Hi, everyone. I'm 25 years old, Chicago burbs born and raised. I've just finished reading The Millionaire Fastlane and it has honestly changed my life. I've always had an entrepreneurial bone in my body, even started my own mobile car detailing business one summer in college which, while slowlane, paid the bills all summer long. I learned some hard lessons about life and worth ethic while serving four years in the military, which gave me the motivation to finish an entire bachelors degree at the top of my class in slightly less than 3 years without incurring a single cent in debt. I loathe the 9-5 lifestyle and promised myself I would never end up in a cubicle, so right after graduation last spring, an opportunity came for me to join a major airline as a flight attendant. I somehow managed to be one of the 2% of all applicants to get hired. The pay is pretty poor, sub 25k a year, but being a union job, it increases in steps and can reach close to the slowlane jackpot of $100,000 within 10 years time and I work unsupervised. I get a very good health benefits package for cheap.
Where I'm poor in money, I am very rich in time with a lot of flexibility, and as @MJ DeMarco says, time is your most important asset. If I wanted to go to Tokyo or Paris, I could do it tomorrow, and that's no joke. I also get unlimited training in the fine art of customer service, being that delays are a part of life and people generally treat me like excrement even in good weather. This will serve me well. Like most J.O.B's, I will never get rich if I stay here, but I sucked it up and moved back in with my parents and have since been saving half of my income every month which becomes my liquid capital reserve, which will be in the five digit's by year's end. I also emptied out my slowlane 401k and took the penalty rather than let it anguish for the next 40 years so I can have a princely $60,000 to buy adult diapers with at the nursing home. The Fastlane book has provided me a mental groundwork for what comes next, my own business or real estate amibitions, and with my flexibility I can still work full time while grooming my new project, whatever it ends up being. That's all for now, I'm glad to be here, let's get some.
Where I'm poor in money, I am very rich in time with a lot of flexibility, and as @MJ DeMarco says, time is your most important asset. If I wanted to go to Tokyo or Paris, I could do it tomorrow, and that's no joke. I also get unlimited training in the fine art of customer service, being that delays are a part of life and people generally treat me like excrement even in good weather. This will serve me well. Like most J.O.B's, I will never get rich if I stay here, but I sucked it up and moved back in with my parents and have since been saving half of my income every month which becomes my liquid capital reserve, which will be in the five digit's by year's end. I also emptied out my slowlane 401k and took the penalty rather than let it anguish for the next 40 years so I can have a princely $60,000 to buy adult diapers with at the nursing home. The Fastlane book has provided me a mental groundwork for what comes next, my own business or real estate amibitions, and with my flexibility I can still work full time while grooming my new project, whatever it ends up being. That's all for now, I'm glad to be here, let's get some.
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