I have a slowlane job , my wife also, well paid. I am married and a father of a girl. Currently waiting for the second girl to be born(wife is 5 and a half months pregnant). At some point at the start of the first pregnancy i realised that nothing ends up in the terms of the financial situation i have right now and the one i will have when my girls will be grown up and going to college. I did the math and found out that with my salary and my wifes i will not have something to show for my kids. For example buy them a house or make some investments for them. I did the math a lot of times. Then it hit me. one of my friends was trying to get me in a mlm pyramid cosmetics company, and he suggested a book to read. I do not want to advertise but it is a book about dads.. So my mindset strarted changing. That was the very first baby step for me. Did not join the pyramid!
Started looking at everything i could get myself into. and then an article in the newspaper was talking about beekeeping. It said that it is the new trend in my country for people who want to live more intepentedly. Started looking at that.Bought books, read them, went online, read every single site about beekeeping, found a coworker that had bees, went with him for some months as a helphand. Learned a lot. Met the people from the local beekeeping club. Talked with A LOT of beekeepers about their job. Started to realise somethings:
1.- Lots of lies from people(maybe because they are affraid of competition)
2.- Not much of initial investment compared to other ag
3.- The cleanest job compared to other ag
4.- The easiest job in terms of time consumption compared to other ag.
Started making my business plan. Businnes plan was a five year estimation till i could hire someone to do want needed to be done from me and i would just go and manage things only for the selling and marketing of my product.
Contacted big wholesale buyers and big packagers before even having one hive.for information into making my plan.very helpful
Then i bought my first 2 beehives. Started taking care of them.People in my job learned that i had bees and were eager for my product.So did other people i know. Long story short... mistakes frrom time of buying to location to almost everything concluded with about 5 kilos of honey. Not so great but Really great! despite the problems i had made something out of nothing.
2year bought another 10 beehives. Mistakes were less .. Really learned the aspect of swarming! (the beekeepers in here will understand) Also did the same mistake with the buying time. Went through with the plan exactly as it was first written.
Then in October 2015 decided to sell my car for 5000 euro, and buy a old used 4x4 for 3200 euro.Plan was a month or two later to buy a trailer for the car.to move the hives.
And now the DRAMA.
End of November 2015 , first visit of my new used car to the hives. One bee finds its way inside the veil and strikes in my neck, at the very end of the visit at my beeyard. Being bitten a lot of times in the past, continued working. THEN. All of my body was covered with some red marks, lots of itching, and other stuff. Called the emergency number.,found the ambulance in the middle of my way home. Went to hospital... Generally Survived.Thank GOD! From that time on things changed a little.
Went to the allergy doctor. Told me after blood exams that i am allergic to bees and that my incident was an anaphylactic shock. After that my pchycology went down and down and down.
And on top of that the cars engine went off about a month after the event and i spent all my money there.
One friend also beekeeper and my mentor helped me a lot with the carrying of the bees till now. Made about 40 kilos of honey. Sold some ,gave some as a present to atract costumers. Should have made around 150 - 200 kilos if things were made right, but struggling between slowlane job, little baby and pregnancy n2, and the above Allergy thing... that was the result.
Everyone i know say i should sell them . I disagree. I had some rough times with my body since the incident. I thought i had heart attacks but as it turned out i had panic attacks. I get a lot of pain in my nerves near the chest area. Checked by a lot of doctors.No problem there. Only my mind is playing games on me due to i am overstressed after the incident and until now.
Trying to find a new way out of the slowlane for a while now. Searching a lot of options. In April i rented a small 1/4 acre plot with a 40 sq.m. warehouse, as the start of my new plan. Egg selling. Again made the numbers.again made the plan. again talked to local groceries store to buy my product. But due to the doctors visits for myself and for the pregnant wife, and due to some unfortunate events, there was a lack of money to be invested in my plan from the family budget. Now i will be paid in August 1 and i will go and buy my first ten chickens. Going slow at first and watching were it goes. Still have a five year plan on this project too. My beehives will be moved to a new location in about a month,10 km close to home, and i made arrangements with a man that is a hobby beekeeper and currently unemployed to be my assistant. Me in the car and he in the yard.
Also all this time i am constantly trying to find ways out of the fastlane. Trying to be educated about things i want to go out for, i found a forum about realestate, bp are the initials, and from there in a discussion i found this forum. I think it is a great forum. The ideas of MJ are basically trying to help people like me understand what you should really been looking for in your life. Did not have any idea i was wasting my life so far,but i am really greatful i found people that are of the same mindset.
I forgot to talk about my wife. She is a wonderful person and she stands by me the whole time. I think she sometimes thinks i am crazy when i talk to her about the mistakes that we did only storing our money in the bank and not investing to nothing. I hope she will also change her mindset after the first euros come in from another source and not from the slowlane job.
