Hello everyone,
let me introduce myself! My name is Alex I'm soon turning 34 and live in Austria.
After completing my law degree I did 7 months of judicial clerkship and then started working in international tax consulting (focus was in CIT for Germany, Benelux and a few other countries).
Besides work I am doing a tax management & tax law masters, which I plan to (finally) finish until the end of this uni semester. Working on the thesis daily, halfway done - fingers crossed I manage to finish sooner.
Over the past years I "tried" a few ideas on the side but never put in sufficient work to make something stick. Meanwhile I grew more and more resentful about my employment situation because I knew my services were sold for several hundred EUR an hour but I got only a little fraction of it - I felt stuck. Reading fastlane and the other books I decided I need other skills that would help me on my journey. Inspired by MJ I started to learn programming (mostly python) and began to automate my work in tax consulting.
In Summer 2023 I decided that I had to make a larger change away from the legal industry because I felt there was no perspective, no way out of the hamster wheel in the firm I was working in. Also the constraints at work (checklists, forms, management policies etc.) were burning me out. I also felt I was not learning enough with regards to the IT stuff because I was the only one at the firm actually trying to automate. However, for some weird emotional reason I have not quit completely and still work there 8h a week, which is most likely not particularly smart.
Luckily I found a position as a AI legal researcher (Europe has released a regulation on AI compliance) that allows me to work in the IT sector in a team of machine learning devs, which provides me with stable income and a lot more freedom. Two weeks ago my employer gave me written permission to start a side business (in Austria you can get fired if you don't have written consent depending on you contract - awesome, right?). I am going to register my business in IT-services next week (appointment already fixed) and figured I could use some advice - no better place to go than here, I figure
Happy to be here - I look forward to learning from you!
Best Alex
let me introduce myself! My name is Alex I'm soon turning 34 and live in Austria.
After completing my law degree I did 7 months of judicial clerkship and then started working in international tax consulting (focus was in CIT for Germany, Benelux and a few other countries).
Besides work I am doing a tax management & tax law masters, which I plan to (finally) finish until the end of this uni semester. Working on the thesis daily, halfway done - fingers crossed I manage to finish sooner.
Over the past years I "tried" a few ideas on the side but never put in sufficient work to make something stick. Meanwhile I grew more and more resentful about my employment situation because I knew my services were sold for several hundred EUR an hour but I got only a little fraction of it - I felt stuck. Reading fastlane and the other books I decided I need other skills that would help me on my journey. Inspired by MJ I started to learn programming (mostly python) and began to automate my work in tax consulting.
In Summer 2023 I decided that I had to make a larger change away from the legal industry because I felt there was no perspective, no way out of the hamster wheel in the firm I was working in. Also the constraints at work (checklists, forms, management policies etc.) were burning me out. I also felt I was not learning enough with regards to the IT stuff because I was the only one at the firm actually trying to automate. However, for some weird emotional reason I have not quit completely and still work there 8h a week, which is most likely not particularly smart.
Luckily I found a position as a AI legal researcher (Europe has released a regulation on AI compliance) that allows me to work in the IT sector in a team of machine learning devs, which provides me with stable income and a lot more freedom. Two weeks ago my employer gave me written permission to start a side business (in Austria you can get fired if you don't have written consent depending on you contract - awesome, right?). I am going to register my business in IT-services next week (appointment already fixed) and figured I could use some advice - no better place to go than here, I figure
Happy to be here - I look forward to learning from you!
Best Alex
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