In this video, I wanted to talk about why I feel that most people I associate with just kind of my regular daily life are a little bit different than I am. In fact, I feel like they're a lot different than I am. And the reason I want to talk about this is it's really just more of a mindset and how they sort of perceive the world, how they really look at working and making more money and having more freedom for themselves. So I just want to give you an example of how I used to be and how most people are that I come across. So really, what it comes down to is, I used to basically work a job in tech support, I went to college, I got a degree, a guy that I went to college with referred me to this particular job in a tech support role.
I would go to work every day working from you know, I think it was like shift something like nine to five o'clock, and every day I would come home and then I would simply just do things like watch TV, play video games, you know Hang out with friends. This is really all pretty common stuff. A lot of people do this, you know, it's just, I would do normal things outside of my job, I wouldn't do any work outside of my job. Now, when I really started to think more like an entrepreneur, I started working more on things for myself in sacrificing those things in order to basically achieve more for myself. And I'm going to talk more about sacrifice in the upcoming lectures. But I really just wanted to talk in this video more about the differences in how I perceive people.
So now these days, I look at a lot of people that I'm friends with people I've known for years and years and years, even my own parents, that a lot of people they just, they're still very stuck in this in this sort of mindset in this mentality that it's very normal to go to work, work a full day and then come home and just have leisure time. They're not working to build anything beyond that. They're not trying to build some bigger business. They're not trying to break through be out of that work for themselves have more freedom, just all these things that really I'm so in desire of, I feel like other people, either they don't care, or they just don't have an understanding. They feel like this is the norm. They've gotten so used to it.
They just get very kind of lazy in their ways. And think that that's sort of the way to go. I know that I want to give an example of a friend of mine that he actually just went to law school. He spent over $100,000 on his education, and spent eight years in school, and he's having a really hard time finding work. He's currently in a position at a law firm, but he's basically just starting out. He's making probably, I want to say around $50,000 a year, and he's got over $100,000 in debt.
And the particular law firm he works at just cut his hours. He's only working something like 15 or 20 hours a week, and they cut his health benefits. And now he's having a hard time trying to find more work even though he already has experience and All the law experience, he's even been applying to jobs outside of the realm of, you know, outside of where he's based out of, you know, other other states and other cities and things like that. And it's just really shocking to me that someone could go pay this much for schooling and then have this much trouble finding work. It's almost like a scam, in a sense to me. And that's how I've always felt about some of these things.
You know, there's a lot of good reasons to be going to school, obviously, I'm not gonna kind of knock it down. But really, when you look at a scenario like that, it just kind of blows my mind that, you know, he spent all this money, and he's having so much trouble. So I really I talked to him all the time. And I say, you know, we should get started on something we should form business together. And you know, he's invested so much into this loss stuff. I can't blame him for wanting to stick with that.
But it's almost like he's stuck in a way he's having a hard time. really moving forward with what he's spent so much time, so much energy investing into this law degree, that it's like, really is this the The right way for him to go. I know for him, you know, I'm sure he's going to find a job eventually, I'm sure over time, he's going to build a build up to say a six figure income and be able to do a lot more with that. But it's almost like mind blowing that it's it's this difficult for him with that type of education. So I wanted to talk like I said a little bit about this and just kind of give you guys a perspective of how I look at other people. In the next video, I'm going to talk about hanging around with other people and how that sort of reflects on you