The people you meet

surreal1221 said:
More of that Pro-Management Aviation Management undergraduate degree coming out of ya.
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Naa you can't even give him credit for that, the majority of his thoughts come directly from Rich Dad Poor Dad and the scam artist who wrote it. The secure job point and the car asset point was the tipoff.
 
wheelsup said:
Naa you can't even give him credit for that, the majority of his thoughts come directly from Rich Dad Poor Dad and the scam artist who wrote it. The secure job point and the car asset point was the tipoff.
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Ah, I try to stay away from restroom novels.

But good eye.
 
wheelsup said:
Naa you can't even give him credit for that, the majority of his thoughts come directly from Rich Dad Poor Dad and the scam artist who wrote it. The secure job point and the car asset point was the tipoff.
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Koysaki and wife made a lot of dough off of folks that bought the book and uhh, pretty much just bought the book! :)

Kind of like "The Millionaire Next Door". That's fine and all, but I'd rather have a life where I spent a little too much, drank a little too much, laughed at inappropriate times and saw too many things rather than a schoomarm with a 71 Rambler, hand-me-down clothes in a doublewide with $3 million in the bank I never spent.

None of the guys in the book mentioned how fulfilled they were, just how much they had in the bank. If they even existed.
 
Doug Taylor said:
Koysaki and wife made a lot of dough off of folks that bought the book and uhh, pretty much just bought the book! :)

Kind of like "The Millionaire Next Door". That's fine and all, but I'd rather have a life where I spent a little too much, drank a little too much, laughed at inappropriate times and saw too many things rather than a schoomarm with a 71 Rambler, hand-me-down clothes in a doublewide with $3 million in the bank I never spent.

None of the guys in the book mentioned how fulfilled they were, just how much they had in the bank. If they even existed.
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:yeahthat:
 
surreal1221 said:
As far as you rushing out to get married, have a kid, get a mortgage, blah blah blah. . .no one cares. It appears you still fail to realize that people do indeed live with their own choices, void of what some young stud who jet-sets off to exotic places on a regular basis says on the internet.

We're all individuals, free to make our own decisions. Some make poor ones, some make great ones. The only true judge is the individual who actually has to live with the outcome.
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For what it's worth, I like you. You come off as a prick sometimes, but I appreciate how straight forward you are. No sarcasm intended.
 
wheelsup said:
Naa you can't even give him credit for that, the majority of his thoughts come directly from Rich Dad Poor Dad and the scam artist who wrote it. The secure job point and the car asset point was the tipoff.
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I swear this is the only financial book people have read. RDPD has some really wacko stuff but did have some pretty basic financial facts in there that the average person should know. For someone to base their entire financial thinking on one book is quite stupid.

Doug Taylor said:
Koysaki and wife made a lot of dough off of folks that bought the book and uhh, pretty much just bought the book! :)

Kind of like "The Millionaire Next Door". That's fine and all, but I'd rather have a life where I spent a little too much, drank a little too much, laughed at inappropriate times and saw too many things rather than a schoomarm with a 71 Rambler, hand-me-down clothes in a doublewide with $3 million in the bank I never spent.

None of the guys in the book mentioned how fulfilled they were, just how much they had in the bank. If they even existed.
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I thought Millionaire Next Door was a book that took a simple concept, don't spend more than you earn, overboard. There is a way to enjoy the good things in life, without going into debt. You don't have to drive a 71 Rambler, but instead of taking out a loan for that 2010 Accord, get an 07 or 08 you can pay for cash and invest the rest of the money.
 
Trip7 said:
I swear this is the only financial book people have read. RDPD has some really wacko stuff but did have some pretty basic financial facts in there that the average person should know. For someone to base their entire financial thinking on one book is quite stupid.



I thought Millionaire Next Door was a book that took a simple concept, don't spend more than you earn, overboard. There is a way to enjoy the good things in life, without going into debt. You don't have to drive a 71 Rambler, but instead of taking out a loan for that 2010 Accord, get an 07 or 08 you can pay for cash and invest the rest of the money.
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Yep, investing is a sure fire way to make money, after all the stock market isn't a house of cards or anything...with all the money I lost in the stock market I could've bought my self a new car...but instead I have shares in a mutual fund (I think, the computer says I have them so it must be true) that I can't do anything with and that have no intrinsic value.
 
Trip7 said:
but instead of taking out a loan for that 2010 Accord, get an 07 or 08 you can pay for cash and invest the rest of the money.
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Some of us don't want to drive someone else's castoffs. I don't consider it a waste to have a nice brand new car that I have to make a lease payment on. I can afford it at my income, so there's no reason for me buy some used crap that someone else has already beat to hell.
 
ATN_Pilot said:
Some of us don't want to drive someone else's castoffs. I don't consider it a waste to have a nice brand new car that I have to make a lease payment on. I can afford it at my income, so there's no reason for me buy some used crap that someone else has already beat to hell.
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I understand your thinking here...and an airline pilot should certainly have the ability to buy a new car. That said, buying something that is going to depreciate by a third 10 minutes after you stroke the check and drive it off the lot seems really stupid to me. It didn't used to, but with the vast improvement in automobiles it does. A dollar spent and lost on an automobile is a dollar that you can't spend on an airplane (oh...and and in airplanes I like "someone else's castoffs" and "used crap" as well...because I generally don't aspire to own an airplane manufactured after 1950).

The gist of your post is correct though - you SHOULD be able to buy a nice car on an airline pilots salary.
 
WacoFan said:
Sailboats?

You need a plane. Obviously something with a tailwheel and a radial. Probably a 450 Stearman.
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Sounds like something fun to mess around in a few times, but not to own. Believe me, I get enough of airplanes. To me, sailing is fun like flying used to be before I did it for a living.
 
Flying VFR and in a GA a/c is totally different experience. I'd love to get a Super Decathalon some day. Keep it at a class G airport so I don't have to worry about user fees ;)
 
Trip7 said:
I swear this is the only financial book people have read. RDPD has some really wacko stuff but did have some pretty basic financial facts in there that the average person should know. For someone to base their entire financial thinking on one book is quite stupid.



I thought Millionaire Next Door was a book that took a simple concept, don't spend more than you earn, overboard. There is a way to enjoy the good things in life, without going into debt. You don't have to drive a 71 Rambler, but instead of taking out a loan for that 2010 Accord, get an 07 or 08 you can pay for cash and invest the rest of the money.
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Trip, I think the main point some of us are trying to get at is that life is a lot more random than we're lead to believe.

It's really easy to plan for the best case scenario, but life's got a lot of surprises and unanticipated "nooks and crannies" that can really throw a kink in some of the best laid plans.

Be ready and flexible. And stay thirsty, my friend.
 
surreal1221 said:
Now, he didn't seem to really subscribe to this thought much because he realized why he himself was able to achieve such success flying jets around. Because people left, retired, and/or died. If it wasn't for those who came before him leaving at their appropriate time, he wouldn't have achieved his own career goals.
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:clap: Amen. There needs to be a shift in the workforce to make room for us younger fellas. Not to put anyone out, but I think when an older generation has worked hard for several years they deserve to be able to step down and enjoy the rest of their lives. And at the same time there are guys like me, passionate and energetic, ready to get out there and hit it. I just want to see the same opportunities other generations have seen. That's all.
 
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