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[TheRegalMachine]

I've been a member for 99 days now. I figure it's time I made a progress thread.
At the start of the year I made a bit of a promise to myself to better myself and take some action.
While working a part time job at the start of the year I began listening to audio books while commuting. Grant Cardone's 'Be Obsessed Or Be Average' audio book opened my eyes that I would need to put in much more effort than I thought to get the results I want.
I found The Millionaire Fastlane believe it or not on an archive site of 4chan's /biz/ board.
It was the kick in the a$$ I needed.
In September I took a door to door comissions only job.
That was another sobering experience but a good lesson.
As of right now I'm in a state of setbacks.
I created an upwork account thanks to @SinisterLex and his threads on copy writing.
I will admit I haven't been acting on finalizing the account because I have no internet at my current place of dwelling and no flattering/professional photo.
I have started reading a book on python because I would like to make an android app at some point.
As of right now that is all I can think of to write.
Will come back and write some short term and mid term goals I'd like to reach by the end of the year to the beginning of next year.

 

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[TheRegalMachine]

Just last week I decided to quit the door to door job. Selling alarm systems in either poor neighborhoods where no one could afford the monthly fees or in well-off neighborhoods where people already had a service or didn't see the need.
I knew the job was bullshit (the manager who hired me claimed the average new sales person earns $500 a week when the average person barely stays a week.), but I want the little experience that came with hard selling. In the end I only learned a bit but didn't feel the need to pursue the job any longer. Along with my aching feet, being drained by the sun, and drenched in rain I was wasting my time.
Literally. I was wasting close to 12 hours just to go home with jack shit to show for it.
I was gambling my time away in hopes that I get a deal and the odds were always stacked.
Driving around in a van with a bunch of obnoxious chain smokers blasting top 40 rap music and screaming shit you'd read in 'The Secret' felt like a casino. It was a sobering experiece. I didn't want to take the path these folks were taking.
Lying to themselves that they were knees deep in dough and better off than the average 9to5er when they could barely make a penny in a day.
For the past few days I was worried about what to do next, I was still procrastinating about Upwork because I felt I wasn't ready, worried because I still had to make some money because I'm in a bad spot right now living space wise, and I have no concrete direction to go in my fastlane journey.
Well, yesterday I called a telemarketing place up and set up an interview. They were hiring on the spot and I need something to keep the wolves at the gate and to survive. Went for an interview today and will be starting Monday for $10/hr for 5-6 hour Mon - Sat.
It's not ideal but small steps still move you forward. Plus it's an evening job so I can dedicate my mornings to figuring out what I'd like to offer on Upwork and learn some skills to apply there.

 

[TheRegalMachine]

Started the telemarketing job yesterday and holy F*ck I can't.
To quote Obiwan the place was "wretched hive of scum and villainy".
The "orientation" consisted of paperwork, being handed a script, then being handed cordless phones to listen in to "Jessica".
An inarticulate woman with zero manners and people skills.
Then we (the other new hire was a young pregnant girl) were then told to listen to another young lady with a grasp of English that make The Tazmanian Devil look like a seasoned orator.
Finally we were passed on to Dominick a guy who had the voice of Colin Quinn and the abrasiveness of a shock jock comic.
Periodically we'd be asked by the short female supervisor if we're learning anything.
A few hours in to the shift she set us up to do calls. No instructions, no "here's what you do when x happens", just tossed on the phones.
That wasn't the worst part.
The seedy disgusting treatment of these customers turned my stomach.
They were Australians and Ne Zealanders who were duped into sending money for vacations then get bombarded with calls to take the vacation with threat of a price hike or being up-sold upgrade packages.
The behavior of the "agents" was inexcusable and unprofessional. Loud rap music in the background while customers are on the line, loud talking/cursing/laughing over voice mail, being out right rude plus aggressive, and just all around pricks.
I felt like such a sleaze in those few hours of being on the phones. I started to feel myself get depressed because the experience was making me feel low. I didn't even call my ride to get home I walked because I just need time to my own thoughts.
My expectations were too high I guess. And considering I need the money to do this six days out of the week would devour my soul.
I can't forfeit my morals just for a minuscule paycheck. I just can't do it. I can't take advantage of people who are saying they're broke and sick. I won't bully someone because they refuse to give me a credit card number. I won't be that type of person.

