Why have I started this blog? To be truthful, I have no idea... This is just one of those random things I do and I am definitely not here to divulge private information....interesting things don't really happen to me anyway...I write to find humour in my slightly exaggerated life in London but do indulge me..
So is this it? Like most of you I had plans of making millions of pounds in London before twenty-Something but I find myself trudging through work just to keep the likes of C&G, BT, Sky, PowerGen, Admiral and T-Mobile profitable.....And it does seem I must have missed the millionaires boat by a long way gauging from my last status check. Below is what I found from my last status check
Savings Account: £20.00
Current Account: Overdraft for dummies
Assets: 0.00
House: Half of a flat....Basically a room and half a kitchen..
Liabilities: I can confidently boast of 5 figures in this area
Car: Banged up 'Roger Roger' that single handily contributes to 15% of BP's profit in North London
Bonus: what is that?
Job: Lets just say I am a valued member of the efinancial careers website
MasterCard: Definitely priceless....you actually never finish paying for this card...
So how did I get here? Its not like I did not try out some ventures or consider some get rich quick schemes..Below is a breakdown of my past ventures
Stocks: A quickfire way to lose your mortgage deposit in less than 2 months...It turns out sure banker stocks could actually lose 30% in one day...Those free seminars never highlighted this fact..
Properties: I am just glad I have not been arrested yet
Software Company: It turns out 'Programming for dummies' is not actually for dummies
Recruitment Company: We actually tried to pass off two Russian girls as the ideal African candidates to a client.. We were kindly asked to keep our day jobs
Writing: Apparently the Nigerian version of James Bond might not exactly be a best-seller.. I dabbled into love stories but it turns out all those hours watching blue movies in my teens finally did skew my perspective....(and my uncle did warn me).....can someone say Mills & Boon!!!
Fashion: anyone looking to buy brown and red dress shirts for work? (honestly)
Investment Banking: A lot of these banks have actually stopped acknowledging receipt of my monthly CV updates...
Networking: So I wanted to be the master networker after reading Keith Ferrazi's book called 'Never Eat Alone' . After the most uncomfortable 2 hours of my life, listening to a random soon to be pensioner telling me about the boyfriend she met in Sri Lanka, I knew from that point that not succeeding as a master networker was crucial to my mental stability...
Lottery: I swear that machine prints out numbers that are not even on the lottery balls....
IT Contracting: Yes, the sure fountain of ££££££...Well it turns out if you don't know any acronyms, then you are contracting to no where land e.g XML, SAP, SQL, VBA, ERP; and as if that is not enough, the addition of a random character to these acronyms could make you a few more hundreds per month e.g C++, C#, VB#, VBA#, J++. What the hell happened to using good ol' plain English....WTF....
Crime and Fraud: The last time I commited a crime was in primary school where I was caught cheating in my fine-art coursework. I just don't believe I will have better luck pursuing this as a career choice...
Am I frustrated? Not in the least bit...Am I happy? Unbelievably so. As I write this blog, I feel a sense of achievement that I try my hands in everything I imagine (even though it would probably be cheaper to think before I leap). I do not believe in a life of limiting yourself and sticking to what you know...On my death bed, I would like to be able to say I lived a life without regrets just like Anthony Hopkins says in 'Meet Joe Black' during his final speech
So maybe I will make that million, maybe I will not..maybe I will write another blog or maybe i will not...One thing is for certain though; This is surely not 'it' for this lad.....
