I’m a dropout.
There, I said it. I don’t have a master’s degree. I don’t even have a bachelor’s degree, and yet I became an expert in finance. And you can do that too. Here’s how.
Story time!
I didn’t finish college. Not because I was a bad student, quite the contrary. In high school I studied Greek and Latin and I absolutely adored it. I studied the ancient languages by choice in my teens, that says something about my appetite for learning.
An 18 year old kid
Naturally when high school came to an end everyone expected me and my classmates to go college. There really was no other option or at least no one talked about it. We were given brochures of all the different courses we could take at university and I felt an immense pressure.
At 18 years old I needed to decide what I was going to do for the rest of my life. 18!
I found it ridiculous. At that age most of us are still kids and I had little to no idea where my place in the world would be. Some of my classmates were adamant on becoming a doctor or a journalist, but I think a lot of us just took a guess.
Law school then?
I was torn between many different curriculums. You have to know I’m a multipassionate, and I thought about becoming a translator, an archeologist, a police detective… but ultimately ended up choosing law school. Why? Not because I wanted to become a lawyer, but because I figured it was broad enough to postpone my decision for a profession.
I was catapulted into an existential crisis, had no idea where to go from there and became pretty depressed.
The first year of college wasn’t even complete when I realized that I hated it. There were a couple of subjects that I liked, but I couldn’t envision myself going through with it until graduation. Then again, I had no idea what to do instead if I would drop out.
I was catapulted into an existential crisis, had no idea where to go from there and became pretty depressed. Up until then I had been happy at school. I had great classmates, got along with the teachers and had good grades. After leaving high school I felt sad to leave all of that behind, although I was excited for the next chapter. But law school made me feel… lost.
Exams? Failed.
Because of my low motivation I failed many of the subjects and had to redo a couple of exams. In the second year I dropped out after the first semester.
At 21 I moved out and started living by myself. I quickly noticed that life is expensive, so I found a job to pay for my rent and bills. During the years I kept learning – I might not have my bachelor’s or master’s degree but I have several diplomas.
Tragic by the way how I always have to check the “high school diploma only” box on forms 🙄
About 1,5 years ago I found out that I am “highly gifted”. That means that I quickly lose interest once I master something new – I’m a super fast learner – and let me tell you: that’s exhausting.
With every new job I though: “Yes, this is it! I finally found my calling!”. And after 3 months I got sick of it, to my own disappointment. Getting the confirmation of being highly intelligent meant the world to me. Not because I was after the label, but because I know now how to cope with it. I finally get how my brain works and that’s a giant relief.
A job at the bank? Me?!
Needless to say that due to this, I have a long resume. I ran out of inspiration of jobs to apply for, so I asked a temp office to search one for me when I came back after a year of traveling.
They sent me to a bank, to my own surprise. “Are you sure?” I asked. “I really sucked at economics in college.”
Economics was a mandatory subject in law school and we had an (pardon my French) absolute sexist jerk of a professor. He told us in the first class that women were better off working as nurses instead of lawyers. 🤮 Needless to say I didn’t have a positive relationship with economics.
So of course I was worried about that when I went to apply for a customer service position at the bank. But they ensured me that I would get an in-house training and I got hired.
Who knew I of all people would fall in love with investing?
It’s that training that sparked my interest for investing. Suddenly economics weren’t boring anymore, I could see the real life impact of it.
It was fantastic and I was completely hooked.
I ran to the store for books about finance, I started researching the stock market and I starte investing myself. The love hasn’t stopped since.
What I discovered in the meantime is that my strength lies in explaining complicated things in a simple and easy way. And that is why I became a coach and why I try to convince you to get that same financial education.
You can become a finance expert too
You see, economics impact your life in ways you often don’t even realize. What I want to do is give you the power to control your own life and fortune. Wouldn’t that be great?
Now that you know my story I want you to read this carefully:
If I can do it, you can do it too.
You might think finance is boring, that investing is too complicated. But if someone like me – the college dropout that hated economics – can do it, so can you!
I created a course just for you
I designed ‘Newbie to investor’ from my own experience of not understanding finance. It consists of several video tutorials where I explain investing and the stock market in a very simple way. I made sure you don’t need a master’s degree at all to understand how it all works.
Sounds good? Go and have a look!
Check out ‘Newbie to investor’
