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Hello everyone.
I am 19 years old, male and living in the UK.
I have finished 6th Form about 3 months ago ('High School' if you're an American.)
At first, I wanted to be an EDM/Hip Hop producer/DJ when I was 14-17. I was certain of everything, 'knew everything', and skillwise, was actually good enough to make it.
Anyway the passion died off and simmered down, my mind became uncertain and the frustration with my family's financial situation built itself up over the course of my life.
I am from a slowlane/sidewalk family, surrounded by slowlaners and sidewalkers who embody Einstein's definition of insanity. I am not satisfied with where my life is going. I do not like working 9-5 jobs. Whether they're cash till positions or management positions. Same shit, but higher up the intestine. Numbers like '£60 000 a year' never interested me, I've never truly felt honestly satisfied by the figure £1 000 000 if I'm honest with you. I never liked the idea of having no time to live life and do things I enjoy. I used to beat myself up over all those perceptions because I was taught to believe that this was life, and I was just lazy.
I have taken a gap year and I have a place reserved at university for a business with (HRM, MARKETING, OPS - I can choose when I get there.) I have taken a job at a phone shop, it's a sales driven environment. A few weeks into the job, I already dislike it. I don't like having do deal with a**hole customers, I don't like my boss pressuring me for sales despite doing my best and grilling me over menial shit. I don't like having to ask for days off. I don't like being too tired to do anything when I get home. I know I cannot spend my life like this. I do not want to trade my life for a weekend to drink cider and pretend my dissatisfying life is not there.
I have just read the book and I am motivated and feel reinforced that someone who has actually 'done it' is now telling me how to do it. Not the proverbial 'broke uncle'.
I haven't yet developed an idea or plan, I have absolutely no knowledge of running a business, business law, the markets, the processes involved, I don't even understand a lot of basic terms. I know absolutely nothing that has much value. Yet.
I am here because I want education, advice and to hold myself accountable to myself by making ridiculous claims publicly and forcing myself to live up to them. I want to create a 'four-hour workweek' type of life, but not living out of a backpack in a shitty hut in Thailand. I know that this journey, when undertaken, will be harder and more grueling than anything I have experienced before.
I am prepared for that, because at least at the end of the 'fastlane tunnel' there's a light. There's no light at the end of the 'slowlane/sidewalk tunnel.' There is only arthritis, self-loathing and meaninglessness.
This post has a very negative tone, do not mistake me for a negative person. I am simply dissatisfied with where my life is going because I KNOW that there is more out there, and I want it, and am aware that if I keep walking the road the masses are walking, I will live like the masses are living.
I count on your support and advice, because all I have to offer to you guys right now, is questions.
I am 19 years old, male and living in the UK.
I have finished 6th Form about 3 months ago ('High School' if you're an American.)
At first, I wanted to be an EDM/Hip Hop producer/DJ when I was 14-17. I was certain of everything, 'knew everything', and skillwise, was actually good enough to make it.
Anyway the passion died off and simmered down, my mind became uncertain and the frustration with my family's financial situation built itself up over the course of my life.
I am from a slowlane/sidewalk family, surrounded by slowlaners and sidewalkers who embody Einstein's definition of insanity. I am not satisfied with where my life is going. I do not like working 9-5 jobs. Whether they're cash till positions or management positions. Same shit, but higher up the intestine. Numbers like '£60 000 a year' never interested me, I've never truly felt honestly satisfied by the figure £1 000 000 if I'm honest with you. I never liked the idea of having no time to live life and do things I enjoy. I used to beat myself up over all those perceptions because I was taught to believe that this was life, and I was just lazy.
I have taken a gap year and I have a place reserved at university for a business with (HRM, MARKETING, OPS - I can choose when I get there.) I have taken a job at a phone shop, it's a sales driven environment. A few weeks into the job, I already dislike it. I don't like having do deal with a**hole customers, I don't like my boss pressuring me for sales despite doing my best and grilling me over menial shit. I don't like having to ask for days off. I don't like being too tired to do anything when I get home. I know I cannot spend my life like this. I do not want to trade my life for a weekend to drink cider and pretend my dissatisfying life is not there.
I have just read the book and I am motivated and feel reinforced that someone who has actually 'done it' is now telling me how to do it. Not the proverbial 'broke uncle'.
I haven't yet developed an idea or plan, I have absolutely no knowledge of running a business, business law, the markets, the processes involved, I don't even understand a lot of basic terms. I know absolutely nothing that has much value. Yet.
I am here because I want education, advice and to hold myself accountable to myself by making ridiculous claims publicly and forcing myself to live up to them. I want to create a 'four-hour workweek' type of life, but not living out of a backpack in a shitty hut in Thailand. I know that this journey, when undertaken, will be harder and more grueling than anything I have experienced before.
I am prepared for that, because at least at the end of the 'fastlane tunnel' there's a light. There's no light at the end of the 'slowlane/sidewalk tunnel.' There is only arthritis, self-loathing and meaninglessness.
This post has a very negative tone, do not mistake me for a negative person. I am simply dissatisfied with where my life is going because I KNOW that there is more out there, and I want it, and am aware that if I keep walking the road the masses are walking, I will live like the masses are living.
I count on your support and advice, because all I have to offer to you guys right now, is questions.
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