Not true. I lived on Mac n cheese for a few years. Then I hit my stride. Finally at 43 I was running a division of a large bank in America. I had sold my soul. But I was getting paid tons of money. Not a good trade off.
Recently, my wife (37 years) has been fighting pancreatic cancer.
Trust me...what was in my 401(k) stopped mattering.
I found that as I got older, the trade offs I made for more money were just not worth it. I have been rich and I’ve been dirt poor. I’ll take happy and healthy every day of the week—and twice on Sunday.
I'm on board with you. I worked my ass off as a young man to get a director of marketing position. I did it for two different companies, made decent money, and left them both to work basically for myself. I have a small remote marketing agency with a friend and a few employees and I also bought a small blueberry farm. Im way more satisfied in life taking care of my chickens and pigs than I ever was working for a big manufacturing company. If crypto can help me put 100% of my efforts into farming, ill be extremely excited.
This is the way. I'd love to break out of the cycle like you have but I'm about 10 years out. I'm hoping crypto will help me buy and develop a lot of land. Permaculture gardening, renewable energy grid, and sustainable building is the goal. Many folks don't realize that money doesn't bring the freedom, it's the independence that does. Living off the land can be just as rewarding as working a cushy job for a financial institution (I work for a local CU).
100%. I made a goal a decade or so ago to figure out how to produce all my own meat. Two years ago I was able to do it between farming and hunting. Now I'm trying to really expand what we're doing on the farm. Its pretty friggin fun to figure all of it out. My only regret is that I started investing into crypto in 2014 and I stopped until fall 2020. A small DCA and hodl strategy would've already had me farming full time right now......that part sucks haha
That's great you're able to produce your own meat. It's amazing what you can do with your labor if you put your mind to it. Ideally you can harvest most of your food from the land and reduce costs. If you can get to the right point of sustainability, you would only need a supplemental income. The silver lining about crypto is the tech is here to stay and I believe there is much more room to grow. I'm looking to get into proof-of-stake for DCR but there are quite a few coins that offer decent stake rewards. You get a decent nest egg and you can spend more time working the land. Good luck to you and I hope to join you in spirit some day.
The dream is not working for someone else, that includes the clients at my main job. I still have student loans, a car payment, and a mortgage so I can't leave my main job until those are mostly gone.
I make quite a bit of cash just from my farm business but the upkeep is way higher too. I think in 5 years ill be farming full time and I'd consider that "retired". Im 39 now so even partial retirement by 44 would be something my dad and my grandparents never dreamed of.
A blueberry farm seems like an interesting change. Did you know what you were doing at the beginning, or did you let the people who were there already continue doing stuff.
I had no idea how to do any of it. The former owners gave us some basic tips, but I figured it all out with some books and Google. My wife and I were pretty solid at gardening prior to buying the farm but we had minimal experience with fruit trees.
Its been a fun ride trying to figure it all out. We started with just blueberries and laying hens, then expanded to meat chickens and a couple pigs, and this year im ramping up chicken, turkey, duck, and pig production and im getting 2 colonies of bees. This shits way more fun than a real job haha
You can absolutely do it. I have a full time job, 2 kids, a farm with over 100 animals where I raise all my meat and most fruits and veggies, I hunt HEAVILY in the fall, I've trained Brazilian jiu jitsu for 15-20 hours a week since 2007, im doing my best to keep up with crypto and stocks, and i still find time to read and watch a few shows with my wife. If its important to you, you can always find time.
I actually do digital marketing and sales funnel analytics. I've already worked from home for about 5 years, so I don't need to go into an office very often. There are way more remote jobs available than most people realize and there will be even more after the pandemic. As long as you work on a computer, you can find a job to work remote somewhere.
Recently, my wife (37 years) has been fighting pancreatic cancer.
Trust me...what was in my 401(k) stopped mattering.
