Has anyone from Zig Forums ACTUALLY made it? By that, I mean owning their own land/property, enough passive income to never have to wage again, and a maximum comfy life.
What is it like bros?
Has anyone from Zig Forums ACTUALLY made it? By that, I mean owning their own land/property...
Lincoln Jenkins
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Connor Flores
would like to know as well
Matthew Gomez
everyone here is a depressed mentally ill NEET. making it will probably kill half of us due to alcoholism.
Nolan Carter
I haven't made it from Zig Forums yet but I work from home doing almost nothing, own a house, am pretty comfy etc. It's really not as amazing as you think while at the same time being the greatest thing ever, hard to explain. The key is you have to understand what you gained was time and freedom. Figure out your passions what you enjoy, what you like to do, and appreciate that you can do them now.
If you're chasing material shit you will never be satisfied, not at 1 million, 10, or 100. It's just another form of addiction.
Benjamin Martin
there has been, but they've already left.
Currently there are dozens of bizlets who have 200k+ portfolios that will make it big after the bullrun if they invest wisely.
In the end, making it is really about what this user said and living a fulfilling life that isn't really about gains, but about making something out of yourself. Mastering skills, making real friends which is hard when you make it.
As someone who used to attend Buddhist temples, there are plenty of millionaires who are miserable because lacking normal means of suffering creates other internal more complex forms of suffering that nobody understands.
David Hall
I'm currently at 3.4 Megadollar / 2.9 Megaeuro.
Started out with 300 bucks to my name in 2008 when I was 18
Highest I ever had was 12 Million in 12/2017
Was a wild ride.
Nathan Clark
Exactly, end of the day we're still animals, we're meant to have to do something for survival. Dopamine is there to get us what we need to survive (food/fucking), when you flood yourself with it you build a tolerance just like with drug addiction and end up an empty hollow shell. That's when you hit the next step, and you look for causes bigger than yourself. Religion, meditation, your children, something besides "this make me happy/feel good".
Henry Scott
I'm in the same situation as you and I agree 100%.
I hit that dopamine wall several years ago and I've been grappling with it ever since. Nice to see there's at least a few other anons here on the same page as me.
Isaiah Young
I enjoy a pretty good subset of that.
In 2010 my parents died and left a portion of their estate to me, about $150k. I used 50 of that to buy a piece of family property with a cabin on it. Put 10 into BTC.
Sold some of the BTC when it hit 1k and most of the rest in 2018 at like 12.
So I don’t exactly have to work to live, my passive income keeps my taxes and insurance and such paid, food on the table, toothpaste, etc.
I do remote work as a contract SAP architect, which is what I was doing before making it. This is mostly because I need at least some structure in my life, and the company I work for offers free health care as long as I bill enough hours every year.
Chase Cox
>In the end, making it is really about what this user said
>and living a fulfilling life that isn't really about gains, but about making something out of yourself. Mastering skills, making real friends which is hard when you make it.
>As someone who used to attend Buddhist temples, there are plenty of millionaires who are miserable because lacking normal means of suffering creates other internal more complex forms of suffering that nobody understands.
Very true. Even though I was probably one of the best prepared (poor) persons ever to get rich I went into a kind of philosophical crisis in 2018-2019. I had just finished university but was always raised to slave away in some cubicle.
I preped like 15 years and still felt very weird.
2008 0.3k Graduate high school and get drafted into slave tier compulsory military service.
2009 7k Save money from it and invest in silver and mining stocks
2010 18k Second year of military service. Now in comfy tier position. In the evening work in a market research institute in the city lol. Also, enter university.
2011 37k Silver tops out and I sell the following year around 30$ per ounce
2012 45k Program automated trading systems with Ninjatrader (never use them much for crypto but it taught me important lessons about properties of different trading strategies)
2013 70k invest 7k in LTC very late and do a few x on other Alts
2014 Get into Doge get to >110k then drop back to like 50k. Also drop out of university and change to another one.
2015 45k Not much interesting happening
2016 160k Get back into Alts LTC, XMR, ETH, make several X on XMR pump in autumn then but back money into BTC. Give friend like 1/3 of my money for trading since I thought we would be better them me but he lost it ALL within 1 month shorting BTC (otherwise would stand at 250k for the year). I suffered from LSD induced depression for several months in 2016 which impaired my decision-making skills.
Julian Mitchell
>Currently there are dozens of bizlets who have 200k+ portfolios that will make it big after the bullrun if they invest wisely
Good to know my $50 starting point isnt going to make me shit in the bullrun.
Landon Thomas
Everyone has to start somewhere. People just like you said "why the fuck should I buy BTC when it's 10 dollars" years ago.
Brandon Stewart
we're at the first stages still, if you can manage to throw in 7k at the right time within the next 8 weeks you can easily get six figures by mid 2021. When I said make it big I meant that they will be making fuck you money and will never have to work again.
