Going out of state for school and pursuing a dream( football ) racked up $100k in student loan debt with and graduation back in Dec. 2005

Took the first programming job he could find by mid Jan. 06 - 11$ an hour
- 9 months Kept it moving
- 1 year Kept it moving
- 1 year begins contracting, Keeping it moving
- Summer 2008 finds Big Corp Home, continues moonlighting, moving.

He rationalizes out of high school, if I can't afford a 100,000k investment now(2000-2001), he also can't afford those 100k+ homes, or nice cars to ride around in one day. ( Making the big show would have made it all a wash )

Life remains a plan from start to finish. If you choose that investment you must adhere to the pressures of the investment. Stay mobile, know you can't plant roots until you've paid your dues and debt, and know your choices for leveraging debt will change the whole frame of your family, life, and career aspirations from the years 20-40. Pressure busts pipes, so debt like that hanging over his head kept the pressure up to NOT EVER SETTLE. The jock in me had a use afterall. Pain and pressure works, use it.

A pirate's life for us who chose to become wage slaves for compound interest.
28 years old here...sorry my peers, but we're not entitled to shit and no one will give a damn about the decisions we make.
Sid Meier's Pirates! helped this mindset a lot as a youngster too :)

It's not about needing a social network or not. It's understanding that what it means to be human and what it means to have friends is changing. 27 here now. I started making my first internet friends at 16. I've had real emotional and tangible life stories with friends I've met online and in fleeting passing who were downloading a song from me on napster, and I simply pulled up the chat with their user name ( yes napster had chat ), and asked them if they really enjoyed the music of the artist they're downloading from my music store. Real connections, real emotions, real bonds can be formed between online acquaintances, because at each end is a human being. Life is simply more dynamic, faster, and people have the accessibility and tools to bond with more people, even if they will never meet them in real life. Welcome to a new world, where cybernetic implants, grown organs from your own DNA, and wonderful discoveries from extending our abilities is possible as it always has been.