Hi, It's a pleasure to join.
Have visited this forum on and off for the last 3-4 years.
Intro:
20 years old.
Entrepreneurial interest began during senior years of high school around 16 as I was desperate for an alternative to my already pre-determined corporate future.
My research into entrepreneurial, business and investing concepts felt liberating like an long awaited passion that I was developing indirectly through my young desires for future feelings of adventure, change and achievement.
Due to bad sleeping habits, procrastination, lack of interest and effort I couldn't handle the work load from my classes (all being the harder ones mind you) and it crushed me until I started taking days off which eventually led to me not having a high enough attendance to finish school and thus I was kicked out.
I am not proud of this.
This wasn't the end for me, what I had learned from my late night entrepreneur research had told me school isn't everything. This is what my peers believed though so I felt some level of shame.
Ever since school was over, my mind became overloaded and stressed through indecisiveness. The three years since school was spent going crazy writing notes and documents creating plans, simplifying my interests trying to understand myself swapping from idea to idea depending on how I felt each week. Trying to generate a direction for myself was making me literally lose my mind, especially during the full time stock job I got last year for a year. I had countless sleepless nights where I would go, okay, I'm not sleeping till I pin point what it is i'm going to lock down on, and I never did. When I did though, I procrastinated out of fear and discouragement. What a F*cking waste of three years.
I realized among all this that nothing would ever perfectly fit my criteria and that I just want start looking like I'm actually doing something. At least I saved up during the year I worked at that stock job.
It's been three months since I quit and here I am. Not three months into any project, no, still at the damned drawing board.
So now I have a burning desire to put some action down, I don't care anymore about these parameters of potential, interest, security, career integrity etc. I just want something to my name.
The most fitting and prevalent idea I have at the moment is an e-store that is a combination of a blog/informative as well as a store that stocks selected formal male attire and products which I'm thinking I should do a progress log on this which leads me to say.
The reason I have posted this is I realize that external criticism and advisory is probably what I need and what better place to get that than here. Again, it's a pleasure to have joined the community and forgive me for my bed time story.
Oh and I did read the summary for the fast lane book. Its major distinction being to take focus off ones interests and put it into other peoples interests and needs has been a very helpful thought to me since I read it and I'm just wondering how I can apply it to my own ideas. I generated an opinon and a question throughout threading it. The opinion being that some people just create needs (steve jobs, the iphone) although you might argue that he was forfilling a need for a more effective and practical phone. The question being what are some practical ways on the internet to pursue peoples needs, could this be an idea in it's self, like a platform for complaints or whattheworldneeds.com
By the way anyone know if micromentor.org is worth it?
TLDR:
- Failed school
- Lost my mind contemplating and procrastinating for three years
- Here and hungry to get some traction
- Wants to do a male attire E-Store
- Pleasure to be here
Have visited this forum on and off for the last 3-4 years.
Intro:
20 years old.
Entrepreneurial interest began during senior years of high school around 16 as I was desperate for an alternative to my already pre-determined corporate future.
My research into entrepreneurial, business and investing concepts felt liberating like an long awaited passion that I was developing indirectly through my young desires for future feelings of adventure, change and achievement.
Due to bad sleeping habits, procrastination, lack of interest and effort I couldn't handle the work load from my classes (all being the harder ones mind you) and it crushed me until I started taking days off which eventually led to me not having a high enough attendance to finish school and thus I was kicked out.
I am not proud of this.
This wasn't the end for me, what I had learned from my late night entrepreneur research had told me school isn't everything. This is what my peers believed though so I felt some level of shame.
Ever since school was over, my mind became overloaded and stressed through indecisiveness. The three years since school was spent going crazy writing notes and documents creating plans, simplifying my interests trying to understand myself swapping from idea to idea depending on how I felt each week. Trying to generate a direction for myself was making me literally lose my mind, especially during the full time stock job I got last year for a year. I had countless sleepless nights where I would go, okay, I'm not sleeping till I pin point what it is i'm going to lock down on, and I never did. When I did though, I procrastinated out of fear and discouragement. What a F*cking waste of three years.
I realized among all this that nothing would ever perfectly fit my criteria and that I just want start looking like I'm actually doing something. At least I saved up during the year I worked at that stock job.
It's been three months since I quit and here I am. Not three months into any project, no, still at the damned drawing board.
So now I have a burning desire to put some action down, I don't care anymore about these parameters of potential, interest, security, career integrity etc. I just want something to my name.
The most fitting and prevalent idea I have at the moment is an e-store that is a combination of a blog/informative as well as a store that stocks selected formal male attire and products which I'm thinking I should do a progress log on this which leads me to say.
The reason I have posted this is I realize that external criticism and advisory is probably what I need and what better place to get that than here. Again, it's a pleasure to have joined the community and forgive me for my bed time story.
Oh and I did read the summary for the fast lane book. Its major distinction being to take focus off ones interests and put it into other peoples interests and needs has been a very helpful thought to me since I read it and I'm just wondering how I can apply it to my own ideas. I generated an opinon and a question throughout threading it. The opinion being that some people just create needs (steve jobs, the iphone) although you might argue that he was forfilling a need for a more effective and practical phone. The question being what are some practical ways on the internet to pursue peoples needs, could this be an idea in it's self, like a platform for complaints or whattheworldneeds.com
By the way anyone know if micromentor.org is worth it?
TLDR:
- Failed school
- Lost my mind contemplating and procrastinating for three years
- Here and hungry to get some traction
- Wants to do a male attire E-Store
- Pleasure to be here
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