The best life experiences I had were when I was out of work and running out money. It really focuses you to get out of a rut. I recommend one or two hardships in adulthood as a positive experience to be overcome in space and leading to doubling or tripling your salary after some focused concentration and application of capitalist principles and work ethic.
“The best life experiences I had were when I was out of work and running out money.”
It was the same for me.
That was when I met the woman who is still my wife several decades later.
I knew she was not a gold digger—because I was broke.
;-)