Hey everyone.
I'm a broke college student, majoring in Mandarin Chinese. Had vague long term plans of becoming a translator or something, but was kind of disillusioned by the whole prospect of 'life after college' due to it sounding so boring and constricting.
Stumbled across the Fastlane book by accident a few weeks ago, and the advice really resonated with me. I'd dreamed of going into business when I was little, but as I got older the image of the crusty, out of touch businessman sort of put me off. However the book and subsequent forum lurking made me realise that going into business is the closest thing to freedom that modern society affords us, and ignoring that would be pretty stupid. Especially considering the alternative. :smxF:
I'd had ideas for a few websites previously, but never got past the 'yeah that sounds cool' stage. Now I have about 30% of the code in place, and am currently figuring out a plan as to how the rest of the site will fit together.
Incidentally: while researching how to create my website I uncovered a need for a piece of software that doesn't yet exist. Unfortunately I can't code, which would originally have put me off. However I remembered that chapter with the faux painting story, and basically kicked my a$$ into studying a programming language. So for the past two weeks I've been hardcore studying Python, working on the project as I go. This software is my current long-term fastlane project, as I believe it has huge potential. I feel shy about saying what it is due to it sounding ridiculous, but we'll soon see how it works out. :smug2:
So yeah, I look forward to hanging out here with you guys. I'm glad to be part of this community.
I'm a broke college student, majoring in Mandarin Chinese. Had vague long term plans of becoming a translator or something, but was kind of disillusioned by the whole prospect of 'life after college' due to it sounding so boring and constricting.
Stumbled across the Fastlane book by accident a few weeks ago, and the advice really resonated with me. I'd dreamed of going into business when I was little, but as I got older the image of the crusty, out of touch businessman sort of put me off. However the book and subsequent forum lurking made me realise that going into business is the closest thing to freedom that modern society affords us, and ignoring that would be pretty stupid. Especially considering the alternative. :smxF:
I'd had ideas for a few websites previously, but never got past the 'yeah that sounds cool' stage. Now I have about 30% of the code in place, and am currently figuring out a plan as to how the rest of the site will fit together.
Incidentally: while researching how to create my website I uncovered a need for a piece of software that doesn't yet exist. Unfortunately I can't code, which would originally have put me off. However I remembered that chapter with the faux painting story, and basically kicked my a$$ into studying a programming language. So for the past two weeks I've been hardcore studying Python, working on the project as I go. This software is my current long-term fastlane project, as I believe it has huge potential. I feel shy about saying what it is due to it sounding ridiculous, but we'll soon see how it works out. :smug2:
So yeah, I look forward to hanging out here with you guys. I'm glad to be part of this community.
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