Hi all, thank you for allowing me to join this forum. I have been lurking for a little while but finally decided to join. I am quite bad at self introductions but here it goes...
I am 23 year old Brit with a short recent background in real estate investments (it's a small family business, so I admit I had a lot of help!) Two years ago I completed my Bachelors at university. The experience left me tired, stressed, socially anxious and (how I felt at the time and still do at times) a shell of my old self. I expected myself out of graduation and to quickly find myself a job in the field...
I never did. I didn't even try. I couldn't bring myself to do it.
For 6 months following my graduation I did nothing of value for myself to improve my direction in life (apart from working for the parents, but I had been doing that for years beforehand.) Come January I had enough pitying myself and did something I had wanted to do for years.
It felt good. I had finally produced something for myself for the first time in years that brought me joy for months from one impromptu action one late night. It was the beginning of a good year which ended with me acquiring my first real estate investment which was it's own experience. But...
Everyone always wants more.
I am no different. I wanted more. However, as a lot of the members here already knew and I came to realize on my own... Real-estate is slow by itself and my current job in the family business is the definition of "slow-lane." I have a problem.
Fast forwarding a bit, before I end up writing my own autobiography, somehow one late night I ended up browsing the old net and ended up here out of curiosity. I started reading everything here and it has touched me.
Already I want to say, Thank you to everyone who has posted in this forum.
In the past week I took actions on an idea that I thought I would never find myself doing and it has been a great confidence booster! Although I have yet to pick up the phone instead of relying on email (mild anxiety/fear)... It's been days and I've already found myself in the deep end! (Licensing contracts are scary, even the tiny ones...) But c'est la vie, if I don't experience I won't learn.
Currently, I am trying to contact manufacturers for my idea, level of success will tell me the validity of my plan while I continue in the old slow-lane in the meantime.
Thank you for reading this far. Did not expect to end up writing this much.
Lets hope I manage to learn something along the way.
And that's my intro post.
I am 23 year old Brit with a short recent background in real estate investments (it's a small family business, so I admit I had a lot of help!) Two years ago I completed my Bachelors at university. The experience left me tired, stressed, socially anxious and (how I felt at the time and still do at times) a shell of my old self. I expected myself out of graduation and to quickly find myself a job in the field...
I never did. I didn't even try. I couldn't bring myself to do it.
For 6 months following my graduation I did nothing of value for myself to improve my direction in life (apart from working for the parents, but I had been doing that for years beforehand.) Come January I had enough pitying myself and did something I had wanted to do for years.
It felt good. I had finally produced something for myself for the first time in years that brought me joy for months from one impromptu action one late night. It was the beginning of a good year which ended with me acquiring my first real estate investment which was it's own experience. But...
Everyone always wants more.
I am no different. I wanted more. However, as a lot of the members here already knew and I came to realize on my own... Real-estate is slow by itself and my current job in the family business is the definition of "slow-lane." I have a problem.
Fast forwarding a bit, before I end up writing my own autobiography, somehow one late night I ended up browsing the old net and ended up here out of curiosity. I started reading everything here and it has touched me.
Already I want to say, Thank you to everyone who has posted in this forum.
In the past week I took actions on an idea that I thought I would never find myself doing and it has been a great confidence booster! Although I have yet to pick up the phone instead of relying on email (mild anxiety/fear)... It's been days and I've already found myself in the deep end! (Licensing contracts are scary, even the tiny ones...) But c'est la vie, if I don't experience I won't learn.
Currently, I am trying to contact manufacturers for my idea, level of success will tell me the validity of my plan while I continue in the old slow-lane in the meantime.
Thank you for reading this far. Did not expect to end up writing this much.
Lets hope I manage to learn something along the way.And that's my intro post.
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