I think freelancing is the best way for me to make money or initial capital (I'm living in Europe). I can make maybe 100-120k per year, which comes to maybe 60k after taxes. After living expenses, that's maybe 35k per year. Not a whole lot for investments.

I did get lucky this year with GME but it turns out that trading is not for me so I lost most of it. Now even crypto is too mature so there's not that much potential left (relatively speaking). Do I just need to continue grinding boring work for the next 10+ years to get back to previous highs or more, to finally stop doing "useless" work?