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Save TONS for retirement. live well below your means. I mean if you make $27 / hr, live like you make $15 an hour ...
Defer any enjoyment of life for the years in which it means the most, so you can live a couple of years on a better golf course before ignominiously croaking. This is what we live for.
No one knows anything at 25 and you won't even find a career until after you're 30. However, you really should stop switching to different soft majors, they're all the same. Take more STEM classes and research your graduate school. Mind the price tag. Don't let anyone boss you around because you think they know more than you. Go with your gut. Drink a little more. Wear a little less. Go easier on yourself and others. No one person can be all of one thing to any one thing.
And ffs, put your foot down. On the gas. All the cars. Now. While your name is still on the title.
Defer any enjoyment of life for the years in which it means the most, so you can live a couple of years on a better golf course before ignominiously croaking. This is what we live for.
There is certainly a happy balance between spending excessively and being a total miser during your best years.
For all of you 25 and older. What would you tell your 25 year old self about employment, workforce or just life in general?
Nothing, if I knew at 25 I would have nothing left to tell anyone and one minor change would change the entire future that I had which is now the past so it is a moot point at best.
I already had two unplanned special needs one year olds at 25 and a divorce in progress. I needed my intervention before 25.
I also already had two associate degrees by age 20 and had to drop out of school again at 23 because of the pregnancy.
I always wanted to be a veterinarian. I started college at 16... but my parents forced me into business/pre-law instead of letting me do science. So I left home at 17 with my first associate degree.
I joined the Navy later. Sigh. It has been a long hard road. The twins are 9. I've been out of the Navy for some time.
I'm 33 and decided that I still want to be a veterinarian. I managed to pick up some biology, chem and math courses along the way so I'm a jr. at least. I'll see if I can get into yet another school and see how it goes.
Follow your dreams. I knew what I wanted to do when I was a little kid in elementary school. I wish I could have found a way to stay on that path 15 years ago. But better late than never.
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Follow a PASSION, don't just lay around and eventually get a so so degree. 90% of bachelor's degrees are worthless in today's economy. Either get a great degree that teaches skills (engineering, doctor, meteorology, etc) or just get a skill specific 2 year degree. Now I have a lot of loan debt and am stuck at a $30k job with no upside ever. Thank God I was raised by a frugal mom who grew up in depression era and I live in a metro with very cheap housing available in safe areas but within a reasonable commute to work
Follow a PASSION, don't just lay around and eventually get a so so degree. 90% of bachelor's degrees are worthless in today's economy. Either get a great degree that teaches skills (engineering, doctor, meteorology, etc) or just get a skill specific 2 year degree. Now I have a lot of loan debt and am stuck at a $30k job with no upside ever. Thank God I was raised by a frugal mom who grew up in depression era and I live in a metro with very cheap housing available in safe areas but within a reasonable commute to work
A passion doesn't go very far if it isn't adequately paying the bills.
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