So if you are dreaming about something that someone else has then get off of your bottom and go get it....put in the time, put in the education, come up with the good idea, work your tail off to build your business, follow your dream. But don't go all class envy on me b/c I actually did those things.
Funny how the "class envy" card is only played by people who profess to have "succeeded". Success is all in how you look at it. My parents rarely had two extra nickels to rub together, but I consider them to be the definition of success. They kept a warm, secure, and clean roof over our heads and raised my brother and I in a loving home to have a good work ethic, pull ourselves up by our own bootstraps, believe in Jesus, and to follow the Golden Rule.
Doing the things it takes to get rich takes a lot of time, some talent, more than a little luck, and usually some type of jump-start in the form of startup cash to get the ball rolling. When one has a wife, a family, a mortgage, child support obligations, a car payment, etc, and your parents don't have any more than you do to help you out with, you can't just set all that aside and take the time necessary to go for and get the big bucks. We all have to live within our circumstances to some extent, and with the results of our choices and the life-path we've chosen.
In other words, we can't all be millionaires. Life, society and the economy don't work that way. Some of us, like myself, don't even want to be millionaires. Money doesn't buy the truly important things. Please see my previous post, #94 I think, for a clearer idea of what I'm saying. I'm not talking class envy here because I don't play that game, and I don't think chiefqc is playing it here either. I congratulate anyone who has become (what they themselves may define as) "successful", as long as they are happy and healthy in their situation.
Let me put it this way: I don't hang out at country clubs because I don't like paying $7 for a beer, nor do I like being around the stuffy, vapid, old-money, nose-in-the-air personalities that often frequent such establishments. I know, I've worked at places like that and still do from time to time, and I'm a bit of an informal student of people's behavior -- a people-watcher, if you will.
In counterpoint, I'm sure if you're wealthy, you don't hang out down at the corner bar and talk loud and smart with the guys in their dirty blue-jeans and basebal caps who just got off second shift at the buggy-whip factory. It would be in this setting that I am vastly more at home.
All I was saying is that on talk radio, I'm forced to listen to people who live a very different lifestyle than I do, and I'd like to hear from someone a little closer to my demographic once in a while. That's all. No resentment, no jealousy here, just stating an opinion.
Seem like I may have touched a raw nerve. Then again it proves just what I said, those that have preach their set of guidelines to those who are not in their position. I am truely happy for you, just don't preach to me when you no nothing about my life and what trials I have gone through. Anyway have a great day and enjoy the fruit of your labor.