Hello from Ireland.
Just a quick introduction, im currently a Project Manager working on IT projects in Ireland and Europe, doing ok but realizing there’s more to life….. I’ve always had entrepreneurial tendencies, especially in my younger years, but that seemed to get sucked out of me by slowlane jobs and general lack of motivation over the years.
I didn’t know it at the time, but as a kid I was always looking at opportunities to make money but more importantly taking action!! At xmas one year I bought a few bags of fire logs from a man going door-to-door and instead of burning them I drilled a hole in the middle, stuck a candle in, stuck some holly on and sprayed some white xmas foam on them and hay presto, yule logs. I made about 50 Yule logs from the logs and sold them all door-to-door for £1.50 each, my profit was £65 or so, not bad for a weekends work as an 11 year old.
Another time I saw a need was in my teens, we didn’t have any discos in our small town, so I hired a coach and charged all the local teens £5 return to goto the disco in the next town, the coach cost me £50 and I filled it with 35 people every Saturday night making over £120 each night. This continued until the coach company saw the how well I was doing and stopped hiring the bus to me and just ran it themselves.
I have also done stints making false Ids for classmates, buying cheap cars and flipping without doing any work, just advertising better, etc...
But now, after reading the MFL, other business books and this forum I have decided it’s time to get back to my fearless youth and just take action like I did back then. The daily grind has been good to me over the past 15 years and enabled me to be comfortable enough financially, but I have just seen the light again and my mind I going mental, like a horse chomping at the bit…. Excited!
Just a quick introduction, im currently a Project Manager working on IT projects in Ireland and Europe, doing ok but realizing there’s more to life….. I’ve always had entrepreneurial tendencies, especially in my younger years, but that seemed to get sucked out of me by slowlane jobs and general lack of motivation over the years.
I didn’t know it at the time, but as a kid I was always looking at opportunities to make money but more importantly taking action!! At xmas one year I bought a few bags of fire logs from a man going door-to-door and instead of burning them I drilled a hole in the middle, stuck a candle in, stuck some holly on and sprayed some white xmas foam on them and hay presto, yule logs. I made about 50 Yule logs from the logs and sold them all door-to-door for £1.50 each, my profit was £65 or so, not bad for a weekends work as an 11 year old.
Another time I saw a need was in my teens, we didn’t have any discos in our small town, so I hired a coach and charged all the local teens £5 return to goto the disco in the next town, the coach cost me £50 and I filled it with 35 people every Saturday night making over £120 each night. This continued until the coach company saw the how well I was doing and stopped hiring the bus to me and just ran it themselves.
I have also done stints making false Ids for classmates, buying cheap cars and flipping without doing any work, just advertising better, etc...
But now, after reading the MFL, other business books and this forum I have decided it’s time to get back to my fearless youth and just take action like I did back then. The daily grind has been good to me over the past 15 years and enabled me to be comfortable enough financially, but I have just seen the light again and my mind I going mental, like a horse chomping at the bit…. Excited!
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