Whats going on Fastlaners? My first thread here on TFLF, I wanted to make sure I have another way to hold myself accountable and keep a journal of sorts. I hope that others may find value in my journey as well.
Here's a brief introduction of myself...
Currently, I am a college student at Boulder, Colorado studying business and graduating at the end of December this year. Up until recently I've always wanted a nice management job at a big consulting corporation like Deloitte or something making 60k/year. Needless to say for 21 years I have been stuck on the slowlane/sidewalk, but F*ck that. This past semester and school year so far have been absolute shit shows. Actually no, these past 21 years of schooling have gotten me nowhere, hell I'm 21 and still can't even financially support myself!?... If I'm going to be working my a$$ off either way and spending the majority of my awake hours for a paycheck I may as well go all out and strive for more!
Anyway, the books and this forum have been awesome resources and I consider myself lucky to have stumbled upon them. Its funny, now that I've been altering my mindset I see the slowlane/sidewalk narrative EVERYWHERE. Family, friends, school, you name it. I want no part of it anymore, now that I've read the books and saw the stuff going on within these forums, all that other shit just seems so miserable. Anyway, enough about me...
So for about a month I have been just going through these forms and reading books, but I've realized that is just mental masturbation. All the information will still be here when I need it, for now I just need to start doing something.
Inspired by @Fox's thread on web design and alot of the talks by @Andy Black I've decided to jump into webdesign to get myself off of the ground. Have been through all the suggested learning materials and this past week have started making cold calls this week. Finally at around my 30th cold call I managed to speak with a business owner instead of a receptionist.
On the phone he had told me that he's been getting a bunch of calls for web design, actually before I even had a chance to mention it he asked if I was calling to sell him a site! Luckily, I was able to spin the narrative a bit with the fact that I'm a current college student who is looking mostly to get some more experience and to provide genuine value. Turns out this guy owns not 1 but 3 separate businesses and all of them have websites that I can definitely improve upon! He was unsure of what I could really do for him and I was having a bit of trouble with articulating it in a clear and specific manner, so I got his email and will be giving him some more detail within the week.
The plan is to give him some suggestions based on weak points of his site and specifically how he could improve it. I will also be creating for him a mock website of sorts. Not sure of the best way to do this as I don't know how to show him the site I have created with HTML without actually launching it. Perhaps somebody has a suggestion?
Welp, that is all for now! It's not much but its better than nothing! Anyways feel free to chew into me, I bet ya'll can't do worse than my old football coach (previously a drill sergeant).
Big thanks to @MJ DeMarco @Fox @Andy Black and a whole bunch of other guys on this forum!
Here's a brief introduction of myself...
Currently, I am a college student at Boulder, Colorado studying business and graduating at the end of December this year. Up until recently I've always wanted a nice management job at a big consulting corporation like Deloitte or something making 60k/year. Needless to say for 21 years I have been stuck on the slowlane/sidewalk, but F*ck that. This past semester and school year so far have been absolute shit shows. Actually no, these past 21 years of schooling have gotten me nowhere, hell I'm 21 and still can't even financially support myself!?... If I'm going to be working my a$$ off either way and spending the majority of my awake hours for a paycheck I may as well go all out and strive for more!
Anyway, the books and this forum have been awesome resources and I consider myself lucky to have stumbled upon them. Its funny, now that I've been altering my mindset I see the slowlane/sidewalk narrative EVERYWHERE. Family, friends, school, you name it. I want no part of it anymore, now that I've read the books and saw the stuff going on within these forums, all that other shit just seems so miserable. Anyway, enough about me...
So for about a month I have been just going through these forms and reading books, but I've realized that is just mental masturbation. All the information will still be here when I need it, for now I just need to start doing something.
Inspired by @Fox's thread on web design and alot of the talks by @Andy Black I've decided to jump into webdesign to get myself off of the ground. Have been through all the suggested learning materials and this past week have started making cold calls this week. Finally at around my 30th cold call I managed to speak with a business owner instead of a receptionist.
On the phone he had told me that he's been getting a bunch of calls for web design, actually before I even had a chance to mention it he asked if I was calling to sell him a site! Luckily, I was able to spin the narrative a bit with the fact that I'm a current college student who is looking mostly to get some more experience and to provide genuine value. Turns out this guy owns not 1 but 3 separate businesses and all of them have websites that I can definitely improve upon! He was unsure of what I could really do for him and I was having a bit of trouble with articulating it in a clear and specific manner, so I got his email and will be giving him some more detail within the week.
The plan is to give him some suggestions based on weak points of his site and specifically how he could improve it. I will also be creating for him a mock website of sorts. Not sure of the best way to do this as I don't know how to show him the site I have created with HTML without actually launching it. Perhaps somebody has a suggestion?
Welp, that is all for now! It's not much but its better than nothing! Anyways feel free to chew into me, I bet ya'll can't do worse than my old football coach (previously a drill sergeant).
Big thanks to @MJ DeMarco @Fox @Andy Black and a whole bunch of other guys on this forum!
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