Kaiwentsolo
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Hello all,
I've been meaning to write one of these after lurking on here for a few days. So here goes...
Before I start though, I'd like to say I am a sixteen year-old African-American who is a sophomore in high school. I'm still working on the narcissistic nature that I adopted when I was younger from the relatives I was around. But in the past 2 years I've been becoming more and more open to construtctive criticism.
It's taken me a while to realize what was waiting for me after putting eighty-percent into school. Honestly I miss the days before I went to middle school. After reading a quite a few books since last fall. (Including Unscripted which is why and how I arrived here). I realized how much my dreams and overall pureness was squashed by the adults, or peers in my life. I remember watching the Iron Man movies and seeing Robert Downey Jr. as Tony Stark as a genius, who did inherit the business from his father. But it was the nonchalance and comedic attitude in most instances that got to me. I wanted to live without much worry about things because I knew I had control. (I was around seven or eight mind you).
(My family has 5 people with masters, some with more than one. All have worked in the public education system, some still do at the age of 45+. The amount of complaints I've heard at dinners is unfathomable, and confused my younger self why they couldn't just stop working there).
Quite a few years pass with me not knowing exactly what I want to do. Meanwhile my mom was pushing me towards the path of going to college to become an engineer. Which I did consider it something I would be interested in. Then I looked at the options for work around where I live and the reviews of work hours just seemed terrible for the salary.
I think around then is when I had my FTE, after working hard in school to get into the private schools that had high tuition costs even with scholarships. I realized that I needed to change things fast, not just so I could regain that dream my younger self envisioned. But also so I could repay my mother who invested more than I could ask for into a path that I realized wasn't my own.
It took me about a year of drifting around, but I finally found a circle of kids in the public high school I attend now. Who have already been preparing for future financial freedom as well as success since eighth grade. (Yes I convinced my mother to not pay $5,000 a school year just for me not to go get a degree that won't help me. Then work for someone else the rest of my life stuck in one country).
Since I started hanging out with that group back in November, they've helped me setup some agencies and other businesses. I adopted the mindset that money buys time, and that I shouldn't sacrifice my life's time entirely on chasing money. The past year I've been focusing on living and learning, Friday nights are the same as Monday's. Less time stressing about the test on Thursday. Dropping the whole, "Twenty-twenty-something is going to be the year I really lock in", mentality. I instead starting on that August instead of waiting four whole months to become better. Life has been so much more enjoyable since then. I have a good feeling that if I keep my focus. While building the blocks for these businesses, learning from people like MJ, and spreading the Unscripted word. That by the time I graduate I'll be able live in control, and by the time I'm the age my parents finished college. I'll have paid them back for everything they've given me, and living comfortably.
With that,
I hope that I can learn from you all while on my journey to becoming fully Unscripted .
Kai
I've been meaning to write one of these after lurking on here for a few days. So here goes...
Before I start though, I'd like to say I am a sixteen year-old African-American who is a sophomore in high school. I'm still working on the narcissistic nature that I adopted when I was younger from the relatives I was around. But in the past 2 years I've been becoming more and more open to construtctive criticism.
It's taken me a while to realize what was waiting for me after putting eighty-percent into school. Honestly I miss the days before I went to middle school. After reading a quite a few books since last fall. (Including Unscripted which is why and how I arrived here). I realized how much my dreams and overall pureness was squashed by the adults, or peers in my life. I remember watching the Iron Man movies and seeing Robert Downey Jr. as Tony Stark as a genius, who did inherit the business from his father. But it was the nonchalance and comedic attitude in most instances that got to me. I wanted to live without much worry about things because I knew I had control. (I was around seven or eight mind you).
(My family has 5 people with masters, some with more than one. All have worked in the public education system, some still do at the age of 45+. The amount of complaints I've heard at dinners is unfathomable, and confused my younger self why they couldn't just stop working there).
Quite a few years pass with me not knowing exactly what I want to do. Meanwhile my mom was pushing me towards the path of going to college to become an engineer. Which I did consider it something I would be interested in. Then I looked at the options for work around where I live and the reviews of work hours just seemed terrible for the salary.
I think around then is when I had my FTE, after working hard in school to get into the private schools that had high tuition costs even with scholarships. I realized that I needed to change things fast, not just so I could regain that dream my younger self envisioned. But also so I could repay my mother who invested more than I could ask for into a path that I realized wasn't my own.
It took me about a year of drifting around, but I finally found a circle of kids in the public high school I attend now. Who have already been preparing for future financial freedom as well as success since eighth grade. (Yes I convinced my mother to not pay $5,000 a school year just for me not to go get a degree that won't help me. Then work for someone else the rest of my life stuck in one country).
Since I started hanging out with that group back in November, they've helped me setup some agencies and other businesses. I adopted the mindset that money buys time, and that I shouldn't sacrifice my life's time entirely on chasing money. The past year I've been focusing on living and learning, Friday nights are the same as Monday's. Less time stressing about the test on Thursday. Dropping the whole, "Twenty-twenty-something is going to be the year I really lock in", mentality. I instead starting on that August instead of waiting four whole months to become better. Life has been so much more enjoyable since then. I have a good feeling that if I keep my focus. While building the blocks for these businesses, learning from people like MJ, and spreading the Unscripted word. That by the time I graduate I'll be able live in control, and by the time I'm the age my parents finished college. I'll have paid them back for everything they've given me, and living comfortably.
With that,
I hope that I can learn from you all while on my journey to becoming fully Unscripted .
Kai
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