Hi,
So I need to start with an introduction of myself.
I am french 33 year-old man, married to a beautiful woman. After 7 years studying, I started to work at the age of 25 (close to 26).
I am not poor, but not rich. I don't consider myself being a sidewalker as I don't live only for the present, I don't buy the latest gadget, I don't have debt except a mortgage for the appartment where I live in, that I bought a bit more than 5 years ago and that I will finish reimbursing in 8 years.
I put money aside every month and keep my finance clean and under control.
I have parents who always told me to be good at school, to find a decent job and one day, after several years, as long as I keep my eyes open, I will find an idea that will make me rich. At 33 years old, I still did not have this genious idea.
I wake up at 6:15, arrive at the office around 8:00/8:30 (yeah trains are not reliable), leave the office around 18:00 and arrive at home around 19:30/20:00 (again, trains...), completely tired and if I wanna be able to work the day after, I cannot go to sleep late. So my life, 5 days a week is about 3 hours each evening... As it is written in the Millionnaire fastlane, week-ends are here to rest and be prepared for a new exhaustive week that drains all my energy.
Two years ago, I started to consider this life as complete nonsense, wasting my energy for a job I don't really like, for a boss that makes (to me) the worse mistakes he can do in both strategy and management. In short I wanted to get out of the Rat Race.
I also wanted to earn more from my savings, so I started, a year ago, to study the financial markets. I bought a quite expensive course that is supposed to help me get between 20 and 60% from my capital each year. After 8 months of paper trading, I am now trading for real. I'll see how it goes, but it's a slow process, because I need to invest money and I don't have 300K€ to invest, which is the very minimum needed to live from it. Also, the guy in the course does not say I'll be rich or I'll succeed. It requires to learn and to practice. It's not magical. That's good point, I don't believe in magic .
In February this year, a tragedy came that made me think that life was too short to be wasted being unhappy. Although my job was so stressful and the workload so high that I ended with a beginning of what the doctor called a "burn-out". The two combined, I decided that I could not continue.
I then started to study strategy, business, reading books like : "The Richest Man in Babylon", "Rich Dad, Poor Dad", "The Lean Startup", "Will it Fly", "Contagious", "Made to Stick", "From Acorns", "The Devil's Advocate", and so on. I am not done reading them, and I am currently reading "The Millionnaire Fastlane", as long as "Made to Stick". But it does not help know where to go, where to start, and so on. The idea was still missing at this point.
Now that trading is in place, I need to make money to invest it. I need to start something, stop waiting for the idea to show up. I bought, 2 weeks ago, a new course, with the idea of starting an e-business based on dropshipping (not really known in France) and Facebook ads (same here, quite new in France), giving less time to my job (I was offering way too much) to invest in the course and go there. It may not work, it may work, I have no idea yet, but I want to try it. Same as trading, the teacher says it's not magical and requires work. Fine with me.
What is complicated is that my wife, a primary school teacher is afraid of me taking risks, reducing our lifestyle for a while, seeing me unemployed -I wanted to quit right after the burn-out-, she wanted us to buy a house and have a mortgage for 25 years that I don't want to, and so on. Also my friends and family (and her family who is pushing us to buy a house before thinking about investment) don't see the Rat Race as the... Rat Race but as what we have to do, how life is. Work hard and enjoy when you're too old to travel, to do sports, to chill out...
My dream is not to drive a Lamborghini or have a giant house. What I would like is :
1. A medium house in a land far from a city, with no pollution, maybe mountains or sea, with privacy, space and silence. A good place to raise kids.
2. Freedom to work whenever I want without control -I won't be able to stay inactive all day long, sitting in my couch, watching Netflix-.
3. My revenue to depend on my work, not limited by a boss or a system, no matter the work I do or the results I get.
4. Being able to work on stuff that help people, no matter if it does not make money.
Sorry for the "English" mistakes, as I said, as being French, English is not my native language.
