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Dickson has been called a Digital Nomad. One who moves often and makes a living off the Internet, service provided over the Internet or network. I love that he knows his real why, and man is it big!
Mentioned:
Canadian Amazon FBA Prime Seller Community with Dang & Dickson
Great North Ecom : February 24th & 25th 2018
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Cool voice guy: [00:04:38] Welcome to the e-commerce momentum blog. Will we focus on the people the products and the process of e-commerce selling your host Steven Peters then welcome back to the e-commerce momentum podcast. This
Stephen: [00:04:54] is episode 269 Dixon Lee Young very cool guy. I was told that I did a little research on them and they said you don’t like a story and I do like his story because his story is so similar to a lot of our stories yet his life goals. Below me in a way. He isn’t going to want to just sell a bunch or live a great life or this and that there’s more to it. There’s some depth there and that’s very cool. I love his description. He’s a digital nomad meaning that he can live anywhere and has lived a lot of places. I think that’s very powerful in today’s day and age especially for a younger guy because that freedom is something that us older guys wish we had. And it’s not. I’d love my wife. I love my kids or my grandkids and I want to be with them and Nerem yet I also love that little adventure. I have that streak in me too and Dicksons live in that life and I think it’s a very cool story. Let’s get into the podcast. Mary
Stephen: [00:05:56] welcome back to the e-commerce momentum podcast excited for today’s guest from the Great North. Although it’s colder where I am than where he is today because he’s a digital nomad. I love that phrase. Can’t wait to hear more about it. Dixon Leang How did I do on the name it was good.
Stephen: [00:06:16] OK I was going to butcher it. I mean there’s a couple of things. Wait to hear the name of this Facebook group guys. This bill. I know I’m going to mess it up but I’m going to read it because I want to read it because it just sounds so fun. So welcome Dixon.
Stephen: [00:06:29] Really nice to have you. Thank you Stephen. I’ll be talking to you. I appreciate you coming out. You are a digital nomad. That means you move. I mean how many times have you move your young guy. How many times have you moved so far.
Dickson: [00:06:43] More than I can count really 15 or 20 times in my life. No
Stephen: [00:06:48] kidding. I mean is that is there a thrill for you. Is it a desire. I mean how does that come about. It’s
Dickson: [00:06:56] it’s it was actually a necessity. So I moved around a lot as a young child because of my pet. They just like moving around a lot because of the fact that we immigrated into Canada when I was young from where I then from Hong Kong. OK.
Dickson: [00:07:19] So my background like way back I was born in Canada and that I immediately went to Hong Kong and I grew up in Hong Kong for the first seven years of my life. So when I was 7 I booth back to Canada.
Dickson: [00:07:34] We immigrated to Canada and we moved from house to house like city to city all over the place.
Stephen: [00:07:41] So well why is that so why. I mean was your your family’s you know employment so that they would move from place to play.
Dickson: [00:07:51] I mean what would what led to that my parents basically just won a better life for us.
Dickson: [00:07:59] Came to Cantor history of it was. I was born here because my parents were scared of pretty much the Chinese government. So Hong Kong used the belong to Britain before. Well before I was born and as a British territory there was not much to fear because there was very westernized. But in 1998 Hong Kong went back to China. And through that there was a lot of fear within Hong Kong of what would happen once China takes over. Was
Stephen: [00:08:35] that fear because of you know your parents would have seen what happened way back or their parents would have seen what happened way back and now with stories that were more so than what they actually witnessed.
Dickson: [00:08:50] Both okay.
Stephen: [00:08:53] So so that that whatever that was that memory stayed with them and they were that was enough for them to say hey you know it’s hard for a leopard to change its spots right even though they’re probably saying oh no things are great. Sometimes it’s harder to change. Yeah. Interesting so. So that’s a big sacrifice that your parents made. I mean that’s not easy. Giving up everything and moving especially with kids and you know basically giving everything up right. It sounds like when they came they didn’t have much.
Dickson: [00:09:22] Well they were entrepreneurs so they had a business. And when they moved here they still tried to run the business. They’re no longer in business today. But they had they they didn’t give up that much.
Stephen: [00:09:38] It’s actually in a sense they were trying to bring the digital nomads a little bit so that’s where that comes from is there is something exciting about a new location. Is that is that part of it. Is
Dickson: [00:09:50] it just that you know the unknown and it’s kind of you know thrilling.
