Best things to spend money on
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Sander Rossel wrote:
be that an amusement park, museum, sight-seeing, you name it
Um, HoloLens?
Your time will come, if you let it be right.
I'll save my money for a holodeck :D
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That the only form of investing is buy-out...
Skipper: We'll fix it. Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this? Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
+5:thumbsup: I have a little girl as well... and a shotgun and a swamp conveniently located 100 yards from my back door. Any investors best not be thinking of a "hostile take over" :mad:
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Travelling. Go meet other places, other cultures, other experiences. You have only one life to live, so make the most out of it, either alone or with someone else. I just wish I had more time and money to do it more often. My fingernails even grow when I do it :-D PS: Let's not go religious about the "one life to live" part.
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Now we have an almost complete map of how to waste money (marriage, car, food...), let see what worth to buy...
Skipper: We'll fix it. Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this? Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
Good Books are my answer.
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:thumbsup: Well said, Fabio. Also “I spent 90% of my money on women and drink. The rest I wasted” (or some variation which suits you).
agolddog wrote:
“I spent 90% of my money on women and drink. The rest I wasted”
Yes!
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Now we have an almost complete map of how to waste money (marriage, car, food...), let see what worth to buy...
Skipper: We'll fix it. Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this? Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
Things that last and always give you joy. A nice pair of leather shoes, a fine watch, a good dog, professional cutlery, etc. If it lasts a decade or more, it's worth buying the best that you can afford.
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Ia that a new web framework ?
I'd rather be phishing!
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I am a teacher and trainer. I disagree, education with online resources (udacity, coursera, udemy, kanacademy) are mostly free and teach you faster than anything you can spend money on.
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Now we have an almost complete map of how to waste money (marriage, car, food...), let see what worth to buy...
Skipper: We'll fix it. Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this? Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
Burn everything you have and build a new life in a new place with your money. The reason can be found in a story of The Psychology of optimal experience by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi.
"The Shuswap region was and is considered by the Indian people to be a rich place: rich in salmon and game, rich in below-ground food resources such as tubers and roots—a plentiful land.
In this region, the people would live in permanent village sites and exploit the environs for needed resources.
They had elaborate technologies for very effectively using the resources of the environment, and perceived their lives as being good and rich.Yet, the elders said, at times the world became too predictable and the challenge began to go out of life.
Without challenge, life had no meaning.So the elders, in their wisdom, would decide that the entire village should move, those moves occurring every 25 to 30 years.
The entire population would move to a different part of the Shuswap land and there, they found challenge.There were new streams to figure out, new game trails to learn, new areas where the balsamroot would be plentiful.
Now life would regain its meaning and be worth living. Everyone would feel rejuvenated and healthy. Incidentally, it also allowed exploited resources in one area to recover after years of harvesting."If you wonder about what to do of your money, I guess you are starting to feel like those indians. :)
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I am a teacher and trainer. I disagree, education with online resources (udacity, coursera, udemy, kanacademy) are mostly free and teach you faster than anything you can spend money on.
Nicolas Dorier wrote:
I disagree, education with online resources (udacity, coursera, udemy, kanacademy) are mostly free and teach you faster than anything you can spend money on.
I agree with you, however, there are many careers that require an actual degree -- doctor, psychiatrist, lawyer, veterinarian, etc etc etc -- and a lot of the education in those fields requires hands-on work, not something you can get out of an online course. And (as my gf is observing, as she is getting her MA in psychology) education is not cheap. So I stand by my point that the best thing you can spend money on is education. Also, you're point is incorrect, as, for example, udacity charges a nice little sum for its courses, so I'm not actually sure what point you're trying to make! Marc Marc
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Nicolas Dorier wrote:
I disagree, education with online resources (udacity, coursera, udemy, kanacademy) are mostly free and teach you faster than anything you can spend money on.
I agree with you, however, there are many careers that require an actual degree -- doctor, psychiatrist, lawyer, veterinarian, etc etc etc -- and a lot of the education in those fields requires hands-on work, not something you can get out of an online course. And (as my gf is observing, as she is getting her MA in psychology) education is not cheap. So I stand by my point that the best thing you can spend money on is education. Also, you're point is incorrect, as, for example, udacity charges a nice little sum for its courses, so I'm not actually sure what point you're trying to make! Marc Marc
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Udacity had free courses, I think there are still some. But it is nowhere near what education cost in the US. The only jobs that require "school participation" are the one the necessitate a government licence. So a big part of the price is the licence. The only exception I am making are the job that require laboratory and rare furnitures a single individual can't buy. For all intellectual jobs that don't require dirty hands, if you want real education and not just the license, then I stay on my position : schooling is not the best solution. You'll be smarter and richer by reading everything you can about the subject at home, and reaching the community around the domain.
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Udacity had free courses, I think there are still some. But it is nowhere near what education cost in the US. The only jobs that require "school participation" are the one the necessitate a government licence. So a big part of the price is the licence. The only exception I am making are the job that require laboratory and rare furnitures a single individual can't buy. For all intellectual jobs that don't require dirty hands, if you want real education and not just the license, then I stay on my position : schooling is not the best solution. You'll be smarter and richer by reading everything you can about the subject at home, and reaching the community around the domain.
Nicolas Dorier wrote:
For all intellectual jobs that don't require dirty hands, if you want real education and not just the license, then I stay on my position : schooling is not the best solution.
I definitely concur! I wish I'd known that I could drop out of high school and take the GDE (or whatever it's called) - I would have spent the time learning real things not wasting it. I've heard it's much harder now to get your GDE, they (the gov't) really wants to make sure it fully infects your brain. Marc
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Nicolas Dorier wrote:
I disagree, education with online resources (udacity, coursera, udemy, kanacademy) are mostly free and teach you faster than anything you can spend money on.
I agree with you, however, there are many careers that require an actual degree -- doctor, psychiatrist, lawyer, veterinarian, etc etc etc -- and a lot of the education in those fields requires hands-on work, not something you can get out of an online course. And (as my gf is observing, as she is getting her MA in psychology) education is not cheap. So I stand by my point that the best thing you can spend money on is education. Also, you're point is incorrect, as, for example, udacity charges a nice little sum for its courses, so I'm not actually sure what point you're trying to make! Marc Marc
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doctor, lawyer, psychiatrist, vet? You mean lawyers and psychiatrists actually have know shit? :laugh:
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Nicolas Dorier wrote:
I disagree, education with online resources (udacity, coursera, udemy, kanacademy) are mostly free and teach you faster than anything you can spend money on.
I agree with you, however, there are many careers that require an actual degree -- doctor, psychiatrist, lawyer, veterinarian, etc etc etc -- and a lot of the education in those fields requires hands-on work, not something you can get out of an online course. And (as my gf is observing, as she is getting her MA in psychology) education is not cheap. So I stand by my point that the best thing you can spend money on is education. Also, you're point is incorrect, as, for example, udacity charges a nice little sum for its courses, so I'm not actually sure what point you're trying to make! Marc Marc
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Hi Marc! Good to see you here.
