Hello everyone, I just finished reading Millionaire Fastlane and Escape the Rat Race and I am happy to be here.
So far I've taken the hands off approach to making concrete decisions in life, but having just completed an internship at an Archaeological CRM company and getting a taste of the real world I've decided to make a change. The short story of this experience is that work often involves driving 3 hours to a hotel/motel for a week, work in the hot sun for the chance to find something interesting only to find out that the vast majority of artifacts found have little to no context due to the land being altered by machinery (either through farming or fill dirt by the roadside). Still I do my best, asking questions about the company, more effective methods in shovel testing, and being generally optimistic.
Having been surrounded with nice but understandably jaded coworkers, some of which have gotten their masters and been to Belize to work on Maya excavations, have regardless ended up back here to pay the bills. Realizing that what I initially thought would be a monumental opportunity was now regarded as nothing but a brief pass-time in a life largely dictated by selling your time for money. Another brief stint to regenerate the pain of working what is a physically taxing and unpredictable job.
More importantly I realized what occupied peoples minds in a corporate setting, which included pass-times such as videogames or watching tv shows or what complaints about work they had to experience or will experience in the future. Not only that, but they were willing to live out of hotels while having family or relationships at home for a salary slightly better than what I made working at Jimmy Johns.
I discovered this after taking a week vacation with my family after the internship finished. My mind was constantly thinking about the future and no matter how much fun I was having I still felt a little sick feeling like I had no other option. I realized I was unhappy and playing videogames, my main pass-time, wasn't as fun anymore.
So, to help document my progress I wanted to share my start and goals so far. During the past month I have listened to 6 books during my free-time, which is probably more than the last 3 years, two of which have been the Millionaire Fastlane and Unscripted : The Great Rat Race Escape . My goals are to continue educating myself, learning valuable skills, and starting a business. I'm currently in my senior year and work a part time job, but cutting out videogames the past two weeks has made me realize how much time I was missing out on during the day.
I expect this to be difficult, but I do not feel that debilitating sense of dread anymore. I chose to do this and in turn I think I have a clearer mind and am a better person than I was two weeks ago.
So far I've taken the hands off approach to making concrete decisions in life, but having just completed an internship at an Archaeological CRM company and getting a taste of the real world I've decided to make a change. The short story of this experience is that work often involves driving 3 hours to a hotel/motel for a week, work in the hot sun for the chance to find something interesting only to find out that the vast majority of artifacts found have little to no context due to the land being altered by machinery (either through farming or fill dirt by the roadside). Still I do my best, asking questions about the company, more effective methods in shovel testing, and being generally optimistic.
Having been surrounded with nice but understandably jaded coworkers, some of which have gotten their masters and been to Belize to work on Maya excavations, have regardless ended up back here to pay the bills. Realizing that what I initially thought would be a monumental opportunity was now regarded as nothing but a brief pass-time in a life largely dictated by selling your time for money. Another brief stint to regenerate the pain of working what is a physically taxing and unpredictable job.
More importantly I realized what occupied peoples minds in a corporate setting, which included pass-times such as videogames or watching tv shows or what complaints about work they had to experience or will experience in the future. Not only that, but they were willing to live out of hotels while having family or relationships at home for a salary slightly better than what I made working at Jimmy Johns.
I discovered this after taking a week vacation with my family after the internship finished. My mind was constantly thinking about the future and no matter how much fun I was having I still felt a little sick feeling like I had no other option. I realized I was unhappy and playing videogames, my main pass-time, wasn't as fun anymore.
So, to help document my progress I wanted to share my start and goals so far. During the past month I have listened to 6 books during my free-time, which is probably more than the last 3 years, two of which have been the Millionaire Fastlane and Unscripted : The Great Rat Race Escape . My goals are to continue educating myself, learning valuable skills, and starting a business. I'm currently in my senior year and work a part time job, but cutting out videogames the past two weeks has made me realize how much time I was missing out on during the day.
I expect this to be difficult, but I do not feel that debilitating sense of dread anymore. I chose to do this and in turn I think I have a clearer mind and am a better person than I was two weeks ago.
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