You could take the 7K/month route. But should you?

There’s a version of your life where you settle.

You take the salary. 7,000 a month. Safe. Predictable. You show up, do what’s expected, maybe freelance on the side if you’ve got the energy. And honestly — it works. You pay rent. Go out on weekends. It’s not a bad life.

But deep down, you know it’s not your life.

Because you’re sitting on more potential than that. More creativity. More edge. More hunger. And the longer you stay comfortable, the softer it makes you. The more it kills the part of you that wants to be dangerous. To take risks. To build something that compounds.

Comfort pays now. But leverage pays forever.

And right now — when everything is shifting under our feet, when AI is rewriting the rules — You don’t win by playing it safe. You win by building something that the machines can’t replicate: Taste. Presence. IP. Brand. A character so real people follow it.

So yeah, you could stay where you are. Keep collecting the stable checks. Keep being useful — for someone else’s game.

Or you could start climbing your mountain.

It’ll feel slow. Lonely. Delusional, even.

But one day, the world catches up.

And when it does — they’ll call you lucky.

Because they won’t see the nights you chose to build, instead of sleep.

The months you bet on yourself, without applause.

The years you kept going, when everyone else took the shortcut.

This isn’t for everyone. But if you’re still reading this, you know it might be for you.

See you in the trenches,

—Kassimi