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Are you successful? (1 Viewer)

Have you made it?

  • Yes

    Votes: 83 43.5%

  • No

    Votes: 66 34.6%

  • Tbd

    Votes: 42 22.0%
  • Total voters
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Some it might mean graduating hs, others college, and others work history. Then you might be making money and life is good.......but are you going to lose half your stuff? Maybe you will be happy with or without much money....

Determine success any way you like.

 
No. I've underperformed for my skill set. I really could be better in so many ways.

I used to connect with people really well, I was student council president at one point in my life.

Now it's degraded to one of my lesser skills.

Working in a customer service industry has made me hate most dealings with people.

I've settled for being moderately successful. Good enough has been the enemy of great.

 
Dentist said:
No. I've underperformed for my skill set. I really could be better in so many ways.

I used to connect with people really well, I was student council president at one point in my life.

Now it's degraded to one of my lesser skills.

Working in a customer service industry People have made me hate most dealings with people.

I've settled for being moderately successful. Good enough has been the enemy of great.
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This was actually a pretty good synopsis with a few changes. I should be happier. We're doing well financially. Happy in our marriage. We travel. All that stuff. But there are definitely areas I feel I could have done much better, and so I can't say I'm totally happy with the way I lived my life. I carry some regrets. I guess at times I feel I'm successful in spite of myself.

 
I agree with Dentists' last statement. $$$ wise, if I put in an honest day's more often I could be making over 200k. Ive actually been contemplating doing that lately.

 
I make six figures and have a great job in a skill set I love. But I got a late start in this profession and I live in NY so I own a tiny house which we barely fit in so I don't feel successful at all.

 
I make a very good living, have a nice house, great wife and two amazing kids. However, I don't consider myself a success. I could be so much better of a husband, father, son, brother and friend. I donate some money and time to those less fortunate but not nearly enough. I ##### and moan about the state of our country and world but rarely apply myself trying to change things. I still have hope I become the person I want to be though and would consider myself a belated success at that point.

 
Yes and yes. I feel like I'm ridiculously lucky and blessed. I enjoy my job and other than having to wake up early, I am always happy to go. I only work 50% of the days of the year. I have tons of free time. My wife is chill and we get a long really well. She cooks and cleans, comes from money and her job pays very well. She doesn't care when I drink or how much I spend on some barrel aged beer. We go out to eat and on vacation whenever we want. I'm sure I'll get run over by a bus at 35 or something to balance out how easy my life has been.

 
Yes, but my bar is pretty low as I'm not very ambitious nor have many wants. An easy job and some disposable income is all that I really need.

 
Getting out of a horrible marriage was good. I really like what I do, but the commute sucks. The pay is good, not great. Could have a better social life, but have a great gf. Get to travel quite a bit, including overseas. Would enjoy living in a better location with better weather. Maybe a 6.5 in the Offdee scale of life.

 
4 healthy kids, wonderful wife, good job. I may not be Chet but I'm better off than 95-98% of the people on the planet and I consider myself lucky and blessed.

 
Extremely happy. Between my wife and I we have more than enough money to live comfortably in a beautiful house in a town we're pretty happy with. Great friends, family, but most important are my three perfect little girls. And an awesome dog to boot. Cannot complain.

 
fantasycurse42 said:
TBD. It all comes down to what my little boys do, I'll judge my success on their happiness.
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This pretty much. I'll tell you in 25-30 years when my boys are older. I feel like my wife and I are setting them up for success but let's hope they don't turn out to be little ####s. My dad never made more then 35k a year in his life but always says his life is a huge success just watching how well I've done and how I interact with my kids.

 
I think I would say yes and yes. I have a 22 year career that I enjoy, and think I am good at. A 20 year marriage, and 2 awesome kids that inspire me every day.

We have a great circle of friends that I enjoy being around.

The money could be better, but we make it work, and while sometimes it is tough, we always find a way.

My health is as good as its been in a decade. Even at this stage, things are still looking good

 
If i die I am cool with it. I have done a lot seen a lot and experienced a lot. More than a great deal of the world population will ever dream to do. Everything now is just gravy.

 
Spin said:
fantasycurse42 said:
TBD. It all comes down to what my little boys do, I'll judge my success on their happiness.
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This pretty much. I'll tell you in 25-30 years when my boys are older. I feel like my wife and I are setting them up for success but let's hope they don't turn out to be little ####s. My dad never made more then 35k a year in his life but always says his life is a huge success just watching how well I've done and how I interact with my kids.
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Very much this.

Career has been a B+

Currently family is an A but the boys are young

I'm healthy and in pretty good shape for a soon to be 40 year old, so a B+ there too

But none of this means anything if the kids are screwed up

 
Answered yes and tbd (not really sure what "made it" means). Family is great. I'm in my second year at a job that I love and challenges me every day. In the process of remodeling a house we just bought that is going to be great but is a headache at the moment. Doing good health wise although I'm probably in the worst shape I've been in the past 5 years (still better than I was 10 years ago). All in all, successful but still some work to do.

 
I'm alive, healthy, have a sweet 7 year old daughter, and not living on the street.

Yep, pretty successful.

