Hey all,
I'd wanna know who I am reading about when I read a blog, so I will do the same.

My name is Joël, 23 years old, from the Netherlands.
After I graduated high school I chose to not go to university. I didn't know what I wanted to do, but I knew I didn't want to waste time and money on university doing something I wasn't sure I wanted to do.

So I started with reading a lot. Like a lot a lot. Mostly they were psychology & self-help books since I was always interested in how people work and why they do what they do. After 6 months of that I woke up one day in January in the middle of the night with an idea. I had gotten into precious metals, but I had noticed something..

The main Dutch marketplace for buying and selling silver from person to person was risky. There was no way to know if someone was gonna scam me or not, so I decided to build a marketplace for precious metals myself. It would have reviews, a rating system and a private messaging option.

The next 7 months I spend an average of 17 hours a day building that website from scratch, learning PHP, JS and HTML by trial and error along the way. Finally I had finished it. The website was done and I launched it.

Now I think if it, it wasn't even a moment of pride. More a moment of relief that it was done. Unfortunately nothing happened. I didn't know shit about marketing and how to grow a userbase so it was basically an empty website. During those 7 months the big Dutch marketplace had integrated a private messaging system as well.

I also realized after all those months that all the predictions of the silver evangelists hadn't come true. They were making the same kinda videos, spreading doubt and fear in order for people to buy their silver. This didn't mean that I didn't believe in silver anymore. Not everything they said was shit. I still have some silver, but it did mean that my passion for the project died down. Nothing further came of it.

In the 2 years that followed I had some more projects, trying to find out what my strengths are, what I am good at and what I am going to do.

In September 2017 I did go to university. Pressure from family and failed ventures made me think it was the right thing to do. I chose the only study I found interesting, psychology. I moved to Utrecht, my favorite city of all time. Finally got my own place with a good friend of mine as my housemate. Met a lot of people. Started really disliking my study. It was encredibly boring and not about the practical psychology that I love. I started working more as a gardener. I got a job in an arcadehall. I got my boating license and started working as a skipper, boating people around the canals of this beautiful city.

I kept trading cryptos. I figured out that I wanted to become a professional trader within the next 5 years. I quit my study. That was 3 weeks ago. Now I am working, learning more about trading, studying crypto related content, boating, gardening and chilling. I'm loving it.

Personal finance, budgeting, investing & saving are things I'm learning about more every single day. Even though I don't earn much, I will become wealthy. With my plan there is no way that won't happen.

So overall I'm really enjoying this life at the moment.
I don't know where I'll be in 10 or 5 or even 3 years, but that's what makes it exciting.

My main interests are:

Boating

Gardening

Psychology

Personal finance

Christianity

Man-woman relationships

Fixing stuff

Hopefully you've gotten to know me a bit better.
If you have questions or suggestions leave a comment below!

To read about how I got into crypto, read my previous post.

Joel