I hope everyone is staying safe during these crazy and uncertain times.
My name is Mark and I've lurked the Fastlane forums for the last two months but am only just now getting to my introduction. I graduated in Accounting in 2016 and worked as a public auditor for 2.5 years, got promoted to Senior, and dipped off to industry accounting. I had always planned to be an entrepreneur dating back to my high school days and thought working within the industry would allow me sufficient time to "become" an entrepreneur thinking that one day a one-in-a-million idea would magically come to me. I don't mean to spoil the story but that day never came. Working in the industry required just as many hours as working as a public auditor but with a lot more oversight, stress, and micromanaging. My plan then shifted to a year-long exit strategy to set myself up with enough capital to quit my job and focus on entrepreneurship full time.
The day I planned to leave my job was March 31, 2020. Funny how life works but as we all know now, the world changed forever in March 2020. Well s**t, now I have some decisions to make. Do I quit my job to pursue entrepreneurship amid a pandemic or do I continue with this job I absolutely loathe and play it by ear? Fortunately, and unfortunately, this decision was taken out of my hands. Ended up leaving my job at the end of April 2020 due to COVID reasons.
I knew my mental health was suffering at this point but I don't think I realized just how badly. I spent pretty much April through September of this year battling off depression and hopelessness. Somewhere along the way, I lost myself. I lost my drive and motivation. I remember grinding through college listening to my favorite rappers feeling like the world was mine. Now I didn't even recognize myself.
And this is where I'm going to sound like an M.J. burner account, but I randomly stumbled across Fastlane Millionaire on the internet in October. I think I had googled "best books for entrepreneurship" or something along those lines. I absolutely love hiking so I downloaded the ebook and would take breaks during my hike to read it. After reading FM, my entire perspective changed. I had regained motivation and hope because he showed that success in entrepreneurship doesn't have to be dependent on having a one-in-a-million idea or being Elon Musk. It can be mathematically broken down to probabilities and requires mostly consistency, fearlessness, and process. So what if you only have a 7% of succeeding that just means you need to try 15 ideas to find one success (you get the point).
Looking through both the forums and M.J.'s books, I always read people say the easiest way to get started is to just help someone for free. Luckily, my uncle has owned a successful plumbing business for the last 40 years so I reached out to him to learn the trade. And that's what I've been doing for the last two months. In addition to that, my cousin and I plan to help build a subsection of his business focusing on residential service plumbing as my uncle currently focuses on bigger commercial contracts but that hasn't gained much traction yet.
As of today, I'm still trying to figure out where I'm going. If the plumbing service works out it would only be temporary as neither my cousin nor I own a plumbing license, so as soon as my uncle calls it quits that'll be it. But I'm hoping it'll help build some explosive revenue to fund my other projects (that I've yet to think of yet lol). My focus now is figuring out where I'm going next.
I love reading all of your comments and appreciate the motivation and help you willingly provide to each other for no reason other than to be helpful.
Much love,
Boogie
My name is Mark and I've lurked the Fastlane forums for the last two months but am only just now getting to my introduction. I graduated in Accounting in 2016 and worked as a public auditor for 2.5 years, got promoted to Senior, and dipped off to industry accounting. I had always planned to be an entrepreneur dating back to my high school days and thought working within the industry would allow me sufficient time to "become" an entrepreneur thinking that one day a one-in-a-million idea would magically come to me. I don't mean to spoil the story but that day never came. Working in the industry required just as many hours as working as a public auditor but with a lot more oversight, stress, and micromanaging. My plan then shifted to a year-long exit strategy to set myself up with enough capital to quit my job and focus on entrepreneurship full time.
The day I planned to leave my job was March 31, 2020. Funny how life works but as we all know now, the world changed forever in March 2020. Well s**t, now I have some decisions to make. Do I quit my job to pursue entrepreneurship amid a pandemic or do I continue with this job I absolutely loathe and play it by ear? Fortunately, and unfortunately, this decision was taken out of my hands. Ended up leaving my job at the end of April 2020 due to COVID reasons.
I knew my mental health was suffering at this point but I don't think I realized just how badly. I spent pretty much April through September of this year battling off depression and hopelessness. Somewhere along the way, I lost myself. I lost my drive and motivation. I remember grinding through college listening to my favorite rappers feeling like the world was mine. Now I didn't even recognize myself.
And this is where I'm going to sound like an M.J. burner account, but I randomly stumbled across Fastlane Millionaire on the internet in October. I think I had googled "best books for entrepreneurship" or something along those lines. I absolutely love hiking so I downloaded the ebook and would take breaks during my hike to read it. After reading FM, my entire perspective changed. I had regained motivation and hope because he showed that success in entrepreneurship doesn't have to be dependent on having a one-in-a-million idea or being Elon Musk. It can be mathematically broken down to probabilities and requires mostly consistency, fearlessness, and process. So what if you only have a 7% of succeeding that just means you need to try 15 ideas to find one success (you get the point).
Looking through both the forums and M.J.'s books, I always read people say the easiest way to get started is to just help someone for free. Luckily, my uncle has owned a successful plumbing business for the last 40 years so I reached out to him to learn the trade. And that's what I've been doing for the last two months. In addition to that, my cousin and I plan to help build a subsection of his business focusing on residential service plumbing as my uncle currently focuses on bigger commercial contracts but that hasn't gained much traction yet.
As of today, I'm still trying to figure out where I'm going. If the plumbing service works out it would only be temporary as neither my cousin nor I own a plumbing license, so as soon as my uncle calls it quits that'll be it. But I'm hoping it'll help build some explosive revenue to fund my other projects (that I've yet to think of yet lol). My focus now is figuring out where I'm going next.
I love reading all of your comments and appreciate the motivation and help you willingly provide to each other for no reason other than to be helpful.
Much love,
Boogie
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