Natasha wrote:
Sportsdude wrote:
DDD wrote:
Sportsdude wrote:
What if you [span style="FONT-STYLE: italic"]never[/span] enter the rat race?
Sounds good but sucks to be poor[/div]
True. But it also depends on the profession you go into or may not go into at all - i.e. you end up at a dead end job that makes a lot of money or enough money to sustain things. I used to know this guy from a rather wealthy family who had a finance degree from the University of Texas. He had the Wall Street internship for a year, but burned out and bought a pub with a bunch of his friends in Austin after finishing school. He got tired of it after 5yrs though.
[div]Agreed ^ there should be a decent balance between finances and contentment. "Poor", like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder...imo. Those who are less financially stable seem to be more grateful for things they get, have and earn.
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I was implying my own position or outlets I could go into if I ever got there... these avenues all have their own version of the so-called rat-race, but they come with a lot more job security if one toils to get to the point I'm referring to. As my ex told me on my birthday, "you want to climb the faculty ladder doing meningeal work until you're 40?" Looking at my current financial situation now, I'd gladly spend the rest of my life doing that than toil in directionless obscurity. I'm kind of clueless on where to go in life; I'm the public servant, public sector worker who lives in a time when the world, or at least the expressed political world, despises you for superfluous reasons.
