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@nanl Agreed. Definite hardmode here. (But I'm still going to win!)
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@Nanos I think what they trying to say is that wealth is a set of behaviours and that if you spend a lot of time with wealthy people you may begin to emulate behaviour.
What made me chuckle is the suggestion that being a millionaire means anything these days. Where I live being a millionaire means you inherited a house from your parents. -
Well beginning career is always the hardest. First two years I was getting paid peanuts but I never settled. Changed jobs, changed countries, travelled and learned new skills. Now Im being paid enough (im saving around 2k eur a month from my job) so all I need to do is save money for downpayment and bank will give me a loan. However after focusing so much on career I didnt make any friends (also due to the fact that I was switching countries), so have to work on that because living in a big empty house in a random country doesnt make sense. So my advice is just to stick it out and build skills. Fuck your boss. Eventually if you love what you do you will be getting paid good money. My life changed when I stopped blindly following orders and started prioritizing my self development instead of getting tasks done.
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@tmpnull Absolutely. Being wealthy is a mindset and a way of thinking, not the sum of your bank accounts. You can have millions and still be poor.
If you take all odd a wealthy person's assets, they will become rich again. If you give a poor person millions, they will become broke again. For proof, look at lottery winners and famous actors/athletes.
Also, being a millionaire on paper (asset valuation) is very different from having that much buying power (liquid capital / quickly liquidatable assets). Being a millionaire on paper because of your house is totally pointless: you can't sell it quickly nor invest the resulting sum because then you'd have nowhere to sleep! The value is tied up and therefore useless. -
@spotlight @Fabian i live in Sweden and it is! Im only 25 years and earn a great amount of money. Rent is not that high in a high-end apt. Tho i only live in like 5th biggest city. Also our unions and privacy laws are so good it’s seriously hard for a boss to fire someone unless they’ve Done something against someone else.
You know what? Fuck this shit. We spend most of our life locked down in a school, we are being told facts, tested and stressed for many years with the only hope to get out as soon as possible.
Failing is something that keeps you there indefinitely.
Parents keep pushing on kids to achieve the best and get good grades to have a job.
Then something happens.
You get out of school and what happens?
You start working.
A.k.a modern slavery...
Employers thinks that since you are young they are doing YOU a favor if they decided to hire you.
So you find yourself having to do the same tasks everyone is doing, perhaps you are even fully capable of managing them and get the shit done but guess what!!
You are paid the minimum.
You barely make enough to pay off your rent which keeps you locked away from Holidays abroad, from that huge cake you desperately want.
And guess what! Try to raise your voice and you'll get fired in a Matter of seconds, replaced with someone else which accepts any condition.
You dream of a house, a family and a car but you can't even eat healthy with that salary.
So you are forced to buy cheap and low quality food from the same store again and again till you had enough and spend some days with that horrible feeling...
Calling you to get a job interview feels like they are doing you a favor, they always try to give the minimum possible and expect you to work in a serious manner and respect their deadlines.
Colleagues earn a lot more even though they aren't doing anything different from you.
For the first year you won't have any holiday, let alone traveling or anything different from just staying home for 3 days straight.
Banks won't give you a loan because your job doesn't pay off
The day that your car is broken you struggle to eat the whole month.
On top of that, taxes. Because they aren't taking away enough.
I don't want to live this life, I don't want to become a modern slave and work 8-17 everyday for the rest of my life and retire with a shitty retirement pension that won't probably grant me anything again.
I had enough of this shit.
I don't want to go back to work and pretend to do what I am supposed to do with a smile on my face knowing that I am just a number and that no matter how skilled I am I can always get replaced with N number of people for a lower salary of mine.
I am tired
I dream of a life that I won't ever reach this way.
Today I looked up houses prices and felt like shit.
I will never in my entire life be able to afford something so expensive, let alone buying furnitures and what is needed or what I like.
I dream of having my place, my dog and my family but apparently I am asking too much.
How is this even fair in 2018/2019?
I... I am... Speechless.
I wonder how many people out there are in the same situation or even worse and I can't even wrap my mind around that.
This is just modern slavery.
My boss makes a shit load of money from young people that can't complain because they are threatened and will eventually be replaced...
This is my rant.
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