Money and The Abundant Life, can they co-exist?
This is turning out to be a long night after the previous 2 posts. Was just reading a blog I used to go to when I was still exploring the monetization of my online activities. He’s 35 in november and has hit his target of being his own boss by 35 when he started his own company in march this year. Its an SEO company with some web development stuff mixed in. He’s really good at what he does and has worked in amazon and microsoft in departments very similar to what he does in his own time. Considering he earns about just less than 1000USD a day from all his online activities combined, is that mad money or what? I mean.. Thats like about 30k USD, roughly 46000 SGD at the conservative exchange rate of 1.56 a month. Is that what life is all about? What would you do with 46k a month?
I admire him in a way for being so focused and hitting all his targets. Yet, I wonder if my life would ever mean anything to live like this. To devote every resource to create more resources to throw back into making more resources to spend on yourself. I’m really freaking out when I think about my future.. or “mirai” as it is in japanese. The honest fact is that I do want to earn. At the same time, I don’t want it to consume me. Money is like this monster you feed and grow and keep close to you and try to balance the feeding and growing with the risk of it growing so big it totally eats you up.
Where do I go and what do I do? When will I know and who’s going to be there with me? I see no job in my future, my skill sets are too shallow and diverse.
Anyway, I cleared out my table somewhat. In preparation to study study study. I’m going to sit down and set some goals for my life. Maybe in the next hour or the next day. Short and long term.
January 1st, 2008 at 8:07 pm
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