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Hello everyone! I would like some piece of advise.
I have been struggling to turn my ideas into fastlane. I have learnt web and apps development, I am no expert but i have made some projects.Right now I am helping a friend with the web page of his father business while I work in my app idea.
The problem is that I still live in my parents house(26 years old), my parents are sidewalkers with high-salary jobs and inherited some millions and a big house where we are living. Unfortunately, those millions have already been spent. So, everytime they have financial problems ( usually at the end of the month) they use me as their scapegoat.
My expenses are not even 10% of what they earn, but they still blame me. There is a constant pressure of them to make me get a job. Even though I have been working all this time, learning from my failures, they still think I am just wasting time in the computer all day. Everytime i try to explain to them what i am doing and what I want to do in my life, they do not want to understand.
If I say I dont want to get a job and I want to be an entrepenuer and that I am working everyday to achieve this, they react like if I just said that i wanted to be a drug dealer. And they are constantly asking to friends and family to give me a job. Last week, some uncles that are in the oil industry as employes came to my house and tried to convince me that working in the oil industry is the best and that I am going to travel all around the world and in some years i will have a huge salary. When i told them what i wanted, they started with the "do you remember your uncle Manuel?, he was thinking the same as you and now he is 44 and still living with his parents because he didnt want the high paying job that his father offered to him when he was at your age"
So, ranting a little bit and giving you some context. What would you recommend me to do?
I have been thinking of being a freelancer and create some web pages or apps so i earn some money and at the same time hone my progamming abilities.All of this, while I work in my ideas.
I live in a poor and unsafe city in Mexico where web developing is almost non existent, people around here only use facebook and instagram. My goal is to get the hell out of here even moving to europe or the USA. Mexico is a difficult place for small and medium business. Kidnapping, racketeering and blackmailing are way too common, thats why I decided some time ago that programming was the way to go.
and the other option is to get a job while I work in my ideas. Taking into account that getting a job will only pay for food, not enough to live alone.
Dont get me wrong, is not the job that i dont want. I just do not want to give 10-12 hours daily in something that i do not see myself in some years, i prefer to invest those hours to programming.
I dont know how difficult is to be a freelancer nowadays especially if you are not from a developed country. I have enough money to survive without my parents aid till January.
So in a nutshell what should you advice me to do? Tolerate my parents pressure to get a job, while i keep doing what i want to do(freelancing + executing my idea to move abroad) or get a job and dissipate the job pressure.
I have been struggling to turn my ideas into fastlane. I have learnt web and apps development, I am no expert but i have made some projects.Right now I am helping a friend with the web page of his father business while I work in my app idea.
The problem is that I still live in my parents house(26 years old), my parents are sidewalkers with high-salary jobs and inherited some millions and a big house where we are living. Unfortunately, those millions have already been spent. So, everytime they have financial problems ( usually at the end of the month) they use me as their scapegoat.
My expenses are not even 10% of what they earn, but they still blame me. There is a constant pressure of them to make me get a job. Even though I have been working all this time, learning from my failures, they still think I am just wasting time in the computer all day. Everytime i try to explain to them what i am doing and what I want to do in my life, they do not want to understand.
If I say I dont want to get a job and I want to be an entrepenuer and that I am working everyday to achieve this, they react like if I just said that i wanted to be a drug dealer. And they are constantly asking to friends and family to give me a job. Last week, some uncles that are in the oil industry as employes came to my house and tried to convince me that working in the oil industry is the best and that I am going to travel all around the world and in some years i will have a huge salary. When i told them what i wanted, they started with the "do you remember your uncle Manuel?, he was thinking the same as you and now he is 44 and still living with his parents because he didnt want the high paying job that his father offered to him when he was at your age"
So, ranting a little bit and giving you some context. What would you recommend me to do?
I have been thinking of being a freelancer and create some web pages or apps so i earn some money and at the same time hone my progamming abilities.All of this, while I work in my ideas.
I live in a poor and unsafe city in Mexico where web developing is almost non existent, people around here only use facebook and instagram. My goal is to get the hell out of here even moving to europe or the USA. Mexico is a difficult place for small and medium business. Kidnapping, racketeering and blackmailing are way too common, thats why I decided some time ago that programming was the way to go.
and the other option is to get a job while I work in my ideas. Taking into account that getting a job will only pay for food, not enough to live alone.
Dont get me wrong, is not the job that i dont want. I just do not want to give 10-12 hours daily in something that i do not see myself in some years, i prefer to invest those hours to programming.
I dont know how difficult is to be a freelancer nowadays especially if you are not from a developed country. I have enough money to survive without my parents aid till January.
So in a nutshell what should you advice me to do? Tolerate my parents pressure to get a job, while i keep doing what i want to do(freelancing + executing my idea to move abroad) or get a job and dissipate the job pressure.
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