This is it man, once you take a good look at what your superiors are earning and you agree it won’t cut it for you, just get the hell out of that place for your own good.
I earned $120K a year working for Shell in 2012.
Ten years and multiple promotions later, in 2022, that figure has doubled to $240K a year.
In 2023, I stumbled on an internal, confidential, document that showed the salaries of my superiors.
I saw that even if I were promoted multiple times again, the best I could hope for in another 10 years was another doubling to around $480K a year.
This may sound crazy saying it out loud but that wasn’t cutting it for me.
I simply didn’t want the next 10 years to be a repeat of the last 10.
I wanted geometric progression, not an arithmetic one.
On my 40th birthday, in 2023, I was asked to make a wish as a blew the candles on my birthday cake.
“Get the hell out of Shell,” I quietly whispered. Months later, I was out.
In 2024, my businesses grossed $500K; in 2025, they did $1M - geometric progression.
It required me to be delusional about my abilities, to bank on the faithfulness of God and to trust that inner voice that always nag at me that I could be more, I could do more and I could have more.
I earned $120K a year working for Shell in 2012.
Ten years and multiple promotions later, in 2022, that figure has doubled to $240K a year.
In 2023, I stumbled on an internal, confidential, document that showed the salaries of my superiors.
I saw that even if I were promoted multiple times again, the best I could hope for in another 10 years was another doubling to around $480K a year.
This may sound crazy saying it out loud but that wasn’t cutting it for me.
I simply didn’t want the next 10 years to be a repeat of the last 10.
I wanted geometric progression, not an arithmetic one.
On my 40th birthday, in 2023, I was asked to make a wish as a blew the candles on my birthday cake.
“Get the hell out of Shell,” I quietly whispered. Months later, I was out.
In 2024, my businesses grossed $500K; in 2025, they did $1M - geometric progression.
It required me to be delusional about my abilities, to bank on the faithfulness of God and to trust that inner voice that always nag at me that I could be more, I could do more and I could have more.
You run a business and the Nigerian government is your biggest buyer, nah receivables go kill you 😭😭😭.
You go dey see receivables for your balance sheet, buy cashflow go dry like anything.
You fit run gig of 500m make them no pay you for 2 years.
Nothing wey i hate reach government work.
Napoleón perdió la batalla final contra el duque de Wellington en Waterloo, pero la historia terminó recordando a Napoleón, ese es el mundial 2026 de Argentina
“I don’t do sports betting ads. I’ve seen what gambling has done to people I know 💔. The French national team doesn’t pay me a penny — I even pay for my own flights from Madrid. They wanted me to do a betting shoot as part of my image rights deal, but I refused.”
— Kylian Mbappé
One of the most depressing and enlightening experiences in my entire life was visiting my dad every other day to take care of my dog during my gap year, and realizing over time that my mom totally gaslit me over him.
Yeah, he struggled a lot, was an alcoholic for a long time (the sad kind, not the abusive kind, he was always kind to me and my brother), and he had a hard time, but he was also FUCKED over by my mom. He went to one of the nicest high schools in the nation, graduated 3rd in the school. I’m named after his best friend, who was valedictorian and immediately went to Stanford on a full ride scholarship. My dad could have had that, instead he accidentally got my mom pregnant and took responsibility every step of the way. Even when she divorced him and got custody, he stayed in our shitty little hometown that he hated and worked at a bar for 20 years, all so he could take responsibility for me and my brother and raise us as much as he could. I love my Dad so much.