Not sure if the same goes for the education system  in other countries, but's kinda sad that in universities, it's all just textbook knowledge even if you're major in business courses (BS-HRM, BSE, BSBA, etc). There are still graduates that do not know how the hell debt works and even the basics of interest and stuffs then in the end, they're all getting screwed up by these boomer scums that takes advantage of these zoomer generation of graduates.

Practical courses like those I mentioned should have been more on application rather than sticking to textbooks. Good thing that in my own field of SWE, I was a self taught.

I believe you misquoted, naikturun but anyways, although you're indeed right as the 90% of my learnings in my field were all from the internet (SO, Youtube, W3), you'll never know how would you apply those knowledge yet in real life unless you did experience it.

Just like I previously mentioned in this thread, it literally can't buy but it can give you the mental cushion of being able to pay bills and not go broke and homeless. Having to buy what you want is one form of happiness that's why they called it "wants". It's to each of their own anyway so there is no really right or wrong way to live.

Regarding the debt stuff, some people are just willing to loan so that they can afford to have a good Credit Score and be able to apply for Mortgage. Don't quote me on it though as I never intended to loan. Just like what they said, if you can't buy it twice, you cannot afford it.

I can recall some stories of people in the internet just hiring escort to keep them pleasured and that's probably really a lonely life if I can see it.

Holy crap! There is a Pepe coin? I mean I am not surprised that there is a coin for that but considering how old that meme already was, I just did not expect that there would still be legitimately a "meme" that is turned into a crypto coin. Not really interested to invest in these meme coins, but I am quite curious on how did it perform so in the past or is it just merely a new coin that just got hyped due to it being.... well a meme?

You mentioned "quick way to get rich" and I am always getting skeptical when I always here quick way to get rich although there is a part of that that it is true when it comes to memes.

Considering how many breeds of coins of SHIBA are out there (Starlink, <insert color of dog here> Inu, etc etc), I am quite surprised that people are still milking the fuck out of these memes for their own profits.

This is hella true. In Asian culture, It's so fucking stressful to be a breadwinner in the family where you know that you're almost responsible for everything while you're looking like a piggy bank of your parents. I had a couple of friends where their parents treat them like this. I understand the family oriented culture of people but holy shit, how would their children succeed if they're the one sucking it all up just to keep their parents proud.  This kinda made me appreciate the American culture where their children should be able to live on their own and separate at the age of 18.

Talking about luck there by the way, it seems like you will have a hard time finding job abroad if you don't have either a backer or someone you know that could help you out amongst the crowd of applicants with the same goal as yours.

People think it's all just hardwork. Hardwork will only get you so far, but to this hellish days, it's who you know rather than what you know.

Not really just lack of employment. Here in the Philippines, there are plenty of in-demand jobs like Software Engineers and IT Support, but the issue lies on low salary with such high qualifications. This is why some people here in my country tend to migrate to countries like Singapore since I heard that tech-related jobs there are high-paying.

True. I understand that there are people that are willing to help others like their family members financially. Here in the Philippines, there are those culture where the parents are making their children a retirement fund, especially the breadwinners, once they started working regardless if it is a corporate work or not. You just gotta suck it or else you're seen as a failure.
It's kind of a toxic culture here, but good thing not everyone is like that. No wonder there are many poor families at this country.

People forgetting to help themselves just because of the "toxic culture and obligation" is just way too much.

Not really literally, there are still rich people that are living in hell and wouldn't not even get to enjoy their lives due to them being busy making money. What people meant that money can buy happiness is that it gives people a peace of mind since they can afford to pay bills and never have to loan or be in debt just to pay what they needed to pay that supports their daily lives/needs.

You can't bring the money to the grave anyway like they said.

A million dollars could be already be comfortable for me to live the rest of my life unless the inflations fucks everyone around the world. Depending on my age, but if the time will still allow, I would invest that to build a software company and just surpass on where I worked at. It might be a risky move to invest my whole mil at that point, but considering that I have daily needs and without business, that money ain't gonna grow by itself. Time will come that I might need another job to replenish all those lost money.

Considering that the person has kids like still underaged, it would be better to just invest it all to a profitable business OR if you're really going to give them money, at least do it so for their needs rather than giving them the money.

Not really that too much unrealistic, ya know? Though surely a man would own a company to earn that amount in a year. Surely $1M is like a thousand dollars in a multinational company?

This is also true. Not every BTC "holders" are entirely circulating in investment and we all know that there are businesses revolving around BTC. Imagine the losses that businesses might encounter due to these transaction fees.
I am pretty sure there were also news revolving Binance regarding halting withdrawals?

True also for the hodlers. It's kinda pain when you can't just buy due to these fees.

I mean that's what people call it "reducing risk". They try to learn what the heck "hodl" means, while in trading, they try to learn what candlesticks, RSI, and other signals means and what do they do at all. They're top coins and assets for a reason that's why people are buying and selling them continuously.
It is not a risk if you don't have to face it at all.
Even if the project is kinda good quality and what they call "promising", it ain't a hundred percent that it will be worth it. Imagine if those ICO days on how many were legitimate projects and just got buried under the market due to sheer number of scams during 2017. Deploying a project is really a pain in the ass, let alone getting a team together even if it isn't crypto-related.
I am not surprised that there would be lesser number of "legitimate" projects in the future.

Hey, sorry to hear that, OP. All of us are wishing you the best.

