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It was after I received an email from a retailer, denying my part-time job application, when I felt the pressure rising. My micro-FTE. A few days earlier, I remember feeling a sense of relief when I got the interview, I was so convinced I’d be working again. I was supposed to go and apply to more retail jobs. I don’t know if it was social anxiety, or laziness, or my brain stopping me from wanting to work another job with a boss, but I couldn’t get myself to go and apply in person. Fast forward to job rejection day: the realization of what I needed to do hit me right after I opened the email with my rejection. I need to start working on a business, now.
I’ve edged in life before, and now it takes on a different format. In my (ex) strict aviation college program, I was placed on probation every other semester. At one point I was taking a probation exam. Had I scored 2% lower, I would have been booted out of the program. Due to authoritarianism, I had to leave my program and halt my pursuit of becoming a commercial pilot.
Now I am edging financially. Thankfully, I genuinely learned that money doesn’t buy happiness. Although it helps, your mind is the ultimate factor for being happy and fulfilled. Your self-consciousness of knowing that you are in a position of growth beats having a large bank balance. I am now $20k in debt, less than $200 in the bank, but I am reassured that this will probably be the last time in my life that I’m broke. Luckily, I am 21 and living with my parents. I am now uniquely positioned in my life to go from a slowlaner to a sidewalker to a fastlaner. Resilience is how I am going to go from working as a grocery delivery driver to reaching the beautiful process of the unscripted , fastlane dogma.
As MJ preaches, FTE’s have the capacity to propel your life into a ruthless pursuit of Fastlane entrepreneurship. I cannot attest to having a singular large FTE, and I believe this is what happens to people who were not contrarians to the mainstream world views before (most of the time). In my case, I’ve been trying to piece the puzzle together in the past few years, and finally decided that I just need to do… something. Anything. I’m tired of action faking, I’m tired of being picky, I’m tired of analysis paralysis, I’m tired of having an ego that “I can make a way better business than that” so I end up just circle jerking and doing nothing, I’m tired of looking to God to give me an idea that I could work with, I’m tired of dismissing everything, I’m tired of making excuses, I’m tired of wanting to avoid small problems. I just want to do something rather than nothing.
I’ve decided to go into mobile car detailing. Do I think this follows CENTS? Not necessarily. I just need to do something. My main issue right now is determining a value skew. Also, as a disclaimer, I have just started to look into this yesterday. I will look at local competition, research how to get the job done, and deal with the rest of my problems as I go.
So here’s what I’m going to do:
I don’t care about anything after this point right now.
I’d also appreciate pointers on how to validate the business given the relatively low barrier of entry. Like I mentioned earlier, I would encourage to give me different ways to think about value skew. Please let me know if there are any fundamental mind blocks/ points of inexperience/ obvious setbacks/ wrong mindsets I have.
This is my “first business”. I will make mistakes along the way. But I’m damn happy that I even wrote this piece today (which is a part of execution). I’m happy to finally get started with something even though I don’t really “like” cars or detailing or cleaning.
I’ve edged in life before, and now it takes on a different format. In my (ex) strict aviation college program, I was placed on probation every other semester. At one point I was taking a probation exam. Had I scored 2% lower, I would have been booted out of the program. Due to authoritarianism, I had to leave my program and halt my pursuit of becoming a commercial pilot.
Now I am edging financially. Thankfully, I genuinely learned that money doesn’t buy happiness. Although it helps, your mind is the ultimate factor for being happy and fulfilled. Your self-consciousness of knowing that you are in a position of growth beats having a large bank balance. I am now $20k in debt, less than $200 in the bank, but I am reassured that this will probably be the last time in my life that I’m broke. Luckily, I am 21 and living with my parents. I am now uniquely positioned in my life to go from a slowlaner to a sidewalker to a fastlaner. Resilience is how I am going to go from working as a grocery delivery driver to reaching the beautiful process of the unscripted , fastlane dogma.
As MJ preaches, FTE’s have the capacity to propel your life into a ruthless pursuit of Fastlane entrepreneurship. I cannot attest to having a singular large FTE, and I believe this is what happens to people who were not contrarians to the mainstream world views before (most of the time). In my case, I’ve been trying to piece the puzzle together in the past few years, and finally decided that I just need to do… something. Anything. I’m tired of action faking, I’m tired of being picky, I’m tired of analysis paralysis, I’m tired of having an ego that “I can make a way better business than that” so I end up just circle jerking and doing nothing, I’m tired of looking to God to give me an idea that I could work with, I’m tired of dismissing everything, I’m tired of making excuses, I’m tired of wanting to avoid small problems. I just want to do something rather than nothing.
I’ve decided to go into mobile car detailing. Do I think this follows CENTS? Not necessarily. I just need to do something. My main issue right now is determining a value skew. Also, as a disclaimer, I have just started to look into this yesterday. I will look at local competition, research how to get the job done, and deal with the rest of my problems as I go.
So here’s what I’m going to do:
- I will continue to work as a grocery delivery driver. This will allow me to be flexible on time.
- I will invest that money into a few things:
- A vacuum and a pressure washer
- Cleaning/detailing products
- A website (landing page)
- Google ads
- Facebook ads
- I will post on Kijiji (Canada’s craigslist) and facebook marketplace (I don’t have facebook so idk how this works)
- I will find a single person who would pay me to drive to their house and wash/detail their car.
- I will figure out how to do that by watching youtube videos and asking my friend who worked as a detailer.
- I will practice on my car.
I don’t care about anything after this point right now.
I’d also appreciate pointers on how to validate the business given the relatively low barrier of entry. Like I mentioned earlier, I would encourage to give me different ways to think about value skew. Please let me know if there are any fundamental mind blocks/ points of inexperience/ obvious setbacks/ wrong mindsets I have.
This is my “first business”. I will make mistakes along the way. But I’m damn happy that I even wrote this piece today (which is a part of execution). I’m happy to finally get started with something even though I don’t really “like” cars or detailing or cleaning.
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