Hey, this is Patrik, a Hungarian college student currently spending a few months on exchange in France.
Long as I can remember, FREEDOM (in all capital letters) has always been the one thing I wanted in my life. When I was 11, a therapist asked me to draw my family by representing each family member by an animal. I drew a bird to represent me in the picture and the therapist asked me why. I had trouble answering the majority of her questions but I had my answer ready for this one without even thinking about it: because I want FREEDOM!
After starting college (and at the same time, starting to work part-time to cover the expenses of a student's life), it started to dawn on me what I need to do to obtain the freedom I want so badly. I will become an entrepreneur... someday. Maybe after graduation. Maybe some time before that.
Last year, I decided it was time to take action. And I did! I took some action... but not nearly enough before I abandoned. I didn't believe in my business idea (of which now I think it was really not that good and it's a good thing I stopped spending my time and my money to try to make it come true) but instead of looking for another, I just returned to the old mantra of 'someday'.
Then 2 months ago I came to Lille, France for an exchange semester. Suddenly, time was abundant: I take way fewer courses here than in an average semester at my home university in Budapest, Hungary; and I had to quit my part-time job in Budapest before I left and I couldn't find one here. So after a few weeks, I had a new idea and I decided it's now or never. During the following 2 to 3 months, I'm going to have all the free time I need so if I don't do anything now to make my come true, I can't tell myself it's because I don't have time.
Therefore, I advanced TMF by a few spots on my long list of books to read, bought it and read it. Meanwhile, I started to formulate my idea in more and more details and bought a course on Udemy to help me get there. My idea is perfect from a point of view of complexity: it's simple enough to create with the skills and resources that I currently have or that aren't too difficult to obtain; yet it's complicated enough to discourage most people from doing something similar.
I'm going to teach English online to my fellow college students. In Hungary, every college student must pass a language exam to get their degree and for most of them, English is the only option because they've never learned any other language and now they're too lazy to start from scratch. In English, however, they're willing to spend the equivalent of hundreds of dollars on private classes, on books, and they would gladly spend some of that money on a comprehensive online video course if it existed and they knew. I know that because even though I haven't found such a course, there is a number of platforms where these same students happily buy online courses to prepare for exams in other subjects: math, economics, IT, finance etc.
And since a good 50,000 Hungarians start college each year, providing that market with video courses tailored to their needs sounds to me like a good way to the Fastlane and to the FREEDOM I've always craved.
Long as I can remember, FREEDOM (in all capital letters) has always been the one thing I wanted in my life. When I was 11, a therapist asked me to draw my family by representing each family member by an animal. I drew a bird to represent me in the picture and the therapist asked me why. I had trouble answering the majority of her questions but I had my answer ready for this one without even thinking about it: because I want FREEDOM!
After starting college (and at the same time, starting to work part-time to cover the expenses of a student's life), it started to dawn on me what I need to do to obtain the freedom I want so badly. I will become an entrepreneur... someday. Maybe after graduation. Maybe some time before that.
Last year, I decided it was time to take action. And I did! I took some action... but not nearly enough before I abandoned. I didn't believe in my business idea (of which now I think it was really not that good and it's a good thing I stopped spending my time and my money to try to make it come true) but instead of looking for another, I just returned to the old mantra of 'someday'.
Then 2 months ago I came to Lille, France for an exchange semester. Suddenly, time was abundant: I take way fewer courses here than in an average semester at my home university in Budapest, Hungary; and I had to quit my part-time job in Budapest before I left and I couldn't find one here. So after a few weeks, I had a new idea and I decided it's now or never. During the following 2 to 3 months, I'm going to have all the free time I need so if I don't do anything now to make my come true, I can't tell myself it's because I don't have time.
Therefore, I advanced TMF by a few spots on my long list of books to read, bought it and read it. Meanwhile, I started to formulate my idea in more and more details and bought a course on Udemy to help me get there. My idea is perfect from a point of view of complexity: it's simple enough to create with the skills and resources that I currently have or that aren't too difficult to obtain; yet it's complicated enough to discourage most people from doing something similar.
I'm going to teach English online to my fellow college students. In Hungary, every college student must pass a language exam to get their degree and for most of them, English is the only option because they've never learned any other language and now they're too lazy to start from scratch. In English, however, they're willing to spend the equivalent of hundreds of dollars on private classes, on books, and they would gladly spend some of that money on a comprehensive online video course if it existed and they knew. I know that because even though I haven't found such a course, there is a number of platforms where these same students happily buy online courses to prepare for exams in other subjects: math, economics, IT, finance etc.
And since a good 50,000 Hungarians start college each year, providing that market with video courses tailored to their needs sounds to me like a good way to the Fastlane and to the FREEDOM I've always craved.
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