Posted on 12/07/2013 4:07:46 PM PST by SoFloFreeper
This is one that, in my opinion, misses, at least when this advice is shared for general consumption rather than just for his 18 y/o self. We all have different temptations and weaknesses. For some, it is anger. For others lust, gluttony, avarice, pride, envy, or a combination of several. The key is to regularly identify your own weaknesses and work on them.
The Powerball numbers for every 5th year. That way even if I blow it all there will be another in 5 years.
Read more
and
drink less.
At least, read more.
What looks hot may have jungle rot.
LOL!
1. Microsoft. Invest heavily.
2. Apple. Invest heavily.
3. Google. Yes, it sounds weird, but invest heavily.
4. Buy lots of gold in 2001.
5. Amazon. Invest heavily.
6. Buy and hold all the guns and ammunition you can.
7. Buy farms just outside Atlanta's Perimeter in the 1970's.
8. Find a guy named Barack Obama or Barry Soetero, and make sure to get into a situation in which he gets arrested and convicted of a major crime.
9. Go to Russia and see if you can look up and befriend a low-level KGB guy named Vladimir Putin.
10. There's a guy named George Soros. Make sure to invest in his company when he is just starting out. Cash out after a profit, and then find a way to destroy him.
“Hold Denice’s hand...”
First I’d have to meet Denice.
was Google around when you were 18?
Major in petroleum engineering.
He would have renamed it Googlamataz.
I think I would have wanted lotto numbers because I didn’t have the cash to buy a stock. Win the lotto and then buy up Microsoft, Apple, Samsung and other company stocks.
Start a bulletin board named FreeRepublic in 1996. Be Jim Thompson, member number 1. Call everybody else “newb.”
What would I tell my 18 year old self?
“Two years from now you’re going to run into your old high school sweetheart on the street. Smile, wave, then run the other way.”
Don’t take crap from anyone - ever.
I wish I would have matched social security in a brokerage account. I would be in a lot better shape right now.
lolz
11. You are going to live into your 60s, take better care of yourself and save more money.
Don't knock over that saving and loan...
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Just kidding...
Your first girlfriend will eventually become a lesbian. STAY AWAY!
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