How I Was Successful
Has there ever been a time in your life where you felt were successful? Well, I have felt successful one time in my life. The time I felt successful was when I bought, traded, sold, and even built a computer.
It all started when I was around 14 years of age. After begging my parents, they finally let me order parts for a computer off of the internet to be shipped to my house. At the time I had no clue on how to build a computer, or even what the parts were. After some 5 hours, my brother, Stephen, tried to teach me everything I needed to know about computers and how to put to put the parts together. After waiting three long week for all the parts to come in, we finally had a chance to sit down and put it together, piece by piece. While we were putting it together, I learned so much and how much money you can get out of building a computer and selling it. After we finished building the computer, I put it up for sale on a website called, "Craigslist." At the time I did not know how much the computer was worth, but I got an offer for 900 dollars. Without even thinking …show more content…
Everything with only parts were done through another website called, "eBay." All of this required a lot of overseas transactions, which cost my brother and I a lot of money. Eventually we got all of it back because some parts in other countries are more expensive than the same parts in the United States. After 3 long, exhausting, and successful years, we finally stopped buying, selling, and trading computer parts.
Buying, selling, and trading computers has taught me a lot. It taught me that success comes in many different ways. Success doesn't have to be anything big, it can be the smallest thing in the world such as screwing in a light bulb. It also taught me that you have to work for even the smallest form of success. That's the story of the one time I was
Has there ever been a time in your life where you felt were successful? Well, I have felt successful one time in my life. The time I felt successful was when I bought, traded, sold, and even built a computer.
It all started when I was around 14 years of age. After begging my parents, they finally let me order parts for a computer off of the internet to be shipped to my house. At the time I had no clue on how to build a computer, or even what the parts were. After some 5 hours, my brother, Stephen, tried to teach me everything I needed to know about computers and how to put to put the parts together. After waiting three long week for all the parts to come in, we finally had a chance to sit down and put it together, piece by piece. While we were putting it together, I learned so much and how much money you can get out of building a computer and selling it. After we finished building the computer, I put it up for sale on a website called, "Craigslist." At the time I did not know how much the computer was worth, but I got an offer for 900 dollars. Without even thinking …show more content…
Everything with only parts were done through another website called, "eBay." All of this required a lot of overseas transactions, which cost my brother and I a lot of money. Eventually we got all of it back because some parts in other countries are more expensive than the same parts in the United States. After 3 long, exhausting, and successful years, we finally stopped buying, selling, and trading computer parts.
Buying, selling, and trading computers has taught me a lot. It taught me that success comes in many different ways. Success doesn't have to be anything big, it can be the smallest thing in the world such as screwing in a light bulb. It also taught me that you have to work for even the smallest form of success. That's the story of the one time I was