So, I don't really know how to write this. I guess it's an extra thing to help keep me accountable.
I'm 23 and I've been trying to start little businesses since I was a kid. Was big into the whole, get rich quick deal. Middle school, I attempted to set up a knifemaking business as an FFA project. Made some knives and sold em. But never really kept track of the money and it wasn't feasible. Especially when you're ordering everything from Jantz Knifemaking, even the blades.
I attempted, not very well, to start a non-profit (that I will revive) for various different things. From cancer research to saving the whales. My kickstarter was half assed and just not very well thought out. Didn't get a single pledge.
Cue typical sidewalk type getting through life. Hell, I had to go back to a job I thought I'd never go back to. The zookeeper part. Which was pretty legit. I had my own special projects. I was a team leader. Essentially a step below a manager. Got to build exhibits. Play with baby tigers and other exotics. It was legit. Almost went to training for crocodile and alligator handling.
Then my dad lost his two year long battle to cancer. I had an epiphany of sorts as I stood in my dress blues taking the flag presented to me by funeral honors. See, my old man was old school. Military career man. He was a badass. Master paratrooper, pathfinder, air assault, and a lot of other things. Raised us by himself since my mother passed away from a failed lung transplant when my little sister and I were kids. (sorry for getting off topic. Teared up a bit and, it just felt nice to talk about him for a sec. If your family is half decent, don't take em for granted.)
I had already read the millionare fastlane at this point. It just occurred to me that, I need to start getting my act together because I can't raise a family on $10/hr. So, I quit my job. Moved in with my cousin, and he started teaching me drupal web development. I'm doing decent with it and could probably get a job as a junior drupal 8 developer.
Then, a month ago my cousin who I grew up with, lost his fight with luekemia which had turned itself into mds after a few failed bone marrow transplants. My grandmother, who raised him, (long family story, aunt also died of cystic fibrosis, and the father wanted nothing to do with him.) told me I need to make sure I actually LIVE life, because dalton won't be able to.
At this point my webdev skills are ok.
We're at the current day now. So what's driving me to even do this risky venture of fastlane?
Well, my girlfriend is stuck in a rock and a hard place with her situation. My grandparents who run a dog kennel now have competition coming to town and it's difficult for them as their not young anymore and my grandfather just got some weird form of leukemia. One of my other cousin's who has three kids just broke it off with her fiance and hasn't worked in two years because of his income is definitely going to need some support.
And me? Well. My dad was proud of me. I'm a 12B in the guard. I do ok. But, he was always worried about me financially and with jobs and what not. I'm doing this super scary thing, to make my life and my goals actually happen. I've never actually followed through with this stuff. It's really, really scary. But, I need to do this to prove to myself I can. That dad, I'll be ok. To take care of everyone.
So how am I gonna do it? Well, it's stupid simple in idea. Pain in the a$$ in practice. The basic idea is affiliate websites. I'm fully aware that this violates the command of control and that this could royally screw me over. However, a decent amount of people make decent money doing this.
I've got various marketing campaigns in the works, which I'm pretty sure will help make this project skyrocket.
With that funding a little bit will be used for investing in better equipment and housing. But most of it will be used to establish my own products and business. This place is a fantastic resource, so that's been a lot of help. Especially the, "just start" post.
I'm hoping to launch my websites, either late this week or next week. Since, I'm setting up my drupal config to have reusable terms, it'll almost be like a distribution. So I can just drop in the distribution, hit another product niche and go.
Almost finished with that actually. All I've gotta do is figure out how MailCheat(Chimp) works, and some styling and I'm rolling.
Please don't express sympathy towards my situation. It happens to everybody. Some sooner than others, and I just wanted people to know the reasons behind my thought process.
I apologize if this seems mildly scrambled. It's late, composer is taking too long to install a module.
I've attached some pictures from the zookeeper job. One day I will open up a national exotic animal rescue. Did you know that when a zoo shuts down, if the animals aren't able to go to another facility, most will be euthanized?
Side note, I find it really funny that in the unscripted book MJ talks about working in a market and building a product around that nice. He specifically made an example of the pet industry. Which most of my physical products will be in due to my interests with amphibians, reptiles and fish.
