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Hello everyone,
Honestly, I did not think I would write here for these reasons, but life happened to me when I was actually making other plans.
I was born in Turkey. Not the animal one, but the country. My mom is a typical slowlaner, whereas my father had his own company, but lacked the vision to see that learning would catapult his business. Now he is in pension, getting less than the minimum wage in Turkey and dependent on his pension.
I always wanted to be an engineer. I had this affinity for two things: technical stuff and languages. I learnt to read at 3, skipped second class, I was a smart kid. And I was fed the idea of "get a degree, get a job, you would be fine".
About 16-17, when I got into college, I started to see through the society's bullshit. After bachelor's, I got into master's in Germany after getting a scholarship and it was followed by a PhD.
I started my PhD at 23. But there was a problem: I have made a collection of diplomas from the most prestigious universities, but the ladies' department was not doing anything. I was still a virgin.
Followed by being bullshit by a Polish girl I briefly dated, I was completely devastated about women. This was followed by 3 years of pickup artistry, funded by my job in the university as an assistant.
In those three years, I learnt a lot. I have seen through the complete bullshit of common wisdom. (Just like business, dating is a skill that you can REALLY improve, but that requires a completely new forum on its own.)
My experiments with girls led to a slow cleaning of bullshit ideas in my head and I have become more a realist than an idealist. I have discovered self-development and made myself a better person in the last five years (I am 28 now, and happily not a virgin anymore.
And way less concerned about my lay count and far more concerned about fulfillment in life.)
I have discovered that authenticity is the way of becoming a good person with healthy self-esteem. I have seen that I actually have no reason to live on someone else's terms, which were defined before me, but I can dictate my own agenda with consistency, work and a healthy athmosphere.
Slowly becoming an adult, in the last two years, I started to have some problems of freedom. I reached a level of authenticity in my free time, but what about my work life? Do I really want to earn this much money? Do I want to live in Germany? (The answer is a HELL NO.)
Freedom became much more important for me, and it still is.
In 2017, I graduated from my PhD and came across TML by a friend's suggestion. I thought it was just a catchy title, and I would leave the book after 50 pages. I was actually thrilled when I started it and I finished 400 pages in 3 days. (I usually make such in a month)
My plan for life changed suddenly. I realized that I did not have to take all those bullshit slowlane people anymore around me, who want to have their 3 kids and work until they die to afford a stupid house loan. I realized, I COULD DEFINE MYSELF.
In 2017, my plan was to get a job after my PhD. I thought it would be an easy stroll in the job market, because of my qualifications. I made my defense in April and looking for a job ever since.
I found one just a week ago, starting next month. It took 11 months to find a job. This has costed me my life savings, which was about 15k€. Not to mention the devastation of qualifying myself to someone else and the corporate a$$-lickery and the obligation to hang around with people you do not want to, for a mediocre salary.
People actually really think that 3k€ a month is a huge amount of money. I cannot really believe this.
At the beginning of 2017, I thought being an entrepreneur is a long-term goal. Now I think, it is a MUST. The mediocre wages, the inauthenticity in corporates and the uselessness of my degrees lead me to that decision. Not to mention the emerging AI and my job (structural design) probably becoming automated in ten years.
I still need to get a job because I want to apply a German passport and I have to stay in the country here for that. But I HAVE TO create an alternative source of income in the next two years, at least amounting to my salary.
I have made experiments in 2017. I made some interviews for potential business partners and really teamed up with a guy for an engineering software idea, but I quitted it because I did not like the feeling it gave me after two months. I also needed to focus on finding a day job, to sustain my subsistence needs and the reason I stated above.
Now I am looking for similar minded individuals online and around Frankfurt area.
This is why I am here.
Entrepreneurship is freedom.
I will continue my dayjob for my subsistence but I will invest at least 20 hours a week into my side hustle.
At first, my goal is to earn 10k€ until the end of this year from dropshipping several products. I want to get the ropes in e-commerce and I want to develop myself in import/export on a long-term basis because I do not want to live at a single place. I want to move from Germany, but earn my income in Euros, Francs or dollars.
I am right now reading some threads about dropshipping, and quite happy to see that some folks here are still making money with it.
May freedom be the end destination for all of us!
