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I am awwal, born in London
My family is composed by me, my mother and my sister. My father died at work when I was only 3 years old.
He left a huge hole in my soul that I could never fill. No memories, not even a single word or gesture I may remember from him and this is something I will never forgive destiny for. Losing a father when you are that young and the only male in the family is not easy thing to live with, but was also my biggest strength, my biggest motivation to do something meaningful in my life.
I Was And I Am An Artist (Inside)
I started studying piano when I was only 8 years old and I remember the teacher telling to my mother I would have never been able to play an instrument. It was just not for me.
The school fired the teacher few weeks later and I became the best pianist of my class. I studied piano for almost 10 years.
I also studied violin and drums for quite some time.
...But I Wanted To Be An Actor
When I was 13 I introduced myself to a theatre company of my town and worked with them for 5 years. I left my own town and moved to Rome where I attended some professional acting academies for 3 years and also participated to one of the most popular Italian TV series, i Cesaroni 3. Was funny to sign autographs, I must admit that.
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I left acting after this experience once I realised the ideal world I had in my mind, was actually really different.
Another Self Taught Developer
Luckily enough, when I was 18, I had in mind to create a database for actors, since none existed at that time in Italy, but I did not want to pay a developer for that. I started looking into a CMS named Boonex Dolphin and tried to make some changes by myself, without actually ever reading a single line of coding tutorial or book.
Trial and errors, trial and errors and eventually after few months of playing with the code up to 18 hours a day, I was able to do some coding myself.
After I left my acting career, becoming a professional developer seemed to be the most reasonable choice, was also the right one.
First Steps As An Entrepreneur
I opened my first personal company when I was 19 and earned good money just by making applications and enhancements to existing web softwares. I kept doing that for 3 years when I decided was time for me to setup a business and make the big money.
I opened a company and I was able to generate a bare minimum of 15K Euros revenue a month by providing IT services to companies and professionals.
The company failed when I had a bad personal time.
I was really flying high, earning 15K Euros per month at only 22 years old and already imagining myself driving a Lambo few years later.
In reality I had no friends, no social life. Was just me, my ex girlfriend and my work. When my ex left, all the rest broke down and the only remaining things I had were debts to pay for the losses made in the last months before closing the company.
I was working up to 14 hours a day for more than 2 years, sometimes also sleeping in the office...but.. it did not work.
EUR 30K Debts..Yeah!
I moved from Rome to Milan and for the first time in my life I started working as an employee for a web agency. I was 24. I was already able to speak and write fluent english and to code in few different programming languages.
It took 2 years to cover all the debts and I almost had a nervous breakdown. I was working up to 12 hours a day just to pay my rent and to cover the debts.
I did it! Once I paid the last cent of my debts I left the job, took some rest and met my current girlfriend, after more than 3 years alone
Once I left the job in Milan I came back to Rieti. I was in front of a bar with some friends. I was a bit drunk.
I met Francesca and I clearly remember the first thing she told me was "What kind of drugs do you take"?
She asked that because I have a tattoo on my heart that is composed by the initials of my family in chronological order and she was making fun of that.
She was young and so funny and natural, I felt in love immediately.
We have spent more than 2 years together now and travelled most of Europe.
She gave me the strength I lost in the past and thanks to her I found the courage to open again a personal company and restarted my career from scratch.
I worked for few months in Italy when I got a call from Germany and worked there for almost another year, with a very good salary. I left Germany when I found out about Steem.
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