Maybe you have left a career you loved for more money or have done the opposite. Maybe you had a different mindset about money 10 years ago than you do now. What has changed?
Maybe you have left a career you loved for more money or have done the opposite. Maybe you had a different mindset about money 10 years ago than you do now. What has changed?
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The complete oposite…It feels like the more I have of it, the less important it is.
Is Mo Money Mo Problems thing really true?
It’s been more important since our son was born. Daycare is also crazy expensive.
“We don’t care about money, Mr. Hughes,” said Mrs. Hepburn.
“That’s because you have it.”
The ones who say they care about money less as they get older are usually actually saying I don’t worry about money because I have so much of it now. If they truly didn’t care about money they wouldn’t have so much of it.
The moment. This moment. Today. All are much more important. Mom died last year, older son went to college. It doesn’t last forever.
more money less problems ime. but i’m not rich enough for that to be the opposite.
More important,
I’ve got kids and a mortgage.
The more I acquired the less important became to me
I can’t care about money. If I do, I stress and am not happy. I’m broke all the time, but at least I’m happyish. I can tell you for sure if I was “grinding” work to build a “career,” I would be miserable and would have no time to do anything I want.
I make the best money I have ever had in my life. I’m not particularly worried about accruing more of it, but it has let me and my wife have some nice things. We don’t have any kids yet, but we have been heavily discussing it. I want to have some but with the government and all the stuff going on, I don’t want to have a baby in the middle of a giant shit storm. It doesn’t seem like it would be fair to him/her. So I worry more about whether we are going to have a baby about 100x more than I worry about the money for said baby.
Less. Roof over my head, food on the table, kids get what they want, the occasional PS5 game, I’m happy.
More, because I need it more than before. Rent, food, gas, etc. all costs money. And I also want to invest responsibly so I’m not stuck teaching 7th graders until I drop dead.
Less, because a lot of what I want can’t be bought with money. Video games, guitars, and iPhones used to make me happy. Now it’s meaningful human connections that do.
Now that I have it? It means nothing really. I’m not materialistic. I don’t go out partying. I still buy myself things, but now I’m saving for my niece and nephew. I gave one a pretty good wedding gift. I’m buying another a laptop.
When I had negative money in my bank account, and I was eating flour noodles with soy sauce money was everything. Trying to put a few bucks together for a drink at the bar, or a few dollars for gas was tough. Stressing about covering vehicle registration. Don’t get me started on medical care. I think I went 10 years without going to a doctor/dentist.
When you don’t have money life fucking sucks. Been there. I’m not even RICH now, I just have a job that covers my rent and Healthcare. I turned my bills on auto pay. I just paid off all my remaining debt last month except for my lasik bill (like 2k left). I don’t think about money at all these days. I’m a much slower man compared to a decade ago though.
More important. You trade time and get more experience, at some point it is much easier to maintain staying employee but then you get older, less healthy and they decide you are paid more than a new hire could be paid.
It is more important to be able to weather any financial storm I might encounter.
Definitely less but you need to reach the bare minimum to get by for the basics. I used to have a job that paid a lot more but I hated it and the money didn’t compensate enough for it. I’ve got used to living a pretty modest life. I’m contracting and only working 2-3 days a week. It’s easy to spend more and more when you gradually get pay increases.
As others have said having children can push the need to wanting more. I’m about to become a dad so I’ll see how that changes my perception
Depends on the person…for me, more important (reason why i’m back in school working on a bachelors).
For other folks, it may not be that important.
Less, the order I get, it’s less about money and more about comfort.
More important because you need a lot more and it’s harder to come buy as you get older. I look at 70 year olds working in Wal-Mart and I think how as you get older there’s less opportunities and you start slowing down physically.
I think the more you have the less you worry. It’s not less important, just not the highest priority, in my experience.
Hasn’t changed importance, we just have a lot more of it. Close enough to fuck you money that it very freeing honestly. So yeah that’s important but it was important in our younger years to get here.
I care and don’t care.
I’m 55 and have saved enough that we’re secure. House paid for, own some other property that is also paid for. No Car payments.
I make a great living. I can go out and buy what I want… But I don’t – which is why shit is paid for and why we have a nice retirement savings.
That said – I still need more money to retire fully secure and more comfy. For that to happen I need to work at this income level at least 4-5 more years. Then, I can take a pay cut and soft retire.
Last year I turned down a job offering a 50% raise because I love my company and current lifestyle more than I would at the other job. Don’t regret the decision one bit, my mental health is worth more than a slightly bigger house. But I will also say that both jobs provide enough for my financial goals so that made the decision easier.
I am concerned about my 2 children inheriting some money, not having it for myself. I just need enough to cope with unexpected expenditure
Ten years ago, my mindset was to make as much money as possible and advance in my career at all costs to enable it. Now, it’s about making the right amount of money to afford the things most important in my life. How to impactfully use that money is now also important.
More in that I have less time to acquire it for my retirement, less after surviving cancer and getting a very real reminder we don’t know how long we have left