I'm 23 and I've been trying to start little businesses since I was a kid. Was big into the whole, get rich quick deal. Middle school, I attempted to set up a knifemaking business as an FFA project. Made some knives and sold em. But never really kept track of the money and it wasn't feasible. Especially when you're ordering everything from Jantz Knifemaking, even the blades.
I attempted, not very well, to start a non-profit (that I will revive) for various different things. From cancer research to saving the whales. My kickstarter was half assed and just not very well thought out. Didn't get a single pledge.
Cue typical sidewalk type getting through life. Hell, I had to go back to a job I thought I'd never go back to. The zookeeper part. Which was pretty legit. I had my own special projects. I was a team leader. Essentially a step below a manager. Got to build exhibits. Play with baby tigers and other exotics. It was legit. Almost went to training for crocodile and alligator handling.
Then my dad lost his two year long battle to cancer. I had an epiphany of sorts as I stood in my dress blues taking the flag presented to me by funeral honors. See, my old man was old school. Military career man. He was a badass. Master paratrooper, pathfinder, air assault, and a lot of other things. Raised us by himself since my mother passed away from a failed lung transplant when my little sister and I were kids. (sorry for getting off topic. Teared up a bit and, it just felt nice to talk about him for a sec. If your family is half decent, don't take em for granted.)
I had already read the millionare fastlane at this point. It just occurred to me that, I need to start getting my act together because I can't raise a family on $10/hr. So, I quit my job. Moved in with my cousin, and he started teaching me drupal web development. I'm doing decent with it and could probably get a job as a junior drupal 8 developer.
Then, a month ago my cousin who I grew up with, lost his fight with luekemia which had turned itself into mds after a few failed bone marrow transplants. My grandmother, who raised him, (long family story, aunt also died of cystic fibrosis, and the father wanted nothing to do with him.) told me I need to make sure I actually LIVE life, because dalton won't be able to.
At this point my webdev skills are ok.
We're at the current day now. So what's driving me to even do this risky venture of fastlane?
Well, my girlfriend is stuck in a rock and a hard place with her situation. My grandparents who run a dog kennel now have competition coming to town and it's difficult for them as their not young anymore and my grandfather just got some weird form of leukemia. One of my other cousin's who has three kids just broke it off with her fiance and hasn't worked in two years because of his income is definitely going to need some support.
And me? Well. My dad was proud of me. I'm a 12B in the guard. I do ok. But, he was always worried about me financially and with jobs and what not. I'm doing this super scary thing, to make my life and my goals actually happen. I've never actually followed through with this stuff. It's really, really scary. But, I need to do this to prove to myself I can. That dad, I'll be ok. To take care of everyone.
So how am I gonna do it? Well, it's stupid simple in idea. Pain in the a$$ in practice. The basic idea is affiliate websites. I'm fully aware that this violates the command of control and that this could royally screw me over. However, a decent amount of people make decent money doing this.
I've got various marketing campaigns in the works, which I'm pretty sure will help make this project skyrocket.
With that funding a little bit will be used for investing in better equipment and housing. But most of it will be used to establish my own products and business. This place is a fantastic resource, so that's been a lot of help. Especially the, "just start" post.
I'm hoping to launch my websites, either late this week or next week. Since, I'm setting up my drupal config to have reusable terms, it'll almost be like a distribution. So I can just drop in the distribution, hit another product niche and go.
Almost finished with that actually. All I've gotta do is figure out how MailCheat(Chimp) works, and some styling and I'm rolling.
Please don't express sympathy towards my situation. It happens to everybody. Some sooner than others, and I just wanted people to know the reasons behind my thought process.
I apologize if this seems mildly scrambled. It's late, composer is taking too long to install a module.
I've attached some pictures from the zookeeper job. One day I will open up a national exotic animal rescue. Did you know that when a zoo shuts down, if the animals aren't able to go to another facility, most will be euthanized?
Side note, I find it really funny that in the unscripted book MJ talks about working in a market and building a product around that nice. He specifically made an example of the pet industry. Which most of my physical products will be in due to my interests with amphibians, reptiles and fish.
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