 

[TheRegalMachine]

So the new job is a setback but I have made some actions I feel good about.
Sunday I put on my best business shirt, a tie (I hate ties rarely wear them), and my nice leather jacket and took pics for my Upwork profile.
Tried to make them as professional as I could. Had to do a bit of color balancing and fix the lighting but I think the one I chose looks good.
Read every post in a thread @SinisterLex did about freelance work. After feeling directionless on the matter I'm going to go with data entry to start off and get some reviews under my belt.
And I've been pre-writing my overview and other info so when I do submit for approval I'm don't get cold feet on that page and start to second guess myself. Just copy and past.
I hope it get approved quickly so by the end of the week I can have a few applications submitted.

 

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[jon.M]

I know that feeling. Speakers blasting Spotify Top 50 right into your ears while you're supposed to F*ck a customer over.
You feel a bad taste in your mouth.

Good luck on the Upwork thing.

 

[TheRegalMachine]

I know that feeling. Speakers blasting Spotify Top 50 right into your ears while you're supposed to F*ck a customer over.
You feel a bad taste in your mouth.

It's a terrible feeling when some poor granny can't hear you because profanity laced music is thumping in her ear. I just apologize and end the call. And I had to do it many many times last night. I started to get even angrier when one atonal girl decided to sing along to a song really F*cking loud.

Good luck on the Upwork thing.

Much appreciated.

 

[TheRegalMachine]

I should have known better than to plan. Every time I make plans it's like trouble escalates from 0 to 20 in a second.
Gonna be real candid: I'm homeless. Like full blown homeless.
I've danced around the subject in past posts because at the time I was temporarily living under someone else's roof.
I've gone from living in a hotel with family, to living with an uncle (with family), to living with a sister who homeless with the rest of us but has a job and resources to get a small apartment.
Ever feel like you doing your very best and it just wasn't good enough in someone else's eyes?
As much as I want to go Fastlane I know I have to ease into it with a normal 9to5.
Subjecting myself to jobs I've never take if it weren't for dire straits.
Yet my family (all women) don't seem to care how I feel when it comes to job finding and other subject.
I've been contemplating just up and leaving for some time.
Our family dynamic is toxic and boarder line violent (not on my end).
I don't feel like the good son whose taken jobs that have ruined his back, feet, and given him sleeping issues.
I feel like the other income. The ends to a means.
And my poor physical condition is no mystery to anyone when It takes all my strength to get up and I hobble every time I walk.
Yet they constantly come to me with manual labor jobs
.
Something in me snapped this morning when I was woken from my slumber (something I don't get enough of and when I do it's of poor quality) 3 am in the morning and asked if I wanted to go on a road trip for my mom to get her birth certificate in another state.
After days of being told I need to find work so I can help her get a place I'm to just up and go for a ride. Mind you my other sibling sisters are accompanying her and she has AAA. But what got to me was the fact she brought up the fact that I don't work when I declined.
Finding work to me has and will always be stressful and highly depressing, so having someone pressure me about it everyday then on top of that remind me that I'm unemployed eats at me.
Half sleep and pissed I grabbed by giant extremely heavy garbage bag of clothes and other stuff and left.
Tired of the arguing, name calling, negativity, blaming the situation on supernatural bullshit, and unwillingness to take the financial haircut to do better, I just had enough.
In the moment it felt like a FTE but as I sat behind an abandoned strip mall not too far from the apartment I second guessed my decision. The heavy as hell bag didn't help either. Should have left that behind and only took the essentials.
But I feel like I've had a million FTM I misidentify as FTE. They never seem to stick. The dog on the nail raises his head bares his teeth but after while he just lays back down.
I begin to rationalize and second guess myself.
They didn't call my phone or anything so I guess they said "F*ck him." and took their Monday trip.
With no where to go, no friends, no other family, no money, no car, nothing but a few bucks, one of them Irma emergency EBT cards, my laptop, and my now two bags of heavy crap I have no real direction.
Strides and set backs. I see more set backs than strides.
While I sit here in the public library as the only shelter I can find I'm looking for solutions to my problem. Not the homelessness but the life I've set myself up with due to inaction and letting other people direct my life.
There has to be something I can do right now, this instant, to start on a better path.

