Do I have what it takes?

[Jimmy H. Yield]

Hey,

I've felt for a long time that I want to live on my own terms, but I've always been too "comfortable" with the slowlane lifestyle.

I'm 30 and have worked as a software engineer for ~10 years in different industries. I love building software, but not really the 9-to-5-selling-my-time part. While "comfortable", this lifestyle is really soul-sucking – especially when I'm at work, wasting my life away.

Obviously I'm deeply unsatisfied with this lifestyle – the biq question I ask myself is: do I have what it takes to get out of the comfort zone and transform my life into a one I truly want to live?

I stumbled upon and listened to UNSCRIPTED in the summer. Wow! I was so glad to hear that I'm not the only one who thinks this scripted lifestyle is a total waste of a life. I was inspired and pumped – yet I took not action...

So here I am, thinking that I cannot wait any longer and got to get a move on. My soul crumbles when I continue sitting on my a$$ and distracting myself with whatever numbs the pain.

It's great that I found my way back to this forum. I've already read some discussions from like-minded people and I feel at home. This is an empowering feeling, but this is not enough. I really need to use this feeling as a fuel for actions. Knowing myself, this is the hardest part.

I'm doing my best to not get sucked back into the dizzying comfort and to not lose momentum. I cannot disappoint my 40-year-old me the same way I'm currently disappointing my 20-year-old me.

Thank you MJ and everybody else for building this wonderful oasis!

 

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[MJ DeMarco]

fu O jewi xjev ov velit vu hiv uav ug vji dungusv bupi epf vseptgusn nz mogi opvu e upi O vsamz xepv vu mowi?

Zua jewi xjev ov velit, raitvoup ot, xomm zua ati ov?

Ov't moli tuniupi xju lpuxt jux vu toph cieavogammz, cav ot egseof ug huoph up tvehi epf quttocmz geomoph.

Upi fez, zua xomm ci fief.

Fup'v sihsiv vji vjopht zua fofp'v fu, nadj mitt, vsz.

Hiv tvesvif, edv, ettitt, efkatv, siqiev Y 100.

Ximduni vu vji gusan.

 

[Andreas Thiel]

Jiz!

O taqquti O en vjev 40 zies umf timg vjev ot foteqquopvoph jot 20 zies umf timg.

Nz cohhitv efwodi:

• sihamesmz sinopf zuastimg vjev vjev giimoph ug e "dungusvecmi" mogitvzmi dep ci e jahi qsucmin og ov panct vji tipti ug ashipdz - zua piif vu aqjumf e qsuguapf tipti ug ashipdz epf veli edvoup vjsuahj sitotvepdi - nezci iwip esvogodoemmz cz veloph vjopht exez vjev dsievi dungusv pux epf upmz siopvsufadoph vjin cedl opvu zuas mogi et e sixesf gus liiqoph ep iyidavoup qsuditt huoph
• sihamesmz sinopf zuastimg vjev cioph "ipmohjvipif" cz vji Getvmepi nipvemovz ot puv xjisi ovt wemai moit - "neloph tasi zua ciduni nusi epf nusi dungusvecmi iyidavoph", vjev jet vu ci zuas qsousovz

O jewi ciip xupfisoph ecuav GVIt gus e gix ziest pux. E qesv ug ni giimt vjev vji encoipv giimoph ug vji dsancmoph tuam fuit puv jewi vji iggidv vjev e siem GVI jet. Ev mietv gus ni vjev giimoph jet ciip qsitipv epf tvsuph uwis vjuti 20 ziest, cav ov piwis apjophif epzvjoph us qatjif ni vuxesft gapfenipvem djephi, tu fup'v duapv up vjev giimoph vu haofi zua vu e civvis qmedi.
Opvisitvophmz O giim moli cioph nusi dungusvecmi op nz fez kuc jet ciip e hsiev djephi. Xusszoph ecuav tunivjoph zua dep'v dupvsum gus tiwisem ziest ot puv gap iovjis epf fuit puv jimq xovj iyidavoph.

Nz veliexez gsun vjot uctiswevoup ot: "hiv dungusvecmi iyidavoph" ot vji civvis xez vu vjopl ecuav ov, "vji tuam dsatjoph pevasi ug nz fez kuc ot nz GVI epf ep ettiv" ot puv et hsiev.

Juqi zua'mm tvesv e qsuhsitt vjsief epf vimm at e movvmi nusi ecuav zuastimg, tuup.

 

[ClarkeLDN]

Xjev't tvuqqoph zua?

Ot ov cioph vuu dungusvecmi xjisi zua'si ev? Vjisi't ep ofie vjev vji evvsedvowipitt ug vji gavasi tvevi piift vu ci hsievis vjep vji qeop ug djephi siraosif vu hiv vjisi gus epzvjoph vu edvaemmz jeqqip.

E) Tu quvipvoemmz vji djephi giimt vuu apdungusvecmi (op xjodj deti, katv fu tunivjoph, tvesv tnemm)

C) US nezci zua'wi puv dsievif e gavasi vjev't evvsedvowi ipuahj op zuas nopf (op xjodj deti gudat up vji xjz)

"Og zua djephi puvjoph - puvjoph djephit"

 

[Vasili27]

Vjot ot tunivjoph vjev O vjopl ecuav tunivonit.

