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- Jul 27, 2022
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Great to meet everyone! I stumbled upon this forum by complete accident while looking for recommendations for a new bank. I lurked around for a couple of hours, loved the content, and ended up binging all 3 books over a couple weeks.
About me, I’m in my mid-20's in the US, married but no kids (yet!). From a young age, I was always fascinated by computers and how they worked. I started to learn to program in elementary school and built my first website in 1st grade (back when sites still had marquee text and visitor counters).
Fast forward to middle school and high school, I was building fully functional web and desktop applications. I ran a couple of small ventures in the web design space primarily doing custom websites and selling IP Board and vBulletin skins I had designed. It wasn’t much but it paid for lunch and a little bit of college.
College was an un-eventful breeze (I majored in computer science) but a huge waste of time (except for the amazing friends I made a long the way). I started working full-time and the steady drip of a paycheck was amazing, I was making more than I was ever making in my life.
I didn’t stick around too long working as an employee for somebody else (temporal prostitute) and switched to being a freelancer (glorified temporal prostitute). This is what I still do today. Currently I take home about 600K/year (50K/month) doing freelance software development, but the time trade is brutal. I work at least 80 hours/week and I barely have time for anything else. Best of all, my passion for building software is dying out because it fills literally every waking minute of my life. Instead of 5 for 2, I’m currently trading all 7.
Recently, my father-in-law passed away unexpectedly and it’s made my wife and I think long and hard about where we are and where we are going. My father-in-law was a great man but he was consumed by his work. He did a lot to provide for his family and he gave them everything but unfortunately it was all at the cost of his time. My wife barely saw him throughout her life because he was always working, traveling, and providing. Did he end up retiring? No. I do not want to suffer the same fate. I want to be there as my kids are growing up, I want to spend time with them, teach them, and be free to do the things that I want to do. I do not want to look back on my life and only see a computer screen.
It’s time to pivot and do things differently. The math just doesn't make sense. Even at 600k/year (assuming that holds up), after expenses and giving the government their cut - it will take 20-30 years of saving to create a money system which replaces my active income. I’m not doing this for the next 30 years.
Time to stop being a prostitute.
I’m here to help and meet new folks so feel free to reach out if you have any questions, whether that be in life, business, investing, or software. See you around!
About me, I’m in my mid-20's in the US, married but no kids (yet!). From a young age, I was always fascinated by computers and how they worked. I started to learn to program in elementary school and built my first website in 1st grade (back when sites still had marquee text and visitor counters).
Fast forward to middle school and high school, I was building fully functional web and desktop applications. I ran a couple of small ventures in the web design space primarily doing custom websites and selling IP Board and vBulletin skins I had designed. It wasn’t much but it paid for lunch and a little bit of college.
College was an un-eventful breeze (I majored in computer science) but a huge waste of time (except for the amazing friends I made a long the way). I started working full-time and the steady drip of a paycheck was amazing, I was making more than I was ever making in my life.
I didn’t stick around too long working as an employee for somebody else (temporal prostitute) and switched to being a freelancer (glorified temporal prostitute). This is what I still do today. Currently I take home about 600K/year (50K/month) doing freelance software development, but the time trade is brutal. I work at least 80 hours/week and I barely have time for anything else. Best of all, my passion for building software is dying out because it fills literally every waking minute of my life. Instead of 5 for 2, I’m currently trading all 7.
Recently, my father-in-law passed away unexpectedly and it’s made my wife and I think long and hard about where we are and where we are going. My father-in-law was a great man but he was consumed by his work. He did a lot to provide for his family and he gave them everything but unfortunately it was all at the cost of his time. My wife barely saw him throughout her life because he was always working, traveling, and providing. Did he end up retiring? No. I do not want to suffer the same fate. I want to be there as my kids are growing up, I want to spend time with them, teach them, and be free to do the things that I want to do. I do not want to look back on my life and only see a computer screen.
It’s time to pivot and do things differently. The math just doesn't make sense. Even at 600k/year (assuming that holds up), after expenses and giving the government their cut - it will take 20-30 years of saving to create a money system which replaces my active income. I’m not doing this for the next 30 years.
Time to stop being a prostitute.
I’m here to help and meet new folks so feel free to reach out if you have any questions, whether that be in life, business, investing, or software. See you around!
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