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WARNING: This is not a short post, however, you guys are responsible for it and I want to put this out there for anyone lurking here and in frustration. This is my rant, my story and my decision to man up to the Fastlane.
Let's start at the beginning and move forward to today. Before MJ, before I started lurking here and before I decided to grow a pair and take the steps I needed to to be a man and drive myself to where I want to be.
One year ago I decided enough was enough and left my dream job, yes really it was my dream job. Nothing made me happier and gave me greater sense of meaning. A chain of events led me to that decision and in many ways it was that very chain that became a precursor to my mindset of today and to the mindset that led me to the Fastlane logic and re-education. You see I was working in a country and region where the salaries were infamously the lowest in Europe and although I had work coming in the money was either next to nothing or really nothing once I took a flight home and came back for a week.
I learnt many things during that job though, I became tough and learnt to love the grind. However, I was satisfied with very little (in terms of cash). At subzero temperatures my housemates and I would joke about if we would eat or drink the last few days of the month, we could not to both adequately.
A breakup with my then partner of six years after I found out she had cheated on me meant it was time to take a break since I could not focus on my career. I took a few weeks off and spent time alone on the road, couch surfing and making my dollars last. That was an expensive lesson; a lesson in economics (or lack thereof), getting back into meeting women for the first time in six years and also where I was and where I really wanted to be going. Yes, going out and, having a drink and re-learning how to attract beautiful women was crucial to rebuilding my confidence and mindset.
Skip forward to the end of the trip I finished the two contracts I had as a freelancer at my old career and made a promise to myself to get things in order. I had two highly successful performances at those very two contracts; already my mindset was changing the way I see things. I moved back home and spent some time rethinking how to pay off my minimal debt. I had the skills and knowledge to work in Asia as an English teacher; a bad job at best but I took a few interviews anyway. To pay the flight over to China I worked in a sandwich shop for less than 400 dollars a month, this was the lowest of the low for me. I was not phased because I knew where I was going. I negotiated a job with MINIMAL hours, it was no more than 15 hours a week and paid just under 2500 dollars a month. I started the job teaching English and my first goal was to streamline is as much as possible so as to give myself a minimal workload and maximum time to invest in myself. In addition to this I had 3 months vacation per year.
I started to use every waking minute of non work time to invest in myself. This forum led me to The Fastlane Millionaire, which I devoured twice. Once reading through it and the second time taking notes. I immediately began reading and studying copy and started selling myself to much higher paying private gigs, close to 100 dollars an hour. This was not true fastlane as I was still selling time but it was indeed a Fastlane skill of SELLING that I began to hone more and more. All the way up to landing university jobs for a NYSE listed company and made over 8k in the two months off.
In addition I started grafting seriously to learn Mandarin and got back under the barbell for the first time in years. Now I am finishing my first niche ebook, getting ready to get my level 2 HSK Mandarin certification and breaking new records (in the gym and in my bank account). I paid off all my debt, negotiated a much higher paying job for my second contact and have set the bar high. By the end of 2016 I will for the first time make at least 60k from my day job. My goal is to supplement it with a modest 15k from true Fastlane methods such as the book and selling knowledge instead of time. Keyword selling. Now I am not rich by any means, but I live well below my means and my time is valuable. So valuable that I prefer to invest it in myself rather than the corporate ladder logic of invest in "my" company.
Am I where I want to be? No, but I am a hell of a lot closer than I was a year ago making 400 dollars a month and miserable. I have taken the red pill which was administered to me by the members of this very forum, by MJ DeMarco and by the bitterness of my former self.
Gentlemen, I salute you! 2016 will be my last salaryman year and 2017 will be my first fully Fastlane year.
PS: about jobs in China: DO NOT SETTLE for the measly jobs foreigners start out with. I've seen many a jobless university grad make that year count and go back home to buy a house and start a business but the majority WASTE IT. Fastlaners from ANY English speaking country and with ANY college/university diploma can PM me for legit, free advice based on my knowledge and experience if you are serious. Pay your debts, learn Chinese and make those high paying privates instead of working for cents on the dollar. That's for slowlaners.
