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<blockquote data-quote="Designate" data-source="post: 811011" data-attributes="member: 8740">Or even worse: &quot;Did what everyone else wanted and expected of him.&quot;Unfortunately many men live under this category, especially in America. I have many old acquaintances just like this. Enslaved to their family, friends, spouse, girlfriend. A slave for those around him fighting against his own free will. These types are the perfect corporate paper pushers and are the co-workers you will have if you end up deciding to go the corporate slave route. Remember you are the sum of those you surround yourself with. I thought these losers would never effect me, but their grey, depressing masses inevitably do.As for this debate.If there is one piece of advice I always receive from all the older guys I meet (I'm in my 20s), is that I should cherish and not waste a moment of my youth. I took this as simple boilerplate life advice until recently when I experienced true freedom for the first time in my life.I wasted a few years of my life in corporate management consulting slavery and I saw what happened to the guys that served longer sentences. They looked like shit and had horribly uninspiring and mediocre lives despite having a large number in a bank account under their name, a &quot;title&quot; and &quot;job security&quot; (whatever the fuck that actually means in 2016).Long have I decided I would rather hustle to make $40k a year with basically unlimited freedom than make $80k trading in my time, freedom and sanity working back at my old corporate slave yard. Obviously I'm working to do way better than that money wise, but for now there is no realistic amount of money that makes the alternative life appealing to me.There is no universally right answer, but for guys who are on this forum I think there probably is one and it's not the route of mediocrity.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Designate, post: 811011, member: 8740"] Or even worse: "Did what everyone else wanted and expected of him." Unfortunately many men live under this category, especially in America. I have many old acquaintances just like this. Enslaved to their family, friends, spouse, girlfriend. A slave for those around him fighting against his own free will. These types are the perfect corporate paper pushers and are the co-workers you will have if you end up deciding to go the corporate slave route. Remember you are the sum of those you surround yourself with. I thought these losers would never effect me, but their grey, depressing masses inevitably do. As for this debate. If there is one piece of advice I always receive from all the older guys I meet (I'm in my 20s), is that I should cherish and not waste a moment of my youth. I took this as simple boilerplate life advice until recently when I experienced true freedom for the first time in my life. I wasted a few years of my life in corporate management consulting slavery and I saw what happened to the guys that served longer sentences. They looked like shit and had horribly uninspiring and mediocre lives despite having a large number in a bank account under their name, a "title" and "job security" (whatever the fuck that actually means in 2016). Long have I decided I would rather hustle to make $40k a year with basically unlimited freedom than make $80k trading in my time, freedom and sanity working back at my old corporate slave yard. Obviously I'm working to do way better than that money wise, but for now there is no realistic amount of money that makes the alternative life appealing to me. There is no universally right answer, but for guys who are on this forum I think there probably is one and it's not the route of mediocrity. [/QUOTE]

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