mousepad wrote:Typical victim attitude. What about making work for yourself? Starting a business?
I have nominally done what you say and now I am successful.
I would never call myself "rich" or "wealthy" because rich person is one who can run war paying out of his pocket and a "wealthy" is someone like Paris Hilton.
Here in Poland I am in upper middle class as per local perception. Business owner, landlord, no debt, no need to bother about having job, non working wife and kids are very well set as well.
Started from zero and got somewhere.
But to a large degree it was a fluke.
String of good decisions, not many setbacks, no catastrophic decisions.
Being young I was making certain choices and all my friends from university also were making their choices.
At the time it was not clear at all who was making better choices but somehow I have ended up in best few %.
I have many friends who have ended up very badly regardless of trying hard, working very hard and making choices which was looking very good.
In fact most of my friends have ended up screwed regardless and the most common denominator of failure was a choice of wrong woman or setting up business which was initially working, later not so good and refusal to ditch it timely and salvage what they still could.
So from my perspective all this work hard to get wealthy story is just plain garbage.
You need to be of average or better above average IQ, a bit unruly because otherwise system will milk you until you are ruined, cautious with spending and few times throw a right dice at a right time. Help from parents can be advantage but not essential.