Greetings from Sydney with a relentless ambition for wealth

Hi everyone,

I'm a young adult taking the first step into the exciting world of internet marketing.

I was raised by poor loving parents with a neurotic poverty mindset in an overcrowded, cold and moldy house in the wealthy Eastern suburbs of Auckland alongside much younger siblings. We were the poorest family on the street by a long shot. My parents valued good education so they rented the crappiest house (the only one they could afford) in the city's best school zone. We were one of the poorest families in the whole school, everyday I saw the other kids get picked up in luxury BMWs and Mercedes while I was sitting in a 3rd hand beat up Toyota. Every summer they'd post about their thousand dollar exuberant vacations around the world whereas I would be lucky to travel to a nearby small town. I was poor, I felt poor and I hated every fucking second of it.

I dropped out of an engineering degree in my second year of University and moved to Sydney, Australia to start working full time in software sales. Why'd I drop out? Because my talent in emotional persuasion is stronger than mathematical calculation, I will provide value to the world through words, not numbers.

I'm making decent money for my age, more than 95% of University graduates in their first year of work, but its still not enough to make me satisfied. I need more money to achieve all the things I want in life - good food, great views, holidays, a warm house for my family to live in, sex with beautiful women, a fast car, gold rolex with diamonds, etc. but most importantly - freedom and time.

I want to retire by the time I'm 30-35. I want to wake up 10 years from now, and think "it was all a bad dream".

May your dreams come true son. Welcome to blackhatworld.

Thanks for sharing your story, its a good one and it seems like it will be fueling you through your ambitions. You're on the right track for what you want, one question you might ask is, if you had all those things you listed, what would you do then? Not trying to say what we have is not important - in your example about the persuasive versus the math person. If the math person is actually passionate about what they do, that's what leads to the Elon Musks and Neil de Grasse of the world. It's our passions channeled that actually fulfill us and motivate the why, not what we have. Suffering will be unbearable if it's not connected to a nice and deep why.

Welcome! It's great to have ambition and want the finer things. I suspect your tastes will change by the time you are 35 and you wont want the flashy diamond watches. a nice car and a nice house are all well and good but some fucking overpriced stones may be lower on your list. Heath and time will probably be higher

I'm sure you will do well and will get off to a flying start with all the info here on BHW