after a few days of all emo-ed on shawn michaels retirement, i'm back to write another post that i myself acknowledged as a real post. its just yesterday that i spoke to a good friend of mine, kat wai about the difference of
- working really hard to get rich to enjoy a realy good lifestyle (like semi-ds or banglos, latest toys, nice cars like maybe BMW, high end guitars,you get what i mean)
or
- just working enough to get a decent living because whats the point of working so hard when your not enjoying life?
(ok kat wai i know the sentences weren't like this last night, but this is a blog, i gotta at least
smoothen the sentence.) this is sort of a common issue that has people arguing around or debating, jsut basically talking bout it. here's a couple of answers which i receive from my friends and note that they are people around my age.
loanshark: just really harrd
sure really hard man
thts the way
ill chose this cause i love cash man
eddy: (his shit gets deeper and deeper and i couldn't include everything. you know americans likes to get more detailed than malaysians) (not saying anything bad bout you yea eddy)
i want to have a comfortable lifestyle
but i also want to feel like i am putting in effort to better myself, whether it be mentally,
or physically, or whatever
i think everyone likes to have a certain amount of money
and probably, with the path i'm taking, could make comfortable finances a reasonable goal
choi yin:i think i will work vry hard for few years to save a certain amount of money
after tat i will work normally
chor yuen: if im single..
nono..
cause if u don work now..
and earn more money
next time when u are old..
who want u o..
chen voon:chen voon says:
coz i Dun wan many $$$$
but lay on the bed in hospiTal
or cant bring any $$$$
when i die
vincent is 20 says:
what?
i tak faham la(i don't fuckin understand what your saying)
*only chen voon answers the second option, while the rest goes for the first one excepts for eddy who goes with the "it depends" kinda answer.
i know this question have very little justificaiton of how hard a person should work or how good is the good lifestyle means. i'm writing this because there's lack of justification in these sentences whenever people ask me this quesiton coz lets faced it, many people ask this question and also money can't buy everyting which i might blog later on. so anyways, its really about the degree or extent towards how hard you would want to work and to the extent of how much you want to earn. i think if money minded person would probably choose the first option coz i would assume they understand the value of money more and only money can buy things you wish to have right now. on the other hand, a few people have told me bout whats the point of working hard and not being to enjoy life as well? that kinda get me thinking also, which job is not hard geh? unless when you have to work maybe from monday till saturday,morning till midnight. if you are already working like this you probably would be in the first option already.(note that this doesn't count if you just started working)
well personally from a business student's perspective and seeing money is everything, i would say i would go with the first option. coz there's nothing better than being able to buy things you want whenever you wish to have it. but of course there would be price to pay and thats working hard for it. but if you think bout it, like what choi yin and chor yuen told me, working hard early gives you the right to retire early or working less harder in the future. so at the end of the day for me its better to work hard early when your young, you got not much commitments, so that you can buy shit in the future.(note that this doesn't apply when you say i work hard also no get rich. getting rich depends on luck also)
so...
WHAT WOULD YOU CHOOSE TO GET A GOOD LIFESTYLE?
working hard (like having little social life, constantly dealing with paper works and socializing just for the sake of moving forward, spending little time with your love ones, sacrificing the things you lik to do lik guitars and etc) to get a can buy everything lifestyle (tangible things yea,bitches don't reply me with shit like money can't buy love, appreciation, gratitude and etc.)
or
working enough(work for other people, have standard work time, gets paid averagely, doesn't involve politics to climb the ladder of success faster) to get a decent living which allows you to enjoy life in the moment.(like staying in trend, enjoying the latest things that came out, spending time with friends while were young and beautiful(rip off from carrie underwood).
note* i already tried to be as detailed i can be in the two sentences i proposed for you to choose. please don't be a dick and said something else i couldn't write on and because i'm too lazy to list down.
Wednesday, April 7, 2010
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6 comments:
i'd say option 2 man, balanced in every way XD
to stay in trend, u need money. when ur income is just averagely, and you spend it to enjoy life in the moment. you won have much to save for the rainy days.
as much as i like option 2, but i gotta agree with choi yin's reason and stick to 1.
she put it simply as work hard and earn money till certain point, then go easy, but what i think she meant was saving as much as she can until you're really financially stable, then take it easy, which i kinda like the idea.
BUT.. i still think us being too young to make such quick decision. it's good we got a goal set there, but we haven't work yet, and there's alot of shit involve in work, so it's still pretty complex for us to digest now.
Being a dick comment :
hahahaha...it seems many of you have this equation..
More Hardworking = More Money
Less Hardworking = Less Money
Funny thing is ..both options are the opposite !
The reality is , many people work very hard and end up broke (or become a debt slave , burn their money in shares etc) ..
And many people don't work , but their wealth grows like crazy . Think about people who owns a building in bukit bintang , just goyang kaki and collect RM30k rent..
I rarely meet people who has the classic case , which is work hard and the hard work lead to making alot of money .
Anyway , this shit is actually very complicated . There is also a big factor which is productivity , you can work super hard and still not productive (think a credit card sales man) , and you can work 5 hours a day and be super productive .
For me , i would go for anything that plays by 20-80 rule . Which is 20% the effort i put in , 80% return money / value .
to achieve the second option these days is kind of hard. following trends? buying the latest shit? gotta have the money, man. but one way i look at this is:
why live happy and poor when you can be happy and rich? why live sad and poor when you can be sad and rich?
money is like air to me. no harm breathing in more air. it won't kill you
kam tze - :)
ice man - its constantly raining everytime of the season.. so better get more umbrellas if the first one breaks from heavy rain.
lawolf - yea only one guy in this comment list that is actually a working adult. so for us students to say shit like this is still too early. but sitll i wanna blog bout this.
gapnap - damn. i can't write all the factors invovled in both of the options can i? i lazy la. but yea, there is never a saying on how you can get rich due to variations of etc etc etc.(the etc are the things your gonna write if your replying)i can't write everything in this comment box.
slowiehands - totally agree with what you said. a rich man is never a sad man compared to a poor one.
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