They called me gifted as a kid. Tested at a genius level IQ (not that it matters).
I barely passed high school. I started my first company while in it.
I dropped out of my engineering programming. I was teaching other students about computers and was running a business on the side.
I am not someone who follows the rules well.
My sibling is the polar opposite, they have three Ivy League degrees. They were top 3% of their class. They follow rules well.
I’ve been entrepreneuring for a commensurate period of time and overall look back very fondly on what I’ve accomplished and the trajectory of where my career is heading. Even the winter I had to eat peanut butter and whatever I could get for free to survive is something I don’t regret, it was a wake up call for me to take more off the table to survive bad times than to reinvest everything in growth.
My sibling has expressed to others that they wonder if they chose the wrong path. I do not wonder these things. My life feels right.
Do what you love and it’ll never feel like work.
I barely passed high school. I started my first company while in it.
I dropped out of my engineering programming. I was teaching other students about computers and was running a business on the side.
I am not someone who follows the rules well.
My sibling is the polar opposite, they have three Ivy League degrees. They were top 3% of their class. They follow rules well.
I’ve been entrepreneuring for a commensurate period of time and overall look back very fondly on what I’ve accomplished and the trajectory of where my career is heading. Even the winter I had to eat peanut butter and whatever I could get for free to survive is something I don’t regret, it was a wake up call for me to take more off the table to survive bad times than to reinvest everything in growth.
My sibling has expressed to others that they wonder if they chose the wrong path. I do not wonder these things. My life feels right.
Do what you love and it’ll never feel like work.