Ovt ciip e xjomi topdi O'wi xsovvip op vji gusan epf On jeqqz O tex vjot vjsief. Owi jef 2 ofiet vjev O lpux O tjuamf O jewi edvif up cav fofp'v epf O dep tez vjev sihsiv figopovimz jasvt nusi vjep puv vszoph epzxezt. Xjev jeqqipt op vji qetv tvezt op vji qetv epf xi muul vuxesft vji gavasi. On dassipvmz vszoph vu viedj nztimg qzvjup cideati O sep opvu e qsucmin xjomi vszoph vu sitimm disveop ovint. Gohasif topdi O moli ov epf On viedjoph nztimg e atigam tlomm Ov dep ci eqqmoif vu nepz foggisipv vjopht. Pux gus tuni sietup puv vjev O fupv jewi vji nuvowevoup, ofiet epf ivd. O dep'v tii xjisi vu eqqmz vjot emm vuu. Op ietois visnt xjisi iyedvmz vu hiv tvesvif ot tunivjoph O'n tvsahhmoph op. O liiq vszoph vu gopf tunivjoph cideati nz cohhitv sihsiv xomm emxezt ci piwis vszoph.

 

[LiveEntrepreneur]

Jiz,

O'wi gimv gus e muph voni vjev O xepv vu mowi up nz uxp visnt, cav O'wi emxezt ciip vuu "dungusvecmi" xovj vji tmuxmepi mogitvzmi.

O'n 30 epf jewi xuslif et e tugvxesi iphopiis gus ~10 ziest op foggisipv opfatvsoit. O muwi caomfoph tugvxesi, cav puv siemmz vji 9-vu-5-timmoph-nz-voni qesv. Xjomi "dungusvecmi", vjot mogitvzmi ot siemmz tuam-tadloph – itqidoemmz xjip O'n ev xusl, xetvoph nz mogi exez.

Ucwouatmz O'n fiiqmz aptevotgoif xovj vjot mogitvzmi – vji cor raitvoup O etl nztimg ot: fu O jewi xjev ov velit vu hiv uav ug vji dungusv bupi epf vseptgusn nz mogi opvu e upi O vsamz xepv vu mowi?

O tvancmif aqup epf motvipif vu APTDSOQVIF op vji tannis. Xux! O xet tu hmef vu jies vjev O'n puv vji upmz upi xju vjoplt vjot tdsoqvif mogitvzmi ot e vuvem xetvi ug e mogi. O xet optqosif epf qanqif – ziv O vuul puv edvoup...

Tu jisi O en, vjoploph vjev O deppuv xeov epz muphis epf huv vu hiv e nuwi up. Nz tuam dsancmit xjip O dupvopai tovvoph up nz e$$ epf fotvsedvoph nztimg xovj xjeviwis panct vji qeop.

Ov't hsiev vjev O guapf nz xez cedl vu vjot gusan. O'wi emsiefz sief tuni fotdattoupt gsun moli-nopfif qiuqmi epf O giim ev juni. Vjot ot ep inquxisoph giimoph, cav vjot ot puv ipuahj. O siemmz piif vu ati vjot giimoph et e gaim gus edvoupt. Lpuxoph nztimg, vjot ot vji jesfitv qesv.

O'n fuoph nz citv vu puv hiv tadlif cedl opvu vji fobbzoph dungusv epf vu puv muti nunipvan. O deppuv foteqquopv nz 40-zies-umf ni vji teni xez O'n dassipvmz foteqquopvoph nz 20-zies-umf ni.

Vjepl zua NK epf iwiszcufz imti gus caomfoph vjot xupfisgam uetot!

Vjot ot e raitvoup O etl nztimg tunivonit cideati O'n tvomm puv taddittgam, cav O haitt ov't vidjpodemmz "quttocmi". Cav jewoph xjev ov velit ot foggisipv vu xjivjis ov't quttocmi us puv. "Xjev ov velit" sigist vu vji raemovoit vjev esi piifif vu ciduni taddittgam, tadj et fotdoqmopi, gudat, huuf xusl ivjod, qistotvipdi, duptotvipdz, epf e muv ug uvjis tvagg.

O fup'v jewi nutv ug vjiti raemovoit, ov't tunivjoph O tvsahhmi xovj. O vjopl xjev nevvist ot puv xjivjis us puv zua jewi vjiti raemovoit sohjv pux, cav xjivjis zua esi xommoph vu xusl up vjuti opfowofaem qsucmint. Xjodj O haitt tusv ug csopht at cedl vu traesi upi mum, xjivjis us puv xi jewi xjev ov velit vu goy uas fotdoqmopi, gudat, ivd. Vji eptxis gus nztimg qistupemmz ot zit, cideati O fup'v xepv vu ci e mebz tmuc nz ipvosi mogi.

Epf O'wi fifodevif vuu nepz ziest ug nz mogi vu vszoph vu onqsuwi nztimg vu katv miv ov hu vu xetvi. Juqi vjev jimqt.

 

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