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So a guy working as a highly paid consultant that does not have time to spend any of his money runs out of it in less than a year... And his top "warning" for t
by scient 11y ago
So a guy working as a highly paid consultant that does not have time to spend any of his money runs out of it in less than a year... And his top "warning" for the whole thing is social pressure. Is this a joke?
- elcapitan 11y agoI would imagine that once you're into a certain lifestyle (i.e. not leading a student life anymore) you have very high monthly expenses and lifestyle choices that are not that easy to get rid off.
- sigzero 11y agoYeah but if you go the startup route and you don't take that into consideration, you are probably going to fail. You have to sacrifice.
- deong 11y agoYou'd think, "if your salary goes from $250k to $20k, start living like you make $20k" wouldn't really need to be communicated out like some sort of secret.
- huac 11y agoI promise you, they don't teach you that in business school "There's 2 things they don't teach you at Harvard. How to handle failure, and how to handle a shotgun. I'm about to do both" - the dude from the Simpsons movie
- sumoboy 11y agoConsultants are rarely entrepreneurs, he would have been smarter hiring 1-3 people to build his startup idea, then quit his job. People with startups have this fascination they can do it all themselves, it rarely works.