No excuses: "Invest in happiness" - an interview with Denis Shipovich

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- Hi Denis! Welcome to Layfhaker.

- Hi, Nastya! Thanks for the invitation.

- Tell us a little about your family.

- He spent his childhood in the suburban Shchelkovo. There he served his father - he's in my military.

- You were brought up in the military?

— I do not remember any rigid discipline. I had the usual post-Soviet boy's childhood: climbed on armored personnel carriers, melted lead, jumped on the garages. While all this I was not.

- Why?

— I have a birth disorder in which high risk of complete loss of vision. Especially if you jump, run, lift weights. Doctors probably would like to see, I do not move, but could I sit still? :)

With 14 years I gradually lost his sight, until it finally disappeared.

- Do you remember this moment?

— Not. Everything was slow, I had time to adjust.

I even had some time the effect of the phantom. I turn on the lights in the room, and I thought that was a lighter. I cut out and thought it was dark. In fact, it was just a deception of the brain. After all, I knew that a click switch changes the lighting in the room.

- What do you feel when you realized that you can not see anymore?

Blindness does not become a tragedy for me.

Firstly, I was ready for it. Secondly, I had too many other, much more important concerns: study, hobby, the first falling in love.

The puck forward!

- Are you a good student?

— Medal in school, graduated with honors at the institute.

But I've never crammed - just came easily. At school I was, on the contrary, was a frequent visitor to the principal's office because of the dreadful behavior.

- How sloven Denis became a serious lawyer?

— Good question. :)

The thought of what to become in the future, do not come to me for a long time. When it came to choosing a future profession, I just knew exactly what I do not.

I did not want to go on the trail for the blind protoronnoy massage or Training and Production Enterprise (the outlet to collect).

I do not know, told me in complexes or ambitions, but I wanted a more prestigious profession and money. there are many Saving life hackingBut personally, I do not know how to support his family on a pension of 15 thousand rubles.

- You understand that the law - hundreds of treaties and acts? Documents you need to carefully read, and this can be a problem for you.

— I was guided by the principle: forwards the puck, and there shall understand.

Problems need to be addressed as they become available. At that time, I had the task to do. With the rest of the complexities decided to understand when the time comes.

After all, there is nothing insurmountable. The main thing - do not be idle. And modern technology everything is much easier than it seems.

- As a result, you entered the Moscow State Law University Kutafin. Why there?

— Director of the school where I studied, said that with my brain stupid act somewhere other than the MSU or the Moscow State Law Academy. There's the best law faculty in the country.

At first it was a little uncomfortable where I was and where these prestigious universities. But I tried. He entered the Moscow State Law Academy, and quite easily, scored 85 out of 100 points in a profile exam.

- Do not you put a spoke in the wheel?

— At the Moscow State Law Academy and was still working a blind educator. So I was not a pioneer.

In addition, it turned out, great people working there. We just met with the dean, asked permission to write an essay in Braille and were assured that the problems in the studies I will not.

- They do not?

— The biggest challenge with which I had to face - flatbed books and written texts.

Each semester begins with the scanning of the week: 5-7 hours before the scanner, a program for text recognition - and a thick monograph in your pocket.

With the development of the Internet has become easier. Many textbooks and almost all regulations can be downloaded in electronic form, and word processing speech synthesizer copes perfectly.

Investing in happiness

- How did your law practice?

— I started to earn money from the very first year: advised relatives and friends, worked as a paralegal in a real estate agency. But really interesting work on specialty not get work. After university, he worked in public organizations.

This is very annoying - I wanted to apply this knowledge in practice.

It came about by accident. I met in the train with a female auditor, who later told a lawyer for job in the company REG.RU and helped to organize a meeting with the director.

Jobs in IT there became my breakthrough knowledge: it turns out, not necessarily to go to the office and it is possible to combine work and travel.

- How do you respond to the leadership and colleagues?

— We have a very progressive team. Alexei Korolyuk (Director REG.RU - approx. author) I was more concerned about my competence in legal matters.

Here counterparties from time to time fall into a stupor or religious rapture. "How? This meticulous guy that fills up our letters and gets to the bottom of each letter, the blind? "

- For 5 years you are from an ordinary lawyer rose to Assistant General Manager. What are you doing now?

— In addition to the legal, now very much engaged in financial and investment issues.

I am very concerned about the topic of financial literacy.

If you do not start investing right now, in old age have to live on a pension. Unenviable prospect.

- And where to invest something? Give advice to our readers.

— Personally, I now very interested in the Russian stock market, ie securities. But it may at any time change. Therefore, the main board — study finance, and keep abreast of.

- Dennis, what do you dream about?

Create an investment fund to provide a decent life for his wife and daughter. She was only eight, and she was in the third grade. I want to invest in its happy future. :)

- At the end of the tradition of asking you to give motivational farewell Layfhakera readers.

— I like a parable. Imagine a person talking on the blooming meadow. It comes and admires: what beautiful bright flowers. Suddenly he came across a bunch of crap - did not notice arrived. Unpleasant, sorry, of course. But wiped boots and went on to admire the flowers.

Following the other person talking. He goes and looks out, as it were, which did not plunge: here a bunch, a bunch more, and over there a bunch. One did not see and yet come. Also seems to be nothing wrong - wiped and went on. The only difference is that the first sees before him flowers, while the second looks at the whole life shit.

I wish readers to think about it and reconsider its attitude to the difficulties.

The problems were, are and will be in our lives. And they are inversely proportional to joy.

Focus on the latter, and live happily ever after! :)

- Denis, thank you for the interview. It was interesting.

— You're welcome. Goodbye!