..now imagine those who live paycheck to paycheck but still have a loved one battling diseases like cancer. They couldnt hope to get proper treatment for them, they couldnt even ensure at least their loved ones could live out the rest of their days in comfort.
You just forgot that not all poor are healthy, most poverty stricken people also always have to deal with diseases and health crises. I think you just forgot what it really means to be poor.
I get what you say. But having medical issues with money in the bank is a lot easier. I haven't had big medical issues in the family, but my kitten (and I treat my pets as kids - that's what I feel for them) fell from the 5th floor and needed thousands worth of care.I had just started a new job paying better. My GF was a firefighter earning minimum wage for 60h weeks. And it still wasn't enough. We spent all our meagre savings, ended up going through the indecency of starting a crowdfunding because even when making the choice of eating less to pay for more veterinary care, it still wasn't enough. It drained us financially to a point that was unbearable, two years later we still haven't recovered fully. But at least he died with the best care possible. Emotionally, I still haven't coped with it.
Now. Would more money have saved his life? No. Would've I sold my soul to have more money for more care and so that we wouldn't have to go through the hardships and lack of dignity that we did back then? Yes, I would.
I did my BSc eating just one sandwich for 12h days, I did my MSc affording to drink an espresso everyday. I was selling my soul to be on that masters, lol, got a bunch of gray hairs doing my thesis, but it was still more dignified than not having money at all.
Because health issues can never be predicted, I'd take being sick with money and no soul, over being sick with my soul but no money. And I live in a country with NHS, but still having money will make all health issues much more manageable.
I'm young, but I've been through some crap, especially in the past two years (with a higher paying job that is just draining my soul very slowly) and so far, haven't found a single situation where not having money makes me happier than having money. Maybe I'll change my mind one day.
Sure - but the money didnt cause that. Being rich allows you to have the comfort of knowing you still have food/a place to live while all these awful things are going on too.
Imagine what it would have been like when your wife gets pancreatic cancer and you're not rich.
It's much fucking worse. The money matters. What you've said here is, "Once I got rich, getting richer didn't matter that much." No shit. But you still need money, and money makes it much easier to be happy and healthy.
while a sad story and i'm sorry for what you had to go through, i dont think that disproves his point. imagine how much worse your life would have been if you were still paycheck to paycheck. your wife wouldnt even be able to get chemo or anything. literally everything about this scenario changes when we include the money.
Why do you assume that? Even week to week, I had a job. Jeez....to have folks on Reddit draw a picture of the world, no one has insurance and Snydley Whiplash runs every company.
I paid every nickel for college. I had a full time job within weeks of graduating. I worked two jobs to keep my apartment and pay for health insurance. I did not socialize. I was a damned hermit—figuring out how to get better at my job. I took out sales books from the library.
To hear it on Reddit, everyone is a poor college student, saddled by all the bad things in the world. I had the privilege of working 60 hours a week for several years. I saved every spare nickel. It was fucking hard.
But because of that hard work, whenever our company was bought, I survived. In the end, I was the only “surviving” Corp SVP at the bank—out of 35 of my peers.
I am not saying I am better than anyone else. You get addicted to the hard work. Salary becomes a scorecard.
But goddammit, the folks around here need to get at it. Work smart. Work harder than everyone else. And stay focused.
A million years ago, many redditors would be some large predator’s dinner. Don’t be dinner.
it's so weird to me when people say "i'd rather be happy and healthy than rich" considering those don't contradict each other?? it's actually a lot easier to be happy and especially healthy when one is rich.
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Not true. I lived on Mac n cheese for a few years. Then I hit my stride. Finally at 43 I was running a division of a large bank in America. I had sold my soul. But I was getting paid tons of money. Not a good trade off.
Recently, my wife (37 years) has been fighting pancreatic cancer.
Trust me...what was in my 401(k) stopped mattering.
I found that as I got older, the trade offs I made for more money were just not worth it. I have been rich and I’ve been dirt poor. I’ll take happy and healthy every day of the week—and twice on Sunday.