I'm in my late 20's and if I define my life in slowlane terms, I am currently a degree educated, reactor operator at a nuclear power plant (think Homer Simpson with a bit less guess work and you're not far wrong).
I am currently building a company with my business partner that invests in cheap, beat up old houses and renovates them to a good standard, quality homes to let to private tenants. They aim is to release all of the invested equity to enable the cycle to start again and the first one is nearly complete and on budget.
With my job, I earn a reasonable wage, 70-80k+ and work 4 days on and 6 days off. I actually quite enjoy my job too and get lots of paid leave, retire at 55 with a final salary pension etc etc. (People tell me I'm lucky all the time).
At work, these remuneration packages are called 'the golden handcuffs' and nobody EVER leaves.
So why am I becoming increasingly unhappy? I've thought about this a lot, particularly as I've been reading and re-reading TMF and unscripted .
I don't feel like I'm making a big enough difference to the world doing what I'm doing. I want to do more... leave a mark, make an impact, change someone's life for the better.
I want to live my own life, I don't actually go to work that much, but when I do, it's not on my terms. It sucks a$$ being sat there on Christmas day or working the night shift on new years eve etc.
I haven't had the f@ck this event yet, i know I haven't.
But my f@ck this moments are increasing in frequency and intensity. I'm having a lot recently.
For example, my boss recently changed my entire working pattern to suit him. It changed how I live my life, but I had to get used to it. Then three months later, he changed it again to something completely different which turned my life upside down AGAIN and for the worse this time. This might seem small but it's made a huge difference to my life and it made me feel like a number and not a person. Like a tiny cog in the huge machine of life. They didn't give flying f@ck about the impact on my and my families lives.
The big one for me though, is nuclear power plants don't operate forever. They stop operating eventually and it will be sooner rather than later. Our current date is the mid 2020's and that's with a favourable wind behind us.
Germany, the US to an extent and several other countries are turning their backs on the big nukes and the clock is ticking. It feels like I'm slowly sinking, a race against time. I won't be getting another job after this. F@ck that. I'm not spending years of my life learning a new role, maybe moving my family half way across the country (or even the world) to a new plant to find work. No way.
I want out, and I think just writing this intro has actually given me a lot of clarity. I've been ghosting this forum for over 12 months now and signed up a couple of months back.
I'm glad I finally bit the bullet and wrote this! Many thanks.
My plan for now is to keep building my property business and use all my free time outside of work to start aiming for that golden gum ball! I have a couple of ideas in the pipeline and I'm hoping to keep absorbing all the knowledge and inspiration I can from the forum.
The forum contributors may not even realise how much you've helped me personally so far, but you have!
All the best and looking forward to getting to know you all.
I am currently building a company with my business partner that invests in cheap, beat up old houses and renovates them to a good standard, quality homes to let to private tenants. They aim is to release all of the invested equity to enable the cycle to start again and the first one is nearly complete and on budget.
With my job, I earn a reasonable wage, 70-80k+ and work 4 days on and 6 days off. I actually quite enjoy my job too and get lots of paid leave, retire at 55 with a final salary pension etc etc. (People tell me I'm lucky all the time).
At work, these remuneration packages are called 'the golden handcuffs' and nobody EVER leaves.
So why am I becoming increasingly unhappy? I've thought about this a lot, particularly as I've been reading and re-reading TMF and unscripted .
I don't feel like I'm making a big enough difference to the world doing what I'm doing. I want to do more... leave a mark, make an impact, change someone's life for the better.
I want to live my own life, I don't actually go to work that much, but when I do, it's not on my terms. It sucks a$$ being sat there on Christmas day or working the night shift on new years eve etc.
I haven't had the f@ck this event yet, i know I haven't.
But my f@ck this moments are increasing in frequency and intensity. I'm having a lot recently.
For example, my boss recently changed my entire working pattern to suit him. It changed how I live my life, but I had to get used to it. Then three months later, he changed it again to something completely different which turned my life upside down AGAIN and for the worse this time. This might seem small but it's made a huge difference to my life and it made me feel like a number and not a person. Like a tiny cog in the huge machine of life. They didn't give flying f@ck about the impact on my and my families lives.
The big one for me though, is nuclear power plants don't operate forever. They stop operating eventually and it will be sooner rather than later. Our current date is the mid 2020's and that's with a favourable wind behind us.
Germany, the US to an extent and several other countries are turning their backs on the big nukes and the clock is ticking. It feels like I'm slowly sinking, a race against time. I won't be getting another job after this. F@ck that. I'm not spending years of my life learning a new role, maybe moving my family half way across the country (or even the world) to a new plant to find work. No way.
I want out, and I think just writing this intro has actually given me a lot of clarity. I've been ghosting this forum for over 12 months now and signed up a couple of months back.
I'm glad I finally bit the bullet and wrote this! Many thanks.
My plan for now is to keep building my property business and use all my free time outside of work to start aiming for that golden gum ball! I have a couple of ideas in the pipeline and I'm hoping to keep absorbing all the knowledge and inspiration I can from the forum.
The forum contributors may not even realise how much you've helped me personally so far, but you have!
All the best and looking forward to getting to know you all.
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