Hello!

[JohnnyBravo]

Hello. I'm 21, from Norway. How did I get here? I got good grades at school, I was going med school in august 2012. When I got the acceptance letter I felt all proud and mighty and already successful, my parents were very fond of it, I took the shitty feelgood from having their approval, med school yay! I went to med school, didn't really "feel it" - no motivation, no passion, just dull being force fed knowledge along with my fellow students, but I stuck around.

Christmas 2012 I found out about SEO. I really, really asked myself if I wanted to become a doctor. I hadn't really thought it through, but I enjoyed getting the cheering from family & parents for becoming a doctor. It was a feelgood, but in the long term not really a good one. On the SEO, I watched a tutorial and got up a site, really shitty one. It was action nevertheless, got me one clickbank sale weirdly enough. It didn't take long before I got trapped in the info overload mode. I read and read, I have tons of theory and crap about various internet marketing techniques. I got to force myself to take some action, did some 7search PPC direct linking campaigns, but never got to pull the trigger and actually fully "really" start. I read TMF for the first time in may, blew my mind, it really did.

Late may 2013 I decided to lay off the internet marketing and just forget about it, flush it all out and clear my headspace. I travelled some around with my family, it was like a normal vacation back when I was attending the gymnasium. Felt good, to just relax, I felt really free. I also re-listened to TMF while out of the IM info-overload haze, things were way clearer this time. During all this I also applied for college, a bachelor's in well, one could say Computer Science I'd suppose, it's math and programming. So yesterday I knew that today, I had to go college, I had to get up early in the morning and go. That feeling pissed me off. I want the feeling of not having to wake up attend some crap, I want to work for myself. As for the "Why?" for my fastlane endeavours I'm mainly concerned about the freedom itself, a few material things yeah, but nothing substantial. I want to be able to travel and live anywhere I want to. I want to be able to afford awesome nutrition, fresh berries and sushi and stuff. Housing and all that, I'm not even sure. I'm so young. I just want the freedom and this is the time for it. I've been quite indifferent about stuff too; not so much excited, nor pissed off about things. Now I realize I must let myself get pissed off about the idea of actually having to get up early in the morning, to settle for mediocrity and have it kill all my wildest dreams. What I realized now is that to make it I have to let go of the damn slowlane "safe" "plan B". My parents, especially mom wanted me to keep med school as a plan b, so I got it "postponed". There is only one way, and that is to drop the plan B, at least for me. I feel empowered having dropped it, I really do, now there is only one goal, and many ways, I just have to keep trying untill I find a way that works. Haven't told parents about this, I'm just gonna be the good son and attend college and get profitable in IM untill I make enough money to quit. And well, learning programming and mathematics may prove itself damn useful later in my carreer, that was the initial thought.

I've read about SEO, PPC, PPV and facebook advertising. So I'm gonna start my journey with media buying RTB, first stop: SiteScout. I used to think further, and defeat myself. Like if I had this marketing idea I thought ahead and stumbled upon a "oh, so I have to do that, naaah, I don't wanna", "Oh, shit, I can't do that on google, nah..". My goal now is clear (almost, might need some narrowing down): freedom, and I'll do whatever it takes to get that freedom. I have student loans, and I live at home without paying the rent. Quite comfortable, the slight "discomfort" of even attending college and having to work on that stuff is probably nothing but good for me. What others spend on binge drinking, food & shelter, I'll invest in myself.

So summed up: technically I'm in debt, only about 7.5k dollars, and I have student loans dripping into my account for up to 3 years. I have about 10-12k dollars for a budget, I'll be profitable before it's all gone.

I'll make a progress thread somewhere, just gotta find the right sub-forum. This is so awesome, now that I see things differently. I feel passionate and willing to do anything. Haven't started the college work yet, but I'll see how it goes. They say invest at least 40 hours a week, I hope I can manage with investing less, but still working at it frequently.

 

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