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tldr: Had my first internship at 22 and was miserable about corporate america/government jobs, read TMF at 23, learned to code iphone apps at 25 and now I have an app that makes me a living.
I created a new account to protect my idea and sorry English is my second language
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I never thought i would be self employed, growing up I hated that my parents were always working M-S on their brick and mortar businesses for peanuts. Plus we lived in Mexico and having a business is always very dangerous and risky. When we moved to the U.S. during the 2008 recession, my parents already old were struggling to start new businesses here in the US, they started Mexican restaurant, a ball room and they both failed. We almost lost our home, parents marriage and me being in HighSchool I quickly salivated at the thought of making 70k as an engineer, i would say 'WOW thats a lot of money', but after taxes/living it isn't.
Since my parents kept struggling with the american way of life, I had to get serious so I went for electrical engineering since I was good with technology. With the help of financial aid and living with my parents i was able to finish my degree, but everything changed when I had my first 7 month engineering - internship as a sophomore in a nuclear weapons facility in Amarillo, Texas.
When I got it I was very excited, I thought I was Tony Stark and was going to build weapons for the U.S.
For 7 months I worked full time at this Old bunker type of facility that was used during the cold war to assemble and maintain nuclear weapons.
The first couple months were amazing as you would imagine. Then the lust wore off I worked with old scientists, engineers and no one seemed happy. If you think corporate america is bad, add the military and government to the mix. A slow depressing facility in the middle of nowhere with old people a prison literally, I couldn't imagine that to be my future.
My introduction to self help
I started to fall asleep at my internship doing pointless excel work and i couldn't figure it out why. I would drink black coffee, had a good night sleep, or keep my mind engaged and i was still falling asleep. It was the worst feeling ever to pretend to work, then I googled 'why i i'm falling asleep at work?' and some article from tinybudda.com appeared and started consuming everything I could about self help(audiobooks).
It felt like cheat codes to live a better life, but something didn't felt right. All these self help books told me to save my money and mitigate risk.
After my miserable internship experience ended I went into more 'deep' self help and finally found TMF in 2013 and resonated with me 100% and I joined the forum.
I graduated with 24k in debt, 12k student debt and 12k for my car. I said to myself that i would start working on my fastlane when i finished college and I did.
I worked a couple more corporate jobs, got myself out of debt, saved some money.
My first startup job
At 24 I read a post 'learning to program is stupid' here in the forums so i followed the copyright/gary halbert hype, it got me no where. then at 25 I started to learn the new programming language from apple(swift) and that was my escape from corporate america and jumped into the startup world.
In 2017 I jumped from corporate to work for a couple starrtups, I learned a lot.
My working app
After working for years on my side apps and failing.My third app got a couple sales each month and I worked at it every day.
I learned about
-Low level graphics
-networking
-video and audio encoding
-signal processing
-marketing an app
-apple frameworks
In 2019 i quit my job to go full time and its going to be almost one year since I haven't had an alarm clock or had to work for someone.
I feel free and happy
Thanks to @MJ DeMarco for writing TMF and Unscripted books. It gave me the weapon for my freedom
also thanks to legendary posters @Vigilante @JasonR and many others that wrote their progress threads. They kept me inspired.
note: my app is a video maker app, by subscription
I created a new account to protect my idea and sorry English is my second language
App store analytics
I never thought i would be self employed, growing up I hated that my parents were always working M-S on their brick and mortar businesses for peanuts. Plus we lived in Mexico and having a business is always very dangerous and risky. When we moved to the U.S. during the 2008 recession, my parents already old were struggling to start new businesses here in the US, they started Mexican restaurant, a ball room and they both failed. We almost lost our home, parents marriage and me being in HighSchool I quickly salivated at the thought of making 70k as an engineer, i would say 'WOW thats a lot of money', but after taxes/living it isn't.
Since my parents kept struggling with the american way of life, I had to get serious so I went for electrical engineering since I was good with technology. With the help of financial aid and living with my parents i was able to finish my degree, but everything changed when I had my first 7 month engineering - internship as a sophomore in a nuclear weapons facility in Amarillo, Texas.
When I got it I was very excited, I thought I was Tony Stark and was going to build weapons for the U.S.
For 7 months I worked full time at this Old bunker type of facility that was used during the cold war to assemble and maintain nuclear weapons.
The first couple months were amazing as you would imagine. Then the lust wore off I worked with old scientists, engineers and no one seemed happy. If you think corporate america is bad, add the military and government to the mix. A slow depressing facility in the middle of nowhere with old people a prison literally, I couldn't imagine that to be my future.
My introduction to self help
I started to fall asleep at my internship doing pointless excel work and i couldn't figure it out why. I would drink black coffee, had a good night sleep, or keep my mind engaged and i was still falling asleep. It was the worst feeling ever to pretend to work, then I googled 'why i i'm falling asleep at work?' and some article from tinybudda.com appeared and started consuming everything I could about self help(audiobooks).
It felt like cheat codes to live a better life, but something didn't felt right. All these self help books told me to save my money and mitigate risk.
After my miserable internship experience ended I went into more 'deep' self help and finally found TMF in 2013 and resonated with me 100% and I joined the forum.
I graduated with 24k in debt, 12k student debt and 12k for my car. I said to myself that i would start working on my fastlane when i finished college and I did.
I worked a couple more corporate jobs, got myself out of debt, saved some money.
My first startup job
At 24 I read a post 'learning to program is stupid' here in the forums so i followed the copyright/gary halbert hype, it got me no where. then at 25 I started to learn the new programming language from apple(swift) and that was my escape from corporate america and jumped into the startup world.
In 2017 I jumped from corporate to work for a couple starrtups, I learned a lot.
My working app
After working for years on my side apps and failing.My third app got a couple sales each month and I worked at it every day.
I learned about
-Low level graphics
-networking
-video and audio encoding
-signal processing
-marketing an app
-apple frameworks
In 2019 i quit my job to go full time and its going to be almost one year since I haven't had an alarm clock or had to work for someone.
I feel free and happy
Thanks to @MJ DeMarco for writing TMF and Unscripted books. It gave me the weapon for my freedom
also thanks to legendary posters @Vigilante @JasonR and many others that wrote their progress threads. They kept me inspired.
note: my app is a video maker app, by subscription
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