I want to stop wagecucking in the lands for so-so money and OK living standards. Instead live a relaxed lifestyle like in paradise in the Bahamas.

[Anonymous]

I was born with zero money. I was wagecucking ("relentless" labor for very low money) like a slave and skinny and coughing away my health over time as the years have passed. Some bystanders have considered calling the ambulance for me before - seeing how the decline of my health was visible.

Therefore I will keep this short and to the point.

Getting kids with a gold digger wife arguing about politics and nagging me to death about things I can't change whilst spending her time asking god for miracles to happen would end my life the way I was born and surviving. A demise I intend to avoid by any means necessary.

So instead I want to get rich and find a good career lady and then move to the Bahamas with her and maybe one day drive a Ferrari and feel like I own and steer my life on my (our) terms. Childfree, beaches, paradise, relaxed lifestyle, cocktails and relishing life! Sounds like something Miami could offer but the costs of living there are impossible to keep up. I checked it here for Miami and here for Bahamas along with some things to know about living in the Bahamas. The description "relaxed lifestyle, relaxed pace of life and magnificent views [...] Life on some of The Bahamas’ smaller islands includes endless shorelines and beach life" lures me just like a Siren's song does to the Sailor.

Obviously with the way life works this will require grand sacrifices to be made. The types of sacrifices, that normal parents commit to when they have children. I have done these before (no, I don't have kids) so that I am not a skinny wagecuck slave with a steadily declining health anymore but it doesn't stop there.

I feel it is a commitment, a mutually exclusive choice to make (or not): When parents spend 20 years to raise one or multiple kids, working to provide and not relish the perks of rejuvenating getaways, I am here having spent 10 years just to crawl out of the imposed misery, regaining my basic human rights and building a foundation for my career and the next 10 years to build my life, relocate to the Bahamas and getting into the financial freedom and wealth and doing/creating/maintaining businesses. I am in my late 20s and I feel like my youth (time) and health was taken away from me. There were almost no parties, no international vacations and 0 girlfriends in my younger years.

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This is exactly what I need and not a life full of misery, poverty and huge liabilities like I was brought into. I am certain, that I will make it. The high risk here however is that most girls usually want marriage and children, thus rendering my journey to paradise impossible to achieve. I can't lose hope still.

I suppose this is how certain people made it to Dubai and drive their Lamborghinis and look pretty happy and healthy overall.

Dying rich still beats dying broke.

[dynamicyandere]

I’ve been working towards a similar goal. If you’re willing to dedicate 10 years of hard work and focus, you’ll be able to do it. The key is to embody perseverance and resourcefulness and never give up.


I’ve been at it for 7 years, starting with a minimum wage job. I lived on $20 a week for food and slept in a storage room because I didn’t make enough money to have my own place.


Now, I’m able to travel the world as a fully-fledged digital nomad.


I visited 3 countries in the last 9 months, and I’ll be flying out the Singapore next weekend.


I have a wonderful partner I met in Borneo and she’s my loyal ride-or-die companion.


My journey is far from over yet, as I’m just getting started.


It’s hard work right now, working 70-80 hour weeks.


If I want not just location freedom, but TIME freedom as well, I need to build a high-leverage scalable business (which I’m working on now) so that I can delegate and automate more.


If you want to live that high life, and have the time to enjoy it, you’re going to need to become an investor or big business owner.


You’re going to need to dedicate yourself to learning the skills you need to learn to generate the money and lifestyle you want.


You’ll need to have a drive that will enable you to work relentlessly towards your goals.


So the best thing for you to invest your time and energy in is skills.


Stack your skills on top of your skills until you can start your own business. (Even if you’re an investor, it’s likely you’ll need to eventually create a business if you want to have other people to manage your assets.)


Work hard at working smart.


Hard work IS necessary, but it needs to be done right.


If you’ve ever worked 16-18 hour days, you’ll know that working more hours at that point isn’t the answer. From that point, it’s all about optimization. How can you maximize your productivity within those 16 hours? Then, how can squeeze as much as you can into 12 hours?


For me, 16 hours a day is pushing it (and it’s unsustainable if you want to keep your romantic relationships alive) so I think 12+ hours a day is a nice sweet spot during the grinding phase (which will be a long phase).


Eventually I want to get to working 4-hour days and spend the rest of my day doing whatever I want, while my businesses are generating 10M+ a year.


But, I’m going to need to work my a** off to reach that point.


I understand that. And I’m willing to do the work.


Now you need to ask yourself if you understand the sacrifices you’ll need to make. And if it’s worth it to you, commit to your goals and dreams. And get to work. 💪

[myTake Owner]

I have been thinking about it for a long time too.
I'd like to put in more than 8 hours a day. I mean it.
Currently I am an employee in Germany and I look for what I can do beyond that. Even if it's freelancing or remote work, I'd sign up to help out for some extra money to work towards the goal we have in common.
Do you know how I can get an extra job while I am in Germany and employed full time? I've worked 50 hours before on 2 jobs (i was not in Germany at that time) for a short time and then Russia started invading Ukraine and I lost both jobs. I am trying to get back in 2 jobs but Germany is quite strict with employment, so my best bet would be international freelancing. Can you provide me with some lead?

