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Nov 15, 2017 - 10:56am PT
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Talk (face to face) with people older than yourself and try to understand the choices they made that got them where they are today. And where they might be 10 or 20 years from now.
Take a course or two in personal finance. Get a handle on the time value of money and the opportunity cost of some of these decisions against each other over the long haul.
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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Nov 15, 2017 - 11:04am PT
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Life's a carnival, with all that a side show brings
The oppertunity
that flashes and passes out a sight
so fast that grabbing throws one off the climbing mark
there is always time to be a Yo-Yo. but the string is stronger & longer while you are young
and there is the thing
that no one gets out alive,
thwart the reeper
but
the sting of lonely survival can be crushing
Not in a good way,
the needs of a companion can not be met by feline or K-9
Your swell will eb
then a soft place is as nice as a hard bed,
Ive never slept on more'n just aplank
Any way
anyway you go it is not alone you want to be in the end so?
So Work save ducats, for the buckets of rain that is sure to fall
as Always
WAS . . . was
Nice To Read
Red'sea Is WAS and I think the weedge !?
when was the deeds to do
still chewin' that white bread too
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NutAgain!
Trad climber
South Pasadena, CA
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Nov 15, 2017 - 11:26am PT
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Edit: Good for you Sewelly! I ended up super-lucky in my career because I locked eyes with a guy at a job fair. I was waiting to hear back from a job application fighting off mosquitos and netting birds for summers in Alaska (after doing it for a winter in Hawaii), and then I ended up in silicon valley building computer networks. I had some vaguely relevant background, but overall I was lucky with right place /right time in the Internet gold rush. If I took the same college path today that I did back then, I would never be able to own a home in California, especially in a good school district.
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Ksolem
Trad climber
Monrovia, California
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Nov 15, 2017 - 11:54am PT
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It depends on what you think is "decent."
My life looked like this from about 1987 - 2007:
No kids. Although considering my reckless behavior, I'm probably shooting blanks anyway ;-)
A job I liked. But came with easy hours, good pay, generous time off and professional rewards. I had about the only job in music production which fits that description.
Live frugally. I always rented for the least money for a good place. Never got tied down with a house. First new car in 2009.
Live near a popular bouldering area. Stoney point was a two afternoon a week scene for me all summer. Good training, found strong climbing relationships. This also gave me the ability to go out on weekends and be productive, never feeling "off the couch." Two days climbing, rest Monday, boulder hard Tues, do extra work on Wed, boulder Thurs, pack Fri, repeat.
The hardest part in the puzzle is the job. When I went to college I was planning a career playing classical trumpet. I did so for about ten years, but when I got hooked on climbing it became clear to me that it was one or the other. I went climbing. No one I knew at the time really understood.
So I followed my heart. But, not having a trust fund, with some caution.
College good or bad? My plumber is a millionaire. The barista down the road at Starbucks has a masters in social sciences and $30k debt.
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