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If you are smart and driven, um, pretty high. In her field alone, there are 64,000, and 2400 more every year. Then there are doctors, attorneys, engineers, IT professionals, and on and on, lots of educated professionals. It's not rare. The odds are not low.

What a weird, defeatist attitude.

There are more than 12 million households with more than a million in net worth in this country. It's not a rare thing, and many of those households never made a six figure income.

Households with a six figure income are at the 62nd percentile, meaning 38 percent of households have an income of $100,000 or higher. This sort of thing is not rare at all, and you don't need a graduate degree or a professional job to earn a six figure income.
How many full time working adults are in that six figure income house ?
 
Right!

My wife was picking up our 17 year old from school 2 weeks ago. He gets in the car and points out the window and says...

"See mom! And you wonder why I don't want to go to school anymore! I have to deal with this shit everyday. The whole time I was waiting for you I had to watch this girl.... (she identifies as a cat) run around on all four (hands and feet) on the side walk jumping on top of her back pack playing with it like a cat plays with a toy mouse!"

My wife looked over and sure enough.... this girl was running around on all four and yes the girl student does identify as a cat!

I said, "If I'd seen that.... I'd record a video and post it on social media!"
If any of you guy's have identified an inflection point, on anything, please share it.
Otherwise things are going to get a lot worse.
 
Right!

My wife was picking up our 17 year old from school 2 weeks ago. He gets in the car and points out the window and says...

"See mom! And you wonder why I don't want to go to school anymore! I have to deal with this shit everyday. The whole time I was waiting for you I had to watch this girl.... (she identifies as a cat) run around on all four (hands and feet) on the side walk jumping on top of her back pack playing with it like a cat plays with a toy mouse!"

My wife looked over and sure enough.... this girl was running around on all four and yes the girl student does identify as a cat!

I said, "If I'd seen that.... I'd record a video and post it on social media!"

Liberalism is a mental disorder. About 30 years ago, that "cat" would be thrown into a mental institution.
 
There are hundreds of ads or pitches everyday suggesting you become a vendor on Amazon. It is very simple, you get thru the hoops and become a vendor selling all the shit listed on the Wal-Mart website for 10% more than Wal-Mart sells it. Idiots who buy shit off Amazon buy it from you, you fill the order with your Wal-Mart commercial account and they drop ship it to idiots. Magically, you make $180K a year, part time from home.

To no one's fucking surprise you do it and do not make $180K a year. You become one of the 750,000 assholes selling shit on Amazon and make a few thou a year maybe. Then you forget to check you account, slow ship shit and get a few hundred 2 star ratings and get less and less.

Well let's take the way-back machine to the early 1980's. VCR's got cheap and went from $899 to $129 for one with the same fucking features and the number of people who wanted to watch porn and 2nd run movies at home increased 1000 fold in a year or two. Every cunt with a vacant shelf or willing to rent a shitty commercial space opened a video store. Every 7-11 had two shelves of videos. Pretty quickly everyone had a card/account and was paying $3.99 to watch a tape on Friday night and drink at home. By the late 1980's 98% of them were out of business and Hastings or Block Buster had the business. When streaming hit, those stores went under and today almost no one "rents" a physical copy of a show.

For 98% of people, there is NO shortcut. To succeed at life you need a fucking job. You need to put between 10-20% of your gross pay in retirement accounts or investments every month. You need to buy or rent a house you can afford and stop thinking you need accommodations like some asshole on MTV Cribs. You need to stop thinking you need a top of the line, $75,000 pick up truck to haul leaves to the dump once a year. You need make a bag lunch. You need to buy a fucking Thermos and fill it with coffee and stop buying $10 a cup coffee. You need to stop paying $1,500 bucks for extras in the game app you play when you should be working. You need to watch local over the air TV and buy ONE streaming app for less than $20 bucks a month. Your fucking dog doesn't get steak mailed to you monthly. You kids play in the park on the free equipment. You need to eat as many meals at home as possible. Stop buying clothes and shoes for no reason.

One day you wake up and the kids are grown, you had a bunch of nice vacations camping, fishing and biking in state parks or national forests and once in a while you rented a boat for the weekend or paid gas money to your buddy and went water skiing or tubing all weekend. You do not own a piece of shit Harley and a leather queer outfit or have two sleeves of meaningless bullshit tattoos that cost $20K dollars. You have not spent $100K of gym memberships, you have a workout machine in the basement and you walk or run on the local school track. AND, best of all you have a few hundred thousand in investment and retirement accounts, an affordable house that is almost paid off or paid for and can look
forward to retiring in 5-15 years depending on when you started. So you save money, reduce debt and spend careful.

