I was listening to that Whitesnake song and I was wondering about my life's direction. It got me to think a lot about what has happened in life so far and how I am going to progress, from my current Sidewalker position to my goal in the Fastlane.
So my intro is gonna go here, because I have a couple questions.
I'm The J. I'm 18 years old living in NYC. I'm at one of the best business schools in the US (you could probably guess what that school is if I'm in NYC, so no need to say it
). I'm from Delaware originally.
My parents are immigrants who are in the Slowlane. They worked very hard to get to where they are: they lost their accents and went to college, eventually landing 5 figure salaries in middle management. To a lot of people, they are successful.
We lost very little in the housing crash. We had never had an intention to move and we were able to cover our mortgage cost (15 year) with a lot extra. My parents are hardcore savers. They always talked about 401k plans and how important they were. However, my mom quit her job to take care of my little siblings and my dad became the sole breadwinner. From there, I realized a lot of things. First off, the perceived lack of money really scared my parents. We never went out to eat and I was never allowed out of the house. Since Delaware is impossible to navigate without a car and gas is not cheap, I was never allowed to take the car. Not only that, but I did not end up getting a job; I had been rejected for a variety of reasons including my age.
Somehow I ended up here in NYC this year at a very good school. However, at $53,000 with minimal financial aid ($12.5k from the school, $11,000 from my dad's GI bill for his service during 9/11 and $6,000 for housing) we have to take out the remainder in loans. Surprisingly, my parents actually didn't mind when I crept into their finances, so I happen to know that they cannot afford to pay off the loans anytime soon. This coupled with many other reasons (I don't really like NYC that much. Too grimy and expensive) has led me to decide to leave school after next semester. I'm taking on the burden of my student loan remainder for the year.
I did not initially want to share my story as I assumed that some of you would scoff at it or something, but I feel like it needs to be said, since entrepreneurship will be, basically, the rest of my life.
My dream is to become an angel investor and to spearhead projects that I believe will be revolutionary, and I feel that the only way to do that will be to build my own system and learn from that what creates a lucrative system, so I can invest the money I make from whatever lucrative system I build into other lucrative (or non-profit) systems. My interest is in information systems.
Right now I need some ideas to get some slowlane money. I was thinking about doing tutoring for high school students, such as math/writing help and college admissions help. Does anyone have any experience with tutoring? If so, does it bring in a good amount of money? If not, what kinds of ways did you guys make slowlane money while you built your fastlane system? Thanks a lot.
So my intro is gonna go here, because I have a couple questions.
I'm The J. I'm 18 years old living in NYC. I'm at one of the best business schools in the US (you could probably guess what that school is if I'm in NYC, so no need to say it
). I'm from Delaware originally.My parents are immigrants who are in the Slowlane. They worked very hard to get to where they are: they lost their accents and went to college, eventually landing 5 figure salaries in middle management. To a lot of people, they are successful.
We lost very little in the housing crash. We had never had an intention to move and we were able to cover our mortgage cost (15 year) with a lot extra. My parents are hardcore savers. They always talked about 401k plans and how important they were. However, my mom quit her job to take care of my little siblings and my dad became the sole breadwinner. From there, I realized a lot of things. First off, the perceived lack of money really scared my parents. We never went out to eat and I was never allowed out of the house. Since Delaware is impossible to navigate without a car and gas is not cheap, I was never allowed to take the car. Not only that, but I did not end up getting a job; I had been rejected for a variety of reasons including my age.
Somehow I ended up here in NYC this year at a very good school. However, at $53,000 with minimal financial aid ($12.5k from the school, $11,000 from my dad's GI bill for his service during 9/11 and $6,000 for housing) we have to take out the remainder in loans. Surprisingly, my parents actually didn't mind when I crept into their finances, so I happen to know that they cannot afford to pay off the loans anytime soon. This coupled with many other reasons (I don't really like NYC that much. Too grimy and expensive) has led me to decide to leave school after next semester. I'm taking on the burden of my student loan remainder for the year.
I did not initially want to share my story as I assumed that some of you would scoff at it or something, but I feel like it needs to be said, since entrepreneurship will be, basically, the rest of my life.
My dream is to become an angel investor and to spearhead projects that I believe will be revolutionary, and I feel that the only way to do that will be to build my own system and learn from that what creates a lucrative system, so I can invest the money I make from whatever lucrative system I build into other lucrative (or non-profit) systems. My interest is in information systems.
Right now I need some ideas to get some slowlane money. I was thinking about doing tutoring for high school students, such as math/writing help and college admissions help. Does anyone have any experience with tutoring? If so, does it bring in a good amount of money? If not, what kinds of ways did you guys make slowlane money while you built your fastlane system? Thanks a lot.
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