Can you just pick a profession with a high financial renumeration/expenses paid (or other) benefits and coax yourself into developing a genuine interest for it?

There are brickies that can lay 800 bricks a day at sometimes charge $2 a brick. Often they ask for cash. But would it be wise for me to drop everything and become a bricklayer? By the…[Read more]

One thing that fascinates me is the possibility of getting a loan from a country with much lower interest rates and suddenly deals are everywhere! Albeit you’ll be watching the value of the Aussie dollar and praying it stays strong.

Unfortunately Japan is one of those places that you don’t really know what goes on. Westerners that have lived…[Read more]

To be really I honest I have been quite down the last 3 days or so.

I’ve got my 1300 number back now and hopefully the amount of work i’m getting will pick up as July ends and everyone wants everything done before Xmas. I’ll try and put my rate up and be ultra incontrol of my finances.

I want to document the whole rags to riches process in nitty…[Read more]

However, if Melinda lives somewhere where the rent is very expensive (and she needs to be there because she works in a big Australian city) or she spends a lot in parking each day for work I could very well understand it.

Of course when you go for a job don’t tell you are willing to work for award rates! If they *do* want to get you down to this…[Read more]

Melinda

I always saw the min-wage as quite generous and personally would love to be getting it.

$15 an hour at a 40 hour week is $600 per week before tax and super. I can easily live on $250 a week ( was getting about $200pw while I was studying and living in a flat) leaving a decent amount to put aside for into investments and or deposits.

I…[Read more]

Well $160 * 500 = $80,000

So I guess you need a bit more creativity or at least patience.

Sonja,

Thanks for your encouragement. Neurotypical is the term; albeit cheekily used to describe people outside the autistic spectrum.

For more info about AS and Autism check out:

http://www.aspiesforfreedom.com/

http://www.aspiesforfreedom.org/autisticprideday/

http://www.spectrumhaven.com/

Even an irc server: irc.chatautism.com/6667

There…[Read more]

Why not buy a house with projected high capital growth, build a new kitchen and turn the existing kitchen into a master bedroom with ensuite while you live in it for 12 months. Then sell and put the capital gain down as the deposit on a commerical?

Dazzling,

I’m very tempted to have a go at either of those positions but I fear they may send me on the next skywest flight back, shortly after starting, when they realise i’m not really cut out for physical labor.

Not saying I think its below me, just saying they may decide not to employ me. If I can be assured they’ll give me a chance to get…[Read more]

oshen:

I did once with a computer shop but we didn’t discuss it properly and they said I wasn’t right for the job. Another time I wrote about it in cover letter for a job with an ISP in regards to their status as an equal opportunity employer but didn’t get a reponse.

Although I do have a reasonable amount of expereince,most of it is self-made…[Read more]

I might explain why I don’t do so well at interviews. Its because I have aspergers syndrome and interviews seem to be a test of “body language” more than anything else. Even though over the last 3 and a half years of working with people and their computer problems and developing people skills I have in no way become more like a neurotypical.

I…[Read more]

I’m 24 and I live with my parents at the moment.
I definately want to move out but I’m just not earning enough. I lived in flats before while I was studying and getting centrelink. I applied for a lot of part-time jobs while studying but never got offered beyond pizza delivery which I did for 3 months until my cars tranmission died.

I’m…[Read more]

I lost that laboring job I took up. And after only 2 days…

So much for the “just do time” while saving up $400 a week strategy.

I’ve done a little diagram in kolourpaint (simple KDE integrated paint program for Linux) to help explain my strategy for as as lifeX described it “baby-stepping financial freedom into acheivable bites”

This pic illustrates the problem.

http://www.arach.net.au/~pcaston/financialdependence.png

The pic in the middle came from:…[Read more]

The way i’m designing this “personal financial independence” plan I aim for it to be a downhill battle most of the way. There IS a need to scrimp and save at the begining to get various deposits together (as you fight your way up the hill) after that all of the investments are cashflow positive or aim to quickly become so.

There are a few things…[Read more]

Well i’m 24 and people still ask me if I’m 18. I plan to keep fit and still look and feel like i’m in my 20’s when I’m in my 30’s

Anyone looked into what other countries/continents might have cashflow positive?

What about developing nations?

To make the first milestone a bit easier I’m thinking I may make it water instead of food.

It’s more just to make a start and get at least one milestone out of the way. At the moment I don’t need to pay the water bill but this will show what happens when there is money left over. It is reinvested.

So my first milestone is to secure a recurring…[Read more]

Eric,

I know what you mean. I’m driving around in an ’82 Datsun Stanza. Its very reliable but its not the best for style. Still it gets me around Perth and doesn’t cost me much in petrol.

I would like to be methodical about become financially independent and develop it as a science. Write out a “personal independence” plan much like the business…[Read more]

I’m 24 and I don’t own any properties yet. I’m self-employed (but less than someone on min wage would earn) and I live with my parents. At the moment I’m just saving as much as I can.

Got my eyes on the stock market, property trusts, full time jobs, cf+ properties etc.