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Originally Posted by Barefootsies
You don't seem to catch on to Robbie's point and just keep pointing to excuses the sheeple use before asking for their next entitlement.
When you get a job, your goal should be to acquire skills and advance, the same as when you attend college or go to school. This is about acquiring knowledge or skills that you can better use in your life to your own advantage. Whether it's a car salesman, fry cook, lawn boy whatever. Your goal is to learn everything you can (assuming you like this profession) and then either try and get a promotion if one's available, or use those skills to leap frog to the next job, better pay or position, and standard of living. The point being, your goal should not be set at 32 year old fry cook for 5 years.
Why is this concept so hard to understand? You work, you apply what you've learned, you then move on to the next gig that should pay more, or be more rewarding then the last. This is not mystery science theatre. Life is about learning everything you can and applying what you have learned to give you a better advantage.
Of course, this takes time, patience, and WORK. Something few seem willing to do.
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I like how you, Robbie, and Minte continue to preach as if it'll make a difference.
Some people say they are glad others don't work hard because it makes everything easier for them. While immediately this is true, human civilization suffers because of it. You dupe people into some schemes and it only causes a rippling effect in the economy.
Despite the hard cold facts, people will continue to buy into get rich schemes.
I live in central Iowa, near Iowa Stat University, and a guy named Dane Maxwell attended some of the same social clubs that I'm currently in (Toastmasters among them).
His podcast is the most downloaded of all of Pat Flynn's Smart Passive Income podcast episodes.
no ideas no expertise no money business plan
The idea was to go out, find a need in the market, and then hire people to do all the work for you and possibly get them to take a cut from your business plan instead of upfront payment. From all my experience, unless you are a developer that is overly charitable or completely unwise with your time, that would be a terrible choice with just a random individual.
Though it had some interesting points, it was fundamentally flawed, and even though in it's relative infancy the program he runs has yet to produce anyone with stellar success.
My point is the same with diet and exercise books, there are tweaks and fundamental principles, but you get to a point where you just need to execute. How simple is it to understand: eat less, burn more?
With the exception of inheritance I have yet to meet anyone who was very wealthy who didn't work at least 60-90+ hours a week.