I am dead poor but next week I am getting being temporarily loaned my someone else's new shiny Skoda Octavia 1.4 tsi company car for as long as I work for my current employer. Once leaving them I will have to purchase my own car. So eat that you 401k bitches!!
Sorry to put the knife in dude, but keep it real....
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Everyone in this thread is saying, "Invest and get 10% return." How, does one accomplish this if you don't have any money left each month to invest? How are we supposed to ever get ahead? ![Huh ???](https://www.getbig.com/boards/Smileys/classic/huh.gif)
You can't. Luck and opportunity play a huge part along with ability (the part which is down to you), and I hate it when people pretend otherwise.
Fortunately for me, I sort of accidentally ended up in a lucrative career (selling mil-spec electronics) early on (my 20s) which kind of set me up in life. This gave me the opportunity to change careers and I now do something so completely different to that - by choice - that it is ludicrous.
Further to this, I am an orphan, so none of this inheritance business counts. And as I've said elsewhere on the board, I have 6 kids (5 over 16) which of course I have totally funded since birth. Despite this, at this moment in time I literally owe not one penny to anyone - this can be done if you decide to use bank accounts with no overdrafts and do not use credit cards or loans. I haven't loaned a penny in over 20 years (apart from mortgage which was settled long ago)
I am no BIG AL MCKECHNIE by any means - he appear to win this 'competition' - but I could possibly scrape by from this point if I had to - but where's the fun in that???
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