[DESS]

Originally Posted by Dion

All you've done is mocked and ridiculed the OP for his views. Doesn't sound to me like you're making any positive contributions to this thread.

As usual, you're wrong. See page 1:

Originally Posted by DESS

Yeah OP you're in a pretty critical stage of life right now. There are some inevitable realities I see coming though given what you said about wanting to find a girl to marry. By the time you're 27 or 28 at about the latest, you'll sucumb to the personal and private pressure to marry her. Within a couple of years she'll be pregnant. You'll need a house with a few rooms in a family-type neighbourhood (read: burbs). You'll need a full-time job that kicks out a reasonable amount of cash to support all this. Boom, you're one of us LOL.

If you want a bit of advice from your old pal DESS, do yourself a favour and pick up a short little book called The Millionaire Next Door. After five years in the proffessional 9-5 type world (which for me was more like 7am - 10pm on a short day) I walked away, borrowed some money on top of what I had saved and bought a small business. Best thing I ever did. In over three years at my new venture I've missed supper with my family just 2 times. I've set stuff up in such a way that I work virtually no OT and I never work weekends, leaving me lots of time for more important things like personal relationships. Sounds to me like this less conventional path me work better for your personality and you'll always have your degrees to fall back on which is good insurance.

When you own your own business you can control so much more in your life. I'm 32 right now and I plan to go down to a four day work week at 40 and a three day week at 45. Also, with all the tax benefits, write offs, etc., I'm making about double what I made working for a corporation in less than half the hours.