22, just graduated college with an engineering degree, I have about 20k savings some locked in crypto during this bear market (down 20% holding). 80k salary job lined up starting in a month. Hot smart girlfriend for the past 5 years, trying to turn it into a "power" couple (she is becoming a doctor).
Everyone keeps telling me to go travel, spend my money, have fun this summer. All I want to do is make more money from crypto and figure out how to go to law school. Save up for a property and start renting it out to pay off the mortgage.
What's with this traveling thing? I see it as a thing that Europe loves to sell the idea to rich american kids. Do these people really think they're going to become enlightened by running around taking instagram photos of the leaning tower of piza?
Wtf is going on Biz? Looking for comments and advice but I probably won't change my mind on what I wanna do
>80k salary job lined up What state and doing what? I can't find shit around here.
Nathan Garcia
cringe.
Connor Robinson
Once she’s a doctor she will leave you as you are now socially under her. Cap this and come back when it happens. Have a nice day. (Op is a faggot)
Carson Myers
southern california area, project engineer for a top 20 global construction management company
Anthony Turner
go and travel why you're young or you'll end up looking like a massive faggot when you have your mid life crisis and try going to clubs in Malta etc
Noah Jenkins
What if I have a higher income and status and investments than her by the time she is a doctor? I could be a lawyer don't forget that. And she will have a lot of debt too. She won't be doctor for 6 years and I will be 27 by then with passive assets.
I mean I want to do some traveling to a few interesting places. But it can happen at any time in my 20s and I think I would have a better time with younger girls and a better financial situation.
Hudson Smith
Cringe. Fucking faggot humble bragger. Enjoy being a stemcuck that sits under fluorescent lighting all day LMAO AND YOUR GF WILL MAKE MORE MINEY THAN YOU LNAO
It's degeneracy. They think traveling will turn you into some kind of open borders faggot because you ate at a cafe where you were served by the most charming brown people while drunk.
You are thinking with logic. If you haven’t realized by now that women don’t use logic when making decisions to ruin a good thing it’s too late. Also doctor is over any other profession. She’s going to be working long nights surrounded by other doctors who are most likely psychopaths with god complexes and unlimited access to viagra scripts.. Rip OP. Press F.
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Benjamin Ward
Most Civil engineers I have met are dumbasses and you sound like one too
Jackson Gonzalez
$80k isn't even enough to cover rent in southern california.
Gavin Cox
Gonna live with parents for a few years with no rent or food expenses hehe
Landon White
Lmao he’s a bottom tier engineer, basically a glorified technician.
If you’re not mech e (including its branches like aerospace), chem e, or electrical e, you’re NOT a real engineer.
Jackson Moore
Honestly, you could die next year. I've known people like that. Normies think more like this. Having some fun while you can and are young isn't so bad lads
Oliver Walker
Nothing will work out like you plan. Sooner or later you will get rekt. Have fun with your fairy tale larp. OP is still a fag
Robert Morales
I am not in civil engineering though, I have that degree, but I work as a construction project manager... Fuck working as a civil engineer
Jace Sullivan
Idgaf. Let's talk about the difference between what I am doing and what other "God Tier" engineers are doing. It took me 2 seconds to find a job in which I make more than anybody in any of those other STEM degrees. I also get to walk around a construction site and breathe fresh air instead of sitting in a dark and cold cubicle cage. Low supply for my job, high demand, high salary, and high upside. Plus I can go become a construction attorney (also a small niche), make $600/hour. Real engineering is overrated.
Okay I feel bad for bantzing you now the power couple thing just made you sound like a massive faggot
Hudson Butler
red pill me on power couples then? What's wrong with combining a fat income with a woman you genuinely care for?
Ethan Johnson
I would love to see any of the fags in here refuse to be with a woman who can add 200k to your household income...
Samuel Price
Once you are financially or socially below a woman you’re going to get a divorce
Michael Price
Not if the woman isn't a complete cunt. There are good women out there who do not care that much for financial or social status compared to their spouse.
Ayden Mitchell
>>trying to turn it into a "power" couple
i think you better stick to your job and forget the travel thing. you seem a bit serious type of a guy
How old is your GF? Unless she is already accepted by medical school she probably isn't going to be a "doctor" and if she is she will have massive debt and make no money for about 10 years then she will have to be a stay at home mom because its impossible to be a mom and a doctor on call. So I would give up on the "power couple".
>law school
Lmao. just don't. Start your job, get experience. With 4 years under your belt you will be making well above any lawyer salary unless you are top 1%.
People say travel after college because its probably the last time you can take a lot of time off without significantly interrupting your career. If you never make it in crypto, and maybe your wife chains you down with a house and kids, you'll get stuck waging for life and probably never be able to do it again until you're like 60 yo if you even live that long. There is about a 1/3 change you will randomly die before then.
