Reply to: What do you aspire to?

[wendigo100]

While I'm alive and able, I take the opportunity to do things. My retirement will coincide neatly with my last breath.

Yeah, that's good.

[hyperD]

While I'm alive and able, I take the opportunity to do things. My retirement will coincide neatly with my last breath.

[Jog On]

Why? It's not worth as anywhere near as much as most seem to think...

If you look into how their books work, that lovely phrase "accountancy practises", you'd be scared off for sure!

Does that make it a 'value' share?

[threaded]

I'd really like to buy Microsoft.

Why? It's not worth as anywhere near as much as most seem to think...

If you look into how their books work, that lovely phrase "accountancy practises", you'd be scared off for sure!

[threaded]

I'm actually at a bit of a loss. Nothing left to desire as I've everything and done everything I ever wanted.

[Jog On]

I'd like to make and sell the next utube

it goes on and on..

The difference is between "I'd like" and "I'm doing"

This world is full of mediocrity and people who are happy to make do and moan about how unhappy they are.

No wonder 10% of the population are truly well off, the other 90 "can't be arsed" - but they're more than happy to moan about it like they got the sh1t end of the stick.....

How often does a conversation about investing/business building with someone turn into - eyes looking up and then - 'yeah it's just too much effort I'll settle for something small'?

You get what you wish for

[2uk]

I'd really like to buy Microsoft.

[Troll]

I'm smack in the middle of bringing up four kids, with all the endless funding that requires, so dreams of a distant future are very vague at the moment. My eldest is 16 and my youngest is 5, so by the time the youngest is 18 we will have had one or more children in the house for 30 years. That's purely down to stupid planning (or no planning at all).

But the day after his 18th birthday I see myself loading a few essentials on my bike and setting off to cycle off around Europe for a few years with a credit card in my pocket. The challenge now is to remain fit and healthy enough to be able to do that when the time comes, and to keep hold of enough cash to fund it. I'll be 55 years old by then, and will have been sitting at a desk all day long for about 25 years, but fingers crossed I'll still have some sort of locomotive capability.

He he... your assumption is that at 18 they go their own way... from what I hear the ony thing that changes are the items you have to buy for them in late teens get more expensive - driving lessons, car, tuition fees house etc.

[To BI or not to BI?]

You should read this book

Probably a cheaper and less painful alternative to the lobotomy.

[Jog On]

Number 4 for me, please, and I won't even need much for luxuries provided that:
a) I have an always on internet connection and the possibility to order my books, music etc. from Amazon and the like
b) I can live in a location remote enough to enjoy the peace and unspoilt environment yet accessible enough to receive the stuff ordered in a) relatively quickly
c) I have easy access to the sea and nice scuba-diving places to explore
d) Mrs BI is (truly) happy to give up the various EastCoronationSide soaps, pseudo-reality or (non)celebrity shows and the occasional trip to the shopping mall for all of the above

Failing that, a blissful state of ignorance and total insensitivity to the world and the various existential problems that affect our lives of (ultimately) lonely beings on this planet would do. (How much does it cost to have a lobotomy nowadays?)

Nice seeing you all again, anyway.

BI on the bench for two days and already thinking too much

You should read this book

[To BI or not to BI?]

What are you aiming for in life?

Big house with expensive new car on the drive?
New life abroad with money in your pocket?
Flash life in the city with string of beauties?
Simple life with no debts and plenty of folding to splosh on luxuries?


What makes the long commute, long hours, boring projects and idiot permies worth putting up with?

Number 4 for me, please, and I won't even need much for luxuries provided that:
a) I have an always on internet connection and the possibility to order my books, music etc. from Amazon and the like
b) I can live in a location remote enough to enjoy the peace and unspoilt environment yet accessible enough to receive the stuff ordered in a) relatively quickly
c) I have easy access to the sea and nice scuba-diving places to explore
d) Mrs BI is (truly) happy to give up the various EastCoronationSide soaps, pseudo-reality or (non)celebrity shows and the occasional trip to the shopping mall for all of the above

Failing that, a blissful state of ignorance and total insensitivity to the world and the various existential problems that affect our lives of (ultimately) lonely beings on this planet would do. (How much does it cost to have a lobotomy nowadays?)

Nice seeing you all again, anyway.

BI on the bench for two days and already thinking too much

[TheRightStuff]

To make a porno and have first refusal rights over the "actresses"....

snap

[ChimpMaster]

To make a porno and have first refusal rights over the "actresses"....

[Jog On]

Short term - Live off passive income and be financially free within the next 2 years.

Long term - Enjoy a life of relaxation and comfort with minimum effort, create some jobs for other people and put some time toward philanthropic activities.

I aspire to people who act on their dreams and achieve them.

[freakydancer]

Become a rock star, tour the world, earn a wage that makes contracting look like a paupers wage, stuff myself full of drugs, shag every fit woman I see and never think about IT again.