself and one other kid got 1. Then the professor talked about how most of the people in the program on average, would get the 3rd result. People with the third result have the qualities that would make a good CAS worker. Which made me think to myself:
Am I really designed to work in this career path?
I’d like to also mention that part of the program was also working in schools and getting more experience working with children. The personality quiz incident happened in my second year of college, but during my first year, I chose to delay working in schools. At first, I said it was because I needed money, so I delayed it to work full time at the college gym I was working at. But that wasn’t the main reason. The main reason I delayed getting hours working in school’s, was because I really did not want to. And I had no idea why at the time. So I simply ran away from the problem and said I was delaying it because I needed money.
I was running
Seeing as I would lose my comfy college job if I dropped out and my peers would down on me, a part of my brain tricked me into thinking this was the career path I wanted. I would talk about it all the time, my friends thought it was very noble, and I received a lot of positive reinforcement for going into that career path. The reason I must have received that deep dissatisfaction to begin working in the field must have been another part of my brain telling me this was not the path I wanted. There is a chance I was just afraid, and the work itself wouldn’t have been that bad. Regardless I’m glad I dropped out.
My Second “Ambitions”
I had some savings left over after paying a bit of college tuition, the grant certainly helped with that as well. I planned to find a nontraditional remote career path to go down, and with my extra time, I’d help my dad with his business. The first thing I tried was being a smash bro’s ultimate content creator. Over 2 weeks I’ve grown my TikTok to 3k followers while building on YouTube as well. I wasn’t making any money but the future was looking pretty good. Sadly, I got impatient. I wanted to make money right away so other people around me wouldn’t think I dropped out for no reason. I was posting 3 times a day with smash bro’s content, which dropped to zero. I even tried streaming for some time while just making content with the hope of getting a laugh. I tried this for a month.
I switched to doing affiliate marketing by making articles. Instead of picking something I wanted to do, I just decided to pick a popular topic. While I learned how to use WordPress and post consistently, my content was now soulless. At least with the smash bro’s content I was enjoying myself. I created articles about fitness, pretty much just refurbished knowledge. Then I did articles on making money online (which outside of the Facebook marketplace I wasn’t making money online). I wanted to make money while being self-employed soooo bad to the point where I wasn’t even doing what I liked anymore. I wasted money on software and didn’t succeed. I did this for 2 months.
My Third Ambition
At this point, I denounced video games believing they were the reason I wasn’t successful already.
“If I didn’t spend so many years playing video games but instead started a business I’d be where I wanted to be right now”
In the span of 4 months I’ve been working hard for free and I didn’t have a ton to show for it, but I didn’t lose hope, although looking at the bank account getting lower and lower because of various software, I felt it was time for a career change at the time. After some time of meeting people I liked and disliked online, I eventually found a group of like-minded people who also wanted to get money online. One of those friends showed us something he found online, which was called wholesale real estate. Here’s a description for those who care.
Real estate wholesalers are middlemen who bring together homeowners of distressed houses and investors who want a below-market real estate deal that they can make a profit on. Wholesale real estate offers beginners the opportunity to start investing in real estate. It usually involves little or zero capital investment. The process goes, contact a home or land owner, offer to buy their property for X amount, get the deal on a contract, find an investor, give them the contract, and have a title company regulate the whole process.
Every day, I was cold-calling 100–400 numbers of homes and landowners almost every day. I used to flex how many numbers I called, but I understand that’s not a flex anymore. Especially considering that I only got 3 deals over 5 months. I was calling at terrible times, always going to voicemail, and always getting screamed at. And those 3 deals I got? They all fell through and I got no money. With months of making no money, still paying random expenses for software, having an LLC, etc. I was now in debt. That entrepreneurial lifestyle wasn’t looking very attainable at the moment
Intermission
For some reason, I was dead set on becoming an entrepreneur. My goal didn’t even start off that way, at first, I just wanted to work at home. I did some odd jobs to help with the debt a little, but it was still present. I REFUSED to give up on myself by getting a regular job. The idea sounded way too uncomfortable, which is funny because I supposedly ditched comfort by leaving my old career path. Looks like I just ended up finding a new comfort, one that didn’t even pay. Guilt consumed me. In my head, I’ve let my parents down, all of my friends for refusing to hang out with them until I succeeded, and myself. I was filled with so much guilt because I wasn’t able to provide for my family. At the time I was 20 by the way, no immediate need to provide but I believed I should have been doing so. My number one most felt emotion was guilt
My Fourth Ambition
At this point, I began looking at the facts. I’ve gathered various experiences doing different types of work, I became more disciplined and I have a clear idea of what I do not want to do. I decided to try one more business and if I failed this time or realized it would take too long to get money, then I would start applying for online sales jobs. The industry was SAAS. My service was social media marketing. I learned what I needed to learn, I got Go High Level, I took a free course and I got to work. After cold calling and doing my first presentation, I realized I needed to prioritize getting money now, so I cashed in and started working for the mentor who taught me SAAS, which also resulted in me shutting down my SAAS business. I was now an appointment setter. I did SAAS for 3 months.
The Present
While working at this remote sales job, I realized this was closer to what I wanted. I was being paid to work at home. The pay wasn’t great, but there were many other sales jobs I could monkey branch to, and the company I was working at wanted to promote me to a closer. However, I refused, and that’s because I just got accepted to sell life insurance at a Fortune 500 company. My body was telling me to pick the comfortable option, which would have been to accept the promotion. In the end, I chose to work for the insurance company.
There were a lot of hiccups. Studying for my license, taking the test, training for the job, and waiting for my license to arrive has taken 6 months and I’m still waiting before I can get greenlit to start selling. What a ride
While I was waiting for my license to arrive, I chose to spend my time writing. Not about popular topics, not with the only incentive of making money or proving myself to anyone around me. I write because I enjoy it. If I make something out of it, fantastic. If I don’t, that’s not terrible either. Writing helps me cope while also feeling like I am improving on a skill.
What I Learned
I learned there are no cheat codes in life. What do I mean by that? I mean, I can’t just easily achieve all of my goals through the decision of picking a specific career path. Every industry has struggles I need to overcome. I am going to have to do the work no matter what. Knowing this fact, I’m better off just picking a field that has high returns if you choose to stay in the fight. Many other micro topics were learned as well. Most of that knowledge and perspective will be topics I write about. I am young, and I know I have a LOT to learn. Don’t peg me as the arrogant type. Regardless, I’ll still talk about the limited experience I do have and if this is what opens a conversation with someone who know’s more than me, then I consider that a win.
The Future
Based on many of the career paths I’ve tried, the one I believed I liked the most was content creation. Where I went wrong, was when I decided to make and write content about topics I didn’t really care about. I want to influence, I want to work on multiple projects/video ideas, and I want to give it all of my energy. That’s a future that sounds interesting. May change.
My Plan
My plan is to keep this life insurance job, build some capital, pay off my parent’s debts, and help a couple of friends out while perfecting the craft of writing and content creation in my spare time. Eventually, I hope to cash out and go all in for content creation. This plan combined with my desire to learn, sounds like an excellent combo to me. Not sure when, but if I stay in the fight this can be my future.
Congratulations on making it to the end! I’m excited to bring you on this journey.
