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Hi everybody,
my name is Alberto and I am 51(!), from Italy. Nice to “meet” you.
I am an electrical engineer, a good freelance professional, and I always liked travelling and to know other cultures. I speak 5 idioms and love soccer and basketball. My wife is Brazilian and we have 2 beautiful daughters, 11 and 17. I’ve read TMF and I swear I will soon read Unscripted
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I am not satisfied of my professional life in terms of income and this makes me feel frustrated since several years now. Point is, ‘til now all my frustration wasn’t enough to push me in an entrepreneur life. As I learned reading from some book, our first financial education comes from the family. My father was working for the PA, he and my mum barely afforded to go out at restaurant (I think in my all teen-age we’ve been a couple of times out of weddings and other ceremonies) and he was super concentrated in savings, nevertheless conducing a life poor of consumer satisfactions due to the relatively low salary and considering he had to sustain 3 persons at home.
So I graduated well and early and after 15 months of compulsory military service I spent as a Navy Officer, I started as a maintenance engineer in a steelwork. To cut a long story short, when I was 31 with my first son arriving, I decided to leave the employee world and jump into the uncertain terrain of the free profession, basically – as I lately discovered – trading one kind of slavery for another. We bought an house whose mortgage we are still paying and we are currently full of expenses; my wife went back to the University to take a degree and so I am in the same situation of my father, with the difference that I have good incomes - compared to the middle class, bullshit in absolute terms – and we travel at least once per year, went regularly to restaurant, we dress quite good, have a couple of cars etc. Of course, guess what? There is almost no space for savings and as my incomes depends from my time, I am and I feel constantly at risk – and this increases my frustration.
I understood I have to change my mindset some years ago, but my brain has always found good excuses to prevent me to escape from the hamster wheel; basically, I think I had a mixture of laziness and fear and I hope now I am determined enough to find my way out of the cage. By the end limits, like fears, are often just an illusion, as another famous MJ said some years ago.
So I wanna thank @MJ DeMarco and all you here because the mindset change passes through the knowledge and in this virtual space you give me the possibility to learn, to see things via your thoughts, so opening my mind – thing that is impossible frequenting my friends who comfortably earn their salary living in a house they have inherited from their parents.
Some posts are really deep, congratulations.
Too late to change for me? I don’t think so, despite my brain made me believe it for a long time. But I decided not to be my brain. I’ve learned to shut up this negative thinking, I know it is only the first step of the ladder and I pray God I will be strong enough to rise ‘til the top.
my name is Alberto and I am 51(!), from Italy. Nice to “meet” you.
I am an electrical engineer, a good freelance professional, and I always liked travelling and to know other cultures. I speak 5 idioms and love soccer and basketball. My wife is Brazilian and we have 2 beautiful daughters, 11 and 17. I’ve read TMF and I swear I will soon read Unscripted
.I am not satisfied of my professional life in terms of income and this makes me feel frustrated since several years now. Point is, ‘til now all my frustration wasn’t enough to push me in an entrepreneur life. As I learned reading from some book, our first financial education comes from the family. My father was working for the PA, he and my mum barely afforded to go out at restaurant (I think in my all teen-age we’ve been a couple of times out of weddings and other ceremonies) and he was super concentrated in savings, nevertheless conducing a life poor of consumer satisfactions due to the relatively low salary and considering he had to sustain 3 persons at home.
So I graduated well and early and after 15 months of compulsory military service I spent as a Navy Officer, I started as a maintenance engineer in a steelwork. To cut a long story short, when I was 31 with my first son arriving, I decided to leave the employee world and jump into the uncertain terrain of the free profession, basically – as I lately discovered – trading one kind of slavery for another. We bought an house whose mortgage we are still paying and we are currently full of expenses; my wife went back to the University to take a degree and so I am in the same situation of my father, with the difference that I have good incomes - compared to the middle class, bullshit in absolute terms – and we travel at least once per year, went regularly to restaurant, we dress quite good, have a couple of cars etc. Of course, guess what? There is almost no space for savings and as my incomes depends from my time, I am and I feel constantly at risk – and this increases my frustration.
I understood I have to change my mindset some years ago, but my brain has always found good excuses to prevent me to escape from the hamster wheel; basically, I think I had a mixture of laziness and fear and I hope now I am determined enough to find my way out of the cage. By the end limits, like fears, are often just an illusion, as another famous MJ said some years ago.
So I wanna thank @MJ DeMarco and all you here because the mindset change passes through the knowledge and in this virtual space you give me the possibility to learn, to see things via your thoughts, so opening my mind – thing that is impossible frequenting my friends who comfortably earn their salary living in a house they have inherited from their parents.
Some posts are really deep, congratulations.
Too late to change for me? I don’t think so, despite my brain made me believe it for a long time. But I decided not to be my brain. I’ve learned to shut up this negative thinking, I know it is only the first step of the ladder and I pray God I will be strong enough to rise ‘til the top.
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