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I'm a senior college student and one semester away from graduation. I go to a brand-name business school, have pretty good GPA, executive leader in student organizations, have quite a bit intern experience. All of these give me a beautiful resume, so I was able to line up a full time job in a fortune 500 company in my early senior year.
I felt like the luckiest person among my friends and classmates when I got the offer for my dream job. My family and friends were proud of me, and I felt pretty good about myself too. I thought my future was secured and had no more to worry about. I just need to wait until graduate to climb the career ladder, and enjoy my upper middle class life style. That was the path I chose for my life like most people do, and everything I wanted seems to be so close and easy.
Until three months ago, I was finally out of luck. I got arrested for DUI after pulling out from a bar. Feel free to judge me, I deserve all the judgement. I'm just a social drinker, but I did make this stupid mistake so I need to face the huge consequence. Yes, the company took the job offer back because I did't pass the employment background check that was conducted 1 month after the arrest. Such a roller coaster ride! last minute I was so proud of myself, but now I'm a loser!
I pretty much get the dead sentence for my future job searching. Sometime I can almost see myself working in a small restaurant as a server or delivery driver after I graduate. ha! delivery job may be off of the list now. I started to endlessly blame on myself, and have so much doubt. I completely lost my confidence and ego. I stopped seeing the girl I like, and isolate myself from my friends. having weird dreams every night and don't want to wake up in the morning.
After living like a trash for a while, I decided that I need to get my life back. It's so hard when you try to fight your own belief. I tell myself everyday that I could either let this trouble ruin my entire life, or learn from it and become a better person. It is a easy choice but I still can't help to blame myself from time to time. I don't know what else I can do for living beside a corporate job. It is probably because of the brain wash from business school, all we learn is how to become a good manager in a corporate world kinda thing. I don't see myself being a entrepreneur in a creative way and I've rarely thought about that before. The only thing I did has something to do with entrepreneurship was used car flipping. Couple years ago I got a connection with a used car dealer. By paying a fee on each car, I was able to get cars from auction and resell under the dealer's name. I did end up making some cash and brought my girlfriend on a vocation. This business was not completely legal though since I was not fully licensed. I stopped doing that right after the vocation.
I want to be an entrepreneur. I have nothing to lose now. As a highly driven person, now I'm even more motivated to succeed due to my situation. However, I have no clue where to start and where I'm going. Need some inspiration and motivation! So I have been reading many autobiographies of entrepreneurs and watching interviews. I came across this forum and have learnt a lot from the posts. Specifically, I'm greatly inspired and motivated by TMF . Such a great book!
Really enjoy this community! I'm here looking for some advice because I know every piece of advice will help me get back to the right path of my life. I'm going to subscribe Fastlane INSIDERS after I done typing here, I believe I would learn a lot more in there too, and hopefully I can get someone mentored me some day.
Thank you for spending time reading this post! GoodLuck!
I felt like the luckiest person among my friends and classmates when I got the offer for my dream job. My family and friends were proud of me, and I felt pretty good about myself too. I thought my future was secured and had no more to worry about. I just need to wait until graduate to climb the career ladder, and enjoy my upper middle class life style. That was the path I chose for my life like most people do, and everything I wanted seems to be so close and easy.
Until three months ago, I was finally out of luck. I got arrested for DUI after pulling out from a bar. Feel free to judge me, I deserve all the judgement. I'm just a social drinker, but I did make this stupid mistake so I need to face the huge consequence. Yes, the company took the job offer back because I did't pass the employment background check that was conducted 1 month after the arrest. Such a roller coaster ride! last minute I was so proud of myself, but now I'm a loser!
I pretty much get the dead sentence for my future job searching. Sometime I can almost see myself working in a small restaurant as a server or delivery driver after I graduate. ha! delivery job may be off of the list now. I started to endlessly blame on myself, and have so much doubt. I completely lost my confidence and ego. I stopped seeing the girl I like, and isolate myself from my friends. having weird dreams every night and don't want to wake up in the morning.
After living like a trash for a while, I decided that I need to get my life back. It's so hard when you try to fight your own belief. I tell myself everyday that I could either let this trouble ruin my entire life, or learn from it and become a better person. It is a easy choice but I still can't help to blame myself from time to time. I don't know what else I can do for living beside a corporate job. It is probably because of the brain wash from business school, all we learn is how to become a good manager in a corporate world kinda thing. I don't see myself being a entrepreneur in a creative way and I've rarely thought about that before. The only thing I did has something to do with entrepreneurship was used car flipping. Couple years ago I got a connection with a used car dealer. By paying a fee on each car, I was able to get cars from auction and resell under the dealer's name. I did end up making some cash and brought my girlfriend on a vocation. This business was not completely legal though since I was not fully licensed. I stopped doing that right after the vocation.
I want to be an entrepreneur. I have nothing to lose now. As a highly driven person, now I'm even more motivated to succeed due to my situation. However, I have no clue where to start and where I'm going. Need some inspiration and motivation! So I have been reading many autobiographies of entrepreneurs and watching interviews. I came across this forum and have learnt a lot from the posts. Specifically, I'm greatly inspired and motivated by TMF . Such a great book!
Really enjoy this community! I'm here looking for some advice because I know every piece of advice will help me get back to the right path of my life. I'm going to subscribe Fastlane INSIDERS after I done typing here, I believe I would learn a lot more in there too, and hopefully I can get someone mentored me some day.
Thank you for spending time reading this post! GoodLuck!
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