Living the dream..

[347Mike]

Rich Dad Poor Dad.

[Chili]

Rich Dad Poor Dad.

Meh.. I'm not asking how to become rich, I'm talking about doing something I love as a career.

[mstng86]

Meh.. I'm not asking how to become rich, I'm talking about doing something I love as a career.

Porn star.

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[SMKR]

Me too brotha. The hardest part for me has been keeping myself motivated and out of trouble until I find out for sure if i'm eligible for the USCG or not. My life is all coming to a junction in june, then from there i'll have a better idea what i can and will be doing with myself.

see i was interested in the uscg a few years ago but never pursued it since i thought you had to live near the ocean to be eligible to enroll (ie-dallas not close enough was my understanding) but is that not the case?

[Skidmark]

As simplistic as this sounds, I like making shit. I enjoy working with wood, though that is a skill I need to develop more. I'd love to learn some other trades as well, particularly welding. Not to build turbo kits or anything, but to facilitate building shit. Furniture, cabinets, storage solutions, etc. I'm really itching to build a overland / expedition vehicle right now, and would love to get into that.. IDK though, those things will require a good deal of start-up money and will be very inconsistant as far as income.

My grandfather was a master carpentar / cabinet maker for most of his life and I envy that. I don't want to build houses, or limit myself to installing shit, I want to be able to do alot of custom work. I feel like I have a good sense of creating solutions in creative ways and that would be the kind of thing I would enjoy. It just seems that making the jump from hobbyist to business would be quite tough.

I just wish I would have thought all of this through more when I was 20..

Here is my opinion, but please take it with a grain of salt.

The people who can afford custom these days are expecting very high end, versus the folks who buy pre-made.

Time is money and most folks can't afford custom things anymore.


You should save up some cash and start flipping houses if you enjoy working with your hands and building. Between you doing the work and Leah finding all the deals on the product to make it happen, it would be a money maker!

[ceyko]

One thing I learned at 16 (My dream then was to be a dealership mechanic or a mcdonalds manager) was that doing what you love as a job is a good way to make you hate what you loved.

Not trying to say anything in particular, just keep that in mind too. When doing it for money and as a job - it can change your outlook on what ya love.

[347Mike]

Meh.. I'm not asking how to become rich, I'm talking about doing something I love as a career.

It was more in response to to your last comment about motivation. While the majority of the book is about becoming rich there are also other motivational key factors that play in to what you're trying to do here. Just my opinion.

[SMKR]

Two words: Rental property.

My goal is to purchase several, maybe ten or so, rental properties and let them generate income for little effort on my part. Yeah, it sounds easy to say and I know there are problems associated with it. But I know several people with multiple rental properties - each of them are rolling in cash.

The tricky part is making that first purchase... soon, very soon I hope.

boy that is the truth. one of the drivers that delivers our produce every morning owns 28 rental homes. they arent much, maybe 50k-90k value each, but he bought his first back in 1983 and just slowly bought another, then another and now his rental properties pay his bills and fund his retirement and he still drives because he loves it. by looking at him you never would have guessed he has what he has but that is where id want to be.

[347Mike]

You should save up some cash and start flipping houses if you enjoy working with your hands and building. Between you doing the work and Leah finding all the deals on the product to make it happen, it would be a money maker!

This is on my list of things to do in the next year or two. Once I get a little bit of equity into the house I will probably sell it and start buying/renting out real estate.

lol it looks like a few others had the same train of thought.

[Silverback]

Here is my opinion, but please take it with a grain of salt.

The people who can afford custom these days are expecting very high end, versus the folks who buy pre-made.

Time is money and most folks can't afford custom things anymore.


You should save up some cash and start flipping houses if you enjoy working with your hands and building. Between you doing the work and Leah finding all the deals on the product to make it happen, it would be a money maker!

That market is no where what it once was, I'm sure it'll be back, but right now most people can't qualify for loans on houses you flip. The only people making money flipping houses are people with enough money to wait it out, or do full demo/rebuilds.

[ELVIS]

That market is no where what it once was, I'm sure it'll be back, but right now most people can't qualify for loans on houses you flip. The only people making money flipping houses are people with enough money to wait it out, or do full demo/rebuilds.

all the assholes that were doing that, are now buying storage units. TV dictates most americans lives.

i dont care what i have to do to stay in my palatial digs, and dress as fly as all you mofo's remember and roll the dopest whips. balla's gonna ball.

god bless.

[motoman]

balla's gonna ball.

god bless.

Playa's gonna play and hater's gonna hate.

[SMKR]

Probably some kind of franchise I can parlay into a diversity of franchises, and then flip once they're paid off. I'm working a few different ideas out right now, fwiw.

im doing something similiar, currently researching/reaching out to owners of daylight donuts. its a franchise that so far seems reasonable on startup costs and all 3 owners ive talked to so far say its been profitable since day 1. biggest thing like anything is location and area saturation-competition.

[lowthreeohz]

see i was interested in the uscg a few years ago but never pursued it since i thought you had to live near the ocean to be eligible to enroll (ie-dallas not close enough was my understanding) but is that not the case?

No, not at all! Hell the USCG recruiter here in dfw is on belt line rd in irving, like 3 miles from my shop.

Craig, it's nothing bad.. My kidney stones are the root cause of the delay. I was told by my recruiter that I have to wait a full year from the day i was discharged, go back and have an eval, then apply for a waiver before i'm eligible. Meh.

[jluv]

I would like to be a park ranger or a game warden or something like that, preferably in the Rockies. My favorite place is in nature, although I have spent my entire adult life dealing with people for a living (sales). I would be willing to take a paycut, but I'm pretty sure I would need a 4-year degree, experience in something related, and probably some kind of connections to keep from ending up in some shitty place like Kansas.

I always envied the young men and women who spend their summers as a whitewater rafting and/or horseback riding guide, and their winters in the same area working at a ski resort. I'm not that young anymore, though. I could do it, but I probably couldn't make much of a living at it.

If I wasn't in a great relationship with an incredible woman, and we weren't planning on starting a family in the not-too-distant future, and if I didn't already have debt that will take me a couple of years to pay off, I would likely sell or give away a lot of my shit, pack the rest, and move my happy ass to a mountain town and just make ends meet. I know of people who have done this, and they are poor, but happy.