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I have found myself caught up in this book/community/forum at an interesting time.
I'm in a busy time of my life. My wife and I have two young sons with a girl on the way (we've literally had a baby every other Summer since we've been married). My wife stays at home with the guys while I hammer away at my job as a freight broker for a large firm. It's been a rough journey to get to where I am. As early as this January we were all cooped up with my wife's parents until I was able to build my book of business to enough commission to provide on my own.
As alluded to in the title, I feel I have found myself in something of a middle-lane. Not quite slow, not quite fast.
In my current job I have no commission cap. I make cold calls and do my selling thing to potentially large accounts, manage those accounts, and do everything I can to grow them. Like many sales jobs, there's a very low entry bar, but I guess I have managed to be somewhat "exceptional" as MJ refers to in his book. I'm doing significantly better than most of my tenure. If I were to continue to grind my a$$ off for another 3 or 4 years, I could likely make $200-400K a year.
Like the fastlane philosophy promotes, I have always been a big time and freedom guy. Before ever even reading the book, my peers knew my goals. I want freedom. Freedom to have hobbies without feeling bad about it. Freedom to pursue endeavors unlikely to make me enough money to support my family (I am an artist and a writer). Freedom to RAISE MY OWN KIDS.
When I was presented with this job, I saw it as an opportunity to attain that freedom. My goal was to work as hard as I could for the next few years to build my book. In the meantime I was going to be as stingy with my money as possible and save like crazy. Eventually I would pay off as much debt as possible, and hopefully invest into a few passive income side hustles that could contribute to my income flow. I had one big goal: A house paid off, 2 cars paid off, and enough passive income to at least not HAVE to work all the time. And yes, this path included investing into my 401k and mutual funds to help generate wealth.
Reading Fastlane Millionaire not only put a wrench into my plan, it had me captivated. I bought it on kindle last Thursday night and had it finished by Sunday (And it was actually a pretty busy weekend). Here was a man speaking my language (Time! Freedom! Control!) but his approach was different from mine. It was faster (cue snare and high hat).
To be honest, I had given considerable thought to entrepreneurialism. I had an intuitive hunch that maybe it was for me. But the risks seemed too great and all of the slowlane voices of my life crept into my consciousness every time I did: "It's unrealistic", "You'll never have time", "Only very special people exceed", and on and on. Loudest of all was my own: "You can't get distracted from your current plan!" It was enough to keep me from ever pursuing anything too seriously. Perhaps after I've reached my other goals...
But already the holes in my plan starting appearing. First was the drudgery of my current path. Freight brokering is a hard and very competitive job. And while I don't necessarily hate cold calls like many others do, I can't say I love it. Second, I hated pushing a product that wasn't mine. While yes I am selling my own customer service, I didn't come up with our model. I didn't come up with our technology. I didn't build our carrier base. I found myself trying to sell something I only sort of believed in. And third, the reward wasn't motivating enough. A house and 2 cars paid off? Well that would be nice but... It simple wasn't a provocative enough goal to keep me grinding as hard as I could. Especially knowing I could probably get away with half-assing the job and still make fairly decent money.
Millionaire Fastlane exposed those holes and many more and I'm already on the hunt for a business that makes C-E-N-T-S. It's obvious that if I put the same amount of effort into my own business that I've been planning on putting into my job, I could make many times more money in a shorter amount of time. I've always had dreams. I've always been repulsed by ordinary suburban life. And more than all, I've always wanted freedom. And here is the path. I know it's going to be freaking hard, but I also know I've got to do it.
I sincerely look forward to meeting all you folks on this forum as I make the journey to the freedom I so intensely desire.
I'm in a busy time of my life. My wife and I have two young sons with a girl on the way (we've literally had a baby every other Summer since we've been married). My wife stays at home with the guys while I hammer away at my job as a freight broker for a large firm. It's been a rough journey to get to where I am. As early as this January we were all cooped up with my wife's parents until I was able to build my book of business to enough commission to provide on my own.
As alluded to in the title, I feel I have found myself in something of a middle-lane. Not quite slow, not quite fast.
In my current job I have no commission cap. I make cold calls and do my selling thing to potentially large accounts, manage those accounts, and do everything I can to grow them. Like many sales jobs, there's a very low entry bar, but I guess I have managed to be somewhat "exceptional" as MJ refers to in his book. I'm doing significantly better than most of my tenure. If I were to continue to grind my a$$ off for another 3 or 4 years, I could likely make $200-400K a year.
Like the fastlane philosophy promotes, I have always been a big time and freedom guy. Before ever even reading the book, my peers knew my goals. I want freedom. Freedom to have hobbies without feeling bad about it. Freedom to pursue endeavors unlikely to make me enough money to support my family (I am an artist and a writer). Freedom to RAISE MY OWN KIDS.
When I was presented with this job, I saw it as an opportunity to attain that freedom. My goal was to work as hard as I could for the next few years to build my book. In the meantime I was going to be as stingy with my money as possible and save like crazy. Eventually I would pay off as much debt as possible, and hopefully invest into a few passive income side hustles that could contribute to my income flow. I had one big goal: A house paid off, 2 cars paid off, and enough passive income to at least not HAVE to work all the time. And yes, this path included investing into my 401k and mutual funds to help generate wealth.
Reading Fastlane Millionaire not only put a wrench into my plan, it had me captivated. I bought it on kindle last Thursday night and had it finished by Sunday (And it was actually a pretty busy weekend). Here was a man speaking my language (Time! Freedom! Control!) but his approach was different from mine. It was faster (cue snare and high hat).
To be honest, I had given considerable thought to entrepreneurialism. I had an intuitive hunch that maybe it was for me. But the risks seemed too great and all of the slowlane voices of my life crept into my consciousness every time I did: "It's unrealistic", "You'll never have time", "Only very special people exceed", and on and on. Loudest of all was my own: "You can't get distracted from your current plan!" It was enough to keep me from ever pursuing anything too seriously. Perhaps after I've reached my other goals...
But already the holes in my plan starting appearing. First was the drudgery of my current path. Freight brokering is a hard and very competitive job. And while I don't necessarily hate cold calls like many others do, I can't say I love it. Second, I hated pushing a product that wasn't mine. While yes I am selling my own customer service, I didn't come up with our model. I didn't come up with our technology. I didn't build our carrier base. I found myself trying to sell something I only sort of believed in. And third, the reward wasn't motivating enough. A house and 2 cars paid off? Well that would be nice but... It simple wasn't a provocative enough goal to keep me grinding as hard as I could. Especially knowing I could probably get away with half-assing the job and still make fairly decent money.
Millionaire Fastlane exposed those holes and many more and I'm already on the hunt for a business that makes C-E-N-T-S. It's obvious that if I put the same amount of effort into my own business that I've been planning on putting into my job, I could make many times more money in a shorter amount of time. I've always had dreams. I've always been repulsed by ordinary suburban life. And more than all, I've always wanted freedom. And here is the path. I know it's going to be freaking hard, but I also know I've got to do it.
I sincerely look forward to meeting all you folks on this forum as I make the journey to the freedom I so intensely desire.
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