I quit my TI job, lost my beautiful fiancee, lost my friends and came back to live with my parents, and all of this after thirty..
Im pretty sociable guy.. and had a very rich and good social life before all this..
Im living in Brazil, without access to this garden of VC funds you guys have in the Valley..
But i live in front of a beautiful beach, where i go out everyday to run, and let some stress behind me..
Im still here.. working.. penyless.. and you know what keep me moving?
is not the money i can make.. (i dont even know if this dream im pursuing will make me any rich).. but the simple fact to be able to live working on my dream.. have the possibility to not only change my life, but also the life of many others for better.. make me go everyday.. believe, work hard..
i dont know if i will succed.. but i know that the most important thing in life is to try.. to make diference.. to make this place better.. im sure theres no payment better than this..
You see, the right amount of money that we all really need,
is enough to give us freedom to do what we thing we should..
So i think you need to get another sort of payment, while you are (dollar) broke.. you must be payed by your own dreams.. this may look stupid.. but when we are in the edge of our lifes, because we believe in something.. we have the ultimate freedom.. a freedom that not only can change our lifes.. but make a wave of new unthinkable possibilities become reality
Im sure that when all this im passing now has gone.. i will remember this time with joy..
Try to imagine your future you, talking with your present you.. the future you are happy? what he got to tell you..
Im here man, im a warrior and i wont give up...
If you think you have made a mistake then, go on .. and maybe latter you will try again something else.. and succed tremendously.. but deep inside we all know if we are in the right path.. Your heart will tell you this everyday.. and if thats is the case.. go on man! the world are made by the hands of the ones who didnt give up. The ones who dare to dream..
Life for game changers are hard.. and they only succed because they are harder.
Its a wonderful time for you to discover your real you, and what you capable of.. you will probably surprise yourself..
No better payment than this :)
This is exactly how I feel, Im in Guatemala, where we don't have much access to VC funds either.
A year has passed since we started, and we still don't have a steady income, but it is worth it, totally worth it, when I realize that I am doing exactly what I want to do, even if the odds are against me, I know I have to keep trying.
I think whatever we do, we should avoid the trap of being payed to be unhappy.. we pass the most part of our living time sleeping and almost all the rest working (with little to something else, family, fun, rest..)
We should have fun in what we work, in what we do.. trying to be excited just for the profit of it, wont do..
things like; "I Will work for 3 to 5 years on this thing
and then sell it(because i cant stand working on it) and buy a boat, put some chicks on it with champagne and travel the world with my fortune" wont make anybody stood still in harsh times.
faith is the engine of soul and in the end you are what you believe.
by corrupting and selling what you believe, you will become void, empty, bitter..
It starts from there, money or success is a consequence
Well put - life, the pursuit, the lessons, and mainly all the fell good times to be had... for some reason running along the beach is something I relate to the most. I'm taking a year off after directing start-up operations for almost 10 companies in 15 years... so much learned but so nice to be away from it all too. Thinking of getting out of tech and using the people skills learned along the way to do something in manufacturing or research/education. Anyway, thanks for sharing. Good luck.
Although very far from SV levels of funding, it's not that hard to find VC if you're in Rio or São Paulo. If you need any details or help, feel free to contact me.
Not in Rio or SP, but in Fortaleza..
but i know that at least in the fresh start..
i will need to move, because of the workforce quality..
the project is in c++, using the chrome source code as a base.. graph database and algorithms, net protocol architecture, VM embedding.. will need help with all that..
but not easy to find people who still face this sort of chalenges
Sorry but right now, im in a "zen thing" of trying to unite my actions with my thougts, and think, and express my thinking process through the action itself..
After observing nature, i came with this uncommon conclusion, that wherever the gods my be, the creators of this whole scenario we live in, are in such a state of perfection, that they communicate with actions, with the own things they create..
If you look at a flower, or listen to a bird .. isnt a way of communication? a message by itself?
After look to ourselves, wherever we have acomplished or made... i felt i did so little yet.. what can i teach to others, does it apply to myself?
I think the fruit of a tree, tell everything about what the tree are.
thats why im more silent right now.. there some things i need to acomplish first.. that will tell more about how i think about things, even without a spoken or written word.
Theres too much noise in the world already, and all this misleading noise make people crash..
Will i produce more noise? i dont know yet.. but while i try to figure out whats real from whats ilusion , i can work on things that can act, and be used in the same way i think.
This is mind-action harmony.. this is me training myself while im in a journey..
its not just about what i have acomplished but also what i have becomed
we can exchange ideas any time you want! i prefer dialogues to monologues :)
Im living in Brazil, without access to this garden of VC funds you guys have in the Valley..
But i live in front of a beautiful beach, where i go out everyday to run, and let some stress behind me..
Im still here.. working.. penyless.. and you know what keep me moving?
is not the money i can make.. (i dont even know if this dream im pursuing will make me any rich).. but the simple fact to be able to live working on my dream.. have the possibility to not only change my life, but also the life of many others for better.. make me go everyday.. believe, work hard..
i dont know if i will succed.. but i know that the most important thing in life is to try.. to make diference.. to make this place better.. im sure theres no payment better than this..
You see, the right amount of money that we all really need, is enough to give us freedom to do what we thing we should..
So i think you need to get another sort of payment, while you are (dollar) broke.. you must be payed by your own dreams.. this may look stupid.. but when we are in the edge of our lifes, because we believe in something.. we have the ultimate freedom.. a freedom that not only can change our lifes.. but make a wave of new unthinkable possibilities become reality
Im sure that when all this im passing now has gone.. i will remember this time with joy..
Try to imagine your future you, talking with your present you.. the future you are happy? what he got to tell you..
Im here man, im a warrior and i wont give up...
If you think you have made a mistake then, go on .. and maybe latter you will try again something else.. and succed tremendously.. but deep inside we all know if we are in the right path.. Your heart will tell you this everyday.. and if thats is the case.. go on man! the world are made by the hands of the ones who didnt give up. The ones who dare to dream..
Life for game changers are hard.. and they only succed because they are harder.
Its a wonderful time for you to discover your real you, and what you capable of.. you will probably surprise yourself.. No better payment than this :)
Good luck in your path!