Poor Dad, Rich Dad
I hasn’t been ever interested in money. But at some point my friends started to talk more and more about money, buying flats or investing. Then I was thinking:
What’s wrong with you guys? Don’t you have something interesting to do? You are getting so old and boring!
I was happy with my income and what is even more important for me I was doing as my job something which I liked. Money is just non-interesting but necessary addition to that activity. But who cares?
Do you recognise some very common in our industry pattern here? Industry full of geeks focused only on “cool” stuff where money is certainly not regarded as something with big kick of coolness? I read recently Rich Dad, Poor Dad by Robert Kiyosaki. I can recommend it as good start to learn about this so much hated by us subject of money and maybe change that point of view. And I think the sooner the better. It can only be beneficial for us!
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Robbie Clutton said,
December 18, 2007 @ 11:09 am
couldn’t agree more, in the paraphrased words of David:
http://davidjames.wordpress.com/2007/12/17/men-of-few-words-are-the-best-men-william-shakespeare/
“I don’t want money I want a thing called happiness” - The View - Superstar Tradesman
znachor said,
December 18, 2007 @ 11:50 am
Happiness… yeah… We are approaching hard topics :)
Adrian said,
December 18, 2007 @ 6:49 pm
You are earning too much then! I too, don’t worry about it, but then again I have enough. I think I’d worry pretty badly if I were in debt like alot of people seem to be. It said on the news that about 10% of people are still paying off the debt they ran up last Christmas!
znachor said,
December 19, 2007 @ 10:58 am
That is so bad. But why it happened? Maybe because people don’t earn enough? I don’t think so. What I wanted to say through this post and what could in many cases save some debtors which you mentioned is that we should learn basics of finance management, accounting, try to understand processes which rule the market. Nothing wrong with that.