Hey, this is the Daily Overpass! My name is Eric and I make apps. Now today, I want to
talk about how sometimes, you have to put things on the back burner.
Okay, guys, guess where I am today? So over here, over my shoulder here you can see a
tower bridge, I'm in London for the day. I came - so, I'm going to this AppAnnie event
tonight, it's called "Decode London" or something like that. It's all about the app economy
and everything like that. I'm gonna take some notes, I'll tell you, guys, all about it tomorrow.
But it's always good to go out and learn new things. But I decided to come out a few hours
early so I can meet with a few different people and just sorta have a look around. So, right now,
I'm over the southbank right next to the Tower Bridge. Between the Tower Bridge and London
Bridge. And right next to the building where I used to work as a consultant, for like,
I think it was for 3 or 4 months, it was back - it was quite a while ago. And this was like - I
already started Overpass, I had left like a really good contract, to go - to do Overpass full time.
Then after like 18 months, the money started to run out and I had to take on a contract.
So, I was working on one of these buildings here. And despite the fact that everything
around here is beautiful, I mean, I love working in London. We have the HMS Belfast right here.
We got scenery everywhere but majority of my day was spent like sitting in a little
office, right? I was sitting in my little office there with no windows. The highlight of my
day was going to work, going home from work and also lunch time. So, I would always take
lunch time and walk around. And that was my life. It was almost like - its was like I'm having
prison time in the yard. I really curse that. In fact, what we're doing - I was working
as a consultant, so, I was working at this consultancy here, and I would walk across London Bridge
over there and go to the investment bank that was actually the client of the consultancy.
And that was another highlight of my day. So, everytime they'd say, "Can you go over
there and talk to so and so..", I would like take my time walking across the bridge. Now, the
thing that really killed me at that time was because I'd already decided that I want to do
Overpass, right? I left and I told everybody at the contract before that, "Yeah, I'm gonna
do that full time and I'm gonna make it work." And they're like, "Yeah, good luck!", right?
And it bothered me that I had to swallow my pride and take on another contract. But I
swore to myself, it was only temporary. And it was one of the reason why it was so hard
to come in. Because sometimes you just have to take things and put them on a back burner.
And as much as it kills you, you have the end dream in mind, you have the end goal in
mind, sometimes you have to just say - dude, you need to pay the bills, you need the money
and everything like that. It was sad at that time of my life. But think I was just pretty
spiteful. You know, I would go into work and I wasn't the easiest person to work with in
that contract, to be honest with you. So, going in to work everyday and it was like
"Oh, it's a nice sunny day, you got to see all the tourists out and everything like that."
It's a beautiful scenery here then you go sit in that office and I really couldn't stand
it. Sometime you have to take things and put them on a back burner that's a normal thing.
I think we all have to do it. But, you know.. So somebody going through that now but you
have to remember the end goal.. When you say that this is just temporary and nobody believes you,
they don't have to believe you. They just have to be you. Anyway, I just want to show you
a bit of London today. That's it for today. I'll talk to you, guys, tomorrow.