If your kids go to college or trade school, they do it by paying as they go, working part time, getting a bit of help from the folks, applying for grants or scholarships and stay the fuck away from student loans unless you are going to medical school to practice actual fucking medicine not essential oils or anything with a fucking bongo drum or chants. 90% of jobs do not require college. Want a free trade school? Join the military and learn a trade or skill and skip infantry, security forces or supply. If you want the most money, be flexible on where you have to live to get the big bucks. If you want the most happiness, compromise.

99% of people will not dine with Elon or fly in Taylor's private jet 1/2 way around the world to watch a football game. You will more than likely NEVER go to a Super Bowl, World Series or Stanley Cup or sit in the $11,000 seats at a sporting event. It is a pointless way to spend money. Patrick Mahomes will step over you to get a free beer no matter how dedicated a fan you are. Most people need to focus on living like normal people and fight the rich people who are demanding they eat bugs and ride the bus, so they have unlimited jet fuel and steak.
Most. Awesome, Post. Ever.
 
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Wow, 12 years at home? She should have done better than $400k invested with a job at Google and no expenses. Maybe it is easier in asian families to live with parents for so long.

So why'd she save up only $400k? Oh, look at that "self care" section (section 3). She literally blew a third of her budget (one third!!!) on gym memberships, therapy, self help books, and a career coach, and "things like" that. Wow. What a wasted opportunity.

Plenty of folks with tech jobs and low expenses are millionaires within 12 years. I suppose had she put that extra, wasted third of her income to work during that time, she would be, too.
 
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Wow, 12 years at home? She should have done better than $400k invested with a job at Google and no expenses. Maybe it is easier in asian families to live with parents for so long.

So why'd she save up only $400k? Oh, look at that "self care" section (section 3). She literally blew a third of her budget (one third!!!) on gym memberships, therapy, self help books, and a career coach, and "things like" that. Wow. What a wasted opportunity.

Plenty of folks with tech jobs and low expenses are millionaires within 12 years. I suppose had she put that extra, wasted third of her income to work during that time, she would be, too.
I hope she paid something towards rent!

When I lived at home for a while after high school.... every payday there was rent money sitting on my mom's dresser if she wasn't home for me to give it to her.

If she told me on the way home after work to stop and get milk or something... I stopped and bought it.

Everyone of our kids we did the same thing.... once you finish school... you start paying something towards rent. When each one of the last two kids moved out... our electric bill went down a $100 a month on average.
 
Last year, Chisom Okwulehie’s architectural design business, Juntero, brought in $414,000 in revenue.

But it had humble beginnings. When the now 35-year-old launched the company in 2021 with her cybersecurity specialist husband, its first gig was designing an ad for Indeed.com, which paid only $20.
While Juntero’s first sales were mostly one-off graphic design gigs, the company soon attracted bigger projects, like floor plans for small businesses. Okwulehie worked nights and weekends for Juntero while maintaining her full-time position as an architect at the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.

 
Last year, Chisom Okwulehie’s architectural design business, Juntero, brought in $414,000 in revenue.

But it had humble beginnings. When the now 35-year-old launched the company in 2021 with her cybersecurity specialist husband, its first gig was designing an ad for Indeed.com, which paid only $20.
While Juntero’s first sales were mostly one-off graphic design gigs, the company soon attracted bigger projects, like floor plans for small businesses. Okwulehie worked nights and weekends for Juntero while maintaining her full-time position as an architect at the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.

That lady had a really cool idea for a business, and she blended her and her husband's skills to market something nobody else out there is providing.
 
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Well.. every company, non-profit and government grants are bending over backwards to give every dark skinned, female identifying humanoid, pulse or not, money to start a business. Eventually, something will at least break even. They've been pumping money for female/minority "owned" businesses for decades.
 
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There is not a hint in that article that she was given money or even borrowed money, rather than simply started doing graphic design on the side and then started doing floor plans, and then figured out (because she works as an architect in her real job) that nobody was doing the 3D visualization and started doing it. I am sure it helped that her husband is in the IT world in his real job (no hint at what color he is).

As for being handed money, I have seen a lot of persons be handed something good and run it into the ground. I very recently watched a white guy inherit his Dad's company, a real, thriving business that his Dad had built up over decades, and he bankrupted it within 2 years.

Being handed something does not ensure success.

And, like I said, no hint that there was any real capital used to start up her business rather than work by her and her husband.

She is still employed full time as an architect and is running her business. Here is her side business: