Thread: Being poor sucks...

Actually, it might not be so bad to hate being poor. I don't mind being poor, and as a result I'm still poor.

Originally Posted by Taosaur

Actually, it might not be so bad to hate being poor. I don't mind being poor, and as a result I'm still poor.

You don't mind being rich.

Originally Posted by ClouD

You don't mind being rich.

If I'd started rich, that might be the case. Then again, I might not like the social and family repercussions.

As a kid, I've seen my family go through good and bad patches concerning money, so I have grown with a somewhat apathetic attitude with money. I tend to try to save, but at the same time whether I have money or not is not really a major concern. If anything, the more I have, the more it stresses me out...

Mmm, my family went through this awhile back when my stepdad decided to blow our entire savings, ten thousand dollars all in one night at a casino and then came home 3 in the morning piss ass wasted. We managed to keep our electricity bill paid, but that was the only one. We lost our cable, internet, phone, and nearly our house but thankfully our family all got together and pulled enough money to stop them from taking our house. While these times did suck, they were also a turning point for me, and I became the happiest I'd ever been in my life. I don't know why, but I felt like it didn't matter anymore, because someday I'd be out of that house on my own and I knew I'd never do something like that to my family, that I would work as hard as I had to in order to make sure nothing like that happened to me again. I guess I realized that I was in control of my life more so then anything, and that nothing was really that bad because in a few years it would all just be nothing more then a memory.

Luckily, after a couple years, my stepdad got a job out somewheres West doing electricians work, and he works for three weeks out there and comes back for one week, making shitloads of cash now, so we just bought a new car, a trampoline and a pool. So my point is basically, you're not going to be in this situation forever. It sucked at the time, but then it all somehow got turned on it's head and now we have more then enough money to keep our home and cable and whatnot. Hopefully your situation can go something like mine, and you start making insane amounts of coin.

Oh, and holding a job while you're in school isn't all that hard. The majority of people do it, I'm in the International Baccalauereate program (IB), which is a tough course that requires like 2-5 hours of homework a night, but most of us doing it still have jobs that we work after school, sometimes until like midnight, so we end up doing homework till like 3am. It's all part of the highschool experience really, it wouldn't be the same without it.

sorry to hear if i win the lottery tonite perhaps i can donate