My life lesson for the kitties when I was younger I thought the way to achieve independence was to get a high paying job in a city where you would make more money than your rent and your cost of living and you'd save that money in one day either through investments or the ability to buy a high price home you would get the independence you want so you wouldn't have to work anymore.
The far better way to do that is to go to a very small town where land is very cheap and get a much lower paying job and buy that land as quickly as possible and move on to it and achieve complete Independence very early in life. And by that I mean it's so much easier today to do. You get yourself some cheap land with no or little zoning you put a very small tiny house that you build yourself on it not one of these fancy ones you buy for 60 or $100,000. you put some solar panels and some other things and that becomes your home base to build the rest of your life. You're not going to live there forever but at 25 years old you're going to be financially independent and any money you make you're going to be able to put directly toward your investments or buying a nicer house or whatever you want to do. The key is you're going to have that excess money that you can make online or doing anything at 25 years old because you're living costs except for food are going to be completely paid for. That difference in having that amount of money that much sooner means that 35 years old you'll be rich.
If you do what everybody else does would you stay in a big city thinking you're going to make more money you're going to have more fun you rent your apartment you hope to save what actually is going to happen is the apartment rents are going to go up and it's going to make it more difficult. You're going to feel like you need to buy a new cars which is going to make it more difficult. you're going to have unexpected things like you're going to have job losses from the companies going under or your company owner cheating you which happens all the time or you getting fired because despite what they told you about your great life ahead they found a cheaper way to hire somebody else and they really never wanted you to be successful there they just wanted to tell you that so they could pay you less in the beginning of your career and then knew they were never going to pay you the stuff they told you that you would eventually earn.
First you have to spend time and money and prep the land for living. It ain't no fun crapping in a five-gallon bucket with a toilet sit on top of it. Running water is more important that electriciy. At least it is to me.
jfroybees -1 points 7 months ago
First you have to spend time and money and prep the land for living. It ain't no fun crapping in a five-gallon bucket with a toilet sit on top of it. Running water is more important that electriciy. At least it is to me.