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re: Anybody else bored with their 9-5 job
Posted on 7/19/18 at 9:10 am to LanierSpots
Posted on 7/19/18 at 9:10 am to LanierSpots
Im gonna need to hit the MF lottery to retire I think. Kids in college and raising a couple of grandkids because of one deadbeat daughter. (dont get me started.)
I'll be stroking college tuition checks when Im in my 70's.
I'll be stroking college tuition checks when Im in my 70's.
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Posted on 7/19/18 at 11:29 am to coachcrisp
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ADVICE FOR YOUNG FOLKS JUST STARTING OUT
Above all, find something you LIKE to do! It may not seem to have the best future earning capability as something else, but most people who LIKE what they do are eventually GOOD at it, and if you're GOOD at something, you can most often command a big price for your service (plus the chance of you starting your own business in that field is much better, and that's where the REAL money lies).
Finally, believe it or not, when your working life is over, you'll look back on it all with a great sense of satisfaction and inner-peace, because you did what you WANTED to do and you did it well.
This is experience talking to you....it's your choice to make.
This is very good advice and pretty much what I did about 21 years ago. Graduated college with 4 year in Electronics Engineering. Worked for two companies for 15 years total then decided to do something else after the second company relocated.
Started doing something I loved and was decent at and never looked back. Built my life around it and milked what I could out of it.
Will be 55 in 4 years and the plan is to work 2-3 days a week at it and the same for my wife. Biggest advice I can give people is not to blow all their money on vehicles and dont buy houses that are more expensive than they can afford then pay rent for 30 years. We were able to keep a low debt to income ratio our entire lives and did not have that pressure on us from it.
Spent our extra money on vacations and doing things we loved. I wished I would have saved a little more when I was younger. I have been playing catch up for the past 10 years but it looks like it will work out if nothing goes wrong in the next few years
Posted on 7/19/18 at 12:00 pm to LanierSpots
When did you decide formally to give up hookers and blow again? 
Posted on 7/19/18 at 12:22 pm to Pavoloco83
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When did you decide formally to give up hookers and blow again?
Never. That is the retirement plan
And on your daughter. I have a 22 year old son that is still home. When my wife and I started looking at our retirement and our beach house, I told him that he was on a clock.
And that clock was running.
Posted on 7/19/18 at 1:57 pm to LanierSpots
quote:Sounds like you and the wife have got things figured out...I'll bet you're better than "decent" at what you do, too.
Will be 55 in 4 years and the plan is to work 2-3 days a week at it and the same for my wife.
Posted on 7/19/18 at 6:20 pm to kywildcatfanone
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Some of us aren't trust fund babies.
I work too.
Posted on 7/25/18 at 12:17 pm to sodcutterjones
Did it for five years. Quit, never looked back. Took money I had made and made my own company. Working in Florida heat was hard but now I sit at my house and do most of my work in the cool AC butt naked. Go out to job sites of course and will get hands dirty if needed because behind schedule because of Florida weather. Still. Will never go back to 9-5.
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