Brandon D. Johnson
What Do you Hope your Legacy is?
“There is ego in memory, in the memories. Who designed the sidewalk? Who designed the water fountain? Who designed the stop sign? Who designed the stoplight? These things are so ubiquitous that the person that designed them is forgotten. If it’s a good idea, it’s a God idea, and no VCs can own it. I want to be forgotten.”
-Ye
there is no comparison between a King and a scholar, the king is only celebrated in his nation however a scholar is celebrated universally.
-Sanskrit
biography
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Growing Up
From a very young age I've always been very extroverted and was honestly a little bit slow to social queues in the beginning of my life. Was always the fat kid and never really fit into any friend groups always acting obnoxious to try and seek attention. This created a very unhealthy need for attention in my adolescent years. Needless to say it taught me that consistency and personality are two very important factors to developing social relationships. As I reached into middle school a lot changed immediately as the social dynamics of life as I knew it was thrown into a spiral. School doesn't teach you much other than social interactions and how to be a good slave in the system. Teenagers can be very ruthless and I found this out very quickly, bullying had went one step further as I got larger and larger in size. I started playing sports more regularly, exercising, fixing my eating habits, and just trying to get some sort of normal weight to try and fit into this new weird social playground I was involuntarily thrown into. It taught me a lot of valuable life lessons that I still use to this day such as discipline, routine, consistency, the art of not giving a fuck and living a life that best suites you. I had went from shy of 300 pounds all the way down to 150 pounds in the span of about 2 years.
First Photo 2015:(Me at 285 pounds and weird)
Second Photo 2017: (150 pounds still fucking weird but getting girls)
Life as I knew it had become amazing, great, serendipitous you can even say. I was no longer being bullied and everything I had dreamed of I was getting, the girls, the attention, the influence I had so long dreamed of was finally mine. School life was quickly coming to an end though and what I thought would last forever would quickly come crashing down in what we adults like to call reality. Graduation came around mid 2018 around the same time I'm writing this today 7 years ago.I had a huge life decision to make and that was either I was going to college(I knew damn well I wasn't) or get a job and quote on quote "Figure myself out before I decide on college" which usually always ends in never going. I am so glad I went with the second decision because college is a complete waste of time, money and resources. The only thing college is good for would be if you choose a career path where formal education is required which I had no desire of partaking in. My first temp job as a tryout was in a tile warehouse as a helper and that was 2 weeks of pure agony. I always argued I would never work a 9-5 and spewed all that entrepreneurial bullshit but what did I have to show for it by the time I graduated? A bunch of hookups and wasted time at parties not to mention the crypto and social real estate (Usernames) I had wasted and thrown into the dust. To cut the story short I didn't last two weeks and got offered a job at what was my grandfather's car company. I worked as a salesman for 6 years with no future of ever moving up or getting a decent pay. Making 300 dollars a week for 6 years lit a fire in me and I knew that this shit just wasn't right. I had applied for better paying jobs before but I was still the immature little boy who never had any social queues so all my interviews were horrible. I spent 6 years working and wasting away in that corporate landscape being devoured by the wolves who don't want me to have what my grandfather had spent majority of his life building. Finally the job opportunity arose for me last year in April when I got accepted to the company I'm with today and quickly moved up in the ranks in the first month to a manager and then finally a store manager after 3 months of leadership and mentorship coaching.I wouldn't trade this experience I've gained over the last 7 years for anything in the world. It's taught me so much about people, leadership, family, ego, greed, and much more paving my path as the man I am today writing an entire Biography about myself. If the right decisions were made then maybe just maybe I wouldn't even be sitting here writing this for you to read today. The millions of dollars I would've had in bitcoin would ensure I never had to work a day again but I blew it all and glad I did as the person I would have become would not reflect my morals. I had a second life outside of my IRL(In Real Life) Life. I had many online personas since 2013 when I had originally joined what is known as "The Com" or "The Community" which was a quick growing online enterprise with boundless opportunities in it's grasp and still does to this day. I no longer claim to be apart of this "Com" anymore but I guess I am by no choice as I am one of the founding fathers along with many others. Learn more about the "Community" HERE and some of my stories growing up in this internet dystopia.
Wisdom and Knowledge is power.
- Sir Francis bacon