Who cares? Life is meaningless anyways!

Pre-College Issues High School Life
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<p>Sometimes I wish for a life with no worries or cares or money or materialism... then I go to Starbucks to set my mind straight.</p>

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<p>Spoken like someone who's never had to actually consider money in his life. Let me guess, parent's are high-powered investment bankers or some such, and you live in a lovely suburban area with low crime and quality grocers?</p>

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Read the book "Nickeled and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America", by Barbara Ehrenreich. Gives a good perspective on the subsistence lifestyle and the problems it entails.

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<p>Okay, I just read the review. Wow, just wow...</p>

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Spoken like someone who's never had to actually consider money in his life. Let me guess, parent's are high-powered investment bankers or some such, and you live in a lovely suburban area with low crime and quality grocers?

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<p>Yes, that's true.</p>

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<p>but then how would i be able to afford a lamborghini???</p>

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<p>InquilineKea, do whatever you want in life. I personally don't care about money...after college, I'm looking to find a career that I would enjoy rather than a job that would pay me the most. The most important part of life is enjoying it... do whatever you can to achieve that to its fullest extent.</p>

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<p>you guys are saying that now. I'm sure your outlooks on life will change.</p>

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<p>I love the OP's life philosophy :)</p>

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OMG do you know how ridiculous you sound? Do you honestly think that bottom rung workers at Target make enough money for the life needs you listed in your post?</p>

<p>The average retail worker makes $7.00/hr before taxes. With that wage, you'd have to have an apartment, which in even the worst of slums costs $400/month. </p>

<p>Then once you have the apartment, you'd need electricity and heat so you wouldn't have to live in the cold and darkness, that runs as high as $250/month (if you live in a cold climate). </p>

<p>Since you say you'll need high-speed internet access, such access costs upwards of $30/month, and that is on top of the $600-$800 a basic computer system would cost you. </p>

<p>You'll need to eat and well, the vegan lifestyle isn't exactly the cheapest to maintain. For starters, natural food stores don't exist in the 'hood. Finding a store that will sell you organic fruit and vegetables is next to impossible in the ghetto. If you do find such a store, food there could easily run $70/month. </p>

<p>Next since, I've already bought it up, you'll need to be able to get back and forth to work. Bus fare per month could add up to $100/month.</p>

<p>Forgot something, phone service. The average landline service costs $50/month. Cell phones cost $75/month on average.</p>

<p>Forgot another thing, healthcare. Health insurance premiums for one person in their 20s costs $100/month at the cheapest.</p>

<p>Then you have personal expenses such as clothing, laundry, toiletries, all of which cost money. Adding to that your apartment needs furniture, you need kitchenware (plates, knives, forks, spoons, etc.), and you'll need items to keep your home clean, and since you'll be living in the 'hood, you'll also need roach and rat poison. </p>

<p>All of these things put together would pretty much eat up your entire salary from Target. What if you have an emergency? Even the smallest of injuries could not only take you out of work for months, but could also sideline you with thousands of dollars in medical bills, which you'd have to pay on top of rent, sustenance and utilities. </p>

<p>Pretty bleak life isn't it?</p>

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<p>All you guys are silly:</p>

<p>You could just marry rich. :) jk</p>

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<p>Since when does someone wanting to live like an anti-materialistic bohemian get away with saying all one needs is "a computer, wi-fi" etc???? Also the world's population is not exploding... This is a myth. We have too much food.</p>

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<p>Read Ain't No Makin' It (a lot better than Nickeled and Dimed) and learn what what these 2 groups of kids go through living in the projects. </p>

<p>It's not the kind of life you want to live.</p>

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<p>"We have too much food"</p>

<p>lol? hmmmm</p>

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<p>I'd like to live like Ralph Waldo Emerson if I don't get married/create spawn by age 40.</p>

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<p>Go ahead and live your life how you want to, but I swear to god if you try and get welfare I'll find you.</p>

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<p>I don't usually come across too many threads like this... </p>

<p>Personally, I think it's a shame that's how you feel about wealth and life in general. If you do in fact come from an well-off family, you need to be more grateful with what you've been provided with, and what to do with your life, instead of aspiring for the unrealistic Bohemian lifestyle. </p>

<p>If you think you can live like those in "Rent"... wake up. A positive change in attitude would do wonders.</p>

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<p>I will accept any money you do not want OP. Why wait until you are 18 when I can take it off your hands now?</p>

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<p>yeah seriously I'd gladly take any unwanted money off your hands.</p>

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<p>I'd like to point out that those in Rent live with AIDS, fighting heroine addiction, very nearly freeze to death, and only get buy by jerry-rigging an ATM (i.e. larceny).</p>

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<p>lololol what kind of thread is this? i would like to know how you will afford internet and a decent computer living in a slum. the building will need electricity (+ all other bills). working at Target isn't going to provide for all that.</p>

<p>i know several friends who are living by themselves or w/ a roommate in apartments. it's not easy. the feeling that you have NOTHING to spend is pretty dreadful.</p>

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<p>if you do decide to be a poor bum: don't go to the government.</p>

<p>this is exactly why i think high taxes are retarded. we're giving away money to people like the OP.</p>