 

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[TheRegalMachine]

Despite my shitty circumstances I've submitted my upwork profile for review.

 

[BrooklynHustle]

Go

I've been a member for 99 days now. I figure it's time I made a progress thread.
At the start of the year I made a bit of a promise to myself to better myself and take some action.
While working a part time job at the start of the year I began listening to audio books while commuting. Grant Cardone's 'Be Obsessed Or Be Average' audio book opened my eyes that I would need to put in much more effort than I thought to get the results I want.
I found The Millionaire Fastlane believe it or not on an archive site of 4chan's /biz/ board.
It was the kick in the a$$ I needed.
In September I took a door to door comissions only job.
That was another sobering experience but a good lesson.
As of right now I'm in a state of setbacks.
I created an upwork account thanks to @SinisterLex and his threads on copy writing.
I will admit I haven't been acting on finalizing the account because I have no internet at my current place of dwelling and no flattering/professional photo.
I have started reading a book on python because I would like to make an android app at some point.
As of right now that is all I can think of to write.
Will come back and write some short term and mid term goals I'd like to reach by the end of the year to the beginning of next year.

Good luck, man

You're going to need to pick something and stick with it for awhile to start generating success

Here's another audiobook you may find helpful:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01D3AC5VU/?tag=tff-amazonparser-20

 

[TheRegalMachine]

Upwork denied my profile.
I'm sure tomorrow will be a better day.

 

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[sparechange]

Get a job you enjoy doing, I worked at a ski resort for a winter and it was one if the happiest times of my life, depending on your interests do something similar to it, as for street life. Get a nice tent and pitch it up somewhere in the bushes

 

[Sander]

Don't waste your time, because you don't have a professional photo.
Don't waste your time ranting about Jay-Z haters.
Don't waste your time worrying about the definition of action faking.
Don't waste your time writing a progress thread.

You have more important things to do.

I'm sorry to hear about your homeless situation. But because of that situation, you really don't have the time to worry about a profile photo. I'm sure a more professional photo would be better, but no profile equals no jobs at all. Can you apply for a new account? Or join other freelance platforms?

Can you find a less hard physical job? Or a telemarketing job, where you don't have to screw people?

Remove I can't from your vocabulary.

Remove the idea, that you constantly suffer from fear of action. No you don't. You suffer from lack of confidence in my opinion. Maybe the fear of failing. You can take action. Multiple companies hired you based on the simple action asking for a job. You've had more jobs already than many unemployed people I know, who's been "searching" for months or years (the kind of people who's too stubborn look for a job outside their field of education. Apparently it's cooler to stay unemployed and make a living of social welfare). Taking a job is not fastlane, but don't think about the fastlane right now. You need to survive.

Get a job. Get two. Get three. Get jobs enough to make a living for yourself, so you can stop living on the street.

Bring value to people. Meet early, go home late. Make yourself look good. To others and to yourself in the mirror. Make an effort.

When you got the basics covered, then you can start to think about the fastlane. But right now, you aren't in any lane at all.

I wish you the best.

You can do it.

 

[TheRegalMachine]

Don't waste your time, because you don't have a professional photo.
Don't waste your time ranting about Jay-Z haters.
Don't waste your time worrying about the definition of action faking.
Don't waste your time writing a progress thread.

You have more important things to do.

I'm sorry to hear about your homeless situation. But because of that situation, you really don't have the time to worry about a profile photo. I'm sure a more professional photo would be better, but no profile equals no jobs at all. Can you apply for a new account? Or join other freelance platforms?

Can you find a less hard physical job? Or a telemarketing job, where you don't have to screw people?

Remove I can't from your vocabulary.