Dickson: [00:09:57] Yeah definitely. Is that part of it. Because when you go into a new place you have to learn the entire again you know and it’s it’s interesting because you that there is just so many things in this world that you’re never going to see at all.
Stephen: [00:10:14] Oh I agree with you 100 percent. And you know when you stay at a place for a long period of time I mean I drive the same way to my warehouse every single day. I just can’t I just don’t deviate. You know I’m a creature of habit. And so what am I missing. Right. I mean that’s really the point. Right. And do you feel like you know and it will get into the e-commerce part and I want to get there but I just want to make sure I get this out because it’s interesting to me is do you feel like that you’ve experienced so much more that had you not moved on teen times. I mean it’s pretty stupid question but I mean are there anything that stands out for you that like no way would I have ever seen this unbelievable waterfall or this launch of a spaceship or something goofy like that anything Iceland for sure. Yeah that’s a big one. Iceland
Dickson: [00:11:02] is absolutely breathtaking like that movie looks like a sci fi film. And you would like to think this on earth like how is this even possible.
Stephen: [00:11:14] That’s a bucket list item now isn’t it for others. Anybody listening sounds like Iceland should be on the list. It
Dickson: [00:11:21] definitely is. OK. So you run an Amazon business from anywhere correct.
Stephen: [00:11:32] No limits. No. Why. Why Amazon. And we can get into how you get into it. But I mean why that not digital marketing or why not. You know Vlaar blogging blogging writing whatever video what why not.
Dickson: [00:11:51] To be honest I just kind of stumbled into Amazon and now I’m trying to venture a little bit outside of just selling UNCA but I haven’t been a real entrepreneur for that long.
Stephen: [00:12:06] To be honest I recently graduated and what was your degree in economics and what were you going to do with that degree. And was that a parental insistent that she go to college or because they didn’t want you to be an entrepreneur. Or was it you wanting to be something different.
Dickson: [00:12:25] I always kind of knew I was going to do something entrepreneurial but I always thought the way to get there was go to university get a job you know work my way up that corporate ladder become some part of the C suite one day and then like when I’m 40 50 60 come out and do my own thing.
Stephen: [00:12:46] Don’t say 40 like it’ll do. Now you make a beef. All right. So so a degree in economics would be what I mean what was going to be for you.
Dickson: [00:12:57] It was. I basically chose economics because it was the quickest path to get out. So I started school with a double major. Actually when I went to school I was computer science and finance. It was a double major degree from first year. And somewhere along the way I realized I didn’t want to go into computer science or finance and I wanted to be out of school as soon as possible. And one of my only options was economics one of the only options that any interest in was economics and it would accept most of the classes are already taken in that kind of thing so you didn’t lose much.
Stephen: [00:13:39] OK. What was it about computer science because this is interesting to me because my younger son was a computer science major and switched to a digital media major at a new school. Of course he lost a year cost me money.
Stephen: [00:13:51] But what was it that wasn’t attractive to you that you thought was that would be with computer science specifically.
Dickson: [00:14:03] I I want to own. So I went to the University of Waterloo which is one of the top schools in computer world. And because it was the top school or one of the top schools it was super duper hard. They pretty much every computer science kid was sitting in front of a computer coding seven days a week. I was. They loved it. I read that. Yeah exactly. And it was it was a way of life for Waterloo’s see us kids and that I hated it because I do enjoy coding a little bit but not to the point where I can sit there type code for 10 hours a day every day.
Stephen: [00:14:50] It’s a powerful statement what you just said and ever thought about it. But I think it’s a really astute that a a top school in whatever field you’re choosing those people are going to be super nerds about it and therefore if you’re not a super nerd about it think of a different option. You could go to a similar school or a school that has the same major and you go for that if that’s not what they’re known for. And it just doesn’t fit well they’ll have much more options. Because you’re right. I mean super nerds are going to go to. They’re going to be led there and that’s cool for that. Are like all Silicone Valley guys today. Interesting. I just think that’s a that’s a very astute observation. I never thought about it. It makes perfect sense when you said it though like it.
Stephen: [00:15:36] OK so you were there. You changed it to economics to get out. Yes. All the meantime now you had an inkling you had an urge you had an urge to be an entrepreneur. Is that what it just keeps going. Is it back to your parents. Because they had the freedom they were able to kind of pick up and go.
Stephen: [00:15:57] What was it driving you back.
Dickson: [00:16:02] I I think from a...