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get a rich white to take care of you dawg.....you gotta be slanging that pipe though to keep them cutting the checks..and if that don't work..then ing cuck an athlete and then open a ing gym....
I have a job right now and it pays fine. I still have a year and half in school as well, but lately, from a happiness standpoint, I'm just doing something that I hate. To top it, I am looking forward on a career that involved 40-60 hours of work. I am going to admit, that I went to university with the intention of finishing and getting a job that pays..But damn, If i'm not happy right now how much more would it be 5-10 years from now?
Growing up, I had three options that I would be relatively happy with..I was passionate about it and the other offers early retirement. In order of what I really wanted.
1. Be Involved in sports. Either soccer or Basketball..I pussied out because of the lack of opportunities.
2. Raise a family in my hometown village. Easy life. Great Food. Great Environment for kid..But My parents would be very dissapointed. They also have mortages to pay that I feel some sort of responsibility..I wanna pay off their debts so this was never an option..but it's something that I've dreamed of doing since I was kid. Grew up in farm..Wanted to raise a farm..Simple. But parents moved to the city and took all sorts of debts to improve life.
Maybe build a business that would allow me to retire early and do 2...
Anyways, which would you rather do?
Work 45-60 hours for a good house, debts here and there but a decent lifestyle making 60k upwards a year
Work 20-30 hours a week for 30-40k a year?
I have these options going forward and I don't know what to do..Work less and work on a business or work more and save?
get a rich white to take care of you dawg.....
depends, i say stay single, make money, small nice house and do more of what you enjoy. id ing off myself if i had 2 kids, wife, mortgage, and all that lame . maybe when im 30-35 but not now.
There isn't a correct answer, it depends entirely on your mentality as an individual, tbh..
Money vs. social life vs. cir stances
I never listened to my parents growing up and I moved away at 16, but they were correct in their warnings and advice..the mistakes you make early on in your adult life will have serious financial implications in regards to your conundrum in the OP, especially if you dont have rich parents to bail you out
Not even strictly from an education standpoint, but also blowing money in your early 20s..most of us are not financially responsible at that point in our lives..
i look forward to work in the morning.
So you think building your own business or being a farmer isn't going to involve working heavy hours?
Oh for sure, but it's matter of doing something you like..
What's so funny about it?
I lived in an Isolated village in the Philippines my first 8 years and would constantly visit there...No internet, no TVs..Closes town, has no internet xonnextion, no malls. Everything is a wet market...
I loved it there..The small farm a few minutes walk away from the house, a few minutes walk away from jungle, mountains, and water falls, a few minutes away from natural hot springs..also a few minutes away from the beach..Best part about it,..Town doesn;t want to be turned into another tourist destinatin and hopefully never will..it was paradise bro.
Just sounds funny
Small town villages don't exist in North America. Sure sounds foreign to an american..
Should have probably used a different term..but it s what it is.
Deliver pizza ftw.
Just don't picture you as a villager tbh
I just picture tdmvpdpoy's primitive ass as a villager..you seem more advanced
I hope you weren't around any of the US military installations back then...I've heard there was some pretty nefarious, predatory individuals around.What's so funny about it?
I lived in an Isolated village in the Philippines my first 8 years and would constantly visit there...No internet, no TVs..Closes town, has no internet xonnextion, no malls. Everything is a wet market...
I loved it there..The small farm a few minutes walk away from the house, a few minutes walk away from jungle, mountains, and water falls, a few minutes away from natural hot springs..also a few minutes away from the beach..Best part about it,..Town doesn;t want to be turned into another tourist destinatin and hopefully never will..it was paradise bro.
I had a lot of fun but racked up a lot of debt into my mid-20's. Do overseas contracting, it's so cake
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I've heard some nasty stories in the islands of Visayas..Avante like Stories
But no, I don't think anyone have seen a US military there.
That's overrated. Make the most money you can, save and invest all that you can so that you can enjoy the 2nd half of your life. The only people who say money isn't important are the people who don't have it, well also rich people who don't want to sound like snobs but they don't actually mean it. If you can be financially successful doing something you love then great but being financially successful is the most important part. Either way your going to have to work your ass off to get there unless you just get lucky.
^ bad tak. Depends on where you live and what makes you happy and whether or not you have a wife and kids. In the US, you better have some money though. But if you're somewhere where the cost of living is cheap and you can enjoy good food and the outdoors, then that's a different story.
Equating money to hours worked is a futile endeavor. Instead, consider the standard of living you're willing to accept in order to build something for your future. When building a new home, many people live in smaller, cheaper homes or even trailers until it's finished. Now consider that the home you're building is your future (all of it) and the standard of living you have now is the temporary living quarters until you get there. Young people who get into debt over their income level rarely ever have a high standard of living as they age. It's those people who don't have the newest everything at age 22, who invest money and time into themselves, those people have comfortable living as they age.
So I don't equate hours worked to financial well being. I look at the end of year earnings and often that's a product of moves I made during the year or even in years past. Extra time rarely equates to significant income increases. More time spent, in my line of work, means you're not as good at it as your position advertises you to be. So you spend the time but you don't get rich off of it. I've worked 100 hours in a week, easily, but I've also spent weeks at a time without doing anything work related. I made about the same both times.
Don't be afraid of working long hours... even if its a job that you care nothing for. Just make sure the money is good and find something you really like to do in your spare time to offset the hours you spend at your job that you hate. Find a mentor at something you want to do and listen. Delay marriage and kids until you've accomplished your goals. In fact... skip marriage all together unless she's and asset... someone that adds to your life and not take from. Most importantly... save and invest your money while you're young. There is nothing more important than having money to spend when you want or need it. A small book called The Richest Man In Babylon opened my eyes. I always made money, but spent it like it was going out of style. Specialize in something... become great at something. It takes time... a book called Outliers will give you some insight to this. Last but no least... ask the same questions that you just asked us total strangers to a person that you trust. Gain some insight from older people that you know and trust.
Golden points, DMC, hope you can teach my Lunar Goddess such doctrines someday...
I don't have the newest everything and I never crave such things. For example, I'm still using a motorola phone which I bought 4yrs ago for about 20 bucks, and as a student I spend little money on anything that's not schoolwork related. I want to find a staff job at school so I'd have some extra time (summer vacations, for example) to continue my study on translation and writing, procure a doctorate's degree some years later hopefully. As a young ambitious dude I think the best I can do now is equip myself with knowledge and academic capitals such as degrees and articles published, which would altogether make a solid basis for me to built my future upon. Capitals in the form of knowledge and academic achievements are far more important to young people than capitals in other forms imho, since the value of your money saved at banks would leak away rapidly thanks to the high inflation rate. Money should be enough as long as it sustains your living, and young people should always look forward to the future rather than the present, imho.
Extra time rarely equates to significant income increases, I can't agree more on this tbh. The size of reward depends on the amount of intelligence contained in your product or service you sell, and that's also why young people should always invest in the future. You may have to live a frugal life in the short term, but it'll benefit you considerably in the long run imho.
Thing about education is that even if you cannot pay it back, they can't take your degree.
only takes you seven years to master something. change it up every seven years.
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