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Our lives don't compare to elon musk. The advantages he has separate him from you. This is a quote about from his father as to his view of their family's old money wealth:
“We were very wealthy,” says Errol. “We had so much money at times we couldn't even close our safe.”
With one person holding the money in place, another other would slam the door.
“And then there'd still be all these notes sticking out and we'd sort of pull them out and put them in our pockets.” -
I'm pretty old!
I think you should keep living with your parents for a good while and buy assets instead of paying rent. That will help you a ton regardless of what you end up doing.
Also your goals are pretty lofty so to have any chance at all you're going to have to become very frugal.
You want a business + a family + a house and cars really fast + a leisurely lifestyle that's a lot to ask. You're not willing to work insane hours. What are you willing to sacrifice to get these exceptional results? Spending is the only thing left I can think of, so let's master that at least.
May I ask why is it so important for you to get married and start a family early? If you just get married late you'll make things way easier on yourself -
@ArtOfBBQ Yes, I understand those things are not cheap and they're not for everyone, but I don't want them fast.
I'll probably only have a good house like I want in my 40's.
The cars won't be _that_ expensive, I don't want supercars, I want junk cars that I can restore and tune.
Actually I'd like to get married between 28 and 34 years old, don't really know why though. I think I just want to have kids while I'm young enough to have energy to be a fun dad, to play with my kids. Or maybe the idea of settling down with someone sounds very good in my head, but I might be thinking of myself as being in a movie...
Starting a business would probably be around 35-45? Idk, I'd have to balance managing a business with having kids, so timing is kinda important here.
As for saving money, I'm good with that. I don't like spending money, it kinda "hurts" in my pocket. I try to avoid spending on unnecessary shit. -
@ArtOfBBQ
As to what I'm sacrificing for all that? That is actually a really good question... I'm thinking that maybe investing in fixed income right now would be enough to give me some passive income when I'm older, but after I read your comment I'm not so sure... I might end up working a bit harder in my 20s and 30s, but I don't want to end up without friends and stuff like that. I might never accomplish those objectives, but I'm not chasing money, I'm chasing well being. So if I fail it's because I chose other things more important to me, and that's gonna be ok, it's not gonna be chasing money and failing, where I wouldn't have anything left after I failed. If I fail in my objectives I won't have money, but I will have all those other parts of life I think are important. -
@SortOfTested hmm, I didn't know his family was wealthy... Anyways, that's not the point. If anything, what you said just makes my argument stronger: the dude is a success because he worked super hard AND his family already had a ton of money. If his family didn't have that money it would be even harder for him, so he might not have accomplished what he did even with all his effort. If that happened to me (working my ass off for years) and I failed, I'd just consider it a waste of time and get filled with regret. I'd die sad, old, broke, and alone :p
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@mcfly yeah, that's is what I'm afraid of.
Also, I also would too consider having those things I want as being rich, but most of the time when I say rich I mean stupidly rich, lamborghini rich, 5 houses rich, which is not what I want. Basically, I want to be comfortable and not worry about money. That won't be easy, but I think (and hope) it's doable without sacrificing 10 years of my life. -
Rich people dont work hard at all. They hire other people to do the hard work of researching, building, making, and selling stuff. Then take 90% of all the profits while paying everyone else out of the 10%.
That's how businesses and owning stocks work... though stock dividends are as much as CEO pay... unless you own a lot of stocks...
By fixed income you mean passive income right? not bonds? bonds dont pay much these days... though its good for my 401k since i switched to 80% bonds last year before the rates fell...
But stocks are going way up too which doesnt make much sense except that people and well rich people just have nowhere else to put it... -
@neeno
At a certain point, money makes money. If bill gates throws money at something, speculators go crazy and the price goes through the roof. Same for warren buffett, and any of those of obscene wealth. The musks make a move in the gem exchanges, the prices automatically shoot up, if only by increasing volume of trade.
The worst he could do was only making slightly more money than he started with. And that's before accounting for the fact that his wealth gave him access to spend other people's money. He didn't sink his personal funds into anything. He leveraged investors who knew his family.
Or look at it this way: if our president had just sat on the pile of cash his father gave him and did nothing with it, he would be wealthier than he is now. Failure doesn't phase those who have no risk of anything greater than a smaller yacht. They have no skin in the game. -
@donuts I don't mean rich people getting richer, I mean middle class people getting into upper class. Of course if you have money you can just make it work for you, but if you don't you need to work a lot and be lucky to have a shot at it.
Also, I do mean bonds (I think), not 100% sure because english isn't my first language. I'm looking at them because they seem to be the safest option, all it takes to make money out of them is time and continuous investment (investing like $500-$1000/month). I might be wrong though, I'm still learning about finance. -
@migpotek exactly, the thing is... I like what I do, but not to the point of working 14 hours a day for 10 years and ignoring friends and family. Also, if you're seriously trying to get rich you will do a lot of stuff you don't like. And helping people won't necessarily make you rich. It's a question about what you want in life: some want lots of money, some want to help people, some just want to be comfortable (I'm one of those ppl), etc.
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@neeno the coupon rate is very low now because the federal rate is like 0.67%. In order for a bond fund's value to go up significantly, the rate would need to collapse to like 0...
Before the rate was like 2% i think so when it collapsed to the current rate, my investment made a killing.
The thing with bonds is there's yield and price. Lot's of finance stuff behind this, not easy to explain. But TLDR, all bonds are like i will pay $100 in X years, you can buy this now at Y. Before you could buy it at like $80, now its like $99.
