Advice to your younger self

[SlushboxTeggy]

A friend posed the question the other day and I thought it was a great topic for discussion. What advice would you give you're younger self if you had the chance.



What I've come up with so far...

1. Drinking isn't a proper means of grieving.

2. A Communications degree won't get you a job.

3. When a certain girl says, "We need to make this official or stop sleeping together", choose to stop sleeping together.

4. Don't hit that kid. It'll cost you.

5. Don't curse at cops. It is in fact against the law, not just frowned upon.

 

[BigJ]

1. Don't spend money to fit in. Save it.
2. Go to class. That party can wait.
3. No social event is worth missing family time.

 

[Briansol]

Don't get into cars.
Go to bed on the same day you woke up.

 

[92stoccord]

Never utter the words "I'm going to puke, shotgun this beer, then race this unicycle" bad call Bob. Bad call.

 

[DarkHand]

1. Wake your ass up and go to school. You'll feel less tired once you get moving.

2. 01-08-1999 - 05,21,23,26,37 Mega Ball-03

3. Take that money and buy as much Qualcomm stock as possible. Sell before the end of 1999 (+2,619%).

4. If you're gallavanting around the world with all your money, don't go to New York in Q4 2001, or Japan in Dec 2004.

5. Get in on that Bitcoin thing right when it starts in 2009. Spend 6 figures from your Qualcomm money on CPU/GPU mining. Maybe cash out 10% in 2013 at $360 (7-8 figures worth), but save the rest.

6. Do whatever now, you're a billionaire.

 

[corvetteguy78]

Work out 4-5 days a week no matter what, you have the time
Eat healthier
Video games are not a way of life
Don't waste your money on car audio, rims and performance parts
It's better to not have a car payment
Start your retirement the first real job you get
Avoid penny stocks

 

[SlushboxTeggy]

1. Wake your ass up and go to school. You'll feel less tired once you get moving.

2. 01-08-1999 - 05,21,23,26,37 Mega Ball-03

3. Take that money and buy as much Qualcomm stock as possible. Sell before the end of 1999 (+2,619%).

4. If you're gallavanting around the world with all your money, don't go to New York in Q4 2001, or Japan in Dec 2004.

5. Get in on that Bitcoin thing right when it starts in 2009. Spend 6 figures from your Qualcomm money on CPU/GPU mining. Maybe cash out 10% in 2013 at $360 (7-8 figures worth), but save the rest.

6. Do whatever now, you're a billionaire.

My 13th birthday. Totally forgot about giving myself lotto numbers. Post college of course.

 

[Jeef]

Choose a different first job out of college

Not to have bought a condo with the intention of living their for a few years to make a little money. Ended up being 8 years and me losing 10gs after realtor fees/ taxes/ and got a little less than I paid for it.

Get a project car and fix it up.

 

[TurboMirage]

less ted mosby more barney stinson.

 

[E_SolSi]

 

[jamesA]

1. Don't buy that house at 24.

 

[xj0hnx]

1) Invest, invest, invest.

 

[FLounder]

1. bang more hot young chicks (and take pictures!)
2. save and invest

 

[|Chaz|]

Don't "take a break from school after HS graduation."

Chase skirts more casually.



Be confident in yourself.

Invest in Amazon and sell at a high point.

For the love of Christ don't get into a retail job

 

[reikoshea]

*shrug* I'd say "You're going to go through some painful shit, and on the other side you're still going to be better off financially, personally, and intellectually than most of your peers, keep on keepin on"

 

[phunky.buddha]

1. Buy nVidia stock
2. Buy Apple stock
3. Buy Google stock
4. Buy Microsoft stock
5. Sell Halliburton stock in 2005.

 

[Celerity]

I would pretty much do what I did.

Seriously. The failures are what makes us.

The night I broke up with that chick from the British Virgin Islands I got in a fight on ClubSi and was told that "things are way cooler at Hondaswap.com".

And to date : I have met and hung out with a ton of decent folk. Maybe I woulda found HS at some other point - But god damn, the possibilities are endless anyway.

They key is not to look what I would tell my old self to do - but imagine what my future self would come back to tell me. And we'd prolly compare weiners or something and have a good laugh.

 

[SlushboxTeggy]

I would pretty much do what I did.

Seriously. The failures are what makes us.

I agree. Other than my advice not to date a certain girl, I didn't gain anything from the other things I would change. They were things that either cost me a lot of money or caused later health problems.

 

[jeffie7]

Too many people saying to invest in such and such, that's a cop out to the question.

I wish I spent more time learning languages.
Less money into modding cars.

 

[GSRCRXsi]

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