What is success and how do I get it?

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So what's the best way to avoid the gutter when you're eighty? Especially if you have no investments? How do I learn to love corporate America so that I could make some big bucks?

― Kerry, Tuesday, 27 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Not live to eighty.

― Tom, Tuesday, 27 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

or; Have children and cultivate a sense of filial duty.

― Tom, Tuesday, 27 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I stash money in my underwear drawer. I figure by the time I'm eighty it should be a pretty big pile.

― Samantha, Tuesday, 27 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Great - I guess I should just follow my parents' example, then. For one thing, I should take up chain smoking. Then have kids, who will basically have to start caring for me when I'm fifty.

― Kerry, Tuesday, 27 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

High interest savings account. Company pension.

Or invent something...or write something, make a film...I'm going for these options!

― james, Tuesday, 27 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

it's this thing.

― jess, Tuesday, 27 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Besides, the reason I don't have kids in the first place is because I'm not 'successful'. I'm sorry if my question sounded yuppie and selfish - all I really want to know is how to survive. I'm a good soldier, really I am.

― Kerry, Tuesday, 27 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I'm planning on writing a memoir of my days as a truckstop prostitute and then let Hollywood trendzoids option me to retirement.

― Samantha, Tuesday, 27 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Morrisey (sp?) will end up writing songs about you if you become successful. Assuming that you are his friend.

― james, Tuesday, 27 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

James, that was painful even for me.

I sorta drift along in hope...but I have to be honest: I'm in a fortunate enough spot to be able to do that.

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 27 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I want to die in debt to my friends, melodramatically, like Oscar Wilde. Success? Pah. Too much trouble.

― Maria, Tuesday, 27 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

cliche as it may be, isn't happiness considered success? if you're filthy rich but not happy how are you successful ?

― Vic, Tuesday, 27 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Right on Vic! Money can't buy happiness or health! You can have all the money in the world. I'd rather have happiness and health. :) If I do have a little extra, I try to help someone else. Gale

― Gale Deslongchamps, Tuesday, 27 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Gale = good person.

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 27 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I walked out of my class before it was over, thinking I could withdraw. Then I found out that I can't withdraw, or I'll have to pay all the money that was reimbursed by the school. Only I can't do the work for the class because I can't get into the lab, because of work. If I fail, I may have to pay the school. I am so fucked.

― Kerry, Tuesday, 27 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Success is when you're at peace with yourself and those around you.

― Trevor, Wednesday, 28 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

James's post = most bizarre ever?

― Nick, Wednesday, 28 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

It's the lyrics to an unreleased Smiths song, Nick.

They're playing it on the radio tonight, you might want to check it out.

― Nicole, Wednesday, 28 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

~~What? It's just from crappy old 'We Hate It When Our Friends Become Successful', isn't it? It was the tenuousness of the reference that baffled m~~. Nicole, I hate you.

― Nick, Wednesday, 28 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Kerry that sounds very feeding. Can you not do a deal with them to extend your deadlines, or is it all about money to them?

― mark s, Wednesday, 28 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

With US universities (sorry Kerry if I'm assuming it's a university incorrectly) it's always about the money. It will be nice to be done w/school next summer so I won't be broke all the time.

― Nicole, Wednesday, 28 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I'm going to talk to my instructor tomorrow, because it looks like I have no choice but to finish the class, even though I have to use vacation time to do the work. I'm just going to ask her what the bare minimum is for passing, and do that. But after that, I'm done with school. I'd rather do that than go insane, which is what school is doing to me at this point.

― Kerry, Wednesday, 28 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I'm lyrically blessed. It can't be helped. Everything is linked.

― james, Wednesday, 28 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Glib answer: Buy a puppy. Name him/her Success. Bingo!

Serious answer: Put aside some amount of money every paycheck, even if it's only $50. When you have leftover money, stick half of it in an savings or an investment account. Once you get into the habit, it's much easier to continue it and to increase the amount you're saving.

― Dan Perry, Wednesday, 28 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

So tempting, young Daniel. And yet there are all these lovely things in the world...

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 28 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

How do lovely things in the world prevent one from buying a puppy?

― Dan Perry, Wednesday, 28 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I need to spend my money on those lovely things instead. ;-)

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 28 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

ie. Ned is buying 2 copies of the Zwan album before he even *thinks* about that doggy in the window.

― Mitch Lastnamewithheld, Wednesday, 28 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

One step ahead of you; I've already made arrangements to get a bootleg of their first live show. ;-)

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 28 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Hi Kerry, Could you please explain a little more of what you are having a prob with? Could it be that you are working as well as attending school? I didn't quite understand it. Gale

― Gale Deslongchamps, Sunday, 2 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

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