Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about money.
Okay.
First Step: Get money, exchange for goods and services. Simple enough, right?
First sub-step: Everyone knows if you don’t go to college right now, right out of high school, you’ll never make enough money to survive. Graduate. Get money, exchange for goods and services. Simple enough, right?
First sub-sub-step: Remember those spoiled kids? Well, they get into the college, too. Their parents have enough money to survive, but their kids may not. These are the kids who blow past you, waiting for the bus, driving an Audi or BMW while you’re picking out the pocket change the buy lunch with. But you’ll be okay. Because you’re in college to become prepared to make money and survive. After you graduate, you’ll get money which you’ll exchange for goods and services. Simple enough, right?
Second First sub-step: College has now put you into debt. You are starting off life in the hole. Now, you need to also buy a reliable car to get to work and start paying on a nice little place of your own. Because everyone knows that you went to college so that you’d make enough money to survive. So now that you have money, exchange for goods and services. Simple enough, right?
Second step: As you gain more experience, skills, and merit, you will see rewards such as increases in money, which you can exchange for goods and services.
Second sub-step: Everyone knows your first job is going to suck. What they don’t warn you about, is the economy going in the tank, and you successfully getting/quitting/changing/being laid off from 6 different jobs your first year out, because everyone sees you as expendable, no matter how hard you work. No one wants to offer you anything that you’ll be able to get by and support yourself.
To be continued…
