Hello everyone, I have been a member here for a while and read the Fastlane about 2 years ago at a previous job I had while at work. It was so bad I had time while at my job to read the book all day. Instead of waste time I figured I'd read the book and learn everything I can. I always thought that there was a better way.
I went onto a new job in tech support, pretty much the lowest form of corporate employment you can get answering tech support calls. It just forces the life out of you and everyday you are just in a prison. I started the job I was excited that I would be learning about the products and working for a manufacturing company. Then I realized that there is no hope for promotion and I was really frustrated and not doing my job well. At this time, I was getting no fulfillment from the job so looked to start a workout routine and put all my energy into that. After completing that which beforehand I never thought it was possible to stay in shape and just thought I would be fat forever.
After a few months of being miserable at work, my work was suffering and my boss called me into his office and threatened to fire me that day if I didnt turn it around. I vowed from that day forward that I would come in and be a stellar employee and in the meantime find a way out of my dump of a corporate gig.
I have a degree in Electrical Engineering with a Masters in Electrical Engineering. My plan here is where I want to see if I can get some feedback to see if this type of plan is worth it for a fastlane business. I am 27 now so still have time to build something luckily.
I want to start creating a E-commerce website. I have been reading while at work (answering support calls all day gives me perfect time to just read e-books all day on my other monitor) a lot about SEO and choosing the right product niches. I am going to volunteer to create for my father who has a construction business a website for him for free and go through the entire process of creating it from scratch and building local traffic to his site to get experience in building sites from scratch and doing marketing.
What I ultimately want to get into is a lead generation business in the aviation field. To build contacts I figure I need to get into Aviation to build up the website. This is a high barrier for entry since doing that requires money to gain the private pilots license. I was thinking of joining the Air National Guard in Florida since they have no income tax to work one weekend a month while trying to build the business and they will pay off my 50,000$ school loans so I can have a fresh slate when I start with little debt. I could then use the Guard to pay for 60% of any commercial licenses that I get as a pilot while using the guard to build pilot and aviation contacts in the industry. The guard will not pay for a private pilots license as they see this as just a hobby but anything above that they will pay 60% of the cost so you can build up your hours. I mentioned my degrees as I would use those to enter in as a Civil Engineer officer.
Does everyone think that this route would be worth taking to the fastlane or is it too much work to get there? I know paying for flight lessons and trying to become just a pilot is the lower spectrum of the slowlane. I'm using flight lessons to build contacts to build an aviation website eventually, not just become a pilot. I would then use the E-commerce site to pay for the flight lessons and try to grow this business.
What does everyone think of this long winded plan? I see that there are sites in the field that I am looking at and they seem to be growing steadily over the years.
I went onto a new job in tech support, pretty much the lowest form of corporate employment you can get answering tech support calls. It just forces the life out of you and everyday you are just in a prison. I started the job I was excited that I would be learning about the products and working for a manufacturing company. Then I realized that there is no hope for promotion and I was really frustrated and not doing my job well. At this time, I was getting no fulfillment from the job so looked to start a workout routine and put all my energy into that. After completing that which beforehand I never thought it was possible to stay in shape and just thought I would be fat forever.
After a few months of being miserable at work, my work was suffering and my boss called me into his office and threatened to fire me that day if I didnt turn it around. I vowed from that day forward that I would come in and be a stellar employee and in the meantime find a way out of my dump of a corporate gig.
I have a degree in Electrical Engineering with a Masters in Electrical Engineering. My plan here is where I want to see if I can get some feedback to see if this type of plan is worth it for a fastlane business. I am 27 now so still have time to build something luckily.
I want to start creating a E-commerce website. I have been reading while at work (answering support calls all day gives me perfect time to just read e-books all day on my other monitor) a lot about SEO and choosing the right product niches. I am going to volunteer to create for my father who has a construction business a website for him for free and go through the entire process of creating it from scratch and building local traffic to his site to get experience in building sites from scratch and doing marketing.
What I ultimately want to get into is a lead generation business in the aviation field. To build contacts I figure I need to get into Aviation to build up the website. This is a high barrier for entry since doing that requires money to gain the private pilots license. I was thinking of joining the Air National Guard in Florida since they have no income tax to work one weekend a month while trying to build the business and they will pay off my 50,000$ school loans so I can have a fresh slate when I start with little debt. I could then use the Guard to pay for 60% of any commercial licenses that I get as a pilot while using the guard to build pilot and aviation contacts in the industry. The guard will not pay for a private pilots license as they see this as just a hobby but anything above that they will pay 60% of the cost so you can build up your hours. I mentioned my degrees as I would use those to enter in as a Civil Engineer officer.
Does everyone think that this route would be worth taking to the fastlane or is it too much work to get there? I know paying for flight lessons and trying to become just a pilot is the lower spectrum of the slowlane. I'm using flight lessons to build contacts to build an aviation website eventually, not just become a pilot. I would then use the E-commerce site to pay for the flight lessons and try to grow this business.
What does everyone think of this long winded plan? I see that there are sites in the field that I am looking at and they seem to be growing steadily over the years.
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