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Sounds like you haven`t figured out your passion yet.  What do you love doing, that you wouldn`t mind doing all day long even if you weren`t getting paid for it?  What do you REALLY want out of your business?  There`s a company called Innoventum.com that helps businesses get started.  I read in one of their articles:  "Some people open their own business to replace their current job, and to have the flexibility of working at home.  Other people go into business for themselves to create a company that operates with or without their presence.  Other people go into business for themselves because they are bored, or want to pursue their true passion.  Before you go into business for yourself, you should really think about what you want to accomplish and why you want to go into business for yourself anyway.  The reason this is helpful is because it helps you design a business that suits your personal goals."

Actually, this is a pretty familiar story. Someone`s looking for something, they get an inspiration, they work on it, then lose interest. The question becomes why are they losing interest? It`s not a problem of having an inspiration; it`s rather a problem of the "quality" of that inspiration.

In life, we become stressed, uncomfortable, and so we act in such a way that we "return to zero," or get back to being comfortable. Comfort isn`t the same as apathy. Happiness and joy, those also aren`t the same as being comfortable or content.

You sound like you have a problem-solving type of mind, where you enjoy the challenge and "game" of finding a problem, then working out the solutions. A key aspect is to see if it works. That`d be the part where you put into place the real parts in the real world that "should" solve the problem. But only to see if they`ll work *in principle.*

JTR is right that when you find a passion it`s different from only solving a problem. A passion isn`t keyed to your "interest" level, so to speak. Instead, you`re more like "driven" to continue. So is there anything so far in your life that you find you just can`t get away from---something you`ve done most of your life, still do, and in particular, that you find yourself doing when you`re bored, upset, depressed, or worried?

On a side note, all our emotions are biochemical in their implementation. They begin (usually) as mental processes, but to actuall feel them, we have to have various hormones and chemicals working in our system. That`s NOT to say that ALL emotions are only chemicals! It`s that we connect mental events with physical representation through biochemistry.

"Satisfaction," like contentment and so on, require certain types and balances of hormones. In some cases, if that biochemistry isn`t correctly working, that too can lead to a "never-satisfied" type of lifestyle. File the info away in your mind, but don`t assume it`s an issue until you`re maybe approaching 30. If by then you still can`t find something to engage you for years at a time, that would be where you *might* begin to explore some of the physical side. Not now, though.

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No! I`m saying that the most likely problem is that you`re trying to solve problems and having fun, but that`s not the same as figuring out how to implement your passion. The LEAST likely problem is a biochemical imbalance preventing you from feeling satisfied. However; if by around 30-35 you look back on your life and see you`ve never felt satisfied, that`s another avenue to explore.

Right now your "problem" isn`t how to set up a business. You can always work for yourself at any age---we`re getting started in our mid-50s. Instead, your problem is how to join your passion for cars, with some sort of long-term, enjoyable process.

It *may* turn out you use the Internet for this solution. But it may just as well turn out that the Internet isn`t the best way to go---or it plays only a support role in the actual business. A "business" can be a career, occupation, or an art form.

You`re right to start all this now, because 24 is an excellent age in terms of energy. You`ll be working a lot, and it`s better if you aren`t getting tired easily. :-) However; you do NOT have to actually put a business together right away.

Business planning, development, and process organization are key to a well-designed business. If you already know you want something to do with cars, then forget about "the Internet" part. Begin by asking yourself what you`d do if you have 3 wishes (from a magic lantern), that would involved cars. See?

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LOL! Hey...this is a meeting place for current entrepreneurs, and those wanting to get into the process. We`ve had all sorts of topics, including those about fear, panic, uncooperative families, paranoia, going broke, and finding one`s passion. Don`t worry about it...you`re not alone. That`s the important part, that there are a whole lot of people in very similar conditions to yours.

One of the most important parts of all this, taken from the book, "The eMyth," is that you don`t want to just create a job for yourself. Think of a business as a form of art---an expression of a creative idea. If you were a painter, musician, sculptor, choreographer, or playwright, what would you do with.....cars?

Sounds to me like you aught to be in the business of starting web based businesses.  Getting them up and running, and then selling them through a website to people looking to buy existing businesses.  Its people making a living at that you know.  Look into it.

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