Hey !
After reading the millionaire fastlane , I decided to join the forum to get some new impressions of other people with the same goal and mindset.
Right now I'm 19 years old and graduated from school last week. I'm from Germany, so the school system is probaply a little different from the one you know - but despite this fact I graduated with a pretty good degree, slightly above the average but still nothing special.
I decided to take a few months off what means that I am going to do a part time job for the next months to earn a little money, while I try to figure in which direction my future should go. Luckily my mom (with whom I live with) completely understands that and gives me the time I need, as long as I don't completely relax and do nothing.
And this is the point at which I face my problem: I have no f*cking clue in which direction to go.
What I want to say is, that I have so much energy but I simply have no goal or something simliar in which I can invest this huge amount of energy.
Despite the fact I have absolute no physical talent, I have 3 abilitys in which none of my friends (or other people I know) can nearly compare:
There have been periods in my life at which I woke up at 4:30am and worked out for the first time, after that I went to school from 7:30am to 16/17pm, trained the second time from 18-19:30pm and started studying for my finals until midnight. For some it might sound like their daily routine, for others it sound like hell - for myself it didn't felt anything near hell, because I knew that I just have to win the High-school race at the end of the year, because I just wanted to proof myself. But I don't want to digress to much. What I want to say with that, is that I'm willing to work my a$$ off, if I have a goal, no matter how much I have to sacrifice.
But at least one thing I know and always knew: I don't want to end up in the 9-5 life, my whole surrounding is in. In my opinion thats the worst way for a life to live.
All my friends from high school are happy that they got their indenture and now starting to work, but I simply can't understand how someone can be happy about a modern-slave contract. It cracks me up so much and there is simply no one that thinks the same way I do. (After reading the book I realized I'm not the only one thinking like that.) I have a pretty small circle of friends that aren't completely f*cked up like the rest of the people my age are, but even these friends don't think the way I do. They want to work in a regular job, buy a nice car, a house, marry and then die. On top of that most of them are completely blinded by consumerism or the sidewalk like it's called in the book. So there is pretty no one I can talk to, like I'm talking to you, because I would recieve nothing but weird looks.
Don't get me wrong: I'm no one that boycotts working, but I boycott to work for someone else my entire life.
At the moment I spend probaply 8 hours a day reading all kind of books because now I'm finally able to read books in which I'm actually interested in (not like the absolute bullsh*t I had to study in high school)
Perhaps you guys have some words & inspirations for me, I'm thankful for any advice and that I'm now able to talk to people that think a simliar way I do.
Cheers
After reading the millionaire fastlane , I decided to join the forum to get some new impressions of other people with the same goal and mindset.
Right now I'm 19 years old and graduated from school last week. I'm from Germany, so the school system is probaply a little different from the one you know - but despite this fact I graduated with a pretty good degree, slightly above the average but still nothing special.
I decided to take a few months off what means that I am going to do a part time job for the next months to earn a little money, while I try to figure in which direction my future should go. Luckily my mom (with whom I live with) completely understands that and gives me the time I need, as long as I don't completely relax and do nothing.
And this is the point at which I face my problem: I have no f*cking clue in which direction to go.
What I want to say is, that I have so much energy but I simply have no goal or something simliar in which I can invest this huge amount of energy.
Despite the fact I have absolute no physical talent, I have 3 abilitys in which none of my friends (or other people I know) can nearly compare:
- Discipline
- Endurance
- Excellent Wwork ethic (If I'm interested in it)
There have been periods in my life at which I woke up at 4:30am and worked out for the first time, after that I went to school from 7:30am to 16/17pm, trained the second time from 18-19:30pm and started studying for my finals until midnight. For some it might sound like their daily routine, for others it sound like hell - for myself it didn't felt anything near hell, because I knew that I just have to win the High-school race at the end of the year, because I just wanted to proof myself. But I don't want to digress to much. What I want to say with that, is that I'm willing to work my a$$ off, if I have a goal, no matter how much I have to sacrifice.
But at least one thing I know and always knew: I don't want to end up in the 9-5 life, my whole surrounding is in. In my opinion thats the worst way for a life to live.
All my friends from high school are happy that they got their indenture and now starting to work, but I simply can't understand how someone can be happy about a modern-slave contract. It cracks me up so much and there is simply no one that thinks the same way I do. (After reading the book I realized I'm not the only one thinking like that.) I have a pretty small circle of friends that aren't completely f*cked up like the rest of the people my age are, but even these friends don't think the way I do. They want to work in a regular job, buy a nice car, a house, marry and then die. On top of that most of them are completely blinded by consumerism or the sidewalk like it's called in the book. So there is pretty no one I can talk to, like I'm talking to you, because I would recieve nothing but weird looks.
Don't get me wrong: I'm no one that boycotts working, but I boycott to work for someone else my entire life.
At the moment I spend probaply 8 hours a day reading all kind of books because now I'm finally able to read books in which I'm actually interested in (not like the absolute bullsh*t I had to study in high school)
Perhaps you guys have some words & inspirations for me, I'm thankful for any advice and that I'm now able to talk to people that think a simliar way I do.
Cheers
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