I woke up screaming… my terrified girlfriend shaking me awake.
Another night terror, brought about from the growing mountain of stress that was my life.
You see, my life wasn’t where I thought it would be.
I was 38, commuting two hours a day to a nightmare job as a gym’s general manager, and living paycheck to paycheck in a tiny apartment I could barely afford.
All I wanted was to get married, buy a house, and start a family...
Yet, the prospect of being able to afford an engagement ring, let alone everything else that comes after that, seemed nothing short of a fantasy.
The numbers just didn’t add up, and my dreams felt like they were slipping through my fingers.
Was This It? Was I Destined to Be Someone Who Was Always Just Scraping By?
I needed to stop the cycle and find a way to make the kind of money that would let me give my family the life they deserved.
The only problem was I had no marketable skills that would make the kind of money I wanted to make.
That is, until a chance encounter with the gym’s bookkeeper.
During a casual conversation, she mentioned she charged the gym $3,000 a month to do their bookkeeping, all while working from home.
And that was only one of the many clients she had.
I Thought, “THIS Is the Kind of Money I Need to Be Making.”
So I set out to learn the skill of bookkeeping.
In the beginning, it felt like I was learning a whole new language, and I wondered whether I’d ever pick it up.
But within a few short weeks of nightly study, I earned my certification in QuickBooks and was able to post my profile on its website.
Within a week, I got my first client!
And Although I Initially Set Out to Earn $5k per Month within Six Months… I Did It in Three!
I was finally able to hand in my two weeks’ notice at the gym, propose to and marry my girlfriend, and eventually go on to have two beautiful children.
Bookkeeping has literally changed our lives.