<p>I’m a cheapskate. I’m always trying to save money and I’m always really careful with my spending. So clearly, money is pretty important to me. But that’s more because I’m a kid, and the money I spend comes from my pitiful salary or my parents. And I don’t want to blow off the money I work hard for and most of all I don’t like the idea of my parents having to spend boatloads of money for me. So I don’t think money itself is that important to me, and when I move out and I don’t have to worry about how my spending will affect others, I’ll be a little less high maintenance about it. But then again, I might change my mind about this when I find myself living in a dingy apartment with gang fights outside my window lol</p>
<p>I’m not really sure. I really want to be a doctor (which will usually be 100k+ right?), but the money involved in being a doctor would only be 1/8th of the reason I want to be one.</p>
<p>I’d like to make more than my mom and dad (which isn’t all that much when I look on what people expect to make on here, it’s like 24K a year).</p>
<p>If I end up making 100K I’ll probably give a lot away. I just want to be an engineer, do something interesting for a living, design new stuff and help it be built. I didn’t realize engineers make really good money till recently but it’s like…okay.</p>
<p>But then, I just want to own a house in the middle of nowhere TX one day and raise a kid. I’m pretty sure I could do that with a stable 40K. Maybe make it 50K just so I can go out and have fun very often.</p>
<p>The perks of money (buying a nice car, big house, personal island in the Pacific) isn’t as important/fun to me as the actual handling of money. Obviously, I’d like to keep whatever profits I make from things like stock market trading, portfolio managing, or high-stakes poker, but given the choice between winning millions on the lottery and earning a slightly smaller amount through the aforementioned, I’d choose the latter.</p>
<p>I’m probably going to continue small-scale personal trading/investing in addition to my choice of career in engineering. I really want to do both, and treating trading like a hobby will end up losing money in the long run, so after my tenure in engineering I’ll probably pursue an MBA and attempt to break into investment banking.</p>
<p>I’d still want to make enough money to maintain an upper-middle class standard of living though.</p>