Hi everyone, I'm John from Farnborough, UK (just west of London for non-UK people). I've got a wife and three kids, and generally live a nice life.
I've been a Finance analyst/manager for big corporates for about 16 years, the last three as a freelancer. I'm good at what I do and make the equivalent of $2k to $3k per week. I'm on the track to be Finance Director/CFO by the end of my career, but that's just not what I want.
Reading TMF (along with a few other things) finally opened my eyes to the fact that I'm never going to get the freedom I want from a Slowlane job, so I'm switching lanes.
A few years ago, I did an MBA by Distance Learning. It was great, I loved spending time with intelligent, ambitious people from different backgrounds with different perspectives. I loved learning new things.
What I didn't love was that it came at the expense of time with my family. I couldn't afford to stop working, so studying had to happen in the evenings and on weekends.
I want the financial freedom that means I never have to make that trade-off again.
The current plan is to develop my small side business into something massive and disruptive, and eventually completely divorced from my time. I've got a target market of 1.8m and growing in the UK I can tap into, that's currently not well-served. I have three exit strategies in mind.
I'm here for a few things in particular:
1. To stay motivated. I need to be constantly reminded of what I'm working towards, and that it's achievable.
2. Specific, practical, actionable advice; things like how to use AdWords (thanks @Andy Black ), marketing, and so on.
3. To find someone, a peer or a mentor, who will listen to me ramble on about my ideas, and help me distill then into a plan with clear next steps, and help me hold myself accountable for actually doing them.
4. To help other forum members with my expertise where I can.
Thanks for reading, I look forward to interacting with you over the next few years.
Sent from my XT1562 using Tapatalk
I've been a Finance analyst/manager for big corporates for about 16 years, the last three as a freelancer. I'm good at what I do and make the equivalent of $2k to $3k per week. I'm on the track to be Finance Director/CFO by the end of my career, but that's just not what I want.
Reading TMF (along with a few other things) finally opened my eyes to the fact that I'm never going to get the freedom I want from a Slowlane job, so I'm switching lanes.
A few years ago, I did an MBA by Distance Learning. It was great, I loved spending time with intelligent, ambitious people from different backgrounds with different perspectives. I loved learning new things.
What I didn't love was that it came at the expense of time with my family. I couldn't afford to stop working, so studying had to happen in the evenings and on weekends.
I want the financial freedom that means I never have to make that trade-off again.
The current plan is to develop my small side business into something massive and disruptive, and eventually completely divorced from my time. I've got a target market of 1.8m and growing in the UK I can tap into, that's currently not well-served. I have three exit strategies in mind.
I'm here for a few things in particular:
1. To stay motivated. I need to be constantly reminded of what I'm working towards, and that it's achievable.
2. Specific, practical, actionable advice; things like how to use AdWords (thanks @Andy Black ), marketing, and so on.
3. To find someone, a peer or a mentor, who will listen to me ramble on about my ideas, and help me distill then into a plan with clear next steps, and help me hold myself accountable for actually doing them.
4. To help other forum members with my expertise where I can.
Thanks for reading, I look forward to interacting with you over the next few years.
Sent from my XT1562 using Tapatalk
Dislike ads? Become a Fastlane member:
Subscribe today and surround yourself with winners and millionaire mentors, not those broke friends who only want to drink beer and play video games. :-)
Last edited:
Access Restricted: Unlock 1,000,000+ Posts
Stop Peeking Through the Keyhole.
Open the Door.
You hit a wall because the best advice isn't free—it's earned. Since 2007, MJ DeMarco has been active here daily (99.9% active rate), building a war room for entrepreneurs who refuse to settle for mediocrity.
- Active Daily: Life-changing content posted dozens of times every day. No dead threads.
- MJ's Inner Circle: Direct access to the author of The Millionaire Fastlane.
- Vetted Network: Connect with founders scaling to 7 and 8 figures.
- Proven Roadmaps: Strategy over motivation. Execution over "hustle porn."
"SCALED TO 6-FIGURE MONTHS"
"Tips and advice here saved me from huge mistakes, others allowed me to scale my business to 6-figure months."— User MitchC
"INSANE QUALITY OF PEOPLE"
"The number of high quality people I've met from this forum has been insane. All of it predicated on building real value."— User Richard Peck
"You are the average of the five people you surround yourself with."
Are you surrounding yourself with success?
