Jesse Dean
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2017 was a good year. Kicked some rat race goals. Worked for a great mentor, a real entrepreneur... but the always in the back of my mind, Im the work horse building someone else's dream. I have 9 years experience in real estate sale, and worked my way up a the acquisitions director for a real estate investment company. A stressful, unfulfilling, high pressured roll that paid well.
Well, one day I was out riding a dirt bike with my mate/mentor/boss (im 30 and he is 47). We get a long great, and he is like an older brother. ANWAY, I go over a small jump and come off and F*ck my knee. I need a full blown knee reconstruction. I go back to work 2 days later (coz Im so tough) and then an op 2 weeks later. I walk out 2 days later in a moon boot, new ACL and stitched together meniscus. Afer a few more days of being SUPER HIGH, I decide to go to work. After 3 weeks of being foggy headed I decide to stop taking the Oxi and Endone and straiten up. big mistake. I now know what junkies go through with solid withdrawals. No one said to come off this stuff slowly... getting 2 to 3 hours of sleep a night for a week, tight chest at night, pain, then work is already stressful AF, and I am starting to make mistake.. Wayne (boss) is like - the F*ck is wrong with you mate? your not the same, why are you so unhappy, he asks in our weekly meeting, to which I replied RAHHH BLA BLA SMASH! no idea what I said but I remember climaxing over the F*cking stupid spreadsheets that take up so much of my time when I should be spending more time negotiating and making deals happen.plus my attention to details is not my strength.
After smashing my laptop, I noticed Wayne didnt flinch. He used to be in the South African special forces, he closes his laptop and walks out of the meeting room, comes back and we talk - "take a week of, F*ck it take 2, or if you want to travel for a month.. what ever you want mate. you can come back after you are refreshed... we can change things here, look you will never have to do this shit again, you can do a different roll" Pretty amazing response hey. F*cking amazing guy. someone who really cares and has my back.
I write this sitting in Medellin Colombia after having decided "F*ck it! why not 3 months, or more! I dont even have to come back. Wayne supported this and said its a once in a life time opportunity. And so its been 1 month in the UK, 3 months working in a hostel in Belgium where I fell in love with a beautiful Brazilian and traveled Europe with before we said our goodbyes and made our separate ways to South America. My dream was always Colombia, and So I have been living in Medellin where it is always 28 degrees. The city of eternal spring. I have traveled a lot and made some great friends. I wanted a challenge, learn a new language and try to survive in a new country and experience living somewhere else. Ticked all boxes.
Also I bought myself a video camera and equipment in Europe, and decided I was going to be a videographer, and have been making a couple bucks here and there doing that.
My game plan now, go home, stack paper, invest in my eCommerce business and develop that into something manageable and mobile, so I can still travel. I will go home, maybe sell a property or 2, make real estate videos for property sales and generate and income this way, then use that to invest. This time I'm working on my dream.
Its been a F*cking AMAZING journey. Full of adventure, love, heartbreak, friends, challenges, learning, and I dont want this ride to stop. Thats why Im here.
Well, one day I was out riding a dirt bike with my mate/mentor/boss (im 30 and he is 47). We get a long great, and he is like an older brother. ANWAY, I go over a small jump and come off and F*ck my knee. I need a full blown knee reconstruction. I go back to work 2 days later (coz Im so tough) and then an op 2 weeks later. I walk out 2 days later in a moon boot, new ACL and stitched together meniscus. Afer a few more days of being SUPER HIGH, I decide to go to work. After 3 weeks of being foggy headed I decide to stop taking the Oxi and Endone and straiten up. big mistake. I now know what junkies go through with solid withdrawals. No one said to come off this stuff slowly... getting 2 to 3 hours of sleep a night for a week, tight chest at night, pain, then work is already stressful AF, and I am starting to make mistake.. Wayne (boss) is like - the F*ck is wrong with you mate? your not the same, why are you so unhappy, he asks in our weekly meeting, to which I replied RAHHH BLA BLA SMASH! no idea what I said but I remember climaxing over the F*cking stupid spreadsheets that take up so much of my time when I should be spending more time negotiating and making deals happen.plus my attention to details is not my strength.
After smashing my laptop, I noticed Wayne didnt flinch. He used to be in the South African special forces, he closes his laptop and walks out of the meeting room, comes back and we talk - "take a week of, F*ck it take 2, or if you want to travel for a month.. what ever you want mate. you can come back after you are refreshed... we can change things here, look you will never have to do this shit again, you can do a different roll" Pretty amazing response hey. F*cking amazing guy. someone who really cares and has my back.
I write this sitting in Medellin Colombia after having decided "F*ck it! why not 3 months, or more! I dont even have to come back. Wayne supported this and said its a once in a life time opportunity. And so its been 1 month in the UK, 3 months working in a hostel in Belgium where I fell in love with a beautiful Brazilian and traveled Europe with before we said our goodbyes and made our separate ways to South America. My dream was always Colombia, and So I have been living in Medellin where it is always 28 degrees. The city of eternal spring. I have traveled a lot and made some great friends. I wanted a challenge, learn a new language and try to survive in a new country and experience living somewhere else. Ticked all boxes.
Also I bought myself a video camera and equipment in Europe, and decided I was going to be a videographer, and have been making a couple bucks here and there doing that.
My game plan now, go home, stack paper, invest in my eCommerce business and develop that into something manageable and mobile, so I can still travel. I will go home, maybe sell a property or 2, make real estate videos for property sales and generate and income this way, then use that to invest. This time I'm working on my dream.
Its been a F*cking AMAZING journey. Full of adventure, love, heartbreak, friends, challenges, learning, and I dont want this ride to stop. Thats why Im here.
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