So if i sell now, i made $19. You buy now, its unlikely its going any higher bc a big floor is 0... so unless we get negative rates ... and well i guess hyperinflation.. its not likely to get u much -
@donuts that depends.
Those who inherit money could get away with not working, but thats hard to achieve unless you start that way, we still have no way to change the past ;)
Most that made their money in their own have worked hard and most of them keep working hard.
Of cause there are the exceptions but those are few enough that you might just hope to win some large lottery ;)
Bug I do not think the OP’s dreams are to lofty.
I come from an academic family but not rich by any standard.
I have managed to get my own house and family and a good job that finally gives enough margin for some indulgence but not something the kids will be able to live of without working for them self in the future.
And I have never “worked” more than an average of 40-50 hours a week.
I do spend quite a lot of time learning out side of that, you cannot really stay in development without constantly learning, but I enjoy that part :)
So I say go for your goal :)
Its definitely reachable, but be prepared to at least occasionally stretch the hours if required and make sure to always have some buffer.
One unfortunate truth (in my opinion) is that one of the fastest ways to get a better salary is to regularly change jobs, always looking for a better payed one. I could probably have reached my current status faster following that route. -
@Voxera well you become CEO/CSuite of some big company. You basically get paid a lot of everyone else's sweat.
The executive to regular whole pay ratio is insane these days...still. Do they deserve it, probably not. How did they get the job... Probably connections.
And tea most people get these positions by jumping not promotion. -
@Nanos interesting responses but for mine I'm talking CEOs like Marissa Mayer.
Just looked at her wiki don't see anything extraordinary except getting into Stanford and Google.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Is that hard work or just background, knowing the right ppl, and luck? -
@Nanos wow long rant lol.
I sorta know what you mean being alone except I'm 30 and like being alone in my apartment, pretty much can do whatever I want.
Been getting grubhub coupons all week for $10 off $15 so been eating out a lot this week...
But I guess still have family around when needed, whereas your parents are gone.
But yes I generally don't see myself as working super hard but I may just do it naturally... or just my situation.
I'm just more experienced technically, and maybe focused than others on my team. So I'm better at getting shit done or at least breaking things down...
But I'm general view is job just pays the bills and covers insurance. I ain't gonna but my ass on it unless it's interesting. And well lately it's sorta interesting though haven't gotten around to reading the Openshift, Docker, Microservices books I was supposed to look over...
I kinda want to go out now as it's sorta sunny but cold.. Though I also have a ton of things I need to do at home.... -
@Nanos I make 100k+ but live in an 1br apartment that I own (only 350k) in a Jersey City, next to NYC.
I do have enough savings in cash and 401k to hold out for maybe 4 years.
I have a friend that makes 200k+ but lives with his parents still in NYC... Complains about not having enough $... Along other things.
Just stop trying to buy a $1mil+ swaggy new apt in the city...
So I guess one other thing is wealth is relative.
And some people just need to have the latest and greatest while others are OK with good enough.
I find a lot in life depends on how you see it. You can chase other people or decide to just not give a fuck about them and just do whatever you want. There's nice book on that called The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck.
TLDR other ppl don't make u miserable (for most things), u make urself miserable by caring when they think and how they see you.
Which is actually the problem highlighted in the movie I was talking about last night... -
@Nanos i gave up on women, i think u gotta work on getting friends, normal relationships first.
I dont have any IRL but just concluded i wont ever get one especially given my health problems. Whatever girl would marry me would essentially be signing up to become my nanny...
And not sure i want a gold digger so my thinking is now sorta "well if i will never get a gf IRL, lets set the bar for ideal GF really high.. so basically models" that way i wont feel so bad since very few people will get those anyway.
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I have seen a post here on devRant a few minutes ago talking about being a millionaire, so I thought I'd write a lil something for people thinking of chasing that.
As I said in a comment on that rant: as Jordan Peterson (aka Lord of the Lobsters) said, in order to be successful you need to be an industrious person, i.e. you gotta work hard, very hard. Most success stories are from people that worked very very hard (Elon Musk is one I can remember off the top of my head) and had to put their life, friends, family in second place. To this day I remember watching a video on a 30 year old millionaire, he said he didn't have friends for about 6-10 years, he just worked, worked and worked. If that's what you wanna do with your life do your thing, I'm just saying that's not it for me.
A few years back I wanted huge success (being famous, being rich), but I've come to realize that's not what I want. Being famous must suck, people recognizing you everywhere you go and shit, and being rich comes with a price (pun intended?), which is working every minute of your time for 10 years. That's not gonna make me happy, I have realized that I want to get married in my early 30's at max, have kids, buy a comfortable house somewhere in europe, have enough money to be able to give my family a good life and be able to buy and tune a few cars (that's a dream of mine btw), and maybe even try to start a company of my own (I don't like the idea of having a boss). And I think that to achieve these goals, all I need to do is be a bit smart right now: invest in fixed income, don't buy expensive shit, live with my parents at least until I get out of college and get a relatively decent job.
Anyway I might've steered off-course for a bit there, the point is: before you decide you want to be a millionaire, think what you actually want in life. If you want to be rich and are sure you have the willpower to work a 100 hours per week, do your thing, whatever makes you happy. But if you are going to work 60 hours a week and you're looking to be rich you're just going to be disappointed. You'll be chasing money all your life, sacrifice the (IMO) important things in life (friends, family, health, fun) and you won't get anywhere.
It's all or nothing, make up your mind before you waste your time.
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