I was just thinking about this after discussing some people I know.... what is it that drives some people to do so much better than others? Are they just smarter? Have better communications skills? Are less lazy? All of the above? Let's take the following examples.
Exihbit A: Guy that works with my fiancee.
This guy is 21 years old. He lives with his parents. I'd like to say that his parents are a very typical middle class suburban family, so he's not "underpriveledged" or anything. Anyway, he lives with his parents. He drives a beat up 10 year old Honda Accord that you can't open the passenger's side door on. This car was given to him by his parents when they got a new one. He works at a drugstore. He's worked at the same drug store for 4 years. He got a summer job in high school, and he just kept it. After 4 years on the same job, he makes $9.00/hour. His hobby is the same as ours, his computer. However, he's not even very good at that, he calls himself a 'hardware guy' because he can assemble a PC, which most of us know could be taught to a monkey in a half day seminar. That's about the limit of his computer skills. His goal in life is to get a 'degree' from one of the tech school places like ITT tech. However, he's not progressing towards that at all. He hasn't saved any money towards tuition, hasn't applied, and definitely isn't attending classes. Actually, even with his parents paying for his food and rent, he's manged to accumulate a couple grand in debt.
he dates a girl that's equally as bad. She's 19, works at the same place, but for less pay. She also lives with her parents and drives thier car. She didn't even graduate high school, and has no other plans than to work at a cash register for a maximum salary of $12/hour after 10 years on the job. She's also completely insecure about herself, extremely gullible, and jsut generally not intelligent.
Exhibit B: A friend of mine who also works on Mustangs.
Also 21 years old. Also didn't go to college. He came from a single parent home that was constantly being moved a cross the country. Eventually he got sick of it and stayed in California, his family is in Colorado now. Last summer, he got married. He's rented a place with his wife for the past 6 months or so, and now they're looking to buy a place. He's ready to go as soon as he picks a place out for about $175k, and should be in his own place within the next month or two. He works in desktop supportfor a large financial company, and makes fairly decent money. His wife works at a major insurance company. They own three cars, all of which they paid for themselves. Neither of them has lived with thier parents in several years, and they're entirely self sufficient. He knows 10 times more about computers than the guy from exhibit A, and he doesn't even work with them for fun, he builds cars for fun. Right now he's building a 408 stroker motor powered Mustang. It's going kinda slowly as he doesn't have a whole lot of extra cash for it, but he can come home from work, to the palce he pays for himself, and continue to work productively on a project he enjoys. Whereas guy 'A' doesn't do anything but sit on his parents couch and watch pirated movies he downloads off the internet.
Why can't more people be like my friend with the mustang? Is there anything in particular that makes them leeches?
Exihbit A: Guy that works with my fiancee.
This guy is 21 years old. He lives with his parents. I'd like to say that his parents are a very typical middle class suburban family, so he's not "underpriveledged" or anything. Anyway, he lives with his parents. He drives a beat up 10 year old Honda Accord that you can't open the passenger's side door on. This car was given to him by his parents when they got a new one. He works at a drugstore. He's worked at the same drug store for 4 years. He got a summer job in high school, and he just kept it. After 4 years on the same job, he makes $9.00/hour. His hobby is the same as ours, his computer. However, he's not even very good at that, he calls himself a 'hardware guy' because he can assemble a PC, which most of us know could be taught to a monkey in a half day seminar. That's about the limit of his computer skills. His goal in life is to get a 'degree' from one of the tech school places like ITT tech. However, he's not progressing towards that at all. He hasn't saved any money towards tuition, hasn't applied, and definitely isn't attending classes. Actually, even with his parents paying for his food and rent, he's manged to accumulate a couple grand in debt.
he dates a girl that's equally as bad. She's 19, works at the same place, but for less pay. She also lives with her parents and drives thier car. She didn't even graduate high school, and has no other plans than to work at a cash register for a maximum salary of $12/hour after 10 years on the job. She's also completely insecure about herself, extremely gullible, and jsut generally not intelligent.
Exhibit B: A friend of mine who also works on Mustangs.
Also 21 years old. Also didn't go to college. He came from a single parent home that was constantly being moved a cross the country. Eventually he got sick of it and stayed in California, his family is in Colorado now. Last summer, he got married. He's rented a place with his wife for the past 6 months or so, and now they're looking to buy a place. He's ready to go as soon as he picks a place out for about $175k, and should be in his own place within the next month or two. He works in desktop supportfor a large financial company, and makes fairly decent money. His wife works at a major insurance company. They own three cars, all of which they paid for themselves. Neither of them has lived with thier parents in several years, and they're entirely self sufficient. He knows 10 times more about computers than the guy from exhibit A, and he doesn't even work with them for fun, he builds cars for fun. Right now he's building a 408 stroker motor powered Mustang. It's going kinda slowly as he doesn't have a whole lot of extra cash for it, but he can come home from work, to the palce he pays for himself, and continue to work productively on a project he enjoys. Whereas guy 'A' doesn't do anything but sit on his parents couch and watch pirated movies he downloads off the internet.
Why can't more people be like my friend with the mustang? Is there anything in particular that makes them leeches?
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