Will do man. You know I have this friend who I went to high school with. She got a scholarship and went to college immediately, got out and took a corporate job, and has been there for 12 years or something. She’s been investing in real estate and now owns about 20 rental properties, and literally works her ass off all the time and has to put up with constant bullshit.
I went to college too, but instead of studying business or whatever, I studied philosophy and history. I took 4 years before I went to college and just travelled all over the place doing drugs and acting a fool.
I never really went and got an amazing job. I just always sold a little weed when I was a kid, and I never really stopped. Now I’m almost 33, and I’ve got people sending me packages of dope from 3 different places in the country on a weekly basis, and I grow my own which last year was worth about 15 grand or so.
So my job is that I work with my friend who owns a whole bunch of restaurants, basically putting out fires, cleaning up messes, (not ones on the floor but the metaphorical ones you run into w/ running restaurants), and he pays me pretty well. I could live like I do now, completely on my own without a relative in sight just off my regular job. But I do the other thing too. After all these years the networking has payed off.
She was explaining to me how she was jealous of my life because I’ve been all over Europe and I’ve seen the greatest artwork in history, and I’ve had the luxury of studying philosophy instead of business, and I don’t have to work on a particular schedule or even really show up for alot of the things I do. And in the end, we sat and did the math, and I actually have more disposable income than she does. It literally makes her sick.
But it goes right back to what I said earlier. If you’re enterprising, you wont let the system enslave you. I have a friend who makes probably 200k a year growing weed in a far away land. All he does with his life is go mountain climbing, camping, skateboarding and he travels to crazy places he wants to see.
It’s a crazy world man. But I firmly believe that if you want something, in the US at least, you can get it. I’ve just seen it done too many time to believe otherwise.
Business is about doing whatever you have to do to get what you want. This girl was tricked into working her ass off so she’d have money to travel the world, and they gave her the money but not the time. She followed the rules thinking she would be better off, and she’s facing the fact that all she got out of it was the “prestige” of a high paying job.
I hope this gives you some insight into how I can be so egotistical and harsh in my posts. I’ve literally not had to answer to anyone in like 15 years and I’ve just been able to act like a kid and do what I want. It’s stupid man sometimes but I just don’t know.