So after college is last change to travel for most wagie normie fags who have accepted the life mediocrity. If you are intent on making it or dying trying then don't give a fuck about it. But most normie fags are content with spending 40 years straight waging and that's why they travel after college.
Charles Turner
Threads like this are so fucking stupid and contribute nothing to the board, they should be reportable.
>guys, here's a blogpost about my life >you're welcome to comment but I'm not going to listen to you >anyways thanks for reading my blog
Yeah fuck off.
Jace Jenkins
>trying to turn it into a "power" couple
Well, you sound like the type of guy that is concerned with what other people think and really wants to impress other people so if you want to impress normies and really make them jelly you need to do some traveling. That's like the normie dream package. Have money, career and travel and shit.
Adrian Carter
It's usually a fun experience that enriches your perspective. It is easier to do in your early/mid 20s because you (probably) don't have kids or onerous financial or professional responsibilities, and you are in peak physical and sexual condition. Any questions?
Benjamin Foster
>SoCal So...you're poor? If you would have said Tulsa, Omaha, St Louis, Cleveland, etc I'd say breddy gud
Sebastian Davis
I am willing to listen to other opinions, I simply said I am mostly set on what I wanna do and pretty stubborn in general. I think this thread is an interesting topic that a lot of people in Biz care about, I see the question about traveling or not all the time.
Jeremiah Wilson
In some ways you sound like a clueless normie but at least it sounds like you didn't fall for the travel meme so you've got that going for you
Asher Phillips
She is 22. 1 Year from finishing bachelors in biology.
And yeah, but I figured the chances are high since she goes to a top school (UCI) for undergrad and has close to a 4.0. I am not set on having kids until I am like 30-35 to allow time for me to "make it" first.
And about law school, all the senior executives in my field said they would go back and do it. The height of my career in my profession is 200k. Decent lawyers in my industry like I said make 600/hour. Even the worse ones make 300/hour.
I think in general I am more intent on making it than anything else, which is why im reluctant to take out 10k to go travel right now lol
Nathan Brown
Op you just came to the virgin lair with everything they wanted asking for advice.
You ain't getting nothing but hate
Daniel Robinson
Yeah that is my perspective on the majority of these responses thus far.
Hudson Flores
They bill $600/hour. Doesn't mean they make $600 x 8 x 5 a week.
Nathan Bell
The purpose of spending a lot of time travelling is trying to discover which place of the world you want to live in. If all that you want is "tourism", dont fucking bother.
Jason Anderson
"What's with this traveling thing?" The theory of saving for the future works only if you consider you can't die at any point during this period.
The truth is you forgot you can die at any moment and wasting your life saving for later is as dumb as wasting your money.
Life is balance save + travel BOOOOM
Aaron Smith
Yeah I get that, but that is actually an advantage, the flexibility of being able to work those few hours a week. More efficient imo. THen you could go manage your properties and collect rent from the blacks and mexicans hehe
John Allen
Who's hating him?
OP, you need to stick around on Jow Forums and become a crypto autist. Just be sure to have plenty of white children with your wife and raise them to be righteous and strong members of their family and race.
Parker Sanchez
I like this perspective. I have already traveled to toronto, vancouver, amsterdam, and over 6 cities in Iran. Ive been to a few states in the US also. Nothing is better than Southern California. I am talking about the suburbs, like orange county. Not fucking LA or San Fran or downtown SD where the nigs are lol
Gabriel Hernandez
>People say travel after college because its probably the last time you can take a lot of time off without significantly interrupting your career
right here champ right now you're at your prime, time passes and doesn't come back. One thing is to backpack around europe being a good looking young man, fucking girls here and there, doing drugs sometimes, meeting new people and discovering the world. Another one is being a mid 40's boomer taking a week only trip because mr shekelstein wants his ass back to work by monday
>The truth is you forgot you can die at any moment Why is it then that as life becomes increasingly secure, that people live riskier lifestyles? It's true you could die at any moment but unlikely. The average person lives twice as long as they did 150 years ago. It would make more sense to plan for the future under these odds.
Adam Russell
You're ignoring expenses. $600/hr is what the client pays for a billable hour of work. That is not what the lawyer is getting paid personally. A top 1% lawyer or equity partner might make a shit ton of money. But 99% lawyers will make less than the top 25% of engineers. I guess if you have connections in law firms or corporations go for law school, other wise its a waste of time you can make more money with your engineering degree.
Hunter Powell
Can someone sauce me on this ass though
Cameron King
Hahaha the 10 people that cringed are hating a bit. But idgaf.
And yeah I am 100% iranian and my girl is 50% iranian 50% spanish/italian so our children will be basically white. (Indo-european).
Luis Morales
>20k savings >some locked in crypto
Top kek - you’re delusional to think crypto is “savings”
Again, I am no saying that you should never take some time off and go hunt favelitos with a shotgun in Latin America, I am just saying that after a few weeks you will no longer get much of a thrill. Or you could become a nomad, which is pretty awesome, but not for everyone.
