Man....all I gotta do is look at my parents. Tired and worn out. I love them but, its the truth. Worked themselves to the bone all their lives making these white folk rich, kissing these white folk asses. White folk off living in nice houses, pushing nice whips, living good, while we had to struggle. But that's life for most black people. What do my parents have to show for busting their ass for 40 years for these white folk? Not much.
Not gonna be me.
(Middle class) white folk aren't much better. I used to work with alot of them, retired white folk who had good jobs but, didn't have enough money to retire on, so they were in there working with us youngins in retail. Or they got "let go" and couldn't find another real job because of their age, thus retail was all they could get. They played the game safe. Went to college. Became educated. Got the high paying career. Did everything right. Still pinching pennies and eating spam and tv dinners at 65 years old to stretch their fixed income.
Nah breh.
All that really tells me you need to build your own shyt. You're never going to be wealthy working for someone else. Alot of people hear that and be like yea aight nikka....it aint easy starting a business not realizing that every single job they ever had was a business started by somebody. You need to a) gain highly marketable skills (and find a way to leverage them) b) ownership (business) c) create multiple streams of passive income. I don't want to be like my parents having almost nothing or like other old folks I know having to eat potato soup for dinner because they don't have enough retirement money. I wanna be somewhere lamping with my money growing passively with a couple business systems running smoothly that don't need my constant attention. I don't even look at it as risk. When you look at the wide majority of black people and how their lives ended up, they would have been better served taking that risk.
Right now my life consists of saving bread and spending my nights learning to program. A friend and I have been talking about starting a startup/app since college. All talk. We never learned to code. And of course, we met with hundreds of people, went to a bunch of events all over town, networked, interviewed coders. Nobody wanted to come on. I mean, why would they? We were just two nikkas with ideas but, no way to execute them, and no funding. After realizing this, we decided to learn how to code. And that's where we been at everyday for the past 4 months. Our progress is lifting us up because we're seeing that we'll actually be able to build our shyt in a few more months. The front end already looks incredibly polished and professional.....just gotta figured out all the back end stuff and it's a wrap
last night i considered the average amount of time i personally spent pursuing women
now each of us has 168 hrs/wk - 
you have over a thousand posts
i'm sure u can't relate
