[quote]jewishthunder wrote:
Smartest thing - started being truthful and outspoken about what I wanted in life.[/quote]
This exactly.
Smartest thing I’ve done with my personal life is to realize that my religion is like a penis, its great having one, but no one really wants me showing it off. With my professional life I realized that if you tell your boss what you expect of him/her they often go along with what you say.
Be a man…doooo the right thing.
This thread is probably going to be a lot shorter than the other one.
[quote]Steel Nation wrote:
[quote]Chilliwack wrote:
[quote]WP wrote:
For serious? This is one of the smartest things you’ve done?[/quote]
Maybe it’s just me, but I think “avoiding prison” is a pretty fucking smart thing to do.[/quote]
I’m not sure I’d call it smart, rather just not being retarded.
[quote]sam_sneed wrote:
[quote]Steel Nation wrote:
[quote]Chilliwack wrote:
[quote]WP wrote:
For serious? This is one of the smartest things you’ve done?[/quote]
Maybe it’s just me, but I think “avoiding prison” is a pretty fucking smart thing to do.[/quote]
I’m not sure I’d call it smart, rather just not being retarded. [/quote]
I’m thinking more along the lines of C getting out of the car in A Bronx Tale. Pretty smart decision and not an easy one either.
[quote]sam_sneed wrote:
[quote]Steel Nation wrote:
[quote]Chilliwack wrote:
[quote]WP wrote:
For serious? This is one of the smartest things you’ve done?[/quote]
Maybe it’s just me, but I think “avoiding prison” is a pretty fucking smart thing to do.[/quote]
I’m not sure I’d call it smart, rather just not being retarded. [/quote]
Well to be fair it’s who you grow up around and the environment. Being an angsty teen surrounded by other angsty teens who all feel invincible isn’t very helpful. Combine that with boredom and get a hive mentality going and you end up entertaining some pretty dumb ideas, man.
[quote]Dr.Matt581 wrote:
Also, becoming a physicist. I couldn’t imagine ever wanting to do anything else for a living.[/quote]
starryeyes.jpg
Autumn of 2007 I moved all my 401K resources from high yield stock-funds into bond funds .
about 18 months later , after losing only about 10% , I moved everything back into the high risk stock funds , which were heavily discounted from dropping a good 40% .
came out smellin’ pretty sweet.
-Making the conscious decision to live well below my means. I’m eating a can of cat food as I type this. (Not good cat food either, like Fancy Feast or the like. I’m talking cat food that a Tijuana alley cat would think twice about touching)
-Listening to the oft-repeated “be yourself around women” advice. It’s tiring to act a role for a prolonged period of time…
-Listening to the advice of “no career is worth your sanity”.
-Removing about 80% of the clutter from my house. My place would fit right into an Ikea catalog. Makes things easier.
[quote]PimpBot5000 wrote:
-Making the conscious decision to live well below my means. I’m eating a can of cat food as I type this. (Not good cat food either, like Fancy Feast or the like. I’m talking cat food that a Tijuana alley cat would think twice about touching)
-Listening to the oft-repeated “be yourself around women” advice. It’s tiring to act a role for a prolonged period of time…
-Listening to the advice of “no career is worth your sanity”.
-Removing about 80% of the clutter from my house. My place would fit right into an Ikea catalog. Makes things easier.[/quote]
Uh why?
[quote]spar4tee wrote:
[quote]Dr.Matt581 wrote:
Also, becoming a physicist. I couldn’t imagine ever wanting to do anything else for a living.[/quote]
starryeyes.jpg[/quote]
Pfff you physicist, you all think your science is the bomb, that all the other sciences get back you guys blah blah blah.
[quote]Swolegasm wrote:
[quote]spar4tee wrote:
[quote]Dr.Matt581 wrote:
Also, becoming a physicist. I couldn’t imagine ever wanting to do anything else for a living.[/quote]
starryeyes.jpg[/quote]
Pfff you physicist, you all think your science is the bomb, that all the other sciences get back you guys blah blah blah.[/quote]
[quote]spar4tee wrote:
[quote]Swolegasm wrote:
[quote]spar4tee wrote:
[quote]Dr.Matt581 wrote:
Also, becoming a physicist. I couldn’t imagine ever wanting to do anything else for a living.[/quote]
starryeyes.jpg[/quote]
Pfff you physicist, you all think your science is the bomb, that all the other sciences get back you guys blah blah blah.[/quote]
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[quote]spar4tee wrote:
[quote]Swolegasm wrote:
[quote]spar4tee wrote:
[quote]Dr.Matt581 wrote:
Also, becoming a physicist. I couldn’t imagine ever wanting to do anything else for a living.[/quote]
starryeyes.jpg[/quote]
Pfff you physicist, you all think your science is the bomb, that all the other sciences get back you guys blah blah blah.[/quote]
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Only a physicist would look for their inventions in a metaphor.
[quote]Steel Nation wrote:
[quote]Chilliwack wrote:
[quote]WP wrote:
For serious? This is one of the smartest things you’ve done?[/quote]
Maybe it’s just me, but I think “avoiding prison” is a pretty fucking smart thing to do.[/quote]
<<<---- Not Smart! 
Delared I was a Mennonite and stopped paying Social Security and Medicare taxes. (And exempted myself from Obamacare, to boot.)
It’s another $20K/year in my pocket.
[quote]sam_sneed wrote:
[quote]Steel Nation wrote:
[quote]Chilliwack wrote:
[quote]WP wrote:
For serious? This is one of the smartest things you’ve done?[/quote]
Maybe it’s just me, but I think “avoiding prison” is a pretty fucking smart thing to do.[/quote]
I’m not sure I’d call it smart, rather just not being retarded. [/quote]
<<<— Must be retarded…
[quote]Jewbacca wrote:
Delared I was a Mennonite and stopped paying Social Security and Medicare taxes. (And exempted myself from Obamacare, to boot.)
It’s another $20K/year in my pocket.[/quote]
Interesting…
[quote]Aggv wrote:
[quote]Jewbacca wrote:
Delared I was a Mennonite and stopped paying Social Security and Medicare taxes. (And exempted myself from Obamacare, to boot.)
It’s another $20K/year in my pocket.[/quote]
Interesting…[/quote]
Yeah, I even look Amish (black clothes, big hat, beard).
Actually, with the increased medicare tax, it will be like $30k. Huge savings.
The smartest thing I ever did was learn an actual TRADE. I chose being an electrician, but I would have been just as good doing plumbing, pipe fitting, elevator, mechanic, etc… No matter what happens in the economy or in the government, our society will ALWAYS need someone to climb that pole and make the lights work, or fix that generator. When my mortgage career ended due to changes in government regulation, I was able to almost immediately fall back on my electrical skill set and what could have been a major financial crises in my life turned into no more than a “logistical nuisance”. And with all of the changes governing loan officer allowable commissions and other restrictive guidelines, I’m on track to earn more money in the long term than if I had continued to do mortgage. I also didn’t accumulate any student loan debt or pay a bunch of money to come out of college and make what I made as a third year apprentice.
