Today’s date is March 1st 2020. Which means it’s the first of the month and coincidentally I’ve finally made my first post!
Congratulations to me because this is at least one achievement towards my goals that I can claim. Which reminds me…What are my goals? And why is this blog important?
I guess I should explain myself and do so quickly because it’s past 10PM on a Sunday and I need to go to work tomorrow….Ah that’s right, I remember now. Currently I work for as an engineer for a large, renowned company, earn a decent salary with good benefits and stability but….I don’t like it. Why don’t I like my job? There’s a few reasons:
First, I don’t like my line of work. To be honest, working as an engineer is not something I chose to do out of passion but purely for financial reasons. Throughout middle-school and high-school I demonstrated a decent aptitude for math and science and was often recommended by my parents, teachers, advisers, and professional speakers to pursue engineering as a career. And since I didn’t know of other career options that I thought I’d be skilled at and could do for a decent living, I went for it. Fast forward a decade and some change, I’ve have earned over 2 years of full-time experience working with my first and current employer after graduating from college with an engineering degree. And I’ve just recently come to terms that engineering isn’t for me… Looking back, I might’ve liked to tinker with things but I’ve never really been interested in designing useful tools or optimizing systems and processes and learning about technical subjects. I just liked to mess with things and see what would happen. Engineering was something I thought I could do, so I did it. And after doing if for awhile I realize how much liking what I do is important for me because spending 8 hours of time doing engineering feels so draining. And I now know that I don’t want to do it forever or much longer for that matter…
Secondly, another thing about myself I’ve realized is that I don’t like working for the company I work at now. Well, actually I don’t like the idea of working for any company, especially a corporation. For starters, dealing with the work politics is something that I’ve never been fond of. If I want to succeed at the company I work at I’ll need to conform to beliefs that I don’t buy in. Also, I don’t like taking orders from other people. Even though I’ve conditioned myself to behave in a customer service manner, it feels like I’m being eaten away on the inside by my true nature. Which is that I’m a person that likes to do things his own way and on his own time with no need to answer to anyone else. Not to mention I’ve become more conscious of the fact that no matter what company I work, I will probably be paid less than I’m worth.
So with no offense to the company that, to be fair, has paid me well to this point my experiences and self-reflection has lead me to forming the following goals:
- Transition from this traditional 9-5 job to self-employment via multiple income streams.
- Reach 100K income per year before I hit 30 years-old.
- Become a millionaire before I hit 40.
- Become financially independent before I hit 40.
To reach this goals, I intend to write posts here to document my progress towards this goals. I hope doing so will help keep me motivated as I make progress and will gain a sense of achievement when I succeed. And to be honest. I’m a forgetful person so keeping track of what I’m doing and why will ease any guilt for the sacrifices I make along the way. Because to get where I want to be, it’s going to take guts.