Anyway that is my story so far. Currently writing the greater plan on how to become fastlane through ag in my country through multiple ventures and continuous reinvesting. Will explane that with a new post in the days to come in order to get some feedback from you guys.
My point:
Don't quit! Plan everything ahead. And if you find yourself in the bottom of the bucket, just remember there is no other way than up!
p.s. sorry for the metric system
Started looking at everything i could get myself into. and then an article in the newspaper was talking about beekeeping. It said that it is the new trend in my country for people who want to live more intepentedly. Started looking at that.Bought books, read them, went online, read every single site about beekeeping, found a coworker that had bees, went with him for some months as a helphand. Learned a lot. Met the people from the local beekeeping club. Talked with A LOT of beekeepers about their job. Started to realise somethings:
1.- Lots of lies from people(maybe because they are affraid of competition)
2.- Not much of initial investment compared to other ag
3.- The cleanest job compared to other ag
4.- The easiest job in terms of time consumption compared to other ag.
Started making my business plan. Businnes plan was a five year estimation till i could hire someone to do want needed to be done from me and i would just go and manage things only for the selling and marketing of my product.
Contacted big wholesale buyers and big packagers before even having one hive.for information into making my plan.very helpful
Then i bought my first 2 beehives. Started taking care of them.People in my job learned that i had bees and were eager for my product.So did other people i know. Long story short... mistakes frrom time of buying to location to almost everything concluded with about 5 kilos of honey. Not so great but Really great! despite the problems i had made something out of nothing.
2year bought another 10 beehives. Mistakes were less .. Really learned the aspect of swarming! (the beekeepers in here will understand) Also did the same mistake with the buying time. Went through with the plan exactly as it was first written.
Then in October 2015 decided to sell my car for 5000 euro, and buy a old used 4x4 for 3200 euro.Plan was a month or two later to buy a trailer for the car.to move the hives.
And now the DRAMA.
End of November 2015 , first visit of my new used car to the hives. One bee finds its way inside the veil and strikes in my neck, at the very end of the visit at my beeyard. Being bitten a lot of times in the past, continued working. THEN. All of my body was covered with some red marks, lots of itching, and other stuff. Called the emergency number.,found the ambulance in the middle of my way home. Went to hospital... Generally Survived.Thank GOD! From that time on things changed a little.
Went to the allergy doctor. Told me after blood exams that i am allergic to bees and that my incident was an anaphylactic shock. After that my pchycology went down and down and down.
And on top of that the cars engine went off about a month after the event and i spent all my money there.
One friend also beekeeper and my mentor helped me a lot with the carrying of the bees till now. Made about 40 kilos of honey. Sold some ,gave some as a present to atract costumers. Should have made around 150 - 200 kilos if things were made right, but struggling between slowlane job, little baby and pregnancy n2, and the above Allergy thing... that was the result.
Everyone i know say i should sell them . I disagree. I had some rough times with my body since the incident. I thought i had heart attacks but as it turned out i had panic attacks. I get a lot of pain in my nerves near the chest area. Checked by a lot of doctors.No problem there. Only my mind is playing games on me due to i am overstressed after the incident and until now.
Trying to find a new way out of the slowlane for a while now. Searching a lot of options. In April i rented a small 1/4 acre plot with a 40 sq.m. warehouse, as the start of my new plan. Egg selling. Again made the numbers.again made the plan. again talked to local groceries store to buy my product. But due to the doctors visits for myself and for the pregnant wife, and due to some unfortunate events, there was a lack of money to be invested in my plan from the family budget. Now i will be paid in August 1 and i will go and buy my first ten chickens. Going slow at first and watching were it goes. Still have a five year plan on this project too. My beehives will be moved to a new location in about a month,10 km close to home, and i made arrangements with a man that is a hobby beekeeper and currently unemployed to be my assistant. Me in the car and he in the yard.
Also all this time i am constantly trying to find ways out of the fastlane. Trying to be educated about things i want to go out for, i found a forum about realestate, bp are the initials, and from there in a discussion i found this forum. I think it is a great forum. The ideas of MJ are basically trying to help people like me understand what you should really been looking for in your life. Did not have any idea i was wasting my life so far,but i am really greatful i found people that are of the same mindset.
I forgot to talk about my wife. She is a wonderful person and she stands by me the whole time. I think she sometimes thinks i am crazy when i talk to her about the mistakes that we did only storing our money in the bank and not investing to nothing. I hope she will also change her mindset after the first euros come in from another source and not from the slowlane job.
Anyway that is my story so far. Currently writing the greater plan on how to become fastlane through ag in my country through multiple ventures and continuous reinvesting. Will explane that with a new post in the days to come in order to get some feedback from you guys.
My point:
Don't quit! Plan everything ahead. And if you find yourself in the bottom of the bucket, just remember there is no other way than up!
p.s. sorry for the metric system
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