How do I identify which work to do? How do I find and identify the opportunities? I feel like all profit has been competed away, or the jobs are corrupted by large companies and the government.
There is no once and for all solution for anything. Here’s the secret: the whole universe is falling apart and the only thing keeping anything together is someone/something paying for it.
You don’t need the whole pie. You might survive from the crumbs of a thousand pies.
You could read P.T. Barnum’s “The Art of Money Getting” and “The Richest Man in Babylon” to give you some insight into the classics. None of this will help your desperate sense of immediacy.