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Solomon Ash
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Wow... I don't have to work for an entire year
#14467573 - 05/17/11 11:57 AM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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I just recieved enough money that if I choose, I can not work for the next twelve months and still afford rent, groceries, beer and weed.
I am... free!
I will still have school of course, But I like school. I think I will focus on reading, writing, exercise, meditation and gardening.
I have to make the most of this !
What a blessing. Just wanted to share.
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Re: Wow... I don't have to work for an entire year [Re: Solomon Ash]
#14467584 - 05/17/11 12:00 PM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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or you can put it towards some investment so it will pay for ten years of awesome vacations in retirement.
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Re: Wow... I don't have to work for an entire year [Re: Solomon Ash]
#14467594 - 05/17/11 12:02 PM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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Re: Wow... I don't have to work for an entire year [Re: argg] 2
#14467598 - 05/17/11 12:03 PM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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you can now become a trustafarian:
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Re: Wow... I don't have to work for an entire year [Re: Solomon Ash] 1
#14467615 - 05/17/11 12:06 PM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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Quote:
Solomon Ash said: I have to make the most of this !

How did u get that money? Mom and dad?
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Re: Wow... I don't have to work for an entire year [Re: Solomon Ash]
#14467620 - 05/17/11 12:07 PM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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Quote:
Solomon Ash said: What a blessing. Just wanted to share.

Oh you wanna share some? I'll take a couple thousand.
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Re: Wow... I don't have to work for an entire year [Re: mellowparty]
#14467631 - 05/17/11 12:11 PM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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So you live in the shanty dorms and you came up on some bumboclot money?
now you can get rude style, Lorda Mercy!!
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Re: Wow... I don't have to work for an entire year [Re: thoughts]
#14467635 - 05/17/11 12:12 PM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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Congratz on that! Just remember that a year can go by really fast and you don't want to go from having it made to living paycheck to paycheck.
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Re: Wow... I don't have to work for an entire year [Re: argg]
#14467727 - 05/17/11 12:40 PM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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argg said: or you can put it towards some investment so it will pay for ten years of awesome vacations in retirement.
that's what I'm doing
though it's gonna be more like 500 down and at least 100 a month
forevvverrrr
or until I cash out
ain't gonna be any social security when I get all old
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Re: Wow... I don't have to work for an entire year [Re: DrMambo]
#14467795 - 05/17/11 12:54 PM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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Invest that shit. Live like a king forever, or lose it all - which you'll end up doing anyway.
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Re: Wow... I don't have to work for an entire year [Re: gzuf]
#14467803 - 05/17/11 12:55 PM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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, squid.
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Solomon Ash
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Re: Wow... I don't have to work for an entire year [Re: argg]
#14468212 - 05/17/11 02:32 PM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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Any suggestions on how best to invest some of it?
I don't get it all at once, rather it is deposited in my account biweekly like a paycheck, but I can set some of the money aside, save it and then invest it in something, and I will aim to do that.
No, I didn't get it from my parents , although they have helped me out plenty before. I actually got a $17, 500 scholarship.
Its not enough to retire on by any means, but it should cover rent, groceries and recreation for at least a year with some left over to save.
Ill try my best to make it last and not waste it.
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Re: Wow... I don't have to work for an entire year [Re: Solomon Ash]
#14468251 - 05/17/11 02:40 PM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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how did u manage to acquire such a scholarship.
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Re: Wow... I don't have to work for an entire year [Re: Solomon Ash]
#14468278 - 05/17/11 02:45 PM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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i thiuQuote:
Solomon Ash said: Any suggestions on how best to invest some of it?
I actually got a $17, 500 scholarship.
that's all you got and it is rationed to you bi-weekly and you have to live off of it, and still invest some?
that's like me saying i am going to save my $300 a week unemployment money for the next year and buy a yacht.
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Solomon Ash
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Re: Wow... I don't have to work for an entire year [Re: gnome respect]
#14468289 - 05/17/11 02:48 PM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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Well, I should be recieving close to $2000 a month. My rent is 1000 a month and I split that with my wife. So even If i paid the entire rent, that would still leave 500 a month for groceries, 300 for pot and beer and 200 for savings.
And that is not counting the fact that my wife will be contributing to all expenses as well.
So I think it is realistic to live of it for a year, for me anyways.
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Solomon Ash
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Re: Wow... I don't have to work for an entire year [Re: mellowparty]
#14469659 - 05/17/11 07:46 PM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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"how did u manage to acquire such a scholarship?"
I just applied. It was a long hard process, and competitive. This is my second year applying for it, and this time I got it.
Its called the SSHRC (Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council) Joseph Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarshop.
I also got a 12 000 dollar UMGF but unfortunately I am not allowed to hold both and will have to decline the UMGF.
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Re: Wow... I don't have to work for an entire year [Re: Solomon Ash]
#14469694 - 05/17/11 07:52 PM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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I put about half that away each year for retirement.
My preference is to live 30 years without working.
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Re: Wow... I don't have to work for an entire year [Re: Solomon Ash]
#14469696 - 05/17/11 07:53 PM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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what uni and area of study?
Congrats on the CGS!!
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Re: Wow... I don't have to work for an entire year [Re: thescientist]
#14472392 - 05/18/11 10:08 AM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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Thanks very much 
I study Sociology at a western Canadian University
Edited by Solomon Ash (05/18/11 10:08 AM)
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Re: Wow... I don't have to work for an entire year [Re: gerryjarcia]
#14472399 - 05/18/11 10:09 AM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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gerryjarcia said: you can now become a trustafarian:

bahahaha
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Re: Wow... I don't have to work for an entire year [Re: Solomon Ash]
#14472421 - 05/18/11 10:12 AM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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Solomon Ash said: Any suggestions on how best to invest some of it?
I don't get it all at once, rather it is deposited in my account biweekly like a paycheck, but I can set some of the money aside, save it and then invest it in something, and I will aim to do that.
No, I didn't get it from my parents , although they have helped me out plenty before. I actually got a $17, 500 scholarship.
Its not enough to retire on by any means, but it should cover rent, groceries and recreation for at least a year with some left over to save.
Ill try my best to make it last and not waste it.
i have never been this lucky. kudos to you man. don't waste it all.
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Re: Wow... I don't have to work for an entire year [Re: Solomon Ash]
#14472522 - 05/18/11 10:38 AM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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waste it all on something awesome
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