What do you want out of life?

Frozen Balls wrote: hehe, and your grammar is just as good as bearclaw's. You'll make a great mechanic if that is any indication.

You know what the say, normaly, if you are good with your hands, your lousy with grammar, different side of the brain i think.

hey now im proud of my gramatical skills.

After all I aint gotta spell it to fix it .

Frozen Balls wrote: hehe, and your grammar is just as good as bearclaw's. You'll make a great mechanic if that is any indication.

Ahaha wow did I screw up>

You can ask yeah. My family has a lot of money. If i wanted to, i could never work a day in my life. But sitting at home buying crap i dont need and wasting away till i die seems very depressing to me.

Currently ive been living off the interest of a bank acount number with the ocasional check from my grandfather. Just working for the church and all that, ive never had to worry about money, and my grandmother died last september, this trust opened up and i came into a fair amount of money. When i was 18, i had to make a will.. Hows that for a birthday present, signing stuff for half an hour on your birthday.

The only thing I want really is, well... to Die peacefully, and to know I made an impact around my surrondings. 

Gatyr wrote: I would love to teach high school, but money is a factor, so that wont be happeing. Something in paintball would be nice as well. I dont really know what I want to do.

You know, I had a long talk with the local paintball shop owner who hooks us up. He used to be a huge materialist and was all about the fancy toys he could get his hands on. He got rid of all that, got rid of all his toys, got rid of his fancy land rover. Now he drives a Corolla and owns a small house and only buys whatever he really needs or really wants and he couldn't be happier. Don't forget to look at the big picture man!

NotDaveEllis wrote: Gatyr wrote: I would love to teach high school, but money is a factor, so that wont be happeing. Something in paintball would be nice as well. I dont really know what I want to do. You know, I had a long talk with the local paintball shop owner who hooks us up. He used to be a huge materialist and was all about the fancy toys he could get his hands on. He got rid of all that, got rid of all his toys, got rid of his fancy land rover. Now he drives a Corolla and owns a small house and only buys whatever he really needs or really wants and he couldn't be happier. Don't forget to look at the big picture man!

Its true, materials wont give you happiness. When my uncle rob died. I went up north to live at his estate for two summers. He had a lot of things, a million dollar home, a small fleet of boats, some very nice cars. He staff, a live in maid. But you know what? He was misserable, he was the saddest man you could ever meet. None of the family talked to him, he just alienated himself in New England, and in the end, he died cold and alone. 10 people showed to his funeral, 8 of whom went to make sure he was dead and spit on his grave.

Materials and trappings of wealth do no and will not buy you happiness. I think happiness will flow from a family that loves you. One of my favorite sayings. Rich isnt whats in your pockets, its who you have next to you.

the_blade wrote: Now to a certain degree. I can see you point zesty only to a certian degree. I have grown up an a low medium class family. My dad was struggling when his air brushing buisness was taken over by computers back in 94 -95.from there he had nothing to fall back on he ended up trying to make ends meet by working as stock broker for farrell or somthing like that in new york city.It crummy money when you first start off in that job. and all you have to look foward too is <span style="text-decoration: underline;">ALOT </span> of studying and alot of number fondeling. So with getting that out into the open yes it is nice to have the money to make all ends meet and be able to live freely with out debt. My mom and dad end up divorcing 5 years ago i havent seen him since he lives in st. louis missori And this whole divorce was over money.... he left us with a 11,400 debt owed to the irs  and  a 102 dollar debt to are freaking cable company! so we cant even get cable tv till its payed off! My mom has not seen a tax return from the state in two years which has finnaly payed off this tax debt to the irs. so i just wanna say not being able to make your ends meet causes the word two snenarios you could ever face in life stress and then depression... but when I turn 19 in two years I would like to become a mechanic for the air force  and  take classes for commercial jet arline engineering I am so mechanicaly inclined its rediculous by the age of 11 I was ripping small motors apart and built and welded my own go cart at 13 .

Well damn, after reading your post, I think you should agree with my views in EVERY way! LOL

Seriously though. That story is a good example to prove my point...thanks for feeling me!

NotDaveEllis wrote: Gatyr wrote: I would love to teach high school, but money is a factor, so that wont be happeing. Something in paintball would be nice as well. I dont really know what I want to do. You know, I had a long talk with the local paintball shop owner who hooks us up. He used to be a huge materialist and was all about the fancy toys he could get his hands on. He got rid of all that, got rid of all his toys, got rid of his fancy land rover. Now he drives a Corolla and owns a small house and only buys whatever he really needs or really wants and he couldn't be happier. Don't forget to look at the big picture man!

He's not really happy...people that are poor play it off well.

I don't see how just selling a nicer car and buying a crappier one, and moving into a smaller house automatically makes someone happy...he probably just started devoting more of his budget to drugs! Nice.

Seriously though, like Hades said, good luck with whatever way you choose to live life....I know I'm extremely happy with my way of life as it stands. I hope you all can honestly say the same.

NotDaveEllis wrote: Gatyr wrote: I would love to teach high school, but money is a factor, so that wont be happeing. Something in paintball would be nice as well. I dont really know what I want to do. You know, I had a long talk with the local paintball shop owner who hooks us up. He used to be a huge materialist and was all about the fancy toys he could get his hands on. He got rid of all that, got rid of all his toys, got rid of his fancy land rover. Now he drives a Corolla and owns a small house and only buys whatever he really needs or really wants and he couldn't be happier. Don't forget to look at the big picture man!

I want enough to be able to play paintball, and support myself and family. Im not so sure I could do that with a teachers salary.

I dont mind being poor or not having the best of possessions, hell, its like that now. We're near bankruptcy, the house is falling apart, and I get to drive a car as old as I am when I get my liscense, we're hard pressed to be able to afford pizza and eating out more than once a week. I could care less about what I have, as long im albe to get by without worrying about paying for the bills or supporting myself.