In the country where I live, there’s a mentality that one should own a house. I don’t know where this comes from. But I believe that renting is more in sync with how the things work in nature. And following the ‘nature way’ makes you more happy so I try to follow suit.
Some days ago Ram from Bright3r approached me with handful of interesting questions. Most interviews I gave in the last two years are in Slovenian, but this one is for the broader audience, so I decided to publish it here as well.
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Yesterday I was standing barefoot in the creek and observed small creatures flourishing in the tiny pool there. About two and a half months have passed since I have last seen my family. Yesterday, we have gathered for honey harvesting. The place is in Mrčna sela and my father was showing us salamander maggots and insects living in the creek.
The other day I was checking one of the WordPress websites I own and noticed that the mysql database has drastically grown recently. After doing some investigation I found out that two tables are taking up about 95% of the space.
It’s this time of the year again. In last year’s announcement I wrote how I wanted to take sabbatical year when I turn 30.
Boy, one year’s around and I have no idea whether I’m closer to the goal and doing it already or on the totally different track.
In May, I’ve shared my motivational letter for applying to WorldChicago. Half year fast forward, here I am, exploring the Windy City with other 15 professional fellows and working with the Geetha Natarajan, one of the WishYourPrice startup co-founders.
Some of you are checking this blog daily because I’ve promised I’ll be blogging while on WorldChicago professional fellowship (in Chicago, duh). I’ll keep you waiting a little bit more, this also isn’t one of these “here’s how my day’s been going” reports (btw, Maja does that).
Rather, it’s the copy/paste answer to this email from Milana from our fellowship:
My answer is below (excuse me for brevity and grammar mistakes, I actually copy/pasted it):
I was a guest on Parallel Passion – a podcast hosted by Miha Rekar.
There are a ton of engineering podcasts out there. But they focus on engineering. We strive to be different. Parallel Passion wants to be the podcast that delivers insight into vastly diverse lives of engineers.
Enjoy listening!
I woke up today morning. My first thought was: what should I do today so when I go to the bed in the evening, I’m getting closer to my goal – getting retired at the age of 30. I had the same first thought yesterday when I woke up. And the day before. Actually, it’s this same thought that got me out of bed every morning for the past few months.
Today is my 28th birthday which makes my goal 2 years away.
But to understand where this crazy idea of retiring at 30 comes from, I first have to tell you a story.
As part of the CEED business program, I’ve been encouraged to apply for the 5-weeks long exchange program between the city of Chicago and European countries.
I’ve spent effectively 5h22m applying to the program (yes, I track my time and apply Eisenhower to determine which tasks I should be doing more and which I should eliminate or delegate) + paid for the professional proof-reading of the motivational letter. I firmly believe I stand good chances of being selected as one of 4 entrepreneurs from Slovenia who will travel to Chicago in autumn 2018 for 5 weeks. But then again, if I’m not selected, at least what I can do is that I share my motivational letter (the major part of the application) with dear readers of my blog. This way, I won’t have that bad feeling of wasting up my time in case I’m not selected.
So here it is 🙂