Hey Silvertooth!
I know you're going through a tough moment, but I'm here to give some (non-financial) advice. You're of course, free to disregard what I have to say...
If you've been in crypto for seven years, you've learned a lot. You're intellectually ahead of the game, gains or not, because the entire financial system of our world is changing before our eyes. In regards to PulseChain...it's 19 days old, and if we were to do a 1000x out of the gate, we would also likely drop like a pump-and-dump shitcoin. Everything needs to grow organically in there, and that takes time. Also, virtually nothing is error-proof. This recent PulseX LP error was a drag, but it's certainly not going to break the system. I still know people who have issues unwrapping because they have no Pulse in their wallets. We had hardcore bridge congestion issues. This is a brand new ecosystem. Considering everything that happened, everything still looks bullish to me. We have devs working hard on every issue, T-shares are still paying out heavily and with parity on both sides of the chain, and there are MEV arb-bots all over the entire PulseChain network trying to get the best piece of ratio pie, regarless of price. This is the embryo phase of the system: Look at numbers and ratios now, not the price. Believe it or not, the initial shakeout is a good thing for the longevity and intelligence of the PulseChain.
I've heard a lot of people in my life tell me that their goal was to be rich. I want to let you know that "being rich" is, and should be, the middleman to a more concrete goal. A lot of people who I know who have "made it" in crypto, and by made it I mean done a $1,000x or more on a substantial initial amount, have the ultimate goal of trickling passive income. These bag-pumping opportunities come in three forms usually: mining/sacrificing, mastery of bots/arbitrage, or the massive ability to not touch a single token in 5 years or more though dips of up to 90%. You *need* to not be too emotional about it. If you are, you stand a way higher chance of that money trickling out of your hands even if you did 1000x it in the first three months. Also, people who ape in tons of money at once tend to, in my experience, also do it with other peoples' money. That, or it's an addiction akin to gambling. Those are the degen ways, and most lose everything that way even if they are developers themselves.
You might be mad at me for saying this, but my advice is to stop telling your family what to expect financially from something that is not a guarantee. Please stop considering yourself a failure if you haven't made a ton of money after seven years. The lucky people in crypto tend to make it secretly, possibly set others up for small passive income, keep their emotions low and don't beat themselves up over the dips. In fact, dips are where they tend to accumulate. You should value yourself for your mind and how much you've learned, on the way to your goal. You are not a failure unless you deem yourself one. As it is, you're a part of the emerging defi movement. That alone is worth being proud of.
You may be at a crossroads where you are indeed fed up, and will walk away form it all after a 10x. Actually, that isn't such a bad scenario. I still consider a 10x a great financial win. If you are really gunning to do more than that, I'd give up hard expectations and start messing with a small portion of your money...going slowly up every day. Invest in things with slow yield instead of apeing in with an entire bag. It may take you another 10 years to finally get to a spot where you have enough passive income to have a decent retirement for yourself, and that's okay. However, Silvertooth, you cannot make your goals when everything is falling apart around you. That Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs requires you to take good care of yourself and your surroundings before it will let you make it big. If you don't love yourself for who you *are* as a man, before what you *have* as a man, your mind will find a way to fuck you out of any money you've made. This may actually be why you're feeling so anxious at the very start of this launch, whether you realize it or not.
No matter what you decide, I hope that you always look on the bright side of yourself no matter what others say. You should have pride in what you've learned already, because in that regard you are a part of a very special minority of humans. Good luck with everything!