photo: a view of Stockholm in springThe spring has arrived! These last few days of March have been very convincing - sunshine, plus degrees and even occasional birds’ singing. Although I haven’t been yet able to get rid of my scarf nor my gloves, the first signs of warmth work like magic – I feel energetic and I easily wake up early! I’ve moved all my plants, tortured by the dark winter period, to the window pane and got some vanilla ice cream and fresh strawberries for a home-made milkshake. Mmm...
Yesterday I had our 30 square meter flat all to myself. I played a good house wife half of the day – cleaning and doing laundry, and spent the rest on relaxing. I have a new hobby and I’m getting obsessive about it – the stock market. Firstly, I’ve spent the past seven months studying finance here at University of Skövde, which has basically used up most of my free time. I’ve been eating and breathing finance long enough to begin to understand and like it. Secondly, my little brother recommended a book by an American Japanese guy who is convinced you can make a lot of money from no money at all. What a wonderful revelation! This guy is pretty anxious about telling people how to retire rich and young.
Two things immediately made me cautious - people’s weakness for silly guidebooks on life, and people’s eagerness to earn money by selling bull. But I think the Japanese guy has a point, in his own way, at least in terms of motivating people to try harder. So, I gave it a try, listened to a couple of his audio books and got intrigued. Ambitious people like him earn money by shaking our reality a little. It's not as much the idea of getting rich, as the idea of testing what I've learnt at school, that excites me.
Maybe we do need a wake up call every once in a while; it doesn't really matter where it comes from as long as we hear it. I've done shit jobs like cleaning toilets and serving junk food. I've been on my feet 16 hours straight doing double shifts in the desperate hope of earning more. I had a shocking over 3000 hours of labour stated on my junk food work reference and I don't see my bank account being any more impressive than it was 4 years ago when I first started studying full time and working nights and weekends. I should have just skipped the trouble and made the money out of nothing, too bad the Japanese guy wasn't around to give a hand. But since I've done the best I could to invest in my professional skills by staying at school, I damn sure want to get the interest payment, sooner rather than later!
I’m lucky to have a person in my life I can talk to about such subjects, someone I can share thoughts and create ideas with. Even though we might not retire young nor rich; we will get a kick out of trying!
Yesterday I had our 30 square meter flat all to myself. I played a good house wife half of the day – cleaning and doing laundry, and spent the rest on relaxing. I have a new hobby and I’m getting obsessive about it – the stock market. Firstly, I’ve spent the past seven months studying finance here at University of Skövde, which has basically used up most of my free time. I’ve been eating and breathing finance long enough to begin to understand and like it. Secondly, my little brother recommended a book by an American Japanese guy who is convinced you can make a lot of money from no money at all. What a wonderful revelation! This guy is pretty anxious about telling people how to retire rich and young.
Two things immediately made me cautious - people’s weakness for silly guidebooks on life, and people’s eagerness to earn money by selling bull. But I think the Japanese guy has a point, in his own way, at least in terms of motivating people to try harder. So, I gave it a try, listened to a couple of his audio books and got intrigued. Ambitious people like him earn money by shaking our reality a little. It's not as much the idea of getting rich, as the idea of testing what I've learnt at school, that excites me.
Maybe we do need a wake up call every once in a while; it doesn't really matter where it comes from as long as we hear it. I've done shit jobs like cleaning toilets and serving junk food. I've been on my feet 16 hours straight doing double shifts in the desperate hope of earning more. I had a shocking over 3000 hours of labour stated on my junk food work reference and I don't see my bank account being any more impressive than it was 4 years ago when I first started studying full time and working nights and weekends. I should have just skipped the trouble and made the money out of nothing, too bad the Japanese guy wasn't around to give a hand. But since I've done the best I could to invest in my professional skills by staying at school, I damn sure want to get the interest payment, sooner rather than later!
I’m lucky to have a person in my life I can talk to about such subjects, someone I can share thoughts and create ideas with. Even though we might not retire young nor rich; we will get a kick out of trying!
1 comment:
Terve,
Taidat olla ollut kiireinen koulun ja työn haun kanssa. Yritä nyt joskus kirjoitellakin. Näitä on mukava lukea. Onneksi olkoon kuitenkin valmiista lopputyöstä ja työpaikasta.
M
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