Remove the idea, that you constantly suffer from fear of action. No you don't. You suffer from lack of confidence in my opinion. Maybe the fear of failing. You can take action. Multiple companies hired you based on the simple action asking for a job. You've had more jobs already than many unemployed people I know, who's been "searching" for months or years (the kind of people who's too stubborn look for a job outside their field of education. Apparently it's cooler to stay unemployed and make a living of social welfare). Taking a job is not fastlane, but don't think about the fastlane right now. You need to survive.

Get a job. Get two. Get three. Get jobs enough to make a living for yourself, so you can stop living on the street.

Bring value to people. Meet early, go home late. Make yourself look good. To others and to yourself in the mirror. Make an effort.

When you got the basics covered, then you can start to think about the fastlane. But right now, you aren't in any lane at all.

I wish you the best.

You can do it.

Everything you said is completely and utterly right.
I've told myself some of the things you wrote time and time again.
My greatest enemy is myself.
Part of the process is changing mindsets and overcoming the ego.
The best part I feel about myself is I know I'm flawed and try to take actions to rectify negative mentality and habits.
It's better than just accepting them and never doing anything.

I let the photo thing bother me for a good while before I said F*ck it and just did it. It was one step closer to actually submitting the profile.
The Jay-Z thread was me venting frustration and to tell you the truth I felt embarrassed that I even posted it. Forgot it existed until you brought it up.
Wondering about action faking was me pondering and in essence wasting time asking asinine questions on the forum instead of acting.
The progress thread to me isn't a waste because in a way it's keeping me accountable to actually making progress and in a way driving me to act. While those actions are small and not "Fastlane" they're steps. If I didn't have this thread the issues I'm having would float around in my head and I'd probably never do the little things to move in the right direction.
And some of the things I've posted again are embarrassing but you know I feel better getting it out instead of mulling to myself.
I know a job is a necessity to survive but I want to make some effort to escape the minimum and medium wage rat race while dealing with that shit. I don't want to lose focus or give up.
An upwork denial isn't going to bring me down. Family matters won't break me. I'm just starting and there are other ways forward.

 

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[sparechange]

The best effort to escape the rat race is ironically working a job and saving a small amount of cash to use for buisness/startup purposes and Then you can quit the job when your making some money or have cash saved up, that's my opinion, others may say otherwise

 

[TheRegalMachine]

Get a job you enjoy doing, I worked at a ski resort for a winter and it was one if the happiest times of my life, depending on your interests do something similar to it, as for street life. Get a nice tent and pitch it up somewhere in the bushes

It's not about me liking the job. I've had jobs I didn't enjoy but I did them well and kept to it. My problem is I'm taking crap shoots at jobs and taking what I can get and that leads to being miserable because lack of control. I should be focusing on a particular job or employers that my current skill set would be of use to.
I have to figure out how to do that without just sending out my resume and a shitty cover letter (if I sent one at all). I will learn.
As for the homeless thing last night as I sat outside the library I had weighed my options.
While I was angry "Pride is poison", kept ringing in my mind. I aimed at my family but after a while I started to realize that I was being a rash prideful cunt. Lets just say I had a long heart to heart via text (sometimes I hate modern communication) with my mom and one of my sisters. Nothing came of it but in the end I'm still homeless but a sheltered homeless with food, shower, shitter, and a flood to sleep on.
Pride is poison, you don't want to swallow your pride you want to spit it out.
I spit mine out and will keep moving forward.

 

[sparechange]

Just get some job, having an income is very important, use that money to invest in whatever buisness you are interested in. If you are not paying rent your savings should be a lot higher than others

 

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[TheRegalMachine]

The best effort to escape the rat race is ironically working a job and saving a small amount of cash to use for buisness/startup purposes and Then you can quit the job when your making some money or have cash saved up, that's my opinion, others may say otherwise

I had that same opinion for years when I was younger. When I started the workforce that was my game plan get a job, save, start something on the side. At the time that was applying my art, graphic design, and web developing skills/degree into a freelance endeavor.
Unfortunately, things don't always go as planned. Earlier on every job I had were temp to hire type deals where they swore up and down that's how all their regulars started. I believed them and worked with gusto. Only to be let go once the quotas were all caught up and the business was in good standing.
Back then I blamed the employer for using me but I had to realize it was my fault.
Instead of sticking it out for a change in status and slight raise I should have been looking for better while working. I should have use their name and fresh experience gained to get hired at a better job then repeat the process. Sadly I wasn't that slick or smart to do such a thing.
So I've unsubscribed from that thinking even more so that I'm jobless most of the time and the free time I have could be focused towards building a skill to sell.

