Does anyone have a story when they first set out to get in the fastlane lifestyle?
I'm supposed to be a college senior this year. I interned at a large corporation last year and was met with a full time job offer upon graduation. You know, the retirement plan, the pension plan, the health insurance, relocation bonus, the decent starting salary, the whole shabang.
I politely turned down the job offer to take an extra year of school (Financial aid and such has worked well in my favor to finish my degree with an extra year of time, slowing down my curriculum, taking less classes, and working on fastlane businesses in the meantime) - I actually just stumbled upon The Fastlane Forum, which led me to TMF book... and i'm just finishing that now and ready to start taking *IMMEDIATE* action (I've already ran a lawn care business when I was 17-20 which greeted me with the concept of life outside the 9 to 5.. and I have built an online fitness coaching website that i've been working on for a while now and have some plans for that.. so my fastlane journey has been active longer than i've known of the fastlane)
I was asked by this corporation if I would like to intern there again this summer. I've tried to hold off for as long as possible, as I was unsure. "Maybe i will again" "Maybe i'll work on my own ventures this summer" "Maybe i'll do the full time thing with them when i graduate temporarily"
This is the summer internship offer. They want me to come back and intern again for another summer so that I can then go on to take the full time offer they offered me for this summer, next summer (Since I took an extra year of school and denied the offer)
Instead, after reading TMF i'm about 99% sure i'm not going to take *ANY* corporate offers upon graduating. Goodbye worrying about job offers and interviews. I'm going to make it on my own terms in the meantime over the next year and a half before I graduate.
I just got another email from the companies' HQ from the other side of the country asking me to submit paperwork to confirm my summer internship. There's a part of me that says "if you deny this you are DIVING INTO THE WATER" and you know what, I think that's *EXACTLY* what i'm going to do. Deny the offers and be on my way to the fastlane.
[MIND YOU, this offer is for more money than anyone in my family makes (mom, dad, and 4 yr older brother). I also would get to relocate to the other side of the country. Steady corporate ladder-climbing too, with decent promotions every couple years, typical slowlane stuff. It was a huge milestone for me because even going to *SCHOOL* my parents, in their retardedly-slow-lane mentality, told me i would have to get lucky to have a job offer when i graduate and that most college kids are graduating and working as janitory because the 'job market sucks' lol... yes they live in a lane slower than the slowlane, they didn't even support my school education which is a typical prerequisite for entering the slowlane. It was so reassuring to me because I was like 'Yeah, I proved not only to YOU guys that I can succeed in getting a job, but that I can take my success and forge any life i choose to live.' ]
Anybody else have a story when they first began their fastlane journey? Any points of no return you crossed? Denied job offers? Up and moving states with $900 to your name like @MJ DeMarco ? What's your fastlane story?
I'm supposed to be a college senior this year. I interned at a large corporation last year and was met with a full time job offer upon graduation. You know, the retirement plan, the pension plan, the health insurance, relocation bonus, the decent starting salary, the whole shabang.
I politely turned down the job offer to take an extra year of school (Financial aid and such has worked well in my favor to finish my degree with an extra year of time, slowing down my curriculum, taking less classes, and working on fastlane businesses in the meantime) - I actually just stumbled upon The Fastlane Forum, which led me to TMF book... and i'm just finishing that now and ready to start taking *IMMEDIATE* action (I've already ran a lawn care business when I was 17-20 which greeted me with the concept of life outside the 9 to 5.. and I have built an online fitness coaching website that i've been working on for a while now and have some plans for that.. so my fastlane journey has been active longer than i've known of the fastlane)
I was asked by this corporation if I would like to intern there again this summer. I've tried to hold off for as long as possible, as I was unsure. "Maybe i will again" "Maybe i'll work on my own ventures this summer" "Maybe i'll do the full time thing with them when i graduate temporarily"
This is the summer internship offer. They want me to come back and intern again for another summer so that I can then go on to take the full time offer they offered me for this summer, next summer (Since I took an extra year of school and denied the offer)
Instead, after reading TMF i'm about 99% sure i'm not going to take *ANY* corporate offers upon graduating. Goodbye worrying about job offers and interviews. I'm going to make it on my own terms in the meantime over the next year and a half before I graduate.
I just got another email from the companies' HQ from the other side of the country asking me to submit paperwork to confirm my summer internship. There's a part of me that says "if you deny this you are DIVING INTO THE WATER" and you know what, I think that's *EXACTLY* what i'm going to do. Deny the offers and be on my way to the fastlane.
[MIND YOU, this offer is for more money than anyone in my family makes (mom, dad, and 4 yr older brother). I also would get to relocate to the other side of the country. Steady corporate ladder-climbing too, with decent promotions every couple years, typical slowlane stuff. It was a huge milestone for me because even going to *SCHOOL* my parents, in their retardedly-slow-lane mentality, told me i would have to get lucky to have a job offer when i graduate and that most college kids are graduating and working as janitory because the 'job market sucks' lol... yes they live in a lane slower than the slowlane, they didn't even support my school education which is a typical prerequisite for entering the slowlane. It was so reassuring to me because I was like 'Yeah, I proved not only to YOU guys that I can succeed in getting a job, but that I can take my success and forge any life i choose to live.' ]
Anybody else have a story when they first began their fastlane journey? Any points of no return you crossed? Denied job offers? Up and moving states with $900 to your name like @MJ DeMarco ? What's your fastlane story?
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