How I live and how I work
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How I live and how I work
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#2I also practically live as I did when I was a student. The main difference is I have a mobile phone a Spotify subscription. Living like this is easy, convincing your gf to isn't...
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#3This is a little condescending. I live frugally but have spent the money I've saved on a house for my family to live in. I've contracted the last year to be able to afford to travel around the world next month.
"You can enjoy your life right now. You just need to spend less money on shit that you don’t need."
True, I don't need a house or to go travelling but my life would be poorer had I not invested in that shit.
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#4> When I started working, I didn’t start spending.
I'm exactly the same. I see so many people living paycheck to paycheck, and for me there is nothing more depressing.
I've only been working for around a year and a half and I already have the economic freedom to be unemployed for a year.
Also, I don't really feel like I live frugally. I go out as much as I want to, I go on holidays, I buy a few luxuries that I really want. I really don't understand how people manage to spend so much
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#5...and another one simply living single, with no outside responsibilities and lucky to be healthy, claiming this lifestyle as somehow superior (others complain!) but not realizing that there is nothing special about it.
nobody dependent on you? no kids, no employees, no sick parents?
you not dependent on anyone? no accidents, no clients not paying, no disease or disablement? living in a safe, rich, area of the world?
oh how awesome you are.
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#6Well you're a creator and being in the hamster wheel of having a job just doesn't logically make sense to you.
You seek freedom to create thing with nothing except from your own neurons.
That's why you'll be a millionaire very soon, but you won't buy things from it, you'll just keep hacking. A true entrepreneur. :)
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#7excellent point... if you want to live like a flower. Some of us prefer going to places, trying new things, meeting new people, having a family and hobbies. And all those things cost money.
When I'm old I'd rather say I'm broke because I lived my life to the fullest than I lived conservatively so I can afford to be a stressless elder with savings
(hopefully I wont be downvoted because I beg to differ)
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#8...and another one simply living single, with no outside responsibilities and lucky to be healthy, claiming this lifestyle as somehow superior (others complain!) but not realizing that there is nothing special about it. nobody dependent on you? no kids, no employees, no sick parents? you not dependent on anyone? no accidents, no clients not paying, no disease or disablement? living in a safe, rich, area of the world?…
He's not looking down on anyone or comparing himself with people who are disabled, he's looking at people who have the same responsibilites as him, but rather go for short term gratification than for creating their own freedom.
Growing up doesn't mean getting a job and saving money, but getting out there all by yourself and doing awesome shit. I wrote about that more in detail http://appreneur-diaries.com/its-time-to-grow-up-fuck-no
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#9...and another one simply living single, with no outside responsibilities and lucky to be healthy, claiming this lifestyle as somehow superior (others complain!) but not realizing that there is nothing special about it. nobody dependent on you? no kids, no employees, no sick parents? you not dependent on anyone? no accidents, no clients not paying, no disease or disablement? living in a safe, rich, area of the world?…
You're a little too harsh on the OP, and I'm a saying this as a (now) single guy in his early 30s who is kind of financially supporting his ageing parents. I still think his closing remark stands:
> You just need to spend less money on shit that you don’t need.
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#10...and another one simply living single, with no outside responsibilities and lucky to be healthy, claiming this lifestyle as somehow superior (others complain!) but not realizing that there is nothing special about it. nobody dependent on you? no kids, no employees, no sick parents? you not dependent on anyone? no accidents, no clients not paying, no disease or disablement? living in a safe, rich, area of the world?…
Well, as a single male with zero responsibilities and enough money to live like this guy I will say that luck plays a small role in this lifestyle. We are all dealt hands in this life and its the choices you make that end up determining your hand. I understand the poster because those of us that live this type of life walk around thinking that those with heavy responsibilities wish they were us. Never walked past a young couple with a kid or two in the grocery store and thought to myself, 'oh wow now thats living!'; not hating, I prefer people live the life that is suited for them.