Cheers
So I need to start with an introduction of myself.
I am french 33 year-old man, married to a beautiful woman. After 7 years studying, I started to work at the age of 25 (close to 26).
I am not poor, but not rich. I don't consider myself being a sidewalker as I don't live only for the present, I don't buy the latest gadget, I don't have debt except a mortgage for the appartment where I live in, that I bought a bit more than 5 years ago and that I will finish reimbursing in 8 years.
I put money aside every month and keep my finance clean and under control.
I have parents who always told me to be good at school, to find a decent job and one day, after several years, as long as I keep my eyes open, I will find an idea that will make me rich. At 33 years old, I still did not have this genious idea.
I wake up at 6:15, arrive at the office around 8:00/8:30 (yeah trains are not reliable), leave the office around 18:00 and arrive at home around 19:30/20:00 (again, trains...), completely tired and if I wanna be able to work the day after, I cannot go to sleep late. So my life, 5 days a week is about 3 hours each evening... As it is written in the Millionnaire fastlane, week-ends are here to rest and be prepared for a new exhaustive week that drains all my energy.
Two years ago, I started to consider this life as complete nonsense, wasting my energy for a job I don't really like, for a boss that makes (to me) the worse mistakes he can do in both strategy and management. In short I wanted to get out of the Rat Race.
I also wanted to earn more from my savings, so I started, a year ago, to study the financial markets. I bought a quite expensive course that is supposed to help me get between 20 and 60% from my capital each year. After 8 months of paper trading, I am now trading for real. I'll see how it goes, but it's a slow process, because I need to invest money and I don't have 300K€ to invest, which is the very minimum needed to live from it. Also, the guy in the course does not say I'll be rich or I'll succeed. It requires to learn and to practice. It's not magical. That's good point, I don't believe in magic .
In February this year, a tragedy came that made me think that life was too short to be wasted being unhappy. Although my job was so stressful and the workload so high that I ended with a beginning of what the doctor called a "burn-out". The two combined, I decided that I could not continue.
I then started to study strategy, business, reading books like : "The Richest Man in Babylon", "Rich Dad, Poor Dad", "The Lean Startup", "Will it Fly", "Contagious", "Made to Stick", "From Acorns", "The Devil's Advocate", and so on. I am not done reading them, and I am currently reading "The Millionnaire Fastlane", as long as "Made to Stick". But it does not help know where to go, where to start, and so on. The idea was still missing at this point.
Now that trading is in place, I need to make money to invest it. I need to start something, stop waiting for the idea to show up. I bought, 2 weeks ago, a new course, with the idea of starting an e-business based on dropshipping (not really known in France) and Facebook ads (same here, quite new in France), giving less time to my job (I was offering way too much) to invest in the course and go there. It may not work, it may work, I have no idea yet, but I want to try it. Same as trading, the teacher says it's not magical and requires work. Fine with me.
What is complicated is that my wife, a primary school teacher is afraid of me taking risks, reducing our lifestyle for a while, seeing me unemployed -I wanted to quit right after the burn-out-, she wanted us to buy a house and have a mortgage for 25 years that I don't want to, and so on. Also my friends and family (and her family who is pushing us to buy a house before thinking about investment) don't see the Rat Race as the... Rat Race but as what we have to do, how life is. Work hard and enjoy when you're too old to travel, to do sports, to chill out...
My dream is not to drive a Lamborghini or have a giant house. What I would like is :
1. A medium house in a land far from a city, with no pollution, maybe mountains or sea, with privacy, space and silence. A good place to raise kids.
2. Freedom to work whenever I want without control -I won't be able to stay inactive all day long, sitting in my couch, watching Netflix-.
3. My revenue to depend on my work, not limited by a boss or a system, no matter the work I do or the results I get.
4. Being able to work on stuff that help people, no matter if it does not make money.
Sorry for the "English" mistakes, as I said, as being French, English is not my native language.
Cheers
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