As a young kid, I hated school. I felt lost from having to wake up to go to school which I did not feel a need to go since I didn't understand what joy there is from going to school for 12 years, just so I could graduate to get a job until I'm 65. That thought didn't excite me at all, and it made me hate school. Once I hit high school, I dropped out instantly on the first day and didn't make it back until 2 years from that day. I started at an alternative school, and shortly after, I started buying and selling random items such as bikes, games, gaming systems, etc to make a profit. To boost my money to play around with, I got a job at Mcdonalds. I didn't like the job, but I did like the people I worked with. I had started to finally find meaning in life as I watched my small part time business rack in more profits as I had more money to play with. After about 9 months, I had to quit my job to focus on my small business that was earning more income than the job by twice as much at some periods of time. I slowly started to get bored of this business and was introduced to multi level marketing. I joined instantly and started to learn, and grow as a person. My business did very terrible, I lasted 3 months before I quit but this opportunity was what made me realize is I am meant to be an entrepreneur. I used the time after this to start studying investments such as commodities, and the economy. I worked on learning how to position myself with the profits I made from my small business that I gave up to start to pursue something new, and what I started with was buying gold and silver. I bought the majority silver at $25 an oz, which hurt me since it is currently at $21 today which is 3 years later roughly. For my second investment, I wanted to get in the stock market but I was only 18 and had to be 19 to open an account. I found a trusted person to open an account that I could have control over, and I bought a solar panel company, stock symbol YGE for 3.50 a share and sold it at 5.75 a share three months later. At the time, I had no idea what I was doing, but I got pretty lucky with this trade. I would had held on to this but I transferred the funds into my name as I was finally 19, and my stock broker took over from there. My stock broker has made a few killing stock trades in the past couple years. He focus's on penny stocks, which most are garbage in my opinion, but I believe my first trade was AIX.V and I flipped it from 3.5 to 5.5 cents. Another great trade was DIDG at 5.5 cents, sold at 9.9 cents. That was a nice trade, and still is in my top two trades to date. My next venture was starting my own small junk clean up business. I bought myself a truck and starting using people I know in the construction business as leverage to find work. I was renting a Dump trailer for a monthly fee and made a few decent jobs that were nice profit. This came to an end when I lost my drivers license from having to many tickets as a new driver. I wasn't the brightest kid growing up. I gave up on that business and started to focus again on investments. I found an investment in a small construction business that was offering around 4x my investment to fund them. It was initially going to take about a year to receive my return, it ended up taking a period of two years and the returned amount 3x my investment, since it was not a locked in number. Still a great investment though of course. One thing I also tried was binary options. Short story, I lost all my funding I put in within the first day. After this I continued to look for ways to get rich and make it big. I decided to do day trading, since I loved the stock market already so much. I did make a few good trades, including one that I made a 50% return on in a matter of 4 minutes, but I parked all my money into a pump and dump failure, when I thought it was a great discount to buy. I lost it all. This was a big set back in my investing since my silver was at an all time low at this point and I lost all the money I put in the pump and dump, and was using my other investment income to live off.
I have made many mistakes, and have made a few really good investments. Today, I look back and go what the hell was I thinking. I have been focusing hugely on education and if I new what I knew back when I was 17, I probably would have made it by now. What I am focusing on now is using other peoples money and other peoples time to create income now. My investments now are being aimed for cash flowing assets. I am now focusing my money on cash flowing stocks while I get educated in the real estate market to learn how to make money there. I have made enough mistakes to instantly jump into any more get rich quick schemes, so now I take the time to get educated on the subject before throwing money at it. One investment right now I have is using other peoples money, and other peoples time to create a return of roughly 30% percent minimum (could be as high as 100%) to create money that I can use to purchase some cash flowing assets with. All I want to focus on is growing my monthly cash flow income from investments to $3000-5000 so I can spend my time however and continue growing my investments with that money. I have learned that true wealth is time and freedom. It does not matter what my net worth is from these assets, all that matters is I continue to grow my assets and have the freedom to spend my time however I would like. I am now 21 and the goal is to be rich by the age of 25, with 10,000 cash flow income coming in every month from assets.
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