So, I decided to be selfish and just talk about myself for this first post:
I'm 20 years old currently, and for the past year up until the last month or so, I've been a wantrepreneur. NOT proud of it, but that's the truth. I had some dollars saved up, but I've gone through most of it by now, even trying to be frugal.
I recently had to start (or rather made the choice) to start looking for slowlane jobs. I know, I know, we at fastlane forum tend to believe that we should not have a 9-5 and focus solely on our business, and live way below our means until we hit our eventually pay-day.
DO NOT GET ME WRONG. I HAVEN'T ABANDONED MY FASTLANE FOCUS! But the truth is, I'm pretty much broke at the moment, and I've made very little money from my business. And until I get a job, pretty much all my time will be my business.
The last time I was completely broke was when someone really close to me attempted suicide. I spent a lot of time with this person after, and I wanted to take care of her, but I could barely do anything for her because of my financial situation. However, some how I managed, maybe just because of iron willpower.
I made two promises to myself: 1) I would never let this happen to anyone ever again (my aunt, whom I was really close with committed suicide four months earlier), and that I would never ever be that broke again. And right away, I got my tax return and started putting my business together. But I had absolutely had no idea WHAT to actually do, so I ended up wasting a lot of time and making no money. My savings continued to deplete until I started taking jobs writing for people and made some extra money. But as I had made no progress with my business, things were looking hopeless.
Then, my uncle (I'm really tight with him and he's like one of my best friends) told me that he's interested in programming and he's been learning python. I was interested too, because I've always been a techy, but I had never seriously done programming before. I pretty much mastered python in about two days, and my uncle and I made a program designed for a pizza restaurant right after. After this I had a brand new idea for an internet business, and seeing as my uncle lives about a thousand miles away from me, it's pretty much left all up to me, except with occasional help from him when he visits.
Fast forward to today. I recently broke up with my S.O., and even though it was mutual, there's still a lot of feelings between us, and that makes it even harder to cope. Apparently the reason for the break-up was because I'm an a**hole (I'm known to be arrogant, cocky, and a little bit vain), but I sometimes feel like I'm a little bit behind in my life, and that's one of the reasons she wanted to break up. For example, I don't have a car (yet), I don't have my own place, and I don't have a steady source of income. Also, many of the people she knows are in university right now, and I'm not; or they have jobs and can go out to concerts, clubs, and boat rides (even though sometimes I see that as people working slowlane jobs and just blowing all their money every weekend). I see posts of her on facebook doing tons of stuff that looks fun, and I feel like crap that I can't really make any of that happen right now. I'm not a loser, my ambitions are to be a tech billionaire, as crazy and vast as that sounds, and I'm ACTUALLY WORKING TOWARDS IT, and I have a detailed and methodical plan to make it happen. People have suggested that the reason she wanted to break up was because I don't have a job and wasn't going anywhere in my life. I know that the idea of me not going anywhere in my life is so far from the truth it shouldn't even be acknowledged. But I can't help but think, maybe that's what she thinks..
So, I'm getting a job now to get a car, my own place, etc. and I'm going to be working on my business whenever I can. But I'm tired of feeling so behind everyone else and being stuck where I am, so I'm gonna at least do some things to make myself feel better now. But I know for AN ABSOLUTE FACT that I will AT LEAST be a fastlane millionaire before I turn 25. That is my pledge and oath.
I actually had tears in my eyes as I wrote this.
I'm 20 years old currently, and for the past year up until the last month or so, I've been a wantrepreneur. NOT proud of it, but that's the truth. I had some dollars saved up, but I've gone through most of it by now, even trying to be frugal.
I recently had to start (or rather made the choice) to start looking for slowlane jobs. I know, I know, we at fastlane forum tend to believe that we should not have a 9-5 and focus solely on our business, and live way below our means until we hit our eventually pay-day.
DO NOT GET ME WRONG. I HAVEN'T ABANDONED MY FASTLANE FOCUS! But the truth is, I'm pretty much broke at the moment, and I've made very little money from my business. And until I get a job, pretty much all my time will be my business.
The last time I was completely broke was when someone really close to me attempted suicide. I spent a lot of time with this person after, and I wanted to take care of her, but I could barely do anything for her because of my financial situation. However, some how I managed, maybe just because of iron willpower.
I made two promises to myself: 1) I would never let this happen to anyone ever again (my aunt, whom I was really close with committed suicide four months earlier), and that I would never ever be that broke again. And right away, I got my tax return and started putting my business together. But I had absolutely had no idea WHAT to actually do, so I ended up wasting a lot of time and making no money. My savings continued to deplete until I started taking jobs writing for people and made some extra money. But as I had made no progress with my business, things were looking hopeless.
Then, my uncle (I'm really tight with him and he's like one of my best friends) told me that he's interested in programming and he's been learning python. I was interested too, because I've always been a techy, but I had never seriously done programming before. I pretty much mastered python in about two days, and my uncle and I made a program designed for a pizza restaurant right after. After this I had a brand new idea for an internet business, and seeing as my uncle lives about a thousand miles away from me, it's pretty much left all up to me, except with occasional help from him when he visits.
Fast forward to today. I recently broke up with my S.O., and even though it was mutual, there's still a lot of feelings between us, and that makes it even harder to cope. Apparently the reason for the break-up was because I'm an a**hole (I'm known to be arrogant, cocky, and a little bit vain), but I sometimes feel like I'm a little bit behind in my life, and that's one of the reasons she wanted to break up. For example, I don't have a car (yet), I don't have my own place, and I don't have a steady source of income. Also, many of the people she knows are in university right now, and I'm not; or they have jobs and can go out to concerts, clubs, and boat rides (even though sometimes I see that as people working slowlane jobs and just blowing all their money every weekend). I see posts of her on facebook doing tons of stuff that looks fun, and I feel like crap that I can't really make any of that happen right now. I'm not a loser, my ambitions are to be a tech billionaire, as crazy and vast as that sounds, and I'm ACTUALLY WORKING TOWARDS IT, and I have a detailed and methodical plan to make it happen. People have suggested that the reason she wanted to break up was because I don't have a job and wasn't going anywhere in my life. I know that the idea of me not going anywhere in my life is so far from the truth it shouldn't even be acknowledged. But I can't help but think, maybe that's what she thinks..
So, I'm getting a job now to get a car, my own place, etc. and I'm going to be working on my business whenever I can. But I'm tired of feeling so behind everyone else and being stuck where I am, so I'm gonna at least do some things to make myself feel better now. But I know for AN ABSOLUTE FACT that I will AT LEAST be a fastlane millionaire before I turn 25. That is my pledge and oath.
I actually had tears in my eyes as I wrote this.
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