Hello,
My name is Deppy and I am from Greece.
This post is about my experience in an job interview I gave few hours ago.
To introduce myself, I am a civil engineer graduate and chose this major in college because of parent and school pressure as a result of being an A student in school. I never felt it right, my gut told me "NO" but my brain (and environment) told me "YES" so my imature, non-thinking 18-year old self decided to go for it. I wanted to study Marketing but the university was in another city and my parents couldn't financially support me there. I didn't want it badly so I didn't insist and I chose a school close to home.
Fast forward 10 years later, I have never worked as a civil engineering nor have I shown any interest in pursuing this career. In my free time (which is plenty since I don't have a "traditional" kind of job at the moment) I am in Kindle Publishing. I have a good insight but zero official knowledge (I mean degree) in any other aspect of the social media - promoting side of publishing. I am doing all the learning etc myself, through learning platforms and exposure. Investing in the book creation and marketing is essential and when there's no money to invest, a slowlane job is needed. Jobs here is Greece pay averagely 500E/mo and that is the good case, if the job is mainly full time. Most jobs here are part time and they pay about 300E-400E, and if you do jobs like waitressing or sth, the rate is 3E/hour.
I've done several jobs but I don't want to ramble on my difficulties, we all have our own obstacles and our cross to carry. The purpose of this thread is not not to tell you my life story, but because few hours ago I went to a job interview for a civil engineering company. I don't want to be a civil engineer but I figured if I want to make more money than a waitress then I might as well find a job in the field I have a degree on.
I was talking to the head chief in there who is a very kind guy but very old as well, smelling like cigarettes and smoke and as the interview was evolving, the conversation went from me trying to persuade him to employ me, to him trying to persuade me to chase the civil engineering career. He told me I have a distorted image of what civil engineers do and that I am a fool not to want to work as one. According to him and his slowlane mindset, civil engineers make very good money (he mentioned an example of what glorious money is 120E in a day for a permit, which made it hard for me to laugh). In this day and age we live in, this is the perfect job.
In his exact words, he said "not pursuing the civil engineering career that we all want will be the wrongest decision you will ever make and that you will regret it for the rest of your life". He said I need to do this now because in 4 years from now I will be off the market. When he said that I will leave the profession at the age of 67, my stomach knotted. I saw my whole life in front of me and the vision stopped with me being him, a 60 year old grey-haired old person who on a beautiful Saturday morning was working full time.
I posted this thread not because I need advice as I know deep inside my heart that I need not follow any scripted path in this F*cking small life of mine because some random dude I barely knew 2 hours ago said so, but because I realise, wherever I look, that EVERYONE HERE lives like this. They all go about their small lives doing what everyone is doing. They don't wonder, they accept everything. From my family to my boyfriend to my friends, they all have this mindset and I feel so sad. So sad not because I feel sorry for them but because I love them. They are beautiful souls with huge hearts and will for life and I don't want to lose them, not because they will leave, but because I may need to leave. I may need to keep distance from them. Small talk just doesn't do it for me. I don't want to lose my loved ones and our connection, but on the outward no one craves for change and I desperately do.
Right now there are zero people in my life that live or embrace the mindset (except for one guy who I barely know) and to talk to about that/ for some mentoring, for some real people discussion - support, apart from this forum and its people. All I have is my vision, my faith & trust in the Fastlane and my hunger for a fullfiling life experience. And this forum lol. I believe those are enough but as a "weak" human existence, support is always welcome.
Thank you again for the chance to post on this forum. MJ, I love you for your spirit.
x,
Deppy
My name is Deppy and I am from Greece.
This post is about my experience in an job interview I gave few hours ago.
To introduce myself, I am a civil engineer graduate and chose this major in college because of parent and school pressure as a result of being an A student in school. I never felt it right, my gut told me "NO" but my brain (and environment) told me "YES" so my imature, non-thinking 18-year old self decided to go for it. I wanted to study Marketing but the university was in another city and my parents couldn't financially support me there. I didn't want it badly so I didn't insist and I chose a school close to home.
Fast forward 10 years later, I have never worked as a civil engineering nor have I shown any interest in pursuing this career. In my free time (which is plenty since I don't have a "traditional" kind of job at the moment) I am in Kindle Publishing. I have a good insight but zero official knowledge (I mean degree) in any other aspect of the social media - promoting side of publishing. I am doing all the learning etc myself, through learning platforms and exposure. Investing in the book creation and marketing is essential and when there's no money to invest, a slowlane job is needed. Jobs here is Greece pay averagely 500E/mo and that is the good case, if the job is mainly full time. Most jobs here are part time and they pay about 300E-400E, and if you do jobs like waitressing or sth, the rate is 3E/hour.
I've done several jobs but I don't want to ramble on my difficulties, we all have our own obstacles and our cross to carry. The purpose of this thread is not not to tell you my life story, but because few hours ago I went to a job interview for a civil engineering company. I don't want to be a civil engineer but I figured if I want to make more money than a waitress then I might as well find a job in the field I have a degree on.
I was talking to the head chief in there who is a very kind guy but very old as well, smelling like cigarettes and smoke and as the interview was evolving, the conversation went from me trying to persuade him to employ me, to him trying to persuade me to chase the civil engineering career. He told me I have a distorted image of what civil engineers do and that I am a fool not to want to work as one. According to him and his slowlane mindset, civil engineers make very good money (he mentioned an example of what glorious money is 120E in a day for a permit, which made it hard for me to laugh). In this day and age we live in, this is the perfect job.
In his exact words, he said "not pursuing the civil engineering career that we all want will be the wrongest decision you will ever make and that you will regret it for the rest of your life". He said I need to do this now because in 4 years from now I will be off the market. When he said that I will leave the profession at the age of 67, my stomach knotted. I saw my whole life in front of me and the vision stopped with me being him, a 60 year old grey-haired old person who on a beautiful Saturday morning was working full time.
I posted this thread not because I need advice as I know deep inside my heart that I need not follow any scripted path in this F*cking small life of mine because some random dude I barely knew 2 hours ago said so, but because I realise, wherever I look, that EVERYONE HERE lives like this. They all go about their small lives doing what everyone is doing. They don't wonder, they accept everything. From my family to my boyfriend to my friends, they all have this mindset and I feel so sad. So sad not because I feel sorry for them but because I love them. They are beautiful souls with huge hearts and will for life and I don't want to lose them, not because they will leave, but because I may need to leave. I may need to keep distance from them. Small talk just doesn't do it for me. I don't want to lose my loved ones and our connection, but on the outward no one craves for change and I desperately do.
Right now there are zero people in my life that live or embrace the mindset (except for one guy who I barely know) and to talk to about that/ for some mentoring, for some real people discussion - support, apart from this forum and its people. All I have is my vision, my faith & trust in the Fastlane and my hunger for a fullfiling life experience. And this forum lol. I believe those are enough but as a "weak" human existence, support is always welcome.
Thank you again for the chance to post on this forum. MJ, I love you for your spirit.
x,
Deppy
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