I wasn't cut out to work 9-5.  I'm just not wired for it.

I'm artistic, I'm creative, I'm smart, but I'm not business savvy.  I'll never successfully run a business, so that means a grey life working for grey people.  That or suicide seem to be my options unless I win the lottery.

All that said, it just seems that I'm MEANT to become horrendously wealthy with little or no effort, so why's fate taking so long to play out?

Because you're not lucky.

Time management is hard.

Karma.

LOL

If you only knew about my karma.  My karma is fucking sparkling.

And now it's all gone.

ha. I wonder the same thing.  I'd love to run a business but it turns out that a) I need health insurance, and b) I don't like people enough.

I'd be willing to work on b) if I had a solution to a).

The funny thing is, it doesn't show online, but I bet muppet likes people more than I do.

Why do you need health insurance? Do you take meds you need the subscription benefits on or something? Chronic condition?

> but I'm not business savvy.

what does business savvy mean? isn't the only thing that distinguishes a worker bee from a b-man/woman is the constant renegotiating of business contracts (*)?

the worker bee buys into (relative) stability of relationship to work. the business person eats risk for breakfast.

(*) constant is relative. the corner store negotiates a relationship every time a customer walks in. the freelancer, every chunk of work.

"what does business savvy mean?"

If you have to ask...

God hates you.

I have a lottery ticket in my busted car.


*crosses fingers*


Wouldn't that be ironic? :)

Why do self-employed people think they can't get health insurance?

"All that said, it just seems that I'm MEANT to become horrendously wealthy with little or no effort, so why's fate taking so long to play out?"

I hear you man.  I think I have those traits too, but I am not business savvy and not really good with people.  I had a couple of business tech projects with others in college and out of school but I hated working with them so much that I just kind of drifted off.

If I do anything, entrepreneur wise.  It will probably be on my own.  I dont even know if I could work for someones crappy startup.

Also, I hate to be an asshole(I say this a lot now).  I have some aging relatives that have done ok.  I always wonder if I got a little something from them and invested it and could work on my own.

Because individual plans tend to be horrendously expensive.

"  I have some aging relatives that have done ok"

That sounds mean, but if I got offed, I would give everything I had to my family.

I keep explaining to my son, that the phrase on TV give-aways "Many will enter!  Few will win!" means

"You are NOT one of the few."

Because the original point of the addvert is to give the kids a FALSE sense that they ARE one of the few winners.  Why else enter?

>> "what does business savvy mean?"

> If you have to ask...

I guess I was saying a both take on risk. just in different forms. the person who plays the lottery every week should not give up their day job. it would break the equilibrium.

D. None of the above.

It is guts. Sheer balls of steel. When you have the guts to throw away everything you have to get what you don't have, you will find you won't need a lottery ticket. I admit, I'm a comfortable coward. I didn't encash on my ideas. I gave it away to someone in return for a stable employment, because I know I can make a sale. But only once.

+1 Karma.

Sadly, for every 100 with Sheer Balls Of Steel, maybe 10% make it.  The rest cash in their Sheer Balls Of Steel, then wind up in a trailer park somewhere wondering what went wrong.

On the other hand, if you DON'T cash in your Sheer Balls Of Steel, you may just wind up with an 'average' life, making $100,000 or so, maintaining that nice middle-class house, trying to save enough to send your kids to college and retire.

Better than the trailer park, but not as good as "Making It".  Much less risk involved, though.

> "The funny thing is, it doesn't show online, but I bet muppet likes people more than I do"


It does show and is showing right now.

"The rest cash in their Sheer Balls Of Steel, then wind up in a trailer park somewhere wondering what went wrong."

You that "trust your instincts" saying.  I still kind of feel that holds true for a lot of us.  Kind of like, instinctively knowing when to get into the bath when it is just that right temperature.  I think the same can be said for our careers or business ventures.  I believe we are all kind of playing the field a little bit and waiting for something to happen but not just jump in.

What fascinates me are people that work the 9-5 and have all kinds of money saved up.  My parents are like that.  They both worked 35+ years in 9-5 education positions but never spent a dime and now are ok for retirement and can spend money if they need to.  (eg, they are getting a new house in houston now and renting the one in Atlanta).  But to me, working 35 years and then saying "Ok, now I have the right amount to be comfortable" seems like a waste of life (my humble opinion).

The Depression Era people are WAY more careful about risk and loss than the baby-boomers which came after.

"Depression Era" you are going waaaay back arent you.

how can you be smart and not business savvy?

Oops.  2007 - 35 == 1972.  That's hardly depression era.  Sorry, I guess I was talking more about my father -- born 1932 or so.  I lost a grandfather to suicide due to the depression, he couldn't get a job, with two little girls and a wife to support.

> how can you be smart and not business savvy?

like good at programming, but not good at salary negotiation.

or good at math, but interested in academic work not wall street finance math.

or an artist ahead of his time.  surely you can think back to elementary school about some artist or founding father or  social activist who was smart but broke?

> Because individual plans tend to be horrendously expensive.

I called up Cigna one day and asked for coverage.  They insured my wife and I for about $550/mo.  We're mid-20s.

On the downside, we were insured by Cigna. :(

I am betting that the $550 a month is with a $3000 deductible.  Throw a child into that (NO, Not Really) and you would be closer to $900 a month.  Oh, did you want dental care too? Add $50 a month.