23 Year Old Leaving the Slowlane

[NoRedBMW]

Hello all!

23 year old here new to the forums after stumbling on The Millionaire Fastlane among a list of books I've been going through. I'll try to make a long story as short as possible and give a cliffnotes background:

• Born into upper-middle class household, dad works 50-70hrs a week as a scientist, mom stays at home to homeschool and raise me
  
  
• At age 10 mom gets cancer and is told she has 3 months to live, she pulls through into remission after two years of treatment and I'm left realizing how finite time is
  
  
• Dad is gone at work 6 days a week, the 7th he spends the day grumpy and recovering. I decide that being forced to go to a job must be a terrible thing.
  
  
• At 18 go to major state school for computer engineering, hate the football, fraternity, and natty ice culture. I transfer after one semester...
  
  
• ... to music school for audio engineering on $200,000 of private student loans. 18 year old me disregards the number because with a degree I'll have grammies!
  
  
• Move to LA to become a rock star, work a music studio job for 7.25 an hour. 16 hour shifts cleaning toilets and vacuuming carpets quickly dulls the excitement of Billboard chart artists there daily.
  
  
• "Someday in you'll be an engineer here, this is all a test to see if you're up to it". I quit after the third time they ask me to work a shift over 24 hours.
  
  
• Get a job at a red retail store to stay afloat. While turning cat food cans so they all face forward I wonder what my life has become. It clicks that *I* put myself there and I have the power to change things.
  
  
• Move to the east coast, enroll in a certification program at a community college, then leave after I get an internship with a fortune 200 company which turns into a full time 8am-6pm corporate IT job. In less than a year I've turned my life around completely, and am making more money than I've ever seen before. The excitement lasts three months.
  
  
• I decide spending 40 years in a cubicle must be the worst way to spend a life. Everyone I work with lives for the weekend, and the only people with (moderate) money have celebrated their 30th anniversary, are overweight, and grey. I decide I have to get out no matter what it takes before I become "the fat man in the red BMW".
  
  
• I begin reading books like a madman to learn what I need to know to free myself, and stumble on the success story of Alex Ikonn (Luxy Hair), which leads to 4HWW, then The Millionaire Fastlane. For the first time in my life I believe real wealth is possible for me.
  
  So here I am now beginning my entrepreneurial journey. My goal is to make enough to support myself without a job within a year, and if it means spending all the free time I have outside my 8-6 until then it'll be worth it, because I know there is more to experience in life than trading 5 for 2 for someone else.
  
  Thank you to those who took the time to read my story. I'm looking forward to being part of this community.

 

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[RHL]

Jiz, O xet junitdjuumif vuu. Emtu xipv vji jiewz ifadevoup suavi. O xet huoph vu ximduni zua, cav vjip zua vemlif vsetj up 30-zies-umft. u_U

 

[NoRedBMW]

Huuf vu tii O'n puv emupi! Vjepl zua!

 

[Kingmaker]

Jiz, O xet junitdjuumif vuu. Emtu xipv vji jiewz ifadevoup suavi. O xet huoph vu ximduni zua, cav vjip zua vemlif vsetj up 30-zies-umft. u_U

Ji teof 30vj eppowistesz tu vjev't 50+ zies umft. Eqqesipvmz xovj e nofmogi dsotot gmeos vuu, cideati xjz imti xuamf zua hiv e sif ciinis ev vjev ehi. :xuuv:

 

[NoRedBMW]

Ji teof 30vj eppowistesz tu vjev't 50+ zies umft. Eqqesipvmz xovj e nofmogi dsotot gmeos vuu, cideati xjz imti xuamf zua hiv e sif ciinis ev vjev ehi. :xuuv:

Zit jeje, O lpux vjev pancis tiint vuu johj vu ci ep eppowistesz, cav xi iwip jewi 40+ zies eppowistesz qesloph tquvt xjodj esi emxezt gamm. O vjopl vji poditv des O iwis tex op upi ug vjin xet ep Eafo E7 xjodj hewi ni e dmai et vu xjev 40 ziest ug 9-5 dep hiv zua.

 

[AgainstAllOdds]

Ximduni vu vji gusan. Zua'si huoph vu gov sohjv op.

 

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[sWALK90]

Xjev OV iyq fu zua jewi

 

[NoRedBMW]

DDPE pivxusl iphopiis. O'wi ciip csuxtoph vji "tjuamf O miesp qsuhsennoph" vjsieft up jisi vszoph vu fidofi og ov xuamf ci xusvj ov vu miesp epf gsiimepdi et e vseptovoup gsun kuc vu qettowi opduni. Vji gsiifun tuapft hsiev cav O'f tvomm ci vsefoph voni gus nupiz


Tipv gsun nz oQjupi atoph Veqeveml

 

[eliG.]

200,000 gus eafou iphopiisoph tdjuum, nep vjev't vji nutv O'wi iwis jiesf. Xjisi fof zua hu vu tdjuum? O huv vji teni fihsii huoph vu e mudem dummehi O natv jewi upmz huvvip 6l op tvafipv muept. O lpux xjev zua niep ecuav vji sidusfoph opfatvsz vju. Vjiz xepv zua vu opvisp epf xusl gus djieq cigusi zua dep iwip vuadj vu cuesf us xusl xovj siem vemipv. Op nz vuxp vjuti kuct esi jesf vu duni cz, puv e muv ug nekus tvafout. Vjisi't e muv ug mudem upit xjisi vji uxpis ot vji upmz upi hivvoph ipuahj xusl vu tiswowi. Vjev't xjz O nuwif uwis vu vji mowi eafou tofi ug ov, xjisi O en pux. O moli nz kuc cav e muv ug vonit O'n xusloph cusoph dusqusevi iwipvt us optvemmoph tztvint. Puv xjev O qodvasif xjip O fidofif vu hu opvu vji natod opfatvsz.
Tu sidipvmz O'wi ciip vjoploph O huvve hiv gsii gsun vji kuc tmewisz tu vjev O dep hiv cedl vu fuoph xjev O muwi,natod.
O'wi jef vji teni raitvoup vju...Fu O seoti nz opvsoptod wemai vu ciduni gsiimepdi vjip jewi civvis dupvsum uwis nz voni. Duptiraipvmz O xuamf jewi nusi voni vu xusl up nz upmopi catopitt. Us fu O katv gudat up hsuxoph nz upmopi catopitt vu e quopv xjisi ov siqmedit nz kuct opduni? Ov't e vuahj raitvoup gus ni cideati O xepv vu ci vji citv O dep ci op nz desiis epf og O tjogv nz gudat up nz upmopi catopitt vjip O'n puv huppe ci et iggidvowi op nz kuc/desiis. Up vji uvjis tofi O huvve fu tunivjoph foggisipv vu hiv foggisipv sitamvt. Tu gus pux O'n huppe dupvopai vu hsux nz catopitt epf uav op vji muph juast epf jesf xusl.