Comments by "Thump Er the Sweaty Fat Guy" (@SweatyFatGuy) on "What The Older Generations WON'T SAY About The Problems Men Are Facing TODAY" video.

  1. My dream is different than yours. I DO NOT want to live in a city, or in the suburbs of a city, sure as hell not a blue one. Nobody was ever buying houses on minimum wage. You need some skills and experience to make yourself more valuable, and then your pay will increase. A degree is a waste of money now, unless its some kind of STEM or vocational thing like plumbing/electrical etc. Do NOT be an auto mechanic, it pays poorly and works you to the point your body wears out in less than 20 years. I had several jobs in my life, the jobs paid less when I was young, and the pay increased as I got older and gained more knowledge, skill, and experience. THAT IS HOW IT WORKS! Sure my dad bought his first house in 1967 for $2500 and paid it off in 5 years. I bought my first house in 1996 and paid $37k for it when it was built in 1910 and was actually three additions to a shack. Lost that investment to divorce in 2001. Inflation is why the dollar is worth less and the cost of things go up. Thats why my dad got his house cheaper than I did. I worked on cars and as a machinist in the 80s, enlisted and barely made enough to do anything in the USAF for four years. $700 a month was my starting pay, $1100 a month when I got out at E4 in 92. They kicked me out with the drawdown in 1992, and I went to work in factories doing the CNC machinist thing. The factories were all packed up and sent to Mexico between 1997 and 2000, so I went back to the USAF in 2000. $1740 base pay in 2000, and Nebraska decided that $1200 of that would go to the ex for child support, leaving me $100 a month to live on after taxes. I was stuck paying her from 2001 until 2015. The USAF broke me in 2004 and kicked me out on a medical in 2005, the VA finally started paying me compensation in 2007. It was $1900 a month for 100% disability in 2007. By 2015 the compensation was close to $3000 a month. I am not allowed to earn more than that. What did I do after my second divorce in 2013? I bought 13 acres of land on a ten year mortgage for $23k. There was a run down cabin here and electrical power run to it and its covered in trees, that was it. I carved my home out of the woods despite chronic pain and limited mobility, on $3k a month. I took out a $30k building load, built my shop for $18k by doing 99% of it myself. Built a shipping container house for right about $22k as I had money come in from the VA and USAF screwing up my pay over the years. You can still get land cheap here, but if you plan to buy land and work a job stocking shelves, running a cash register at a fast food joint, or some other menial job, you aren't going to do it. Like I said before, NOBODY was buying houses and new cars on min wage. NOBODY. Those jobs are for high school kids to get some money while learning skills you can only get from jobs, like talking to people in a business setting aka customer service, and the basics of working a job. You have zero skill so you get a min wage job. I grew up on a farm which meant I knew things already, heavy equipment operation, mechanical repair to vehicles and machines, hwo to use all sorts of tools, how to solve problems, how to read micrometers and blueprints, and a work ethic that makes city kids look like they don't do anything all day. Anyone can learn the basics, especially right here watching videos. You can learn how to do EVERYTHING I have ever done, right here watching videos on it. From building your house and car, to managing finances, its all here... for free, you only need to go looking for it. You can even learn cooking on here and other useful skills that you will need every day, if you come from one of those sheltered families that doesn't know how to do anything because you all live in a city. The more you can do yourself, the cheaper you can do things, and the more you can get out of life. Stop thinking about what you can buy, and think about what you can build, and how you can go about building it. Mainly though, stop being resentful that someone else has something you do not, or more of something. Who cares if they started out aas a rich kid, you didn't and I didn't either. So we have to work more to get to a certain level, that is life. Something I have seen over the last 50 years is the people who are born into something, and have parents give them everything rather than the kid earning it, take longer to get started in life. They do not appreciate what is given to them, because there was no effort or discipline to get it. Living a hard life makes you fare more resilient and stronger, those who grow up with soft easy lives end up soft weak people.
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