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#581
05-23-2007, 04:20 PM
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Re: Prs to be making me less broke? Financial Follies
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[ QUOTE ] [ QUOTE ] [ QUOTE ] I knew plenty of people that managed to do that, or better. Most of them did so by working towards it in high school. A smaller percentage just by family connections. [/ QUOTE ] I've never met anyone who did that. Anyone who managed to work IN HIGH SCHOOL toward a 35k a year job on graduation from high school might as well have hit the lottery. Especially going back a decade or more ago. [/ QUOTE ] These aren't retards who worked at mcdonalds. I know a guy who got his first professional programming job at 16. I know several people who joined businesses in menial positions as kids and got real jobs in the firms after high school. I even know a few people that started their own businesses straight out of high school and succeeded. Even in 1991 35k wasn't that hard to make. [/ QUOTE ] Disagree. These are all rare exceptions. The lower on the social scale you start from, the rarer they get, too. [/ QUOTE ] Why are you people blathering on about making $35k out of high school when Sloth has a BA? A guy with a degree can make $35k with minimal effort. 
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#582
05-23-2007, 04:24 PM
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Disagree. These are all rare exceptions. The lower on the social scale you start from, the rarer they get, too. [/ QUOTE ] Yes of course they are exceptions. They are exceptional people who made their own luck. To clarify. 35k was hard for the average person, but not for the awesome person.
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#583
05-23-2007, 04:28 PM
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[ QUOTE ] Disagree. These are all rare exceptions. The lower on the social scale you start from, the rarer they get, too. [/ QUOTE ] Yes of course they are exceptions. They are exceptional people who made their own luck. [/ QUOTE ] For Cardo's purposes, something less exceptional and more along the lines of "Get up early and do most anything at least for a while" is probably more applicable.
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#584
05-23-2007, 04:29 PM
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Re: Prs to be making me less broke? Financial Follies
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[ QUOTE ] [ QUOTE ] Disagree. These are all rare exceptions. The lower on the social scale you start from, the rarer they get, too. [/ QUOTE ] Yes of course they are exceptions. They are exceptional people who made their own luck. [/ QUOTE ] For Cardo's purposes, something less exceptional and more along the lines of "Get up early and do most anything at least for a while" is probably more applicable. [/ QUOTE ] Totally agree. This is a complete tangent. My original thrust was that the opportunities are there if he is motivated to become accomplished at making money. He clearly isn't, which is a valid life choice imo. However, you don't get to make it and bitch that you don't have opportunity.
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#585
05-23-2007, 04:32 PM
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Re: Prs to be making me less broke? Financial Follies
Blarg,
LE said this: "I prefer to think the best people are assets and the rest are pretty interchangeable." That is the way most successful small business owners I know whose businesses are service oriented and involve a lot of entry level/unskilled labor type jobs operate.
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#587
05-23-2007, 04:35 PM
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#588
05-23-2007, 04:37 PM
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Move thread here k thx [/ QUOTE ] So [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img] that the Masked Man's car thread went to data heaven.
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#590
05-23-2007, 04:42 PM
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