I quit my 6-figure investment banking job to DJ.
Within 2 years I burned through all of my Wall St. bonuses and maxed out every credit card I had.
At 25 years old I had accumulated over $80,000 in credit card debt.
Maxed out with nowhere to go, I went back to real work which started a short, but successful career in tech sales.
I actually made more in tech sales than I had in investment banking, but it STILL took me 4 years to pay off all of my credit cards.
If you’ve been in that boat and successfully made it to the other shore before you sank, then you’ve learned that lesson the hard way.
As a financial planner, I used to work with people who came to me with credit card debt.
Having been there I thought I could help them get out and stay out.
Unfortunately, I also had to learn THAT lesson the hard way.
What I discovered is that learning the perils of credit card debt has to be self-taught.
There’s a switch in our brains that only we can turn on. People with credit card debt have it flipped off.
As hard as I would try, there was just no way for me to flip it on for them.
And that’s why we no longer work with people who have credit card debt.
I felt like a personal trainer working with someone who showed up to the gym with a box of Krispy Kremes.
If you know, you know. But if you don’t, only you can teach yourself.