Let's start at the beginning and move forward to today. Before MJ, before I started lurking here and before I decided to grow a pair and take the steps I needed to to be a man and drive myself to where I want to be.
One year ago I decided enough was enough and left my dream job, yes really it was my dream job. Nothing made me happier and gave me greater sense of meaning. A chain of events led me to that decision and in many ways it was that very chain that became a precursor to my mindset of today and to the mindset that led me to the Fastlane logic and re-education. You see I was working in a country and region where the salaries were infamously the lowest in Europe and although I had work coming in the money was either next to nothing or really nothing once I took a flight home and came back for a week.
I learnt many things during that job though, I became tough and learnt to love the grind. However, I was satisfied with very little (in terms of cash). At subzero temperatures my housemates and I would joke about if we would eat or drink the last few days of the month, we could not to both adequately.
A breakup with my then partner of six years after I found out she had cheated on me meant it was time to take a break since I could not focus on my career. I took a few weeks off and spent time alone on the road, couch surfing and making my dollars last. That was an expensive lesson; a lesson in economics (or lack thereof), getting back into meeting women for the first time in six years and also where I was and where I really wanted to be going. Yes, going out and, having a drink and re-learning how to attract beautiful women was crucial to rebuilding my confidence and mindset.
Skip forward to the end of the trip I finished the two contracts I had as a freelancer at my old career and made a promise to myself to get things in order. I had two highly successful performances at those very two contracts; already my mindset was changing the way I see things. I moved back home and spent some time rethinking how to pay off my minimal debt. I had the skills and knowledge to work in Asia as an English teacher; a bad job at best but I took a few interviews anyway. To pay the flight over to China I worked in a sandwich shop for less than 400 dollars a month, this was the lowest of the low for me. I was not phased because I knew where I was going. I negotiated a job with MINIMAL hours, it was no more than 15 hours a week and paid just under 2500 dollars a month. I started the job teaching English and my first goal was to streamline is as much as possible so as to give myself a minimal workload and maximum time to invest in myself. In addition to this I had 3 months vacation per year.
I started to use every waking minute of non work time to invest in myself. This forum led me to The Fastlane Millionaire, which I devoured twice. Once reading through it and the second time taking notes. I immediately began reading and studying copy and started selling myself to much higher paying private gigs, close to 100 dollars an hour. This was not true fastlane as I was still selling time but it was indeed a Fastlane skill of SELLING that I began to hone more and more. All the way up to landing university jobs for a NYSE listed company and made over 8k in the two months off.
In addition I started grafting seriously to learn Mandarin and got back under the barbell for the first time in years. Now I am finishing my first niche ebook, getting ready to get my level 2 HSK Mandarin certification and breaking new records (in the gym and in my bank account). I paid off all my debt, negotiated a much higher paying job for my second contact and have set the bar high. By the end of 2016 I will for the first time make at least 60k from my day job. My goal is to supplement it with a modest 15k from true Fastlane methods such as the book and selling knowledge instead of time. Keyword selling. Now I am not rich by any means, but I live well below my means and my time is valuable. So valuable that I prefer to invest it in myself rather than the corporate ladder logic of invest in "my" company.
Am I where I want to be? No, but I am a hell of a lot closer than I was a year ago making 400 dollars a month and miserable. I have taken the red pill which was administered to me by the members of this very forum, by MJ DeMarco and by the bitterness of my former self.
Gentlemen, I salute you! 2016 will be my last salaryman year and 2017 will be my first fully Fastlane year.
PS: about jobs in China: DO NOT SETTLE for the measly jobs foreigners start out with. I've seen many a jobless university grad make that year count and go back home to buy a house and start a business but the majority WASTE IT. Fastlaners from ANY English speaking country and with ANY college/university diploma can PM me for legit, free advice based on my knowledge and experience if you are serious. Pay your debts, learn Chinese and make those high paying privates instead of working for cents on the dollar. That's for slowlaners.
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