Hi everyone!
It's great to finally be able to interact with the community. I'm a 27 years old Mechatronics Engineer in Mexico, currently working as a high school teacher and researcher.
I've always loved school and wanted to be a teacher, but had my eyes opened by my sister who commented it was a tragedy to "spend all those years studying only to pass it on without doing anything with the knowledge". So I decided to become an Entreprenur and solve problems.
I've had 2 attempts at building a startup, both went broke.
I really love building stuff with the students, especially in robotics, automation and Natural Language Processing. But I hate the crappy pay, the 6 month contract gigs and the lack of stability (no medical insurance, 3 months without pay before receiving income every 6 months, long after hours to do extra unpaid work). And truth be told, I'm not getting any younger. Retirement age for a teacher in my country is around 75 years old and I'm set on avoiding this Slowlane path of retirement in a wheelchair or death-by-student.
Also research in my country isn't valued so either I'd have to do research on something I don't care about by joining a slow and corrupt system that pays barely enough to survive, become friends with a politician to fund me or pay for my hobby with my own wallet which isn't really profitable in the long run.
I've read plenty of Personal Finance and FIRE works, along with MJ's book which I loved and still dream of becoming an Entrepreneur. I want to FIRE and get enough to pay for more interesting projects in both business and robotics.
With my low salary I've managed to save $18,000.00 pesos (around $900.00 dollars) but I've been steadily consuming it while surviving until I get paid this year (around $3,000.00 dollars) which is unnaceptable but pretty common in my country.
In order to join the Fastlane, I've been working for 2 years on and off on an educative startup concept and I'm close to finishing the prototype. Since my work hours have increased (didn't really want the 40 hours contract but gotta pay the bills and was the most stable job with vacations and time to develop I could find) my progress has slowed down to a crawl. I'm set on launching on May this year at the latest and I've thought of finally joining full time in the community and taking this more seriously.
After this long presentation and rant, nice to meet you and hope to learn more from you all and strive together for the life we all want.
It's great to finally be able to interact with the community. I'm a 27 years old Mechatronics Engineer in Mexico, currently working as a high school teacher and researcher.
I've always loved school and wanted to be a teacher, but had my eyes opened by my sister who commented it was a tragedy to "spend all those years studying only to pass it on without doing anything with the knowledge". So I decided to become an Entreprenur and solve problems.
I've had 2 attempts at building a startup, both went broke.
- The first one was an Automation and Tech Company that I built with 2 Sales Executives and 2 Engineers. We never really decided what product to build, I got stuck with studying a master's and the startup, and overpromised on a project offer so we ended splitting up when the resources depleted. We still chat sometimes but have no desire to try again, especially after I moved to another city.
- The second one was a school of science that paid the bills but wasn't scalable because it required me to be personally teaching the students and due to the corrupt laws in my country, couldn't really grow unless I was a millionaire already. I decided to close it down but students still ask me to teach them from time to time.
I really love building stuff with the students, especially in robotics, automation and Natural Language Processing. But I hate the crappy pay, the 6 month contract gigs and the lack of stability (no medical insurance, 3 months without pay before receiving income every 6 months, long after hours to do extra unpaid work). And truth be told, I'm not getting any younger. Retirement age for a teacher in my country is around 75 years old and I'm set on avoiding this Slowlane path of retirement in a wheelchair or death-by-student.
Also research in my country isn't valued so either I'd have to do research on something I don't care about by joining a slow and corrupt system that pays barely enough to survive, become friends with a politician to fund me or pay for my hobby with my own wallet which isn't really profitable in the long run.
I've read plenty of Personal Finance and FIRE works, along with MJ's book which I loved and still dream of becoming an Entrepreneur. I want to FIRE and get enough to pay for more interesting projects in both business and robotics.
With my low salary I've managed to save $18,000.00 pesos (around $900.00 dollars) but I've been steadily consuming it while surviving until I get paid this year (around $3,000.00 dollars) which is unnaceptable but pretty common in my country.
In order to join the Fastlane, I've been working for 2 years on and off on an educative startup concept and I'm close to finishing the prototype. Since my work hours have increased (didn't really want the 40 hours contract but gotta pay the bills and was the most stable job with vacations and time to develop I could find) my progress has slowed down to a crawl. I'm set on launching on May this year at the latest and I've thought of finally joining full time in the community and taking this more seriously.
After this long presentation and rant, nice to meet you and hope to learn more from you all and strive together for the life we all want.
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