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Re: A question for the elders who once fell behind in life [Re: OneMoreRobot3021]
#7813911 - 12/30/07 02:39 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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OneLessForeskin said:
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ToTheSummit said: You need to define what 'falling behind' means. If you are talking strictly money/career/success then I have definitely lagged. But I don't desire those things in my life. I am happily drifting along enjoying myself. I work hard to earn a decent living, but I don't work so hard that I can't enjoy life in the process. Basically I'm tragically doomed to be a half-success my whole life, but have a fantastic time all along the way. I don't think I've failed, but I'll never be as 'successful' as I am capable of (if you are equating success with money, that is). But I will always be happy, and that is most important.
If you are unhappy then figure out what you desire in life and go for it. Its really as simple as "Take what you want and leave the rest".
I feel really similar to this when I look ahead at my own life..
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r311ik
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Re: A question for the elders who once fell behind in life [Re: Iamthewalrus]
#7813925 - 12/30/07 02:43 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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when i was 18 i started working at a window/door company as a helper. pay sucked, but it was money, i got bored with it after i learned most of what there was to know,(about 2yrs) so i wandered off to other stuff for a couple years, but i couldnt find anything that paid as good and required so little work. so i went back to the window place as an installer and started payin my own helper and got my dba so i could be a subcontractor, which basically made it so i could make as much as i wanted, just depended on how much work i felt like doing. the company i sub for has been around a while, they can give me as much or as little work i want.
I went on like that for a couple more years, now i just turned 24 and i sub for 1 company 3 days a week, and do my jobs for the company i started 1 day a week. A few flyers with a phone number is all it takes to get calls coming in. its cheap to have them printed, and even cheaper to send someone else to stick them in door handles in neigborhoods. In that one day i usually make almost as much as i do working the 3 days for someone else. hopefully by next year ill be generating enough business on my own to not worry about working for somoene else, then stop working all together and just pay other people to do all the things i need done.
I aint gonna lie, im not rich or anyhting. i only made like 40k last year, but i only work 4 days a week, about 5 hours a day, i randomly take weeks off at a time, etc. during the winter it can slow and sometimes there just no work for a week or 4 which sucks, but its not bad enough for me to ever want to work for someone else again. If you can figure out something to do, or a product to sell, work for yourself.
the object is to get people to open their wallets and pay you. fuck trying to figure out who your going to impress with a resume, or worrying about how many days your "allowed" to be sick.
what can YOU do to make people give you money?
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Anarleaf
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Re: A question for the elders who once fell behind in life [Re: RandalFlagg]
#7813946 - 12/30/07 02:50 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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Don't blame your struggle on weed, there is no chemical property that does not allow for progress. Unless you spent most of your money or got in trouble with the law. Perhaps you may have felt "couch locked" and decided to spend your time solely on weed, this is not the herbs fault though.
Why don't you get federal grants for school?
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LayYouIn
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Re: A question for the elders who once fell behind in life [Re: r311ik]
#7813967 - 12/30/07 02:56 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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r311ik said: what can YOU do to make people give you money?
sell them drugs i make...
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r311ik
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Re: A question for the elders who once fell behind in life [Re: LayYouIn]
#7814008 - 12/30/07 03:11 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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can you work on computers?
print up some flyers to make peoples computers faster. run adware, and delte most things from the startup, defrag n charge 50$
if noone calls. your out some ink n 5 min.
starting a business is ub3rly easy. theres gotta be something you can do to charge people money for.
waterproofing basements is easy, all you need is a shovel n some friends. lol.
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LayYouIn
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Re: A question for the elders who once fell behind in life [Re: r311ik]
#7814042 - 12/30/07 03:22 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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Edited by LayYouIn (07/23/08 07:24 PM)
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whattheheck
Chief Love Lover



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Re: A question for the elders who once fell behind in life [Re: LayYouIn]
#7814099 - 12/30/07 03:38 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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My .02. You had a powerful trip the other day that brought to light many feelings. These feelings may NOT be that you want to go back to school, but they are spurring you on to realize that you want more out of life than what you've been getting. I have a LOT of old friends who are getting up there (30+) and are still very content to consume weed (and other stuff) have a mediocre job, struggle with bills, ect. and claim that is all they want from life. A couple seem to be genuinely happy, but the others are burned out, lazy, jaded or whatever. It's sad, because all of them used to have dreams and goals, and now they're just gone.
"It's not so much where we are, but where we're going that matters".
Just get on it and don't look back. Dreams do have their demands.
Good luck.
-------------------- A society whose whole idea is to eliminate suffering and bring it's members the greatest amount of comfort and pleasure is doomed to be destroyed -Thomas Merton
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badchad
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Re: A question for the elders who once fell behind in life [Re: whattheheck]
#7814121 - 12/30/07 03:48 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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I've spent a lot of time working to advance myself and my career. Sure, I have had to make a lot of sacrifices but in the end I think it's worth it. I can always decide to give up my career and be a slacker, the opposite isn't always true. I look at my friends who have done the opposite, all they've done is party and goof off. Sure they have had a lot of fun, but the story is changing as we knock on the door of our thirties. A lot of them are looking back and wishing they had "done something with their life".
-------------------- ...the whole experience is (and is as) a profound piece of knowledge. It is an indellible experience; it is forever known. I have known myself in a way I doubt I would have ever occurred except as it did. Smith, P. Bull. Menninger Clinic (1959) 23:20-27; p. 27. ...most subjects find the experience valuable, some find it frightening, and many say that is it uniquely lovely. Osmond, H. Annals, NY Acad Science (1957) 66:418-434; p.436
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