On some real shyt...I was happier when I was broke.

[Ya Sinning Mane]

im using my money to help those that cant help themselves. thats my new happiness

Bless you brother.
This is what life is truly about.



shalom selah to you and your family

 

[Tookalossfellbackcameback]

How much you making now?

What, generally, changed?

Significantly more...I don't want to turn this into a low key bragging thread because I can't stand folks who do that.


As far as what changed? Externally...family shyt, really.


I think some folks are missing the point of my OP. It wasn't to glorify being poor. I was just giving my personal experience with achieving success while at the same time losing who you are.


Money doesn't replace that...at least for me it hasn't.

 

[Legal]

I stopped bullshytting and got serious about having a career. When I tell you how much your financial situation can change in just a few years if you get on your grind...I'm a living witness.


I'm learning now that money doesn't matter nearly as much as I thought it did.


Money can fix external things...but it can't make YOU happy.

"Having money's not everything, not having it is"

I would never in my life go back to being broke, but I get where you're coming from. I had a period where I was making really good money, but the job itself burned me out. I was so miserable from work that I didn't even really have time where I was just happy to have and spend my money. Wasn't worth it.

 

[Easy-E]

As far as what changed? Externally...family shyt, really.

Ahhh, Gotcha...makes perfect sense

 

[ShaneTheRogue]

Id rather have rich people problems personally.

Rich bored people lack imagination.

Build a school. Build a museum. Hired the best trainers to help you master certain skills. (Cooking, painting, martial arts etc.)

Go overthrow the govt. of a small unstable country and install a puppet govt.

Finance movie, video game, or porno.

Start a youtube series.

 

[MyApps]

I’m not a baller by any means, but some days are better than others. I be buying shyt, but it don’t even mean much. Sometimes I wish I was like alot of my peers and was working retail or some shyt. I don’t even feel like myself sometimes. Think I’m losing myself, but don’t know how to get it back without feeling like I’m regressing

New hobbies

 

[Phantum]

I feel you breh, it's only so many times you can have a threesome with Rihanna and my private clone of Aaliyah in the back of my self driving Tesla before it gets old

 

[Krisrunner2049]

Tbh life stopped being fun once I crossed the 500k a year mark.

Double . But if you cashapp me $100k I’ll have no choice but to believe you.

Being broke ain't it. You wanna be broke again you can but I bet you won't OP

Knew there had to be motivation for that pole work

 

[BaldingSoHard]

4 years ago I was making $11 an hour working as a line cook...I wasn't even grossing 30k a year. I had a busted ass one bedroom apartment, a broke down 1997 Pontiac Sunfire convertible and nothing in my savings account. I couldn't afford health insurance, car insurance...I used to make $50 worth of groceries last a whole month. I'd take my daughter to McDonald's after school and buy her a happy meal and couldn't afford nothing for myself.


But guess what....


I LOVED living. I still worked out, still was passionate about being active. The little things still excited me...like hitting up downtown on a Friday night, watching a good movie or copping the new 2k. I'd pick up my daughter from school and drop the top on that old ass Sunfire and you couldn't tell me nothing...



Money doesn't mean shyt if you've lost who YOU are. When you lose that spark...that spirit of enthusiasm...no amount of wealth or professional success can get you right.



Just some lil' musings on a Sunday night.

Sounds like you got married, breh.