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Hey there guys, as you can see from the title, I actually am an 18 year old from Chicago, Illinois that just happens to be homeless, and I'm fighting everyday to get myself out of this situation. I am not some peon online falsifying information. I have been on other forums, so I guess I'll just copy and paste my short intro from the original forum.....(which just happens to be a an IM forum full of rehashed garbage that's over saturated and doesn't work) I also have read MJ's Fastlane book from start to finish, and I was inspired to come here.
Taken from the forum.......
Hey fellow BHW members, I've been thinking about signing up here for a few months, but today I finally decided to take the big step and join. For those of you who didn't read the title, yes I am a HOMELESS 18 Year Old living in Chicago, IL.(I also can provide proof for those who think I'm lying.) Also, I never finished high school, and have very little work experience, meaning it's virtually impossible for me to find work ATM, meaning that I must stay on the path on IM, which I have been off and on for several years. I am typing this on my laptop at the local library. Seeing as I have no family to lean on (even my Mother is homeless, but has 11,000+ in Stock from her job and refuses to use it to help get her and myself a place to live
, due to her own fears/failures, etc).
Long story short, I'm staying at a shelter, trying to make a way for myself on the internet. 99% of my journey has been failure after failure (not making any money, no money to find a mentor) but I'm not gonna give up. The program I am currently working with requires no actual start up capital, and I just need the traffic techniques and marketing to keep in touch with referrals that haven't gone all the way yet, and I'll be there. In fact, I am just 0.60 short of getting enough money to have a bus card to travel to a local Card Shop and sell my Magic: The Gathering cards I don't have time to play anymore due to my circumstances. I have had multiple episodes of homelessness throughout my life, meaning I don't know that feeling of having an apartment/house with all the things others take or granted (TV, Cable, Furniture, Steady Meals each day, Entertainment, Being able to afford clothes as I need them), and the like.
I know the pain of having to sleep in the streets; for example, the last shelter my mother and I were at we were discriminated against by the staff, (of the same color as us), and got kicked unto the streets. I know the pain of having to sleep on the trains, traveling back and forth as the CTA(Chicago Transit Authority) workers wake us up, just to board the train going the other direction.....but anyway, enough on this, anyone who's interested to know more can PM me.
Just wanted to give you all a small rundown of where I'm coming from....I will end with a quote I remember from Fight Club..... "It's only after we've lost everything, that we're free to do anything" - Tyler Durden....
So long story short, a fellow member of the forum, sent me the TMF via email, and I decided that I had to go Fastlane, or have my youth(I'll be 19 in March) leave me forever. I have no idea of how I'm gonna make it out of the Shelter, (Pacific Garden Mission for those of you familiar with Chicago), but I know that with enough hard work, and determination, I have a shot at making it, there's that chance I can be filthy rich by the time I'm 21, maybe, just maybe the riches I've seen people like celebrities, Bill Gates, Robert Herjavec, and others experience, perhaps I'll have that lifestyle as well........
MJ, you are much inspiration for me, as I am from Chicago as well!
Taken from the forum.......
Hey fellow BHW members, I've been thinking about signing up here for a few months, but today I finally decided to take the big step and join. For those of you who didn't read the title, yes I am a HOMELESS 18 Year Old living in Chicago, IL.(I also can provide proof for those who think I'm lying.) Also, I never finished high school, and have very little work experience, meaning it's virtually impossible for me to find work ATM, meaning that I must stay on the path on IM, which I have been off and on for several years. I am typing this on my laptop at the local library. Seeing as I have no family to lean on (even my Mother is homeless, but has 11,000+ in Stock from her job and refuses to use it to help get her and myself a place to live
Long story short, I'm staying at a shelter, trying to make a way for myself on the internet. 99% of my journey has been failure after failure (not making any money, no money to find a mentor) but I'm not gonna give up. The program I am currently working with requires no actual start up capital, and I just need the traffic techniques and marketing to keep in touch with referrals that haven't gone all the way yet, and I'll be there. In fact, I am just 0.60 short of getting enough money to have a bus card to travel to a local Card Shop and sell my Magic: The Gathering cards I don't have time to play anymore due to my circumstances. I have had multiple episodes of homelessness throughout my life, meaning I don't know that feeling of having an apartment/house with all the things others take or granted (TV, Cable, Furniture, Steady Meals each day, Entertainment, Being able to afford clothes as I need them), and the like.
I know the pain of having to sleep in the streets; for example, the last shelter my mother and I were at we were discriminated against by the staff, (of the same color as us), and got kicked unto the streets. I know the pain of having to sleep on the trains, traveling back and forth as the CTA(Chicago Transit Authority) workers wake us up, just to board the train going the other direction.....but anyway, enough on this, anyone who's interested to know more can PM me.
Just wanted to give you all a small rundown of where I'm coming from....I will end with a quote I remember from Fight Club..... "It's only after we've lost everything, that we're free to do anything" - Tyler Durden....
So long story short, a fellow member of the forum, sent me the TMF via email, and I decided that I had to go Fastlane, or have my youth(I'll be 19 in March) leave me forever. I have no idea of how I'm gonna make it out of the Shelter, (Pacific Garden Mission for those of you familiar with Chicago), but I know that with enough hard work, and determination, I have a shot at making it, there's that chance I can be filthy rich by the time I'm 21, maybe, just maybe the riches I've seen people like celebrities, Bill Gates, Robert Herjavec, and others experience, perhaps I'll have that lifestyle as well........
MJ, you are much inspiration for me, as I am from Chicago as well!
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