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Originally Posted by PlasticElephant
Pretty cool to earn 100k a year and keep letting your parents buy food tbf.
if you have a plan, then it's better, as I said: you can leverage your money and make a lot of passive income. Your mom would be way happier if you lived with her for 6 years and had enough money/passive income to live comfortably for the rest of your life rather than dumping 12k/year with rent/internet/water/electricity + wasting a lot of money buying electronics/car/clothes you won't need.
the world is pretty wild out there, you should be grateful if you can make a good amount of money. Honor that money by saving it and being wise, not many people have that kind of opportunity. If you don't protect what you've worked to achieve, society will take from you, not by stealing, but by misleading you into thinking that you need to buy a car every 2-3 years, have a new phone every year, always using/buying new clothes that will last for 6 months.
I'm a grad student in one of the best universities of my country, in the best engineering when it comes to being able to get a good job (industrial engineering, we work in every single industry). I'll graduate this year(took more time than my colleagues), almost 1/3 of my colleagues are having trouble in finding a decent job. If the situation is like that for the elite workforce in my country, imagine for the rest.
Every dollar you save is a dollar you make. If you play poker for living, you don't need a car/new clothes/a good cell phone/expensive travels, just use your brother's/cousins' old clothes and grind it out that money. If you feel bad that you're not helping in the house, just give your parents some amount you think that will help. People say here a lot that poker is dying, yet they do very little to find new ways of getting some income outside of the poker tables, save very little. In the end, if poker dies, a lot of ex-poker players will be left in the world without education/income/savings to make a good living.
Also the food your mom makes is healthy, cheap and tastes better than what you can find in most restaurants.