BizBrain
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- Apr 1, 2023
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“Do I need to be liked? Absolutely not. I like to be liked. I enjoy being liked. I have to be liked. But it’s not like this compulsive need like my need to be praised.” - Michael Scott
I’m not sure how this will land with the crowds here, but I’m a huge Michael Scott fan. I adore his work.
Now that the important stuff is out of the way- let me introduce myself.
Background:
I recently self diagnosed myself with Adult ADHD, which helped clear up a lot of WTF moments for me. Thank you YouTube and Google.
Growing up I was a very introverted kid who kept a very small group of friends. Very small. Like one friend.
I excelled early on in grade school and was put into advanced and gifted classes. I won spelling bees and was often noticed for my outstanding academic achievements.
Junior High and High School I started to develop some early 90’s “too cool for school” angst, and started purposely removing myself through lack of participation. I didn’t have many kids that I wanted to be friends with and just didn’t feel like I belonged. Freshmen year of High School I told my parents I’d rather be home schooled, so they took me out of public school shortly after. I ended up graduating High School a full year early once I was able to study at my own pace and do things my way.
Never went to college- well, actually I did half of semester at community college then had to drop out because of money problems with living expenses and conflict with my full time job. So yeah…as I was saying, never went to college.
I was forced into blue collar construction work as a young adult and since college didn’t work out for me, I ended up just getting sucked in to learning a bunch of trades and being one of those guys that’s like never really mastered any one trade, but can tell you enough interesting facts to make you believe that I know what I’m talking about.
I started to notice over the years that the harder I worked, and the more a$$ I kissed, along with finding efficient ways to take on certain processes and tasks, the more work my peers would pile on me.
Once I finally stopped to look around and take stock, (right around the time I had my first kid), I realized I had been trying to climb the socio-economic ”career” ladder, but the ladder only had three rungs. Aka- I was going nowhere.
My skill sets were bland. The field of work I was in was low paying with a very low ceiling. The people I worked around were insufferable and stereotypical blue collar meat heads.
It was around this time that I hopped on google to start researching stuff like “how to make $100,000 a year with no degree”. Boy if I only knew how that would turn out! Two year rabbit hole of Thai Lopez-esque wannabe schmucks…
I have never had a career path, never wanted to be your typical “cog in the wheel” so to speak. Working for others is just not my style. Don’t get me wrong- I’m extremely good at work. I become very efficient with almost all jobs that I’ve had, I work very hard, I’m early, stay late, I do all the “stuff“.
It just irks me when I wake up and I think to myself “ah shit, do I really have to put my monkey suit on and play these stupid games to win stupid prizes today…” (insert dramatic eye roll here). Anyways, yeah I’m just your average worker bee who’s out there collecting a paycheck, trading time for peanu… I mean money.
When I was first introduced to MJs books, it was like I was reading my own inner monologue. It was crazy. Everything he said made perfect sense. I felt so justified knowing the way I had been feeling and thinking wasn’t just some chemical imbalance in my tiny little monkey brain!
Special Skills:
My special skills are as follows (in order of no importance)- Annoying my wife, annoying my kids, being overly sarcastic, people pleasing, annoying my wife, calling out sick from work, recognizing patterns, people watching, writing bad copy, operating hand tools, going to bed super early and waking up super early, skateboarding very poorly, talking about how cool I used to be, acting extremely professional and well mannered, high level communication, and not taking life too seriously.
*Editors Note- (This reads like the side effects on an anti depressant pill commercial. I’m sorry.)
Why Am I Here?
I was referred to this forum from a friend who’s been on here for quite some time. He actually turned me onto this place back in 2016-2017 when I would just lurk and scroll through Ice Cream Kids posts, thinking to myself “holy shit, these guys are next level“. However, as any lurker does, I would sit and daydream about alllll of the amazing things I could do with this wealth of information- and then take absolutely no action at all.
Yeah, you read that right. I’m your typical “wantreprenuer”. Mental masturbation is my drug of choice.
You‘re probably thinking, “cool dude, so you just came on here to rant and post about a bunch of nonsense?
Well, kinda… but I also just got laid off from my job. I have been searching for a new job, and every day I have to use LinkedIn and Indeed and submit all of those stupid little questionnaires that ask you the same questions over and over again then make you take ”assessment” tests, are starting to make me want to ram my face through a brick wall.
I figured I’d finally stop lurking (although to be honest I only lurked for about 3 months back in 2016-2017 and haven’t been back on since) and try to do something more meaningful with my life.
My ADHD makes it hard for me to really commit to things and take immediate action, but thats not going to stop me. I’m going to stop action faking and start actually doing stuff to move the needle.
Being unemployed right now has given me some time to reflect and kinda light a fire under my a$$ to get pointed in the right direction and get the wheels moving.
I will be poking around the forums do my deep searches, and asking the occasional questions to get myself set in the right direction.
*Disclaimer- Hopefully my ranty, cheeky vibes didn’t throw you too far off. I like to have fun, but I am a also hard workin, straight shootin MF’er who ain’t afraid to talk business. Love you all. Talk soon.
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