Career shift at 41

[Nikos A]

Hello to everybody! I am Nikos Avramopoulos from Greece. I am 41 years old, married for 12 years and i have a 11 years old son. My story started like this: I always remember my self not knowing what i wanted to do in life. I remembered myself after graduating school to give exams so i can be a university member but i couldnt imagine myself to study for about 5 years for something i didnt know if i will finally like it. After finishing my military time ( here in Greece this is obligatory) i was confused because i still didnt know which path i would follow. The ONE thing i knew since then was that FREEDOM was for me something i wanted desperately in my life but i didnt really realised the concept of FREEDOM. I was young and frustrated. Then my father made me a proposal. I could speak to the Chancellor in order to find you a job in the University ( My father was the personal driver of the Chancellor which means that he was a civil servant with a steady salary, 4 weeks of vacation every year and some days off every month) my father said to me. Think about it and tell me ASAP. The next day i replied to him that a steady salary wasnt intrigued me at all so i refused. My father couldn understand me at all. Then i had a proposal from my mother. My mother is a HIGH passionate hairdresser. Do you want to try to work as a hairdresser she asked me. I thought i could give it a try because the money she earned was much more than a steady civil servant salary. So i started in 2005. First i worked with my mother for about a year and then i decided to work in a high priced, high value hair salon. I started from the scratch because my knowledges was poor for such level. After 2,5 years of long hours hard work every week with a salary about half of the minimum wage the CEO of the hair salon ( the owner had 5 salons in Athens at that time) i begun to have my own clients and my salary went to the minimum wage. I was frustrated to survive as a guppie among the sharks ( my co workers).
After 1 year the owner decided to transfer me to another salon. There i met my future wife. She was one of the top hair artist in the company and a trainer. She was very ambityous and that was one of the reasons i fell in love with her. After 2 weeks of dating she told me to move and live with her in her apartment. After 6 months of living together she was pregnant. I was not only frustrated but totally lost. I just now started my career i was thinking and my salary is just the minimum wage. So we started to struggle financialy. After about 4 years of struggle my wife was near depression. One day she came home and told me that a friend proposed her to join ( MLM). Of course at that time i didnt know anything about that. My wife totally loved the concept and the company and at first she had a lot of success. But suddenly as you know in MLM you can loose everything when everyone in your team give up. She was desperate and she told me that she is going to quit. I tried to explain her that this is normal when you are new at something. Then i decided to begin to read some books about MLM ( Generally i wasnt a reader at all in my whole life). I confess that i started to read Rich dad poor dad ( Kiyosaki) a book that a friend recommended to me. And then suddenly i realised how blind i was ( a rat in a rat race). Then i started to read more and more books but still something was missing. When i married in 2009 i was about 8kg heavier from the time i met my wife ( i was 70kg with 4 times a week in the gym as a single). After one year of our marriage i was 86kg and of course no gym at all ( long hours in work, bad food, stress and a boy to take care of). Then suddenly at the age of 59 my dad died from a heart attack in front of the whole family. One day as i returned home full of stress and tired i sat on the couch exhausted. Could you please at least serve yourelf the food because i am exhausted too my wife told me. Suddenly i realised that i couldnt stay in this situation anymore ( My F*ck THIS event about Health). I decided to lose weight once and for all. I remembered some things as a heavy lifter i was in the gym and i started with them. Of course after 6 months of trying i lost a lot muscle mass and very little fat. I was very dissapointed. Then one day my wife told me that a new client visit the hair salon that day. The client was a middle aged man and a very good friend of the owner. She told me that as they discussed for different thing she asked him what he was doing for a living. I am a DIet Consultant he replied. Oh great my husband is struggling to lose body fat she replied. Tell him dont worry i will bring you next time i vist the salon a book for your husband to read. That ONE book totally changed my life by all means. I found so much scientific info inside and as i read the first 150 pages of it i knew from the science point of view why my father died, why i was fat and i saw our family health future at risk. I immediately did whatever the writer suggest. In 6 months i found myself full of wellness and almost indefatigable. As the years passed we were more and more financially stressed. We had to work extra hours with some personal clients out of the hair salon for extra money but our child was growing and we spend much less time with him. As my friends and family saw me everyday full of energy ( despite the long hours of work even on Sundays) they asked me what i was doing. Year by year i started to examine that they put their health at risk not just because of their poor food choices ( a good diet can help someone untill a certain point) but because they were not aware of what they were doing ( the didnt have the right scientific info of what the body demands in order to control their health). So i decided to see that as an opportunity. I worked for long hours to save money in order to study Homoeopathy because i didnt have a college degree in nutrition. But as an Homoeopathy i can give legally diet intructions to my clients. By the time i write this i still work in my house as a Freelancer hairdresser and as a Freelancer Homoeopathy without the proper legal rights. You see i lost my passion for hair long time ago. Right now i feel that i am empty for hair creativity. I have a pure love of serving people in the Health Industry. I want to make the shift. I want to start a business but the barriers are there. How to start a Health business even though the services i offer are unique but much more expensive here in Greece ? I am not a doctor and i am not a college degree Nutrition expert so for the Greeks i am not an authority figure in order to fully trust me. But every year me and my family sacrifice vacations, dinner out, clothes, shoes in order to save money to invest to my new carrer. Finally i wanted to ask the forum for advice to something it bothers me for the last 4 days and dont know how to handle it. As i was reading the Unscripted ( still havent finished it and i havent read the Fastlane) Mr MJ mention about how a satisfied customer can bring others and how powerfull this is. So let me explain: Last November a woman client of mine ( i paint her hair ) wanted my Health services in order to lose fat. I explained her the whole concept and what we need to do in order to reach our goal. After 6 months of being in my program ( she has 2 auto-immune diseases and she was overweight not obese with Visceral fat and poor Metabolism) i requested from her some routine blood tests( only the blood can tell you if you are healthy not the scale) and we did a very specified blood test which i take blood sample and send it in Milan Italy. In 6 months her markers was in the ideal ranges ( the ideal ranges for blood markers for me are totally different from the Medical established SYSTEM. I was excited and happy. She could send a bunch of new clients i thought. My first client that followed totally my suggestions, she paid for everything i asked, she totally understood the difference in her health between these 6 months, and before and 4 days ago she sent me a phone message and between the lines i read : something terrible happened to my country house. My supplements finished but for financial reason i believe i cant go on. That was a slap in my face. I know that this common in the world of Entrepreneurship but i totally didnt expect it. What is your suggestion i could tell her. Suggest her that it alright to quit or authentically try to convince her not to trade her health with a damaged house which one day may she couldnt live in it because her bad health? Of course i am not thinking of quitting at all because this is my true nature this is what i am.

 

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