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  1. RicardoGrande

    Hyperinflation starting? What's happening in your area? Post your ground reports.

    HOT! INVESTING 
    Isn't Saudi Arabia already in talks to sell oil and develop refineries with china using transactions in renminbi/yuan? Top that with india paying in roubles and only have to pay russia equiv of 41$ usd/barrel and the USD is in a... tough spot.
  2. RicardoGrande

    Hyperinflation starting? What's happening in your area? Post your ground reports.

    HOT! INVESTING 
    I really hope so, I saw the FOA global food price index that suggested that we're up 33% YoY on food prices globally and had a heart attack. Had another heart attack when I went to costco last night and saw that all the food I normally buy skyrocketed back up in price to their fall 2021 highs...
  3. RicardoGrande

    Finding motivation when you have a 9-5

    NOTABLE! 
    I fought tooth and nail with this for 4 years. A lot of problems are ones one must personally face, conversely, a lot of problems are created solely because most of us have to go to a bureaucratic boomer soul-torture farm to have the life sucked out of us for at least 40 hours a week if we want...
  4. RicardoGrande

    Exiting the cubicle farm and taking Web-Design full time

    HOT! SIDE HUSTLE WEB DESIGN 
    Got the stones and made my last 5 calls. That's 50 calls in one week, most I EVER did before was 4 before I lost the nerve. The very last one gave me a yes and even gave me an e-mail to contact directly! Learned a lot of important lessons, it's weird, because I take action, hit a wall, find...
  5. RicardoGrande

    Exiting the cubicle farm and taking Web-Design full time

    HOT! SIDE HUSTLE WEB DESIGN 
    Elucidating pain or pleasure points is a good idea. I'm still tweaking my cold call script. No site up yet as I finished my two portfolios and immediately started going to networking and trying the cold calling. FB DMs or offering help in FB groups is my next target, seeing how current ads work...
  6. RicardoGrande

    I will log every day on my journey from <$1000 to $1M+ from 17 to 19

    HOT! FTE SAAS / APPS EXECUTION 
    Just to jump in on the earlier discussion on freemium and scale... Don't know if you've seen it, but there was a buzz about buying and flipping chrome extension businesses. You could either buy and revitalize an existing one, or purchase an existing free extension and then pay wall it...
  7. RicardoGrande

    Exiting the cubicle farm and taking Web-Design full time

    HOT! SIDE HUSTLE WEB DESIGN 
    For sure, that in-person interaction, especially when you have the advantage or skills needed, can't be replaced. I've had my best interactions from just showing up to networking events or asking business owners about their operations when I visit say a cafe or the like. Due to dayjob though...
  8. RicardoGrande

    Exiting the cubicle farm and taking Web-Design full time

    HOT! SIDE HUSTLE WEB DESIGN 
    Alright, probably last update for the week: Went ahead and tried for another 15 calls today, some things are working, some things not. 11 actually went through. Finally managed to get past a gatekeeper! She literally put me on hold to go bring the owner of the practice over! I chalk it up to...
  9. RicardoGrande

    Vinz's Journey - Finally getting started.

    SIDE HUSTLE WEB DESIGN 
    Good luck brah, I started FWS around the same time as you but also had to duck out around the same time due to a few stout kicks in the pants from life. Looks like you had a few things going for you the last time you had momentum, build it back up and keep it up mate!
  10. RicardoGrande

    **This thread will change the way you think.**

    GOLD! HOT! 
    One resource that really helped me (after doing it enough times for it to stick), was tony robbins personal power II which I think a few people here and even Tim Ferris have brought up. There's quite a few good distinctions, like the power of focus, watching your energy and state, but one that...
  11. RicardoGrande

    The Proliferation of "Outdated Advice"

    MARKETING 
    My Grandma keeps telling me that I need to invest my savings into "solid companies with a good future ahead of them" like Walmart and Tesla, does that count?
  12. RicardoGrande

    Please Critique My Current Entrepreneurial Plan!

    IDEA 
    Others here will really focus in on the budget or you not having an idea yet, I just want you to focus on the beginning sentence, the "grind" and "working for a company". I worked my @ss off to get my certs, got the job, and was basically sent straight into hell, I literally had my first FTE 40...
  13. RicardoGrande

    Please Critique My Current Entrepreneurial Plan!

    IDEA 
    I'm more of the Net Eng side of security/networking but my two cents: OSCP is an involved cert, there's a good chance that whatever cybersec job you do get, you'll find yourself on call, working overtime, or remediating issues more often than not. If you're pining for that 6-figure job, you'll...
  14. RicardoGrande

    Exiting the cubicle farm and taking Web-Design full time

    HOT! SIDE HUSTLE WEB DESIGN 
    There's good days and then not so good days. Like Andy just mentioned, I changed my mindset to "I'm just reaching out and offering help to people who I believe need it". This really helped with just picking up the phone. These calls aren't scary now, I simply have value to offer and want to...
  15. RicardoGrande

    Exiting the cubicle farm and taking Web-Design full time

    HOT! SIDE HUSTLE WEB DESIGN 
    As promised, got over myself and made 10 calls, went much differently than I expected, so far we have: - 4 owners open to my e-mailing details about their sites - 2 went to VM - 1 full VM box - 1 owner not available, asked to just send in an e-mail - 1 owner already working on a site - 1 angry...
  16. RicardoGrande

    Andrew Tate's Hustlers University, Will it Benefit Me?

    GURUS 
    Andrew Tate is one of those dime a dozen PUA-Turn-Entrepreneurship grifters isn't he? If he's the guy that lives in Romania running a human trafficking/pimping operation and taking pics in front of rented lambos... stay away dude. P.S. Best of luck with cybersec btw but be careful with what...
  17. RicardoGrande

    Exiting the cubicle farm and taking Web-Design full time

    HOT! SIDE HUSTLE WEB DESIGN 
    Luckily, two people from the meetups reached back out, and I'm supposed to have a sales call with one of them this week. I feel a bit of wind back in my sails. -------------- For "finding clients": I went ahead and used an ingenious prospecting system that someone posted in the FWS facebook...
  18. RicardoGrande

    Have you had your "FTE"? (Or Was it an FTM?!)

    GOLD! MINDSET FTE CHAT 
    I think I posted earlier in the thread about my FTE I had about 80 minutes into my first 12 hour shift of my first "big boy" job thinking "Oh sh1t... I got DUPED!" which is all and well... but my life didn't change over night. After that realization in that cramped cubicle, I was just a...
  19. RicardoGrande

    Exiting the cubicle farm and taking Web-Design full time

    HOT! SIDE HUSTLE WEB DESIGN 
    Hey Andy, I was just editing in that you were super helpful and linked some resources over on the facebook. Unfortunately my social circles/media are a bit dry. I'm still examining the running a workshop portion though. Thanks for taking the time!
  20. RicardoGrande

    Exiting the cubicle farm and taking Web-Design full time

    HOT! SIDE HUSTLE WEB DESIGN 
    Time for an update. After really being in a dark place, I managed to get over myself in late Jan, something that was holding me back broke. I went from dragging myself back from work, to waking up before 5, working on my client sites or learning my tools, going to work, coming back, and still...

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