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How familiar are you with budgeting and personal finance?
Probably not very much.
How much stuff do you need to take? Can you uber/taxi if you need to? Pay your parents for a lift?
Just not possible. My dad is busy, taxis are expensive (also not sure if they'd take me in the first place) and I'm planning to do night shifts, so public transport will most likely be questionable too.
Normally they'd want me to continue school, afterwards study something.
Is there something holding you back from doing this? What were your plans for after graduation?
Yes, me wanting to kill myself if I continue high school is holding me back.
I think I wrote about it previously somewhere here, but basically my next nearest goal is to get a decent income, become independent and move out.
Good luck. There are things I'm able to see but I guess you'll have to learn them the hard way. Nothing wrong with that.
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Good news!
2 months ago I travelled to Poland to do my driver's license, because I couldn't afford it in Germany (4000€).
It was very scary for me because I felt like I was suddenly thrown into a completely different world, with my original and first language that I've lost more and more as time progressed.
Suddenly I was in a classroom with bored out of their mind borderline-emo classmates and was scared to death to get chosen for a question since I barely understood half of what was said (didn't help that my teacher talked very monotonously and muddy/unclear).
My Polish skills were seriously lacking (still are lol, but are a LOT better now).
The Theoretical Exam:
Did you know that the Polish theoretical exam consists out of 32 randomly selected questions out of a question pool of over 2000+ questions?
Thankfully I wasn't screwed, questions were also available in English (technically German too but I settled with English).
The problem? There was no English text book. Only the questions.
And the Polish text book was 370 pages long...
It turned out however after 2 or so weeks that there was an English text book too. Though only 120 pages long...
Well, at least I wouldn't have to use google translate anymore (criminally bad sometimes) even if I don't learn everything from it.
I'll just memorise all the questions!
So there I was after finishing all in person lessons, cramming the 2000+ questions into my brain.
I hated it.
It was like you weren't actually learning the laws but rather how the mind of the question-maker worked.
"Yes I know it's A, but if this F*cking question-maker thinks in this stupid way again then...
And wrong answer"
Also the translations of the questions themselves were interesting at times...
Funny thing was that I have had been learning for almost 4 weeks now and still hadn't passed a single test exam.
-But then I did one day.
Now we're at the day of the exam and I really wasn't sure if I could beat it even though I passed 10 tests in a row on my phone.
It's difficult to explain without writing even more than I already am (...), but basically I at the last minute thought that my software was incompatible with the actual test (hilariously because it felt too easy).
I sat down and I remember that when the examiner came to check, he took the longest to check my ID.
"Why is this 100% Polish guy, with a completely Polish name and Polish parents and Polish this/that taking the exam in English??????"
Turned out, my software wasn't incompatible (which was obvious perhaps but I was in big stress and lack of time).
And I aced the test so frickn hard I finished first and without any mistakes.
32 of 32 questions right, 74/74 points (you need at least 68 to pass).
The Practical Exam:
If I didn't pass this exam, I'd need to wait A MONTH to retry.
I didn't have that luxury. I couldn't stay any longer here in Poland, it was terribly boring and would be expensive to travel even more than I already was.
The driving lessons were cool, until they got boring. But most importantly: the flood in Poland postponed my lessons.
And at one point I got so bored (not having any lessons), I started looking for pretty stones in local rivers/streams and even tried stone masonry in my backyard (I've still got a long way to go
Thankfully the exam still was happening and my lessons were simply crammed right before the exam (only on one day I didn't have lessons, my birthday).
But my driving turned bad after the break. Particularly on 2 days I was incredibly unfocussed.
But I decided to seriously pull myself together, taking care of myself better and setting the goal to focus myself, especially during the lessons.
And so today I was at the exam station.
I was still doing a few mistakes. Particularly, I often didn't notice that my turn signal turned itself off mid-drive.
And so today I was waiting for my examiner.
He was late (lol) and really didn't seem in the mood.
