I have to share this because it made me laugh so much when i got it that i was thinking about it for days. An old frienemy of mine sent me this text out of the blue the other day:
"In our hometown for the first meeting of the museum board-emergency meeting because the contractor screwed us. On my bucket list, got a faculty position at a better NYC institution then my folks (he's a science professor), got my MBA, on a museum board, and live in NYC apartment (uptown Manhattan and pricey), and now leaving NYU to go to a director position at investment bank so i can finally start saving money. Hopefully I can go retire in peace on Sullivan Island soon - go be Hemingway."
After 15 years of being a professor of sciences and with his parents handing money to him all his life (no college debt, never paid for rent or any of his first couple cars, etc) i was sort of perplexed on why he wasn't retired already. When I asked him why he told me "well you know, expenses... living life." Looks like saving is too hard when you are blowing 6 figures on fancy cars and traveling.
I told him I too was planning to retire soon and he asked "oh, did you guys come into money?" No asshole, I'm saving MMM style.