[dynamicyandere]

It probably best not to get 2 jobs.

You’ll want to keep one job and then use your time off work to build a side-business where you can sell your services online and determine your own hours.

One way to do this is…

1. Pick a skill you want to learn that people will pay for.
2. Learn that skill.
3. Create a portfolio of work (your own projects or projects you have done for free).
4. Gather some testimonials (if you went the free work route, trading some free work for testimonials).
5. Network online, put yourself out there, and sell your services. (LinkedIn is great for B2B services, Facebook groups are also a great place to network and find clients, Instagram is a bit more B2C. Figure out what makes sense for your service.)
6. Use your portfolio and testimonials to land opportunities and gradually increase your skills and experience and rate.
7. Eventually you’ll be able to leave your job and turn your side business into your main business.
8. From there, you’ll be growing your business and leveraging systems and automations and delegation/hiring to become more hands off with your business, so that you can make room for the next business you’ll be building. (Or simply creating more time for you to enjoy the fruits of your labor.)

[MrOracle]

Very few young men enjoy such lifestyles, and the ones who do usually come from extremely wealthy families - it won't be the guys who earned their own money. The guys who earn their way to such lifestyles will almost always be in their 40s or 50s. That's just the reality.

And let's be very clear: those are vacation spots you are posting, with vacation prices. Unless you are very wealthy, you won't be able to LIVE that way. The locals who live there are the ones WORKING to provide the guests those experiences - they aren't enjoying those places themselves like a guest does.

I'm certainly not going to tell you that you can't become wealthy - it's certainly possible, though have no doubts that the odds are very much against you. You will have to work hard, make lots of very good decisions and very few bad ones, and you'll have to have good timing and some luck, but it's not impossible. Having said that, most people who have become wealthy themselves have had to work very hard at it for a long time - decades of 60+ hour weeks in most cases, with lots of responsibility and stress. That's why there are so few young men at those resorts.

It's very easy to say "I want a lavish lifestyle", but it's FAR more difficult to achieve it. Otherwise, that beach would be covered with people like flies on a picnic.

[myTake Owner]

What about software developers or digital nomads? I'm sure they can live there and work and make a decent living if not as an employee then as an individual contractor.

[MrOracle]

A few can, but most need to be in the office, and often for 12+ hours a day (the ones making great money). There are a few who can do this, for sure, but it's the exception rather than the rule.

[myTake Owner]

Sounds good to me. I'd sign up for that. It's better than wagecucking 12+ hours for peanuts. With a past like this, this should be... not easy but comparably easier than what I had.

[Jersey2]

@MrOracle That’s a bingo. Well said.

[Anonymous]

You’d be surprised how many women don’t want to have kids either. Marriage part, im not sure, probably.

[myTake Owner]

I'm on the fence about marriage and lean towards me being happy enough unmarried but kids are a definite no go.

[SueShe]

Asker! What is the question here? You merely make a statement and that goes against the rules of GaG.

[myTake Owner]

@SueShe This is not a question. This is a MyTake. Nothing goes against the rules of GAG.

[exitseven]

I know a guy who spends winters in Panama. He is in his 50s and has a bad heart and maybe will die soon. It is less expensive to live there but it still is not cheap. I think that people who try to live in resort towns have to work in the hospitality trade which is notoriously low paying and you still will have to work a soul sucking job for not much money.

I got a degree in something marketable and found a good job that paid well. I am still working but plan to retire soon while I am still relatively young. I daydream about living in the Bahamas sometimes but realize that it is not all fun and games.

[big_ben_007]

Never lose hope. There's always a way.

Always invest in yourself. You need to love yourself, improve your eating habits, eat healthier, take care of your hygiene, improve your confidence and start thinking like a business owner. Learn from business owners how they run their business.

Start doing those things, as well as working hard and saving money, and you will get closer and closer to your dream, one day at a time

[RealMarek]

If you can handle it, you can get paid $250k/year if you qualify as a subsea welder. I know of a young man who is doing this, living in a trailer near the most common job sites, and plans to retire at 40. He’s putting off having a family until he has built up enough savings and will only be with a woman who agrees with saving for the future.

[Anonymous]

You're almost 30 and haven't started yet, frankly you probably won't

I started with nothing at 8, I'm comfortably self-employed at this point and happy at this for now at least
an associate of mine started at 12 with 10k, same time as it turns out but he's got a fleet of cars including a Lamborghini and a few Ferraris

[myTake Owner]

And none of them tell us how to get there other than "work 60+ hours per week", which even if I am fully willing to wouldn't find the opportunities to get there. In Germany at least.

[Opinion Owner]

You have to put in the hours even now I do 70+ a week and fight for everything and took me years as it does for everyone in business

[myTake Owner]

I'd like to take up on it. I can't do that as an employee in Germany since their labor laws restrict us to work a maximum of 48 hours.
My best bet would be taking on an extra job doing freelancing or remote work. Where do such people gather to take on extra jobs?

[Opinion Owner]

You have to be self-employed or run a business we have employee hour limits but nothing exists for owners or freelancers
I don't know because my work is old school, traveling to buy and sell rarely excluding the pandemic has much been online

[peedy]

Good to have dreams
Good luck