Farming Natures Runes In Two Winter Jackets And A Chook Hat

From the desk of Mantas,

Somewhere deep in Europe.

Room with no heating in cold Lithuanian winter. Hands so cold fingers barely move. Buckwheat diet. And 12-hour long grind sessions.

This is what making-a-living-off-RS looked like when I first started in 2014.

Sure, I could have found a “real” job like my dad wanted.

I could have taken over my mom’s restaurant, like she wanted.

But nah - all that seemed too boring ...too comfortable ...and just too normal.

And since my pursuit of professional basketball career was over at that time, I needed to find another quest leading to the waters mapped by others as impossible to reach.

So there I was, sitting in my cold room, flipping items at Varrock West bank and farming nature runes by day

Doing obstacle-on fights at Duel Arena by night.

Accumulate 100M. Sell it for Paypal. Rinse and repeat.

Then, a few months later, I saved enough money and got into the gold selling business.

In June of 2015 I opened my first gold shop.

In December of 2016 I bought the AUDI you see in a profile photo of this page.

( this car embodies all the hard work and sacrifices I made along the road; it’s iconic in my mind)

But the story does not end here.

I was still just a kid - 22 years of age seemed like a perfect time to get reckless with the money.

So I invested in crypto like a madman, buying into the dream of green Lambo and a mansion in Miami.

On top of that, I splurged on various business ventures at the expanse of neglecting my gold selling business. 

In other words, I drifted away and paid the price - in 2018 I found myself cleaned IRL and had to start the rebuilding process.

Getting cleaned, though, was a blessing in disguise, as I was lucky to find my next-big-pursuit in life - study of copywriting and human psychology.

But let's leave that for the next time.

To Your OSRS - And IRL - Gainz,

Mantas