I became a millionaire after years of flipping burgers in McDonald's - I don't have a degree but it wasn't that hard to make my riches

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A millionaire who once flipped burgers in McDonald's has said 収入 his fortune wasn't 'that hard' - にもかかわらず not having a university degree.?

Joe Davies from Birmingham spent years working in dead-end 職業s, but now he is now the 長，指導者 (n)役員／(a)執行力のある of a multi-million 続けざまに猛撃する company.?

With a 願望（する） to leave McDonald's and the 急速な／放蕩な food 産業 behind, the 36-year-old took a £100-per-week 職業 as an IT 見習い工.?

The work taught him new 技術s and 結局 誘発するd an idea that would earn Joe and his best pal and childhood friend Joe Taylor millions.

In 2012 the 二人組 開始する，打ち上げるd their 商売／仕事, Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) website FATJOE.com, and within two years they made their first million 続けざまに猛撃するs. Twelve years after they started out, the company is now valued at £10million.??

Joe Davies from Birmingham spent years working in dead-end 職業s - but has now built a multi-million 続けざまに猛撃する empire

Joe once flipped burgers in McDonald's but changed his life with best pal Joe Taylor (pictured together working in an 機関)

Joe, who now 分裂（する）s his time between Birmingham and Barcelona, said: 'I got good grades in school but when I went の上に sixth form, I lost 利益／興味 完全に.

'I didn't go to university like I had 初めは planned as I got fed up with learning and I only 手配中の，お尋ね者 to make money.

'[After leaving school], I worked mostly on building 場所／位置s, 配達するing from factories to shops and flipping burgers in McDonald's.

'I hated it as I felt like I wasn't doing anything important. I 手配中の，お尋ね者 to create somethin g but my 動機づけ wasn't very high in these 職業s.

'I had this 燃やすing 願望（する） to start something on my own and, at the very least, make a bit more of a difference.'

FatJoe.com is a service 壇・綱領・公約 for 機関s to outsource SEO services, which 目的（とする） to 改善する website traffic.?

Joe, who is an only child, looked up to his entrepreneur dad, Mick, 60, who owns a first 援助（する） training company and 奮起させるd him to go the extra mile to 達成する his dreams.

He said: 'I was really 利益／興味d in internet 商売／仕事. E-商業 was really にわか景気ing at the time I left school ? and I could sense an 適切な時期.

Joe now lives a very different life to that before 設立するing his 商売／仕事 FATjoe.com in 2012

He 分裂（する）s his time between Birmingham and Barcelona

Joe Davies (権利) and Joe Taylor celebrate ten years since FatJoe 開始する，打ち上げるd

'At the company I was working for, I was asked to build a website and learned SEO on the 職業. This was the first time I had heard that word.

'I couldn't put my finger on it but it had elements of 工学, coupled with creativity and marketing, which really fed into my creative personality.'

Joe then started work at an SEO 機関 and learned the 商売／仕事 味方する of how it operated.?

A few years later, the company were looking for a salesperson to join the team - and they 新採用するd his childhood best friend Joe.??

'And the 残り／休憩（する） is history,' Joe said.?'As kids, we dreamed of 存在 rich and famous, with our own 激しく揺する 禁止（する）d.

'One out of two isn't too bad.'

He even says that working his way up to his 抱擁する fortune wasn't 'that hard', 追加するing: 'Building a £10million empire isn’t hard you just need to identify a big enough problem and 人物／姿／数字 out how to solve it (at 規模).'?

After realising they made a 広大な／多数の／重要な 商売／仕事 二人組, in 2013 the pair やめる their 職業s to give the 商売／仕事 their all.

Joe's first 'team' Joe Davies (R), Joe Taylor and Emily, who was '決定的な' to the company's 初期の success

Joe says the company is now 価値（がある） £10million but that building it up 'wasn't that hard'

Joe said: 'We rented an office from day one to make it 'real' and at the start, we did everything ourselves.

'Me and Joe would be working up to 13 hours a day just to get everything done.'

In 2024, the company 雇うs 100 people across the globe 含むing 16 in office, and the （弁護士の）依頼人 roster features 1,000 機関s.

Now, eager to help other people, Joe Davies 株 his advice and 最高の，を越す tips on how to 後継する ? 含むing the 重要な three traits to becoming an entrepreneur.

He 追加するd: 'Personal 運動 to become better is number one. Curiosity to poke around and try out different ways of making things work is second.

'But most importantly, a 運動 to make money. It's clich?, but just starting something ? do and build.

'A lot of the problem for me was procrastinating and thinking about the 権利 time to start, in which there never is one.

'There's no such thing as having a '運命' in life and it's all about working hard and seeing where this takes you.

'I don't like to think too far ahead, because even with grand 計画（する）s, they can change. I spend a lot of time travelling around the world, at the gym ? and still playing guitar.

'But I think my dream of selling out 小旅行するs is one I'll keep under 包むs for now.'