what are some ways to get wealthy without having family money?

Before you call me a troll, I am being 100% serious. This is going to sound fake and made up, but it actually worked for me:

Get a job.

plog wrote:

Before you call me a troll, I am being 100% serious. This is going to sound fake and made up, but it actually worked for me:

Get a job.

Not sure what you're saying. I have a job. You think working a "job" is going t make you wealthy? You seem very dumb.

A combination of hard work and luck.

The more you have of one, the less you need of the other, but there is only one you can control.

Would a job paying 10X as much help? If so, get one.

jamoptimist wrote:

Would a job paying 10X as much help? If so, get one.

700K jobs aren't exactly plentiful (maybe a few dozen openings in the country for this level at any given time) and are incredibly competitive, incredibly random in terms of who gets them and tend to burn people out very fast.

If I killed myself for a year with learning new skills, networking, etc I'd still probably only be able to crack 150k.

1) make troll posts about your income on letsrun

2) ...

3) Profit!

Find a family that does have money. Marry into it. Go gay if you have to.

asdfg34 wrote:

asking because it seems basically impossible these days.

Live below your means. Invest.

start saving into the stock market from a young age. $100 per week for 50 years at 10% gets you over $7 million.

asdfg34 wrote:

asking because it seems basically impossible these days.

No it's not you dumb ass.

IT's called SPENDING LESS THAN YOU EARN.

Here's my list of simple tips from an old rich guy who earned every penny I have:

1. Stop going out for dinner

2. Take your lunch to work/school

3. Stop going on vacation unless you can afford to go

4. Buy a cheaper house

5. Get rid of your line of credit

6. Buy a cheaper car

7. Don't drink booze

8. Put 10% of every penny you earn in a savings account and never touch it.

9. Pay cash for everything (ie. leave your credit cards at home

10. Pay off all debt including your mortgage

Runners Coach wrote:

asdfg34 wrote:

asking because it seems basically impossible these days.

No it's not you dumb ass.

IT's called SPENDING LESS THAN YOU EARN.

Here's my list of simple tips from an old rich guy who earned every penny I have:

1. Stop going out for dinner

2. Take your lunch to work/school

3. Stop going on vacation unless you can afford to go

4. Buy a cheaper house

5. Get rid of your line of credit

6. Buy a cheaper car

7. Don't drink booze

8. Put 10% of every penny you earn in a savings account and never touch it.

9. Pay cash for everything (ie. leave your credit cards at home

10. Pay off all debt including your mortgage

What's your IQ? It seems very low based on your syntax and the content of this post (probably around 95).

I could pick apart everything single dumba$s "tip" on your list but I won't waste my time.

WTH? You asked for some ways, and he posted some very legit ways (but he loses point for calling you a dumba$$). Aside from the insult this is decent advice. You asked for advice, and you got some. Ignore the insult and work the knowledge into your life. Or don't, because you'd rather not "waste your time." Your choice.

asdfg34 wrote:

What's your IQ? It seems very low based on your syntax and the content of this post (probably around 95).

I could pick apart everything single dumba$s "tip" on your list but I won't waste my time.

Stop making excuses and pull yourself up by your boots straps

No, he gave advice for being comfortably middle while living like a college student for your entire life. NOT what I asked for.

asdfg34 wrote:

No, he gave advice for being comfortably middle while living like a college student for your entire life. NOT what I asked for.

That's funny. I followed some (not all) of those tips and I am definitely living much better than a college student. My method? Real estate investment. I bought cosmetic fixers, did about 80% of the work myself, then flipped the property. I did this over and over. Put two kids through college that way and now have 6 investment properties that I use for rentals. All have a positive cash flow and all are appreciating, and I will retire in 5 years at the age of 55 with total assets of about 4 mil, liabilities of less than 800k, and total investment cash flow of about 10k monthly, and I'm not touching any principal. In the meantime I'm going to look for more properties to increase that. You may scoff and call me "comfortably middle." Let's see what you come up with.

And when real estate crashes again and you're totally overleveraged you're going to be on the street.

Yeah, but if you can't enjoy your wealth, what's the point?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Millionaire_Next_Door

No one wants to squirrel away money and sit on it. What's the point of that? OP wants to be wealthy and free to buy a nice car or go on vacation.

1. Write a MASSIVE novel, then break it into a trilogy. The main character should be similar to Robb Stark: rather flat, so readers can project themselves onto him. Male, so you have women readers who love him and men readers who imagine themselves in each situation. Keep him alive tho.

2. Invest heavy in tech start-ups i.e. give a group of nerds in Silicon Valley 10,000$ loan (so they have to pay you back if they fail) on 0% interest (so they CAN pay you back if they fail) but 5% of future profits.

3. Be a stripper every weekend for 3 years and save all of it. That could be 100k cash.

4. SUMMER. LAWNMOWING. FOR OLD PEOPLE. Make BUCKS in untaxed income. Toss all of it in the stock market. (Put it in savings account, move it from there).

5. Flip houses.

6. Drug dealing, moving up the supply chain.

7. Con an old lady out of her retirement money.

Read the millionaire next door. They answer that question for you. They wrote a whole book about it.

You would be surprised to know how many righ people there are.