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So I've been lurking the past few days while awaiting approval, and I find this forum invaluable with a lot of really good insights from some very knowledgable members. I've read over the forum rules and the new member sticky, so I will try my best to post within the guidelines of the forum. I say this because I'm still learning some of the terminology and ideologies (I'm about halfway through TMF ) and this forum seems to have quite the different mindset as to how best to go about things. I've been looking for entrepreneur-minded forums the last few days and happened across this one on google and have been here since.
That said I'm 32 years old, living in MD although Massachusetts is my home. (I'm not from there, though, so I never picked up the accent. ha) I consider myself fairly intelligent but as anyone knows, that doesn't mean jack if you don't apply yourself to something worthwhile. Taking that in consideration I knew from an early age that college wasn't for me and I've always been a do my own thing kind of guy. But without the tools or a proper mentor I just went the trade school route, did my trade (welding/fabrication) for about seven years out of school, before I decided that although I was quite good at my profession and had acquired a varied skillset that allowed me the privilege of walking into pretty much any shop in my industry and getting a job, I had had enough of making someone else rich while I did the dirty work. Not to mention the praise in ironwork is very few and far between.
So I took classes for six months, and learned a skill on the side that allowed me to leave my job and become self-employed. It's been great but it's not what I want to do forever and I don't have the desire to make it into something scalable. I'm getting older, I feel my time is running out and I feel the pressure is on to make something of myself, and do something I can look back on in my later years and be really proud of.
Therefore I've gotten a side business set up, a house cleaning service (please go easy on me as I'm sure it's not "fastlane") which I enjoy and have lots of ideas for how to scale it up but this is all very recent and I'm still in the beginning stages of acquiring clientele. I'm guilty of not doing as much as I probably could to get this thing going due to fear of the unknown, or rejection, basically, but I have put myself out there and I'm working on it and trying to get over that and just get this thing done.
With that all said that's pretty much where I'm at now. I noticed you guys don't particularly like posts about business unless there's some progress being made so I will probably just keep to myself and continue lurking, picking up ideas and reading, until I have something, some progress or good news to share.
Thanks for reading my admittedly long-winded post. And thanks for having me here in the forum!
So I've been lurking the past few days while awaiting approval, and I find this forum invaluable with a lot of really good insights from some very knowledgable members. I've read over the forum rules and the new member sticky, so I will try my best to post within the guidelines of the forum. I say this because I'm still learning some of the terminology and ideologies (I'm about halfway through TMF ) and this forum seems to have quite the different mindset as to how best to go about things. I've been looking for entrepreneur-minded forums the last few days and happened across this one on google and have been here since.
That said I'm 32 years old, living in MD although Massachusetts is my home. (I'm not from there, though, so I never picked up the accent. ha) I consider myself fairly intelligent but as anyone knows, that doesn't mean jack if you don't apply yourself to something worthwhile. Taking that in consideration I knew from an early age that college wasn't for me and I've always been a do my own thing kind of guy. But without the tools or a proper mentor I just went the trade school route, did my trade (welding/fabrication) for about seven years out of school, before I decided that although I was quite good at my profession and had acquired a varied skillset that allowed me the privilege of walking into pretty much any shop in my industry and getting a job, I had had enough of making someone else rich while I did the dirty work. Not to mention the praise in ironwork is very few and far between.
So I took classes for six months, and learned a skill on the side that allowed me to leave my job and become self-employed. It's been great but it's not what I want to do forever and I don't have the desire to make it into something scalable. I'm getting older, I feel my time is running out and I feel the pressure is on to make something of myself, and do something I can look back on in my later years and be really proud of.
Therefore I've gotten a side business set up, a house cleaning service (please go easy on me as I'm sure it's not "fastlane") which I enjoy and have lots of ideas for how to scale it up but this is all very recent and I'm still in the beginning stages of acquiring clientele. I'm guilty of not doing as much as I probably could to get this thing going due to fear of the unknown, or rejection, basically, but I have put myself out there and I'm working on it and trying to get over that and just get this thing done.
With that all said that's pretty much where I'm at now. I noticed you guys don't particularly like posts about business unless there's some progress being made so I will probably just keep to myself and continue lurking, picking up ideas and reading, until I have something, some progress or good news to share.
Thanks for reading my admittedly long-winded post. And thanks for having me here in the forum!
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