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How Not To F*ck Up Your Chance At Becoming Financially Secure
A few common sense tips to avoid some common pitfalls.
On Medium and elsewhere, I’m constantly seeing all kinds of articles about side hustles and other ways to make money and become wealthy.
While these are helpful, I’ve found that building your net worth is less about what you do and more about what you don’t do. Unfortunately, nobody hands you a guide called “How Not To Fuck Up” when you turn 18, that shows you the many spring-loaded bear traps laying about out there. In fact, it seems people are more apt to let you walk right into one and snap your leg off.
Nobody was there to tell me anything. So some of these pitfalls are ones I learned myself, the hard way. Others I was fortunate to avoid on my own.
Finish High School And Keep Your Fucking Legs Closed (meaning don’t have kids) Until You’re Married.
I combined these two tips because they are common refrains from Dave Ramsey. It really is that simple. If you do these two things, you are virtually guaranteed NOT to…