Leo Hall
True story im a link whale,
I haven't told friends nor family, I haven't taken out more money then $550,000(usd), I spent 3k of that on an advisor for handling my tax. I paid of my original 260k+ default I took out when I bought my first million linkies two years ago during its biggest drop. I had a house and used it as colateral knowing my job would never pay it off. I invested in other stuff, only profited from BTC out of all of it. I have been successful minus three times that I have move my stack back and forth, every other time I sold high and bought in again. I dont plan to cash out, in fact I plan to take out enough to finish my mortgage and I will continue to accunulate or rinse repeat indefinitely. I want to go from 22 million linkies to 90 in two more years if I can.
I still live like I'm poor, I told my friends and family that I'm a developer and just get by (im software engineer). Anyway I think we can all make it.
Michael Russell
based as fuck. I needed to hear this. thanks
Kayden Sanchez
2017 Think altcoins might be the dotcom-boom of our generation and switch back from BTC into Alts: ETH, XMR, MAID, Golem, iExec, Strat
A few rise up big time. E.g. I bought STRAT for 7 cents and sold in 2018 for 14 bucks
2018 1.95 million Portfolio maxes out around 12 Megadollars but for tax reasons, I had to hodl until March/April or pay like 47% taxes. I also made some tax escape plans to other countries but was too lazy to actually follow through. Some projects turn into dust, others do fine. Have all in cash on my bank account for the better part of the year
2019 2,3 million Go back to precious metals and invest in Gold, Silver and mining stocks and build my current portfolio
2020 Corona fucks everything up. Stocks, Crypto, Metals. Lowest point of portfolio was 1.5 Million after rising to 2.5 Million in February. Currently it sits at around 2,9 Million after all my bets started to ascend again.
Leo Fisher
Not yet. I'll let you know in a few years
Samuel Hill
That's very cool user, wish I had balls like you. I missed it in 2017 but even last year I could have accepted 85k in student loans and dropped them all into link, would have had it paid off and still been sitting on around 30k linkies, but pussed out. I hope you reach a billion dollars, would be very cool to see link billionaires.
Jacob Nguyen
The point of making it is to in part be able to leave Zig Forums behind.
Aiden James
Ha no. If anything this is going to be a place you'll want to return to, people change when you have money, if you get there you'll find out. Here it doesn't matter who or what you are, everyone treats you like a faggot. It's great.
Ryder Roberts
>As someone who used to attend Buddhist temples
Wow, what sect? I'm Nichiren Buddhist and used to go to the Chicago temple a lot when I used to live in the Midwest nstmyogyoji.org
Lucas Morgan
I don't own a house and for the last two years have rented a 80m2 / 870sqft apartment for 800 bucks per month. My car is a used 10k Ford.
Blake Lewis
To reword what I meant by "not as amazing as you think but also the greatest thing ever", a lot of it is perspective. You have to live life with perspective. Remember at any moment, you could be struck down by a heart attack/seizure, a nuke could hit, you could have been born a cockroach or even worse a nigger, learn to appreciate every moment of your existence. This doesn't mean just settle, but find ways to get the most out of the time you're given.
Josiah Sanders
>very based
Connor Johnson
Nice, I attended Kadampa which is supposed to be direct lineage from Buddha Shakiamuni.
I think it's funny how there's a dozen different branches and they're all separated by their own concept of emptiness and ultimate attainment. There's also some branches who refuse to learn emptiness because apparently that was only meant for Buddhas
Brody Roberts
>By that, I mean owning their own land/property, enough passive income to never have to wage again, and a maximum comfy life.
This isn't hard to do you idiot. It's called owning your own house and then filing for disability which at maximum will give you $3000 chained to inflation so it will always increase and effectively doubles if you have 2 kids.
John Rivera
>$3000/month
Angel Murphy
Different sutras are more important to different sects. Nichiren Buddhism is all about the Lotus Sutra.
Also my specific sect is Nichiren Shoshu which is basically the main/orthodox branch, and is separate from Soka Gakkai which is the heretical spinoff branch. Some things never change...
Caleb Turner
Very interesting. Just read up a little about it and Nichiren Buddhism is orthodox but from the 3rd gen Buddhism, originally founded around the 1200's. Not to start a Buddhism argument kek but Shakyamuni is 1st gen from around 400 BC, Kadampa claims to be the direct lineage. All very confusing but in the end it's all about having a clear mind and realizing you're the only cause of your own suffering. When I make it I'd love to get back and also learn about other types of Buddhism
Landon Sullivan
Yeah, I just meant the orthodox branch of Nichiren
Charles Richardson
Been here since mt gox days. Sold a portion of my BTC for 7 figures. Still got a good stack left.
Still working, but instead of wage slaving I run my own software company. I now work on projects I find interesting. I dont really care if they make money as I dont really need money any more. Maybe someday one of the apps will catch on and I can expand the company. But my BTC profits have given me the freedom to follow my interests