He just told me to get into the car.
After an awkward amount of silence while waiting for the exam grounds to clear I asked "Sir, what you're name?"
"Chill out/Relax"
lol.
The start was awkward and while he was wearing loose jogging pants with a sweater, I was wearing tidy jeans with a white shirt.
I didn't understand half of what he said at the beginning and just guessed (correctly) what he wanted me to do.
I was so nervous the whole time, completely stiff and completely locked-in.
The first part of the exam I almost failed because I accidentally drove off up the hill with the handbrake being not completely put down.
Easy peasy on the 2nd try of that same manouvre, but it definitely wasn't easy peasy on my nerves.
We started the actual drive and I kid you not, I've never had this many weird obstacles in such a short amount of time:
-trash truck half-blocking the street entry I had to go up to
-a 20 meter long caravan of little school children going across the zebra strip
-another trash truck I had to overtake
-car blocking my lane
-after I parked, there was a car parked behind me on the road (where you can't park normally) and I had to drive out while having only half the normal space
-probably something else I forgot too
During the whole time, especially after he told me I had made a mistake at a certain section, I was soo nervous.
If I failed, I'd have to commute between Germany and Poland again (PAIN and costly) and would have lost an incredibly amount of time and effort.
But I kept it steady. I know I every once in a while let out a heavy breather lol.
I realised we were slowly heading back and while driving down the hill (literally 50 meters away from the test station) I almost didn't pay attention to the speed limit but caught myself just at the right time. Going just 1km/h over the speed limit would have been an instant death, exam-wise.
I drove back to the starting place, with a few communication issues.
We were staying still.
He asked me about that one mistake I did.
"You didn't pay attention to the stop sign"
-Well, I did, you know, but you'll know in a second what he meant:
"You can't see what's coming from the right side if you stop at the exact place of the sign. You can't just etc..."
I finally got where he was coming from.
Wrongly used a stop sign.
I'm done for.
Erledigt.
Zakończony.
He ticked a bunch of boxes in on his document paper and I...
"Twój egzamin jest pozytywny. Powodzenia"
I made it.
Turned out that was actually one of the "worse/harder" examiners. Apparently he always tells you to go to the tricky spot at the beginning of the exam (also where the trash truck was) because you can literally just drive right back to the station if you mess up the U-turn there.
PS: I only made 3 seperate (minor) mistakes during the whole drive. You can't repeat the same mistake twice or sometimes 3 times or else you fail.
Anyways, now I wait 2 or so weeks to obtain my physical driver's license.
These were some really intense 2 months. It's finally over.
My Future Window Cleaner Business:
Well, I lack the funding to registrate it along with getting a car, as mentioned previously. But I've got a solution.
And I know this sounds weird, but I can't really tell you what the solution is (don't worry it's not selling feet pics).
But I can tell you that I finally should have the business running by December or January.
It frickn sucks, but I think it's the best solution, also because it involves grants
Anyways, see ya!
What is your average hourly rate? Is it always 50€? Now that you have a registered business you could hire someone to clean for you.
I wouldn't concern myself with doing d2d. I would make getting unstuck as easy as possible. First, finish the flyers and distribute them. Regain some momentum first.
Do you want a lot of work?
So they can be thrown away with the rest of the worthless papers.
I’ll build you a site for free, I have unlimited hosting and AI website builder. It’ll take me like 2 minutes and they look professional
I myself did exactly the same about half a year ago. Need to pave my driveway, don't want the usual concrete, so here I goAnd at one point I got so bored (not having any lessons), I started looking for pretty stones in local rivers/streams and even tried stone masonry in my backyard (I've still got a long way to go
Funnily enough, people driving by seeing me splitting the stones started stopping by and asking me questions, so as for now I have at least 2 more driveways to do when I'm finished with mine XD
All I want to say is: if you want to get rich quickly, you’ll have to face many obstacles and handle a lot on your own. This is the first step toward success.
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