Henry only picks battles he can't lose, or at the very worst draw.

If he can't then he cherry picks sentences or simply chooses to ignore whatever was said.

He sounds like a really successful, smart dude that probably faded a ton of variance in the beginning. Good for him... But I think a lot of his advice isn't applicable for most people.

Maybe he's forgotten what it's like to be a young, not baller 20 something (wait was he ever not a baller?)

The problem is that people are not hungry enough for money, and are complacent about maximising earning potential. This is fine if that makes you happy, but it's disingenuous to believe that because you are not making more money it isn't possible.

I make between 120-150k/year working 55h weeks and I've still made it next year's goal to out in 500h of live poker to make another 10-20k. Obviously this isn't for everyone, but don't have a woe is me attitude that it's not possible to make more money.

The average American watches 34h of TV (lol) /week. Even if that is only 20 for young professionals, spend 10 of that learning something that makes you money (lrogramming/poker etc) the spend the other 10 making money.

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Thinly veiled "I beat 1/2" brag.

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Lots of this depends on how you define baller. I bought a new car at 17 but I don't consider that baller because it wasn't even the nicest car owned by a student and so many students owned cars that there had to be a lottery for who got parking. My school was a solid working class school and only a handful of the kids were from rich families who gave them cars -- the rest of us just had jobs. I worked in high school and for the first 4 or 5 years of university.

All my friends work and none of us had money issues. In highschool we'd go out every weekend and have dinner at something equivalent to an Olive Garden then go do something - comedy clubs, mini golf, movies, all ages clubs, real clubs that didn't check ID. A group of my friends would even go to strip clubs which I didn't go to till much later. This was typically about $50-60. My pay back then was about $150/week plus some extra I earned from other projects. My school was uniform so I only had to buy going out clothing. Summer I worked full time. The first year I filed income tax for a full year I was just slightly over $10k which would be $20k in today's money. On top of that I made about $4k cash.

University I had a part-time job and was making $250-400 a week except for 3 weeks in late August where I had an easy job where I worked as much as I could physically handle but would walk away with over $5k for the effort. I did that starting my last year of highschool until third year of university. I don't consider this baller. At least a quarter and maybe even as much as half of the people doing the August job for $5k were university students. Most didn't put in my hours but they still got $3.5-4k for the three weeks.

That is my perspective which is why I find it very difficult to imagine people complaining about how hard it is. The current generation of university students is being out earned by high school students from more than 20 years ago in absolute terms.

Before people start with the whole it is harder now that isn't true. My ex-Gf's brother was much younger we became friends and when he got old enough to go out to bars we started to hang out even though sister and I had long broken up. During college he was making about $20k/year between part-time work and summer. He didn't file taxes so asked me to help sort it all out for him and I had to do several years of filings. Another friend was working a standard 40 hour work week at a real estate firm as an office assistant while in university by just scheduling her classes around work. She managed to get good enough grades to get into a top 3 law school in Canada.

The only thing I worry about(Irrational fear I know) when being in university full time and trying to work 30 hours a week, go to the gym 4-5x a week and try and have a social life is that how do you fit this all in without running yourself into the ground?

I don't need 8+ hours of sleep but even when getting 5-6 hours its hard not to get run down, it seems like something has to give in this situation whether it be grades, social life, looks or money

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I have heard from a few people that it is helpful for them to have to schedule and whatnot. it obviously depends on your personality but there are def people who do better without a whole lot of free time, and I think certain people dont really know if thats the case until it happens.

I think the biggest key to this for me at least, is to stay on campus to do homework. It easier to focus away from distractions, so in-between classes and after classes just knock out your homework then go to work/home/gym whatever.

That would fall under the "money having to give" category.

I know for me I do a lot better when I structure my day out and limit my down time and free time so actually the busier I am the better I do expect I just want to avoid being dependent on coffee/caffeine

I have a couple 1-3 hours gaps between classes next semester and will just go to the library to knock out some studying and finish hw then most of the time and ideally get it all done before the night.

Most likely would start working out only 4x a week and go either early or late at night

Water is underrated.

I never knew?

Everything in todays society is undoubtedly harder than it was in yours Henry. I really don't understand how you can't grasp this concept

Lazy,
Can you not get by on working out 3 days a week?

Something like Sunday, Tuesday, Thursday.

3 is for sure doable I just prefer to be in the gym a little more often, I'm going 5x a week right now but not eating enough.

Ill probably try 4x a week during the semester and scale back if I need to

Standards for education are lower so school is easier. Undergrad was never difficult but it was a lot harder than it is now. The sciences have held mostly steady but you can be ******ed and still get middle of the pack in arts and top grades in social sciences.

Technology makes some aspects of school a lot easier. Doing research by the time I left school as opposed to when I started was so much easier. Technology makes all of life easier as well.

Increased trend in females to owning their sexuality has increased substantially making it easier to not only get laid but to expand sexual relations beyond the traditional -- It is so much easier for a guy in your generation to have a threesome in university than it would have been when I started school.

Making money is just as easy.

Life has gotten easier it just seems harder because people have gotten less capable at a faster rate.

I assumed Break was trolling with that comment. If not I fear for his ability to think.

Ha semi both. I literally didn't mean everything but there is alot of things that are harder today than it was before that Henry would just simply ignore. I think he is really really distant from how things actually are today

Break I think you are confusing simpler time with easier time.

I mean just go on facebook, see how many ******ed people are all over it, and tell someone with a straight face its hard to be impressive and get ahead in todays society.

That said we are all probably spoiled by parents that actually care, which has a huge impact on how far you get in your first ~16-18 years

Been texting a girl I met at a party last weekend back and forth for a few days, good signals all around. I tell her we should meet up before break (finals week now), she "would love to." Suggest we chill at my place and have a drink Friday evening after I'm done with school stuff, she has to wake up early Saturday apparently and asks 'We could just grab coffee?"

I'd really rather not get coffee. But do I have any other play without sounding rapey? She's under 21 I believe.

lol, say what now.

Ya sorry it's late and I'm sleep deprived. I feel like suggesting something else 1v1 at my place (my go to lately in this situation) without a convincing reason to not do coffee comes across as weird after she suggests it. Ofc I'm prolly overthinking this and will laugh that I even posted in the am

You are not over thinking it but you are out of options on having her come straight to your place.

I'm not a fan of the come to my place immediately without going out as a first date but it isn't uncommon with online dating since that is just an excuse for sub-pars to meet up and have sex.

This girl for whatever reason has decided she wants to meet in public first. She might still be ok with going back to your place after she meets you in public but you have to meet her in public now.

It is not important what triggered her change in plans but any attempt to force this back to your place is going to aggravate whatever it was that triggered her change in plans and either lead to the date being canceled or if it happens really make it harder to transition the public date to your place.

There is no play to change this to her coming straight over without going out somewhere first.