Hello everybody, my name is Isaac and I'm 19 years old. I am from South Florida and I am currently attending college. *This is subject to change in the very near future.
I read The Millionaire Fastlane a few months ago and it certainly helped to snap me out of my programmed way of thinking. Before reading the book, I was already questioning whether everybody who has been telling me what I should do were right... I naturally question authority and instantly distrust anything mainstream. After internalizing the information provided in the book, I knew I could never be a slowlaner…
The following is a brief summary of events about 6 months prior to when found The Millionaire Fastlane :
Over the summer of 2019 I worked for a friend of a friend who has an interesting outlook on life. He is Vietnam veteran in his 70s who has seen many things in his life. He was a carpenter by trade and was certified in 7 trades total. He was heavily pressuring me to follow in his footsteps and go to trade school. I was intrigued, but not totally convinced. When imagining my future, all I could picture was doing laborious physical labor for the next 50 years, then "retiring" with a broken body and no life left in me to enjoy the time I had left. He was telling me how I do not need college and all I need is a good trade to be successful and have a stable income.
On the contrary to what my boss was telling me, my parents, my friends and society as a whole was telling me that I NEED to go to college to get a degree in (whatever) so I can have a “stable career” and be able to live a modest life and maybe get married and raise a couple of kids in a small middle income town.
I had one major influence telling me to forget college and follow in his footsteps as a tradesman; while on the other hand, I had another major influence, my parents, telling me to follow in their footsteps and become a “professional”.
This caused me immense stress and I eventually caved in and accepted my fate of being your average-Joe, and begrudgingly went off to college to begin my life-long slavery to corporate bureaucracy and a life of mediocrity.
After about 3 months at college, I was fed up with it. I was learning nothing useful and it all seemed to be worthless. I realized that I didn’t want to be a tradesman, nor did I want to spend a decade incurring debt to become a “professional” at something that I don’t even like. That’s what sparked me to search for new and unorthodox life paths. In short, I eventually came across a YouTube video review of The Millionaire Fastlane and decided to pick it up. This book changed my mindset from NPC to main character.
I’ve decided to give online business a try. The Coronavirus situation has served as one of my excuses to delay starting, but I finally said SCREW IT. Today, I filed for my LLC and I’m getting the ball rolling. No more BS-ing and listening to what slowlaners have to say!
Just like driving, I don’t like to be in the slow lane. I like to drive in the Fastlane and get to where I’m going quickly, even if it may appear to be of higher risk…
I read The Millionaire Fastlane a few months ago and it certainly helped to snap me out of my programmed way of thinking. Before reading the book, I was already questioning whether everybody who has been telling me what I should do were right... I naturally question authority and instantly distrust anything mainstream. After internalizing the information provided in the book, I knew I could never be a slowlaner…
The following is a brief summary of events about 6 months prior to when found The Millionaire Fastlane :
Over the summer of 2019 I worked for a friend of a friend who has an interesting outlook on life. He is Vietnam veteran in his 70s who has seen many things in his life. He was a carpenter by trade and was certified in 7 trades total. He was heavily pressuring me to follow in his footsteps and go to trade school. I was intrigued, but not totally convinced. When imagining my future, all I could picture was doing laborious physical labor for the next 50 years, then "retiring" with a broken body and no life left in me to enjoy the time I had left. He was telling me how I do not need college and all I need is a good trade to be successful and have a stable income.
On the contrary to what my boss was telling me, my parents, my friends and society as a whole was telling me that I NEED to go to college to get a degree in (whatever) so I can have a “stable career” and be able to live a modest life and maybe get married and raise a couple of kids in a small middle income town.
I had one major influence telling me to forget college and follow in his footsteps as a tradesman; while on the other hand, I had another major influence, my parents, telling me to follow in their footsteps and become a “professional”.
This caused me immense stress and I eventually caved in and accepted my fate of being your average-Joe, and begrudgingly went off to college to begin my life-long slavery to corporate bureaucracy and a life of mediocrity.
After about 3 months at college, I was fed up with it. I was learning nothing useful and it all seemed to be worthless. I realized that I didn’t want to be a tradesman, nor did I want to spend a decade incurring debt to become a “professional” at something that I don’t even like. That’s what sparked me to search for new and unorthodox life paths. In short, I eventually came across a YouTube video review of The Millionaire Fastlane and decided to pick it up. This book changed my mindset from NPC to main character.
I’ve decided to give online business a try. The Coronavirus situation has served as one of my excuses to delay starting, but I finally said SCREW IT. Today, I filed for my LLC and I’m getting the ball rolling. No more BS-ing and listening to what slowlaners have to say!
Just like driving, I don’t like to be in the slow lane. I like to drive in the Fastlane and get to where I’m going quickly, even if it may appear to be of higher risk…
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