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No room for me in the economy, frustrated. Only experts respond please?

Greetings please I would like to have somebody with a degree in economy at least to answer my question. Iam not looking specifically for advice on what to do with my time and money Iam looking at answers on the economical factors that are affecting the opportunities I have into starting a new bussiness. A professional view on my testimony of things. Iam 25 years old. I quit my job a year ago and I have a good sum of money saved and I have been looking into finding opportunities to start growing a bussiness. I have been doing some market research basically I do investigations of companies in a particular industry and ask myself who is buying and who is selling and what prices are being neogitated for a particular product/service to calculate what it woudl take me to get in that particular market and the profit margin... any type of product or service for the same country and for export (to international clients)... be it raw materials, computer products imports to sell in my country.. etc. IN VERY GENERAL TERMS I ASK MYSELF: Why is it that in general I feel that markets every time offer so little margin for profit in doing bussiness. I have this feeling (i also get that from my parents that have their own bussiness) that now even after the international crisis...... one has to sell a lot of product to be able to sustain a reasonable profit. In other words I feel that starting a business now a days involves a full time thing where one has to work very hard to achieve profit... even If I have money to invest and grow... I feel that the bigger companies are the one that have more room to grow and even then you hear from time to time they arent doing great either. The typical example. Walmart in my country decided they want to sell more and knock of the rest of the local chains... they already have low prices and they decided to drop the prices on 5000 products for the whole country... their strategy negotiate lower prices with their providers.. I mean... I dont think anybody is winning except for walmart... and they pay NET45.. thats just insane. If I plan to introduce or import products of some nature into my country.. its not like before where you would import from the US and sell here.. unless iam selling millions of dollars per year then yes.. it is profitable.. but to start hell no. Then you think.. ok well if I import the stuff directly from china.. but then you have to buy from them very large quantities, the risk is to high.. the transit time is to high.. I have been thinking of exporting raw materials that my country produces and is currently exporting a lot... but then I found out that in the 3 cases I have studied... the international prices for buying them are so close to my cost... that either I would have to 1 produce that raw material entirely on my own to have acceptable profit or do creative stuff... or export a lot of containers per month to be able to have something arround $10k - $20k profit.. which to me is just silly.. sooo much work and risk. THis same feeling is what I get in general.. what needs to happen for this to change? I dont remember it was like this 5-6 years ago.. I think there was more opportunity... more room for creativity and actually transforming ideas into companies... I consider myself to be very intelligent and Iam starting to simply give up and return to college study more (perhaps 2 more careers) and just get a job at a company. I have this feeling that before if you started a bussiness you had enough margin to delegate to people... and perhaps even subcontract or outsource parts of your operations.. and then slowly you would start doing it all on your own....now it seems that if you want to start a company you need to have a few hundred thousand dollar contract, or buy your products directly from the manufacturer in china..... etc.. no middleman on anything anymore. Whats going on with the economy.. what technical factors are in play, and what technical factors needs to happen for this to change? My MSN contact is jprollerskate attt live.com if any friend out there whiches to expand in a chat.

Public Comments

1. Do you keep up to date with global economics? gold and silver is going very high on the index. house prices,the euro and US dollar are weakening.......wait for greece,portugal and america to default.if not there will be serious inflation and a depression. to answer your question, this isnt a good time to be starting a business unless you can afford to buy assests from failing countries or precious metals. you dont want to be importing containers of items you cant sell once the markets crash 9i hope im wrong but theres a chance it will happen this year) Ron paul,Gerald celente and Nigel farage- look these up. getting a degree doesnt guarantee a job it guarantees massive competition, so unless your likely to get a 1st dont waste your money. do some spread betting on the stocks and shares - food and oil, the only things people cant live without. The biggest private employer in the uk is tesco and they cant meet targets so what chance does anyone else have?