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The truly financially successful people I know have figured out a way to outsource all of this type of mundane day to day thing, except for maybe something they

The truly financially successful people I know have figured out a way to outsource all of this type of mundane day to day thing, except for maybe something they enjoy as a hobby, like cooking. (I also know a weird guy who just likes ironing shirts.) It goes beyond this. REALLY rich people have executive assistants to do their mundane work related stuff too. But anyway, everyone I know who is rich has someone to clean their house, do their laundry, book them plane tickets, do their taxes, manage their money, field their phone calls, schedule meetings and other appointments, etc. It's not lack of maturity to want to avoid all this crap... it's actually a big time sink and not anything that will get you anywhere in life. It's important to get done but as soon as you can you should pay someone else to do it. However, putting it all off to surf the internet is also the wrong approach. I look forward to the day when I'm rich enough to pay someone else to read hacker news and post comments for me.

pyre 16y ago
The 'maturity' part comes with doing things that need to get done, but aren't necessarily fun. Delegating those things to other people when you can afford it (or at least when your time is better spent elsewhere) is also part of maturity. The 'lack of maturity' part comes from just ignoring those things because they aren't fun.
- rue 16y ago
  > Delegating those things to other people when you can afford it (or at least when your time is better spent elsewhere) is also part of maturity. How is that? There are plenty of completely "immature" people who can afford it. And plenty of "mature" people who cannot.
  - pyre 16y ago
    Maybe I should have specified, but maturity is a sliding scale. It's not pass-fail. Someone can be immature enough not to take care of the 'unfun' things if they have to do them manually, but be 'mature' enough to delegate them when they can afford it. Someone can be so immature that they don't even bother to delegate it even if they can afford to... It's also maturity to be able to recognize that your time might be better spent elsewhere rather than demanding that you be the one to do it yourself.
loewenskind 16y ago
You don't need to be rich to pay someone to do most of that stuff. You probably already pay someone to do your taxes. House cleaning/laundry isn't that expensive. I would hesitate to call someone who can't afford these things middle class.

pyre 16y ago

The 'maturity' part comes with doing things that need to get done, but aren't necessarily fun. Delegating those things to other people when you can afford it (or at least when your time is better spent elsewhere) is also part of maturity. The 'lack of maturity' part comes from just ignoring those things because they aren't fun.

rue 16y ago
> Delegating those things to other people when you can afford it (or at least when your time is better spent elsewhere) is also part of maturity. How is that? There are plenty of completely "immature" people who can afford it. And plenty of "mature" people who cannot.
- pyre 16y ago
  Maybe I should have specified, but maturity is a sliding scale. It's not pass-fail. Someone can be immature enough not to take care of the 'unfun' things if they have to do them manually, but be 'mature' enough to delegate them when they can afford it. Someone can be so immature that they don't even bother to delegate it even if they can afford to... It's also maturity to be able to recognize that your time might be better spent elsewhere rather than demanding that you be the one to do it yourself.

loewenskind 16y ago

You don't need to be rich to pay someone to do most of that stuff. You probably already pay someone to do your taxes. House cleaning/laundry isn't that expensive. I would hesitate to call someone who can't afford these things middle class.