>>6005719>Sure seems a lot more perfect than mine.got to take what you want with your own hands bro. Life won't give you anything unless you're born to royalty or fame and fortune. everyone else has to fight and claw for whatever it is they want.
I know this sounds like crap coming from someone who has what you want. But you don't know what i did to get here. I left a lucritive career in finance because i was miserable; financial security is nice, but if you are working 60 hours a week you can't get the things you want. I watched a girl i loved walk away because i couldn't spend time with her.
I gained weight because i was depressed, I struggled with terrible jobs, one after another. I hooked up with human trash for human companionship, i wasted years on these boards.
Then i looked at myself in the mirror and realized i was depressed, unhappy, in my late 20s, going no where, i now was 80lbs overweight. I was disgusting.
So I did some serious thinking, and made a guess at to the type of career i'd be happy with (IT), then made a plan for how to get there. I worked a year for free in Guatemala for a Christian missionary group, just to get IT work on my resume; came back to the states basically broke, living in my car, I cleaned up trash after a nascar weekened to get a few hundred dollars together, got a rent by week roach motel for a dwelling, got an obama phone, and started looking for work. I was hired by my current employer 4 weeks later, I actually had to ask my new employer for a paycheck advance on my first paycheck in order to avoid sleeping in my car until i got paid.
Well that 18mo helped with the weight, had lost the spare tire... a few months later i had a company car and cell phone, an apartment in a trash neighborhood (my roommate got killed in a home invasion, i got a shotgun in my face and robbed, not sure why they didn't kill me); 2 years later I owned a home and had a new wife who is way too good for me. 3 and a half years to get to where i wanted to be. and those were not easy years.
so believe me, you got to fight and claw for everything you want in life. it doesn't just land in your lap.
