I mean men who came from poverty and nothing and now are well settled/living luxury life how did you do it!!?! And how many years did it take you?!
Men who came from literally nothing and build a fortune…how did you do that?
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I mean men who came from poverty and nothing and now are well settled/living luxury life how did you do it!!?! And how many years did it take you?!
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I’m closer to the middle of the bell curve than those extremes, but it’s something most people sort of just fall ass-backwards into. Being in the right place at the right time for a good career, living frugally and helping at home for a few years, getting a push from peers to invest in property or something like that. Of course to keep your good career you need to show good skills for it, but that isn’t always something you actively work on. You can just have a knack for it. But either way, a lpot of stars sort of have to align.
My wife and I both grew up extremely poor. Her in washington and me in Iowa. We aren’t extremely wealthy but we have far surpassed both our parents and it just came down to not blowing money on stupid shit and investing. It will make you shudder how bad some poor people are with money. My parents could have easily been middle class if they just saved instead of blowing money on dumbass stuff.
During my early teen years through till about 16 me and my mother had spats of homelessness. I would skip school to work as a dish boy at a restaurant in order to be able to actually eat. So I definitely started with nothing, no education no money, no connections.
When I “graduated” year 11, I left school and went full time at the restaurant as a server, legally, with a contract this time. Used the money from that get get stable housing.
I began picking up random pieces of furniture off the street to try and fix up to use for our home. I got pretty good at it and started even making them look nice. So I decided I’d try and sell some. Two months of having them up on trade me later I made my first sale. I used the money from that to buy better tools and materials to make higher quality repairs. The sales picked up slowly until I was able to quit my job at the restaurant and work on refurbishing and selling off the furniture full time.
Years later I now build the furniture instead of repairing old stuff. I do both my own creations and commissioned work for some pretty high profile places and people. I won’t say who, because there’s a none zero chance that they could find out and I’d rather not have that happen.
I would say I’m on the cusp of upper-middle/upperclass right now. I’m still working solo in all of this but considering hiring people to scale my business.
Edit: I would say I was stable at about 21/22. So it was a solid 5-6 years before I was in a safe financial position.