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Time to introduce myself, most people know me as Bloop. My real name is David and I live in Australia. For close to 3 years I was working in the security industry as a security officer for a shopping centre. I like many people, hated my job. It wasn't just the work that destroyed my soul though, I honestly didn't mind doing the work. For me it was the feeling of being trapped.
I know I'm not alone...
Every day at work felt like a prison, for some reason knowing I had to stay in that one place for a certain amount of time and not being allowed to leave, turned the job from something I put up with, to something I truly despised.
Life presented me an opportunity.
For most people, this may not seem like a good thing, in fact, it's very much a bad thing when first assessed but it did force my hand to a better path. I had a string of bad incidents at work, the type of stuff that effects body, mind and soul. Without going into details let's just say deaths happened, lives were saved, people got hurt and it became a toxic environment I just couldn't deal with. I took the bold decision to quit. I took a month's annual leave, left and never went back.
To give a bit of context, in September the year before I purchased a house with my girlfriend. I quit my job at the end of February. We didn't have a big pool of savings behind us to keep us going and we had mortgage and bills coming in. I myself was incapable of getting new work and so we started to explore new options. For too long we'd been conditioned to think that working for someone was the only way we'd ever get by... I wasn't having it, I knew that life was too short to spend it being miserable.
We got kicked into gear when the bank started calling us because we were missing mortgage repayments, all our accounts were nearly empty and we were looking down the barrel of losing it all. You'd think normally this would kick me into gear to get a job, instead i took it as a challenge. When the chips are down and I'm fighting for everything I've got, surely I can do enough to bring us back out of this hole without having to answer to someone else all day.
So I started an eBay store selling all sorts and I'm 2 weeks in. I started this blog to chronicle my journey, join me as I either succeed or fail. I'm determined I'm going to make this work, you'll know if I don't because my internet access will get cut off :) All I know is, I want to work for myself, not for someone else. I'll be focusing mainly on eBay but we will also be dabbling into other areas of financial independence.
Stick around, I'm sure we can share tips and motivate each other with goals. I plan on showing you exactly what I'm doing along the way and how I'm doing it. I know the feeling of being trapped in a job. For some people that's ok, for other people such as myself, I'd rather live on the streets.
Time to introduce myself, most people know me as Bloop. My real name is David and I live in Australia. For close to 3 years I was working in the security industry as a security officer for a shopping centre. I like many people, hated my job. It wasn't just the work that destroyed my soul though, I honestly didn't mind doing the work. For me it was the feeling of being trapped.
I know I'm not alone...
Every day at work felt like a prison, for some reason knowing I had to stay in that one place for a certain amount of time and not being allowed to leave, turned the job from something I put up with, to something I truly despised.
Life presented me an opportunity.
For most people, this may not seem like a good thing, in fact, it's very much a bad thing when first assessed but it did force my hand to a better path. I had a string of bad incidents at work, the type of stuff that effects body, mind and soul. Without going into details let's just say deaths happened, lives were saved, people got hurt and it became a toxic environment I just couldn't deal with. I took the bold decision to quit. I took a month's annual leave, left and never went back.
To give a bit of context, in September the year before I purchased a house with my girlfriend. I quit my job at the end of February. We didn't have a big pool of savings behind us to keep us going and we had mortgage and bills coming in. I myself was incapable of getting new work and so we started to explore new options. For too long we'd been conditioned to think that working for someone was the only way we'd ever get by... I wasn't having it, I knew that life was too short to spend it being miserable.
We got kicked into gear when the bank started calling us because we were missing mortgage repayments, all our accounts were nearly empty and we were looking down the barrel of losing it all. You'd think normally this would kick me into gear to get a job, instead i took it as a challenge. When the chips are down and I'm fighting for everything I've got, surely I can do enough to bring us back out of this hole without having to answer to someone else all day.
So I started an eBay store selling all sorts and I'm 2 weeks in. I started this blog to chronicle my journey, join me as I either succeed or fail. I'm determined I'm going to make this work, you'll know if I don't because my internet access will get cut off :) All I know is, I want to work for myself, not for someone else. I'll be focusing mainly on eBay but we will also be dabbling into other areas of financial independence.
Stick around, I'm sure we can share tips and motivate each other with goals. I plan on showing you exactly what I'm doing along the way and how I'm doing it. I know the feeling of being trapped in a job. For some people that's ok, for other people such as myself, I'd rather live on the streets.
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