Maybe you had certain expectations or plans years ago (or recently) but for reasons you list, did you expect to make more money? I'm not trying to include the pandemic, so feel free to use 2019 as "today".
shareNo - I certainly over achieved and it's not necessarily because I had some grand plan, because I didn't. I was however always in the right place at the right time and was good at networking, so all of my jobs after college were the results of someone approaching me with job offers.
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shareYES...BECAUSE IT TURNED OUT THAT DESPITE A HIGH IQ AND VARIETY OF THINGS I WAS GOOD AT...BEING A DAD IS WHAT I AM BEST AT...AND THEY DON'T PAY YOU FOR THAT....AT LEAST NOT IN MONEY.
shareNo - I have been blessed and I appreciate just how lucky I've been.
sharei am astonished every day that i am not living on main street giving hand jobs for spare change. mind-boggling.
probably sounds like an exaggeration, but honestly, if you would have pegged one person as being doomed to complete and utter failure, it would have been me.
that i have money in the bank is a tribute to the glories of free markets and free trade, the things that allow a person as completely bereft of most abilities as i am to hone in on a few select talents and use those to make a go of things.
all hail capitalism, i say.
so yeah, i am absolutely delighted and amazed that i have what i have.
i actually could be making a lot more money right now almost certainly, but i much prefer having a stress free job and lots of spare time to ride my bike & read & watch trashy movies. priorities and all that.
i am astonished every day that i am not living on main street giving hand jobs for spare change. mind-boggling.
not to be annoying, but i am going to push back just a little bit against that. in doing so i'm probably gonna contradict my own comment above, but i was kinda joking when i said it anyway.
most people have a lot of social capital in their lives. some have just a bit, a lucky few have a lot.
almost everyone has some family who would be there to help them, who would never let them live on the streets. they have a few friends who would spot them a few months rent or give them a couch to sleep on while they get things together.
& i have some of that, & i definitely leaned on it when i was younger & am grateful for the people who were nice to me when they didn't have to be.
i have some behavioral problems that i won't bore you with that mean i have a lot less of that stuff than most people, but it was there for me when i needed it!
the people who do end up on the streets are either the truly unlucky who never had any kind of backstop in their life, no one to help them when they needed it, or have the kinds of problems that meant the help they had was all used up.
No complaints here
Lift off was a bit rough but the flight has been very smooth for 25 years...There's always a storm out there so eyes on the dash and keep a light foot on the throttleš
Some folks say that the glory goes to heroes but us orphans, bastards and oddballs often pull off a proper landing
Never been all that ambitious and given my upbringing, I have exceeded all my expectations.
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