Honestly, I did not think I would write here for these reasons, but life happened to me when I was actually making other plans.
I was born in Turkey. Not the animal one, but the country. My mom is a typical slowlaner, whereas my father had his own company, but lacked the vision to see that learning would catapult his business. Now he is in pension, getting less than the minimum wage in Turkey and dependent on his pension.
I always wanted to be an engineer. I had this affinity for two things: technical stuff and languages. I learnt to read at 3, skipped second class, I was a smart kid. And I was fed the idea of "get a degree, get a job, you would be fine".
About 16-17, when I got into college, I started to see through the society's bullshit. After bachelor's, I got into master's in Germany after getting a scholarship and it was followed by a PhD.
I started my PhD at 23. But there was a problem: I have made a collection of diplomas from the most prestigious universities, but the ladies' department was not doing anything. I was still a virgin.
Followed by being bullshit by a Polish girl I briefly dated, I was completely devastated about women. This was followed by 3 years of pickup artistry, funded by my job in the university as an assistant.
In those three years, I learnt a lot. I have seen through the complete bullshit of common wisdom. (Just like business, dating is a skill that you can REALLY improve, but that requires a completely new forum on its own.)
My experiments with girls led to a slow cleaning of bullshit ideas in my head and I have become more a realist than an idealist. I have discovered self-development and made myself a better person in the last five years (I am 28 now, and happily not a virgin anymore.
And way less concerned about my lay count and far more concerned about fulfillment in life.) I have discovered that authenticity is the way of becoming a good person with healthy self-esteem. I have seen that I actually have no reason to live on someone else's terms, which were defined before me, but I can dictate my own agenda with consistency, work and a healthy athmosphere.
Slowly becoming an adult, in the last two years, I started to have some problems of freedom. I reached a level of authenticity in my free time, but what about my work life? Do I really want to earn this much money? Do I want to live in Germany? (The answer is a HELL NO.)
Freedom became much more important for me, and it still is.
In 2017, I graduated from my PhD and came across TML by a friend's suggestion. I thought it was just a catchy title, and I would leave the book after 50 pages. I was actually thrilled when I started it and I finished 400 pages in 3 days. (I usually make such in a month)
My plan for life changed suddenly. I realized that I did not have to take all those bullshit slowlane people anymore around me, who want to have their 3 kids and work until they die to afford a stupid house loan. I realized, I COULD DEFINE MYSELF.
In 2017, my plan was to get a job after my PhD. I thought it would be an easy stroll in the job market, because of my qualifications. I made my defense in April and looking for a job ever since.
I found one just a week ago, starting next month. It took 11 months to find a job. This has costed me my life savings, which was about 15k€. Not to mention the devastation of qualifying myself to someone else and the corporate a$$-lickery and the obligation to hang around with people you do not want to, for a mediocre salary.
People actually really think that 3k€ a month is a huge amount of money. I cannot really believe this.
At the beginning of 2017, I thought being an entrepreneur is a long-term goal. Now I think, it is a MUST. The mediocre wages, the inauthenticity in corporates and the uselessness of my degrees lead me to that decision. Not to mention the emerging AI and my job (structural design) probably becoming automated in ten years.
I still need to get a job because I want to apply a German passport and I have to stay in the country here for that. But I HAVE TO create an alternative source of income in the next two years, at least amounting to my salary.
I have made experiments in 2017. I made some interviews for potential business partners and really teamed up with a guy for an engineering software idea, but I quitted it because I did not like the feeling it gave me after two months. I also needed to focus on finding a day job, to sustain my subsistence needs and the reason I stated above.
Now I am looking for similar minded individuals online and around Frankfurt area.
This is why I am here.
Entrepreneurship is freedom.
I will continue my dayjob for my subsistence but I will invest at least 20 hours a week into my side hustle.
At first, my goal is to earn 10k€ until the end of this year from dropshipping several products. I want to get the ropes in e-commerce and I want to develop myself in import/export on a long-term basis because I do not want to live at a single place. I want to move from Germany, but earn my income in Euros, Francs or dollars.
I am right now reading some threads about dropshipping, and quite happy to see that some folks here are still making money with it.
May freedom be the end destination for all of us!
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