And saving money was an issue because I've helped financially support my mother since graduating high school.
If she needed money or a bill paid I'd end up giving money sometimes entire paychecks because I'm a good son.
This wasn't wise of young me because she didn't spend the money properly.
As of late I've saved, but I end up exhausting my savings while unemployed.

But you know that's the past and I need to take care of now and progress.
I'll need to find what will work for me and the get a job and save path while it might work for some or most it's never panned out well in my experience.

 

[sparechange]

I used to do temp jobs, they are useless. Get a "real job" that is consistent. Something easy and potentially fun, cofee shop, game store whatever. Commit to it and save your cash > use it to build a buisness > make money and quit. Lots of threads on here about buisnesses that you can start with a few hundred bucks, mj himself built limos.com on $900, how many millions does he have now? Also don't delude yourself time is better spent working on skills. A 40 hour week job still leaves you with 5+ hours a day + a weekend to work on "skills" whatever they are

 

[TheRegalMachine]

Just get some job, having an income is very important, use that money to invest in whatever buisness you are interested in. If you are not paying rent your savings should be a lot higher than others

Look I'm not against getting a job. I want a job. When I get a call back I feel good. When I start a job I want to work and make some money. Getting the job is my crux and when the job stinks I try, I so F*cking try, to eat shit and bare with it. I either end up let go or get really fed up with the gig. Which I rarely am the one to quit. I think the two jobs mention in this thread (the door to door and telemarketing) are the only jobs I've actively walked away from.
As for rent, ha ha, lets just say I've had to pay expenses in exchange for room and board for many years.
I've never been in a situation where I'm able to have income while other expenses are taken care of.
I'm envious of anyone who has had that living situation.

 

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[sparechange]

How many job apps have you sent out in the past few days? How many people or managers have you talked to?

 

[sparechange]

How long have u been jobless

 

[TheRegalMachine]

Don't understand how u say ur homeless and pay rent

My homelessness is rather new. Beginning of September. Before that yes, when I was employed, I contributed to bills/rent/etc in exchage for a room and board.

 

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[sparechange]

Edited my post oops, ok I understand better now

 

[sparechange]

Gl on the journey, stay positive

 

[TheRegalMachine]

How many job apps have you sent out in the past few days?

Probably not enough. I've seen people say that you should be shooting out 5 - 10 apps a day which can be done with sites like Indeed that make applying simpler but as for the usual app they can vary from quick basic info to 60 minute apps with asinine personality assessment.
Maybe it's not prudent of me but cherry picking job posts reap better results. At least I get call backs.

How many people or managers have you talked to?

My networking is zero. I don't know many people to get references or heads up on openings. My family members friends only mention jobs that everyone in town already know about so that's no help.
As for contacting managers I've only done this for small companies. I had got a job by finding the managers direct email and sending a resume and cover letter. I don't bother with big companies or corporations because they just tell me to call HR who in turn tell me to go online or they'll look at my app.

 

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[sparechange]

Just apply to literally anything in person, a coffe shop, whatever, start working ASAP. You can insta quit if you find something better!

 

[Dunkafelics]

Do you have Skype? I would be more than willing to set up a call with you and just discuss some of this stuff with you.

I am not sure what the job market is like in your area, but I am absolutely sure you have the skills to find something worthwhile. It is hard to get a grasp of everything that is going on, but you absolutely have the power to take control of this situation. You need to change your self-talk immediately, step-up and do whatever it takes to get yourself in a situation where you are no longer "homeless" and bringing in some viable income.

PM me and we will find a way to get in contact with one another. I will do my best to listen to you and help you create solutions.

 

[sparechange]

You should take that offer right away

 

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