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From: San Leandro,
Originally posted by FlyingPig
...Didn't you ever brag about something when you were a kid?
There, is your curiosity satisfied?
By posting a question like this, you are inviting more people to brag about it, while the real reason is easily analyzed and discovered.
...Didn't you ever brag about something when you were a kid?
There, is your curiosity satisfied?
By posting a question like this, you are inviting more people to brag about it, while the real reason is easily analyzed and discovered.
And no, this was not easily analyzed and discovered, because I would have never guessed that. Look at all the different responses, some borrowed money, some worked 3 jobs a day, some just spent money they didn't have and ended up paying the price. The situations are widely varied, but I would not for one minute just assume that a young owner claiming ownership was just "bragging." This is why I asked.
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From: Gunma(aka InitialD state)
i guess ill be the 1st young owner to reply, 1st of all i have never claimed to buy the s2000 by myself, they way i have an s2000 is because i pay $450 out of the $750 monthly payments, yes my parents are paying for the other $300
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Originally posted by charlie
I A piece of advice I would give to the young people here. Save and invest your money , buy some property, never have credit card balances. The years go by very quickly..
I A piece of advice I would give to the young people here. Save and invest your money , buy some property, never have credit card balances. The years go by very quickly..
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From: Austin
Originally posted by FlyingPig
...It's possible, but I bet you 80% of the young stook owners are simply buying with other people's money. After they "laundered" it, it becomes theirs. Sure you own a business at age of 20, where did you get money to start the business? You borrowed it from a bank? I'm not buying it. You earned it with part time job when you were 16 and 17? Forgive me if I'm not buying that either.
So why do so many young kids claimed to have bought themselves a stook? Well, it's your turn to forgive them. They just like to brag. As you said, they are just kids. Didn't you ever brag about something when you were a kid?
There, is your curiosity satisfied?
By posting a question like this, you are inviting more people to brag about it, while the real reason is easily analyzed and discovered.
...It's possible, but I bet you 80% of the young stook owners are simply buying with other people's money. After they "laundered" it, it becomes theirs. Sure you own a business at age of 20, where did you get money to start the business? You borrowed it from a bank? I'm not buying it. You earned it with part time job when you were 16 and 17? Forgive me if I'm not buying that either.
So why do so many young kids claimed to have bought themselves a stook? Well, it's your turn to forgive them. They just like to brag. As you said, they are just kids. Didn't you ever brag about something when you were a kid?
There, is your curiosity satisfied?
By posting a question like this, you are inviting more people to brag about it, while the real reason is easily analyzed and discovered.
I'm not gonna brag. But since you asked I will tell you. At 21 I dropped out of school and started my own buisness. I was going to school studying architecture, but one day I got sick of going to school so I just stopped. I had started doing apprentice work for an architect while I was in high school. Baisically, the architect went to my old H.S. looking for the best "engineering and design graphis" student, and that happened to be me. Ray (that architect) hired me thinking I would do little task like delivering, bluelining etc. etc. but was suprised at how well I 'caught on' so he started giving me full projects to do from start to finish because of this 'oportunity', I learned a lot. More than I was learning in school at the time. I learned a hell of alot. So I stepped outside of the box, and started working for myself. To answer your question about how you start your own buisness when you are so young. Well, I didn't need any money; all I needed was my computer (I bought that when I was 17) and, Autocad (Autocad is a real expesive software package, but uh... well were not gonna go there
) A good knowledge of how to operate that software. I was introduced to it in High School, but I guess I was largley "self taught". A plotter and a blue line machine. Other than that, all I needed was a creative mind. A little ingenuity. And clients. How did I get my first clients to trust me being so young? Well first off I didn't tell them how young I was... I led them to believe I was older than what I really am and have been doing this a long time. Once you make a few happy clients. Well happy clients beget more clients (It is pretty simple word of mouth advertissing) To this day I have never went out 'looking' for work and I always have more work than I can handle. To this day, I still get work from Ray. Infact, probably 70% of what I work on is connected to Ray Brown Assc. in some way. (In fact, I am typing this from his office right now) But I also get many clients who come to me as a result of hearing I do good work from my previous clients. I have also many builders in my area that bring me clients because they trust me, and know I will do a good job. In conclusion... I have tons of work!
Was it wise for me to buy a $35,000 car at the age of twenty one? NO.
But, you do the math: when your my age and you are making 4k per month and you realize it is feasible to buy a S2000... You just ****ing do it. Do I wish I would have saved my money? NO. I really, really enjoy my car. Do I miss my car after it has been gone for 63 days as a result of a flood in Houston? HELL YES DAMIT.
I went for the instant gratification, rather than putting my money in a shoe box and saving it for later. Life is too short -- I want to enjoy it. And I am! I don't have any outstanding credit card balances. I live in my own home... granted it isn't very nice, but I will be building my own custom home come the first of the year.
I am living a comofortable life, and I don't regret anything I have done. And I love my S2000.
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From: Torrance
Hey Luder,
We are both asian. I think a lot of us were raised the same way Mingster was raised. Gotta go the extra mile to be noticed.
[QUOTE]Originally posted by Luder94
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Man Rich,
Did you and I have the same parents?
We are both asian. I think a lot of us were raised the same way Mingster was raised. Gotta go the extra mile to be noticed.
[QUOTE]Originally posted by Luder94
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Man Rich,
Did you and I have the same parents?
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[QUOTE]Originally posted by John David
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To answer your question about how you start your own buisness when you are so young. Well, I didn't need any money; all I needed was my computer (I bought that when I was 17) and, Autocad (Autocad is a real expesive software package, but uh... well were not gonna go there ) A good knowledge of how to operate that software. I was introduced to it in High School, but I guess I was largley "self taught". A plotter and a blue line machine. Other than that, all I needed was a creative mind. A little ingenuity. And clients.
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To answer your question about how you start your own buisness when you are so young. Well, I didn't need any money; all I needed was my computer (I bought that when I was 17) and, Autocad (Autocad is a real expesive software package, but uh... well were not gonna go there
) A good knowledge of how to operate that software. I was introduced to it in High School, but I guess I was largley "self taught". A plotter and a blue line machine. Other than that, all I needed was a creative mind. A little ingenuity. And clients.
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From: Dallas
LIARS...are what you are...you're selling drugs! 
Actually I'm 27 too and concider myself a kid. I hardly think of myself as an adult even though I own my own house and S2000.
All I can say is it would have been bad a$$ to own this car at that age. Good for you guys.
Someone like Steve Jobs (owner of Apple) or the owner of Oracle, I forget who exactly, once gave a graduation ceremony speach to the graduates of MIT. He told them that they've come a long way and if they wanted to make big money that they are already too late wasted all their time and money in going to school and might as well give up.
Point is...there is a lot of money to be made out there. You just have to do it.
P.S. I still think all of you guys are selling drugs.
Actually I'm 27 too and concider myself a kid. I hardly think of myself as an adult even though I own my own house and S2000.
All I can say is it would have been bad a$$ to own this car at that age. Good for you guys.
Someone like Steve Jobs (owner of Apple) or the owner of Oracle, I forget who exactly, once gave a graduation ceremony speach to the graduates of MIT. He told them that they've come a long way and if they wanted to make big money that they are already too late wasted all their time and money in going to school and might as well give up.
Point is...there is a lot of money to be made out there. You just have to do it.
P.S. I still think all of you guys are selling drugs.
