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Hey Fastlaners,
First off MJ - fantastic book. It has really consolidated my thinking on a lot of things I was already feeling. Thanks for putting the effort your book project.
A little about me - I'm originally from a small village in the north of Scotland, and am now in Tucson AZ via Japan, London and Indonesia. A back in '08 I quit my nice comfortable real estate job in London to move here to get married after a 3 year long distance relationship. In retrospect, I could have picked a better time to move to the US - with my employee mentality, I put myself in a position where moving to a new country at a time when companies and businesses were, if not dying, at least not hiring, really hurt me.
I eventually found a position writing mortgages. After two employers going bankrupt in a year, I (red face) finally settled for a salaried job with the county attorney's office. With a new baby on the way, it wasn't a bad decision, but not a good one either. I figured that I could do it for a year while educating myself and starting a business. In my free time I coach personal finance and am now charging for my time to help people redesign their diets and training for weight loss.
But where a compromise hurts you is in the hidden effects. When you take a salaried job, you surround yourself with slowlaners, and that mentality can rub off if you aren't ultra careful. Suddenly a year goes by and you have nothing but a W2 to show for it. You lose control of your time - for example after getting a copy of the Millionaire Fastlane I heard MJ was speaking in Phoenix. I wanted to go and work got in the way. But that reinforced a lesson - when you sell your money for time you can no longer use your time effectively.
I will say one thing though - the experience of being in a slowlane salaried job for a year has done wonders for making me absolutely, unbreakably determined to get into the fastlane, control my life and provide massive value to masses of people on my terms. I think that if I hadn't experienced the last year, I wouldn't have the clarity and focus I now have for achieving my goals.
Looking forward to being a member of this forum. There may not be much I can contribute at this point, but it provided another reason to succeed. So that I can then give back the knowledge to others. I think that's important and am grateful to those on the forum who could easily be off doing other things, but choose to share their knowledge and experience. Hats off to you gents.
Simon
First off MJ - fantastic book. It has really consolidated my thinking on a lot of things I was already feeling. Thanks for putting the effort your book project.
A little about me - I'm originally from a small village in the north of Scotland, and am now in Tucson AZ via Japan, London and Indonesia. A back in '08 I quit my nice comfortable real estate job in London to move here to get married after a 3 year long distance relationship. In retrospect, I could have picked a better time to move to the US - with my employee mentality, I put myself in a position where moving to a new country at a time when companies and businesses were, if not dying, at least not hiring, really hurt me.
I eventually found a position writing mortgages. After two employers going bankrupt in a year, I (red face) finally settled for a salaried job with the county attorney's office. With a new baby on the way, it wasn't a bad decision, but not a good one either. I figured that I could do it for a year while educating myself and starting a business. In my free time I coach personal finance and am now charging for my time to help people redesign their diets and training for weight loss.
But where a compromise hurts you is in the hidden effects. When you take a salaried job, you surround yourself with slowlaners, and that mentality can rub off if you aren't ultra careful. Suddenly a year goes by and you have nothing but a W2 to show for it. You lose control of your time - for example after getting a copy of the Millionaire Fastlane I heard MJ was speaking in Phoenix. I wanted to go and work got in the way. But that reinforced a lesson - when you sell your money for time you can no longer use your time effectively.
I will say one thing though - the experience of being in a slowlane salaried job for a year has done wonders for making me absolutely, unbreakably determined to get into the fastlane, control my life and provide massive value to masses of people on my terms. I think that if I hadn't experienced the last year, I wouldn't have the clarity and focus I now have for achieving my goals.
Looking forward to being a member of this forum. There may not be much I can contribute at this point, but it provided another reason to succeed. So that I can then give back the knowledge to others. I think that's important and am grateful to those on the forum who could easily be off doing other things, but choose to share their knowledge and experience. Hats off to you gents.
Simon
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