Posts Tagged ‘Life’




May 5th, 2008

Thoughts and Discussions

Joblessness

I went for a long long long blogsurf and realise I’m really not doing anything with my time and skills. I came across some random blogs of people my age and read about what they do and I wondered if I would ever get to do something I really liked. Sometimes I wonder where people get their money from. hahaha.. you’re 24 and you have a quadcore pc for gaming, 15? powerbook, canon dslr eos-1 mark II, ricoh digital gr, sony dsc T10, x360, wii, ds lite? oh my. Okay okay.. so the canon mk2 is for work but cmon man.. haha..

I think I have to get to work. Not to buy stuff.. but.. hey… actually if don’t buy stuff work for what. haha.. there comes a point where you earn enough to survive right? I’m thinking this earn money to spend it is quite ridiculous. Still, I’d like to get me either a G9 or a ricoh digital gr2. haha.. My olympus don’t want to die yet so nothings going to happen for now.

July 22nd, 2007

Asides

What if I Died?

After I read this, I think I shall sort of gather all important data and stuff for people to use after I’m dead/incapacitated. I wouldn’t want my stuff to go to waste!

June 22nd, 2007

Personal Blog

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.