Peter,
I have just turned 30 and am very much a part of generation X.
I didn’t finish highschool, and didn’t waste my time doing university, or any other tertiary ed – I bummed around the country surfing and working hospitality.
I never had any money, only enough to scrape through each week.
When I hit 24, I was offered a middle management position in a hotel/resort – this was what woke me up out of my “I’m never going to get anywhere, might as well just cruise” attitude.
After working the position for two years, I realised that there are basic fundamentals to making forward steps, and increasing income.
I moved to QLD and the same day I got here, got myself a job as a real estate agent – I knew nothing about real estate except the income was the one of the best you can get.
Since then I have been in the property game for three years – and am also PS 146 compliant as a financial advisor – and have joined a company to help them run a property investment centre – I live and breathe property.
I will be in a position to retire at 35.
You need to do some serious work on daily affirmations and embedding the right language into your subconcious – if you keep telling yourself the crap that you are telling yourself – that is what you will live.
The world is only shaped how you percieve it to be shaped. You will notice that wealthy people usually have a pretty positive outlook on most things – and the not so wealthy are flat out whinging about everything they have no control over.
Be positive – don’t be a whinger – you are giving our generation a bad name!
Start rubbing shoulders with some people that have generated themselves considerable wealth – show them the respect they deserve – and you will find that people are willing to share how they did it, and give you some pointers.
Mate if you are uni educated, and someone of my educational ability has pulled it off, you certainly can. You now just have to educate yourself with the right stuff – read “Rich Dad, Poor Dad” by Robert Kyosaki (I’m not sure if that’s how you spell it) it will change your life – it changed mine.[withstupid]