 
If you have kids, if you have people you love in your life, if you have people you want to protect and do right for - Are you living your life as an example? Are you living your life in a way to show your kids how you ideally want them to be? Or the character you want them to find in others to share their lives with? To me, that's success. To me, if you have a kid, that kid grows up, that kid is mentored and raised to be a good person, because they lived their life seeing their parent or adult mentor figure as that pure example, to me, that's success.
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Thanks, GG, I needed that. :hifive:

 
Good post GG, but

Some of you, more than some of you, might actually have one or two people in your lives, maybe a parent, or a child, or even rarely a spouse, who loves you unconditionally. Ignoring what a rare gift that is in this life. In this kind of world, and some of you , the first thing you want to talk about is what you could have done to make a little more money?
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That's just sad.

 
Wow, Gordon didn't leave anything to the imagination there did he? I like the post. Anything with that level of gut level emotion I can appreciate.

Here's what I've found... Life is much more enjoyable, for me and for those around me, when I live by the simple principles that I was raised on. These are mostly rooted in Christianity but they are universal behaviors - forgiveness, tolerance, respect for others, love... I didn't change the world like I thought I would when I was kid, but I didn't #### it up either.

 
FUBAR said:
Good post GG, but

Some of you, more than some of you, might actually have one or two people in your lives, maybe a parent, or a child, or even rarely a spouse, who loves you unconditionally. Ignoring what a rare gift that is in this life. In this kind of world, and some of you , the first thing you want to talk about is what you could have done to make a little more money?
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That's just sad.
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I wonder why GG feels the need to post under a group alias instead of his usual screen name. He slams Arizona Ron under GG, but obviously wouldn't do it under his regular screen name. I don't understand why if he truly believes in what he is saying.

 
Eminence said:
GordonGekko is the man.
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This pretty much says it all. (for the slow ones out there, that's not a good thing)

Signed,

a bunch of stupid hashtags while pretending to somehow be "cooler" than, well, anyone not using that many stupid hashtags.

 
Koya said:
Eminence said:
GordonGekko is the man.
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This pretty much says it all. (for the slow ones out there, that's not a good thing)

Signed,

a bunch of stupid hashtags while pretending to somehow be "cooler" than, well, anyone not using that many stupid hashtags.
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Based on how rude you've been to me in the past... Nobody should take her seriously.
 
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I went with yes and no. But I've been extremely happy and content for years. However, I guess I relate having 'made it' to a stage where I don't have to get up and go to work...which I guess is when I retire in comfort, I'll say I made it :P

 
My parents both have PhDs and my father also has an MD. That is a lot to live up to and has skewed my perception of reality and success.

I generally define success as this -- if 20 year old you knew your life now, what would he think and would he punch you in the face for whining about (fill in the blank).

I have everything I could have wanted when I was 20. Good paying job in a skillset I excel at, masters degree from a top school, great wife and 2 adorable daughters. Sure some days you think the grass is greener in some alternative universe, but in 95% of those alternative worlds it is worse.

 
I guess I should revise my initial post.

Of course I'm successful compared to 90 percent of Americans and probably 99 percent of the world population. Both on a professional and on a family life basis.

But much like a great college football player drafted in the first few rounds who never starts in the nfl. He's obviously very successful overall... But was so close to doing so much more. I guess that's my regret.

 
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GordonGekko said:
meanjoegreen said:
I wonder why GG feels the need to post under a group alias instead of his usual screen name. He slams Arizona Ron under GG, but obviously wouldn't do it under his regular screen name. I don't understand why if he truly believes in what he is saying.
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Because I am not a group alias.

I started posting in about 2006-2007 or so. At that time, Girl A reached out to me in PM, gave me her phone number, and we started talking on the phone. Apparently she told someone named Nipsey, who she told me got enraged by it all. Like literally could not handle that she was dividing her attention away from him to anyone else. So he decides the best thing to do is post up and keep posting up that I am a composite account and that he has/had control of it.

I do not know who Nipsey is, I've seen a few of his posts and honestly have no idea why anyone would listen to him. Probably another mouth breathing jackoff whose entire social life revolves around the Interweb.

So that's it, that's what it came down to, some stranger on the Internet thought it was reprehensible that I was c0ck blocking him, when all I was doing was occasionally talking to some woman on the phone.

I'm very sorry this Nipsey guy has no game and has to rely on hybrid I-Relationships in his mind over women he stalks on the Internet. From what I remember, back then, she told me he DEMANDED to know what she and I talked about. That he STRONGLY ENCOURAGED HER to stop talking to me.

And frankly, over the years, when he openly claimed he was I, I just laughed. And laughed. I still laugh. He was pining for some woman he met over the Internet that he had no chance with and decided it was my fault.

Nipsey - The guy who has recrafted his EHarmony profile for the 50th time because his Kung Fu is so weak

Gordon Gekko - Taking #####es to Pound Town without breaking a sweat all the way back to the days of disco.

#IRawDoggedNipseysMother

#NipseysMomTookItLikeAChamp

#MyKungFuIsTheBest
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Why don't you man up and post a shot video. Prove you are who you say you are.

 
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