Hello fellow fast laners,
My name is Tyler, and I am fairly new here on the forums. Although, I have been lurking around a couple months now, this is my first post.
First things first. I was born, raised, and currently living in Arizona, USA, and am 24 years old. I have a bunch of hobbies, and activities I enjoy doing. The ones off the top of my head are automobile maintaining/mechanics, computer building, basic coding/programming, and video gaming. I pretty much have grown up doing a lot of DIY type stuff. Lately I have been focusing a lot of time on trying to make some decent side cash fixing friends and family's vehicles, and trying to find ways to make my monetized youtube account profitable for another stream of income, all the above with no success. I have not traveled much outside of South Western US, but am certain that one day it will change.
As for what I am doing here on the forums. I have been raised with what I guess is called the "slow lane" mentality. Go to school, graduate with a degree, get a job, etc. To be honest, I was fine with this up until about my 2nd year at the university/college level. I went into the university thinking I knew exactly what I wanted to do, my major being Computer Science with an emphasis in programming. After 2 years, whether the major not being what I expected, or that the methods of teaching being sup par, I got extremely burnt out on school. I floated around basically wasting time and money for the next year in school.
Next, I joined the ROTC program at my university thinking that the US military was going to be my ticket out. Although I had a great experience and learned a lot, this was not the case. At this point in time, I am coming up on $15k of school loan debt, and see no future for me in school. I see no purpose of it for me, and I am constantly hearing stories of people getting a degree, struggling to get a career afterwards, and if they do, it's in a field completely different from their major focus.
With school debt quickly racking up, and my motivation to do anything dropping rapidly, I basically float around for another semester of school. Although I have low motivation at this point, I decide that I am already more than halfway through, and figure that I might as well just make it worthwhile to complete requirements for a degree. I change majors to what happens to be one of the quicker programs at my university for me to complete, Criminal Justice.
Fast forward about a year and a half until now, and I am coming up on my final 3 units required for the program degree. I still have little interest in the majority of my schooling, and have over $20k in school debt. I have stumbled upon this forum in attempts to find things to re-motivate me in life. I have a lot (maybe not to others, but at least it is to me) of school debt coming up, and I don't want to be stuck the good majority of my life living paycheck to paycheck trying to stay alive.
I don't have to be among the richest people in the world, that isn't necessarily my personality or goal, but I would definitely like to be able to have finances be among the least of my worries. Honestly, I don't know if this is, or rather, if I am fast lane material. I think this because I am still learning about the whole fast lane mentality thing, but I do like a lot of what I am reading here on the forums.
I have a problem, and I am looking to overcome it. I got stuck in this rut of not knowing what to do, and am looking for advice to try and get out. I think I naturally just started surrounding myself around other people with the same mentality, and I am starting to realize that I have become complacent because of it. I hate this feeling so much. I don't want to live my life like this anymore, but I can't seem to get up and do something about it. I don't know where to start, and having almost no motivation isn't helping.
Looking around on the forums here, it seems like others have experienced similar situations, and have been able to regain lost ground. I think to my self if I register on the forums and start engaging my self with other like minded individuals, I will eventually regain my traction and be on my way.
Summary:
I thought I knew what I wanted, but it turned out for the worse. I am now stuck in my ways with a bunch of bad habits, and unfortunately surrounded with people that happen to be content with their current situations. I am at the point of realizing this is not what I want, but it's really hard getting somewhere when you look to the people around you for support, and they have little to provide. Coming here to the forums I believe to be my official first step forward, and I am hoping by doing this, I can gain some valuable information, insight, and/or new "friends" to help me get myself out of the current situation I got into so that I can continue moving forward.
Anyways, thank you for taking the time to read any or all of my post. Any information, advice, or friendly conversation is appreciated.
Cheers!
-Tyler
My name is Tyler, and I am fairly new here on the forums. Although, I have been lurking around a couple months now, this is my first post.
First things first. I was born, raised, and currently living in Arizona, USA, and am 24 years old. I have a bunch of hobbies, and activities I enjoy doing. The ones off the top of my head are automobile maintaining/mechanics, computer building, basic coding/programming, and video gaming. I pretty much have grown up doing a lot of DIY type stuff. Lately I have been focusing a lot of time on trying to make some decent side cash fixing friends and family's vehicles, and trying to find ways to make my monetized youtube account profitable for another stream of income, all the above with no success. I have not traveled much outside of South Western US, but am certain that one day it will change.
As for what I am doing here on the forums. I have been raised with what I guess is called the "slow lane" mentality. Go to school, graduate with a degree, get a job, etc. To be honest, I was fine with this up until about my 2nd year at the university/college level. I went into the university thinking I knew exactly what I wanted to do, my major being Computer Science with an emphasis in programming. After 2 years, whether the major not being what I expected, or that the methods of teaching being sup par, I got extremely burnt out on school. I floated around basically wasting time and money for the next year in school.
Next, I joined the ROTC program at my university thinking that the US military was going to be my ticket out. Although I had a great experience and learned a lot, this was not the case. At this point in time, I am coming up on $15k of school loan debt, and see no future for me in school. I see no purpose of it for me, and I am constantly hearing stories of people getting a degree, struggling to get a career afterwards, and if they do, it's in a field completely different from their major focus.
With school debt quickly racking up, and my motivation to do anything dropping rapidly, I basically float around for another semester of school. Although I have low motivation at this point, I decide that I am already more than halfway through, and figure that I might as well just make it worthwhile to complete requirements for a degree. I change majors to what happens to be one of the quicker programs at my university for me to complete, Criminal Justice.
Fast forward about a year and a half until now, and I am coming up on my final 3 units required for the program degree. I still have little interest in the majority of my schooling, and have over $20k in school debt. I have stumbled upon this forum in attempts to find things to re-motivate me in life. I have a lot (maybe not to others, but at least it is to me) of school debt coming up, and I don't want to be stuck the good majority of my life living paycheck to paycheck trying to stay alive.
I don't have to be among the richest people in the world, that isn't necessarily my personality or goal, but I would definitely like to be able to have finances be among the least of my worries. Honestly, I don't know if this is, or rather, if I am fast lane material. I think this because I am still learning about the whole fast lane mentality thing, but I do like a lot of what I am reading here on the forums.
I have a problem, and I am looking to overcome it. I got stuck in this rut of not knowing what to do, and am looking for advice to try and get out. I think I naturally just started surrounding myself around other people with the same mentality, and I am starting to realize that I have become complacent because of it. I hate this feeling so much. I don't want to live my life like this anymore, but I can't seem to get up and do something about it. I don't know where to start, and having almost no motivation isn't helping.
Looking around on the forums here, it seems like others have experienced similar situations, and have been able to regain lost ground. I think to my self if I register on the forums and start engaging my self with other like minded individuals, I will eventually regain my traction and be on my way.
Summary:
I thought I knew what I wanted, but it turned out for the worse. I am now stuck in my ways with a bunch of bad habits, and unfortunately surrounded with people that happen to be content with their current situations. I am at the point of realizing this is not what I want, but it's really hard getting somewhere when you look to the people around you for support, and they have little to provide. Coming here to the forums I believe to be my official first step forward, and I am hoping by doing this, I can gain some valuable information, insight, and/or new "friends" to help me get myself out of the current situation I got into so that I can continue moving forward.
Anyways, thank you for taking the time to read any or all of my post. Any information, advice, or friendly conversation is appreciated.
Cheers!
-Tyler
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