If you're still capable, if not just by chances you mentioned, to do some work, you might be able to still get away with freelancing or just do remote jobs at all so that you don't have to even walk at all. Not really pushing you to work there, OP but I just wanted to mention that it ain't end of the world for ya just because you encountered failed surgery.
You're doing great with your writing so don't worry about it.

Well 20 euros is quite a lot here in my country already so yeah it might be "little" for some people. Not surprised that many people here are calling it bull run just because of a $500 increase per Bitcoin.

Nah, I just read few answers here in the forum regarding that. I wish I could've tried it when I was day trading back in the days, but nah I am all the way to zero to the ground now in my technical knowledge in trading.

Not sure if the price in that kind of practice in trading is live though.

...or get lucky. Working hard will only get you so far to be real with you. Luck affects a lot in trading especially in a volatile market.

Some people just do have the bad luck though even by few years. Remember when Bitcoin was like down under 6k around 2018, and people were panic selling that time when they kinda expected Bitcoin to go over 20k? Bull run ain't a guarantee even after 3-4 years.

Sad reality is that becoming an investor requires you to somehow be above low-class people since everything you invest should be either you can afford to lose or you just don't care about it at all. This ain't a lottery that everyone can just win in an instant. Even if you're

Even though I felt the readiness on trading, I would not even quit my job full-time. I am not sure how would other people deal with the exhaustion in trading after a whole day let alone being a full-time. If I would ever trade again, I would just treat it as a side job and that's the best thing I could do with it.
I love staring at the monitors, but I ain't really that much of a fan staring at charts. That makes we wonder, how much were you like earning in a month in trading?

80% kinda high though possible. Just not that easy considering the volatility, don't you think?

I see where you're coming from. Indeed it is more than a requirement to have a good location considering also the factors, not just the people but also how convenient would it be to reach your store, let alone for your distributors and suppliers.

Also worth noting that I had worked with few clients and you're definitely spot on on maintaining relationships with customers. It gives rumors (good rumors of course) around your business regardless if it is a service rendered business or merchandise ones.

It kinda depends still on what business offers to people. Some business would still remain classy especially for those diner restaurants. I wouldn't ever return to a diner restaurant that just do some flashy ambience just to look "latest". Sometimes the latest design is not really the better one. Look on how other manufacturing companies "modernize" their logos.

Yeah, unless you really follow a lot of crypto influencers, it ain't just worth it. Sure, everyone wants to earn overnight but they won't just realize the losses they encounter since there are waaay more promising coins in the market than just these meme ones. If there were such thing as getting rich quick kind of thing, why haven't people just did that instead and why aren't there surge of wealth in the economy?

Regarding Elon Musk stuffs, I don't care if the guy discusses or tweets again about Bitcoin. I can recall the annoyance of that name here in the forum back in 2021.

I kinda have the same thoughts as yours. Not sure if OP is even looking at fiat while mentioning these disadvantages/negatives as this is truly like applicable also to fiat.
Bitcoin not easily being understood by people? I am pretty sure I was curious as well on how banks work and it is not just something we call "storage of money".

I read someone mentioning here that withdrawing money from bank is non refundable as well. I am pretty sure that every digital payments has that non-refundable concept. It's forever recorded in the database. Fuck all those claiming to recover those lost funds though, lol.

You know I am kinda bothered that people think that Bitcoin itself is a scam. Why haven't people just banned fiat if they wanted to put a stop to all these scums.
I get it that Bitcoin is almost non traceable since address can only be the leads unless the address is being used in a custodial wallet, but I am pretty sure there are waaay more untraceable ways that people do to do such crimes using fiat.

Take all those stores with a grain of salt, OP. You never know what kind of struggles they went through and what's real or not in the stories you read around here. The reality in crypto trading is that..... it is really meant for everybody and that is perfectly fine. I tried trading before and it isn't just for me at all so I went back to hodling.

It is indeed risky that's why you should just try few bucks first and see if you think you could continue to persevere despite the losses that you'll encounter for a week or even a month depending on how fast can you learn trading. For me, it ain't just worth it at all for me considering I am already exhausted in the first month.

I highly doubt that most traders do earn from trading Bitcoin. Considering how volatile the market is and how long Bitcoin already existed and continue to get new ATH every year, I think they are way more hodlers than traders. I cannot say the same for trader of alts though.

Adding up to what you said, if you don't have a capital to start, virtual trading might be a good thing to start, but it could build up bad habits since you're not "feeling the loss of money".

Well sometimes you might need to weight out between making "customer right" which is kinda toxic business philosophy if you would ask me and growing your business. In the end, sales is what you needed and should want. If your product is not really needed nor wanted, why bother thinking that customer would even come back. Just hear me out in this example, almost every corners and block here in my area are composing of milk tea businesses and it is kinda getting annoying that these business owners think that milk tea are still a thing these days. Although I kinda understand that there are a lot of Korean fans here in my country (I know that bubble tea originated in Taiwan), it is kinda getting a saturated business idea ya know.

To answer your question about increasing profits in business, make sure the business and not just you is up-to-date to the trends these days. This is why I tend to avoid foods businesses since they're kinda high risk and people would be sick off the food due to it being repetitive.

Location won't help the business if the business idea in the location is really saturated. Here in my area like I previously mentioned, there would be people that might answer that they like milk tea, but then there are way too many competitors for milk tea business and that is kinda going to be a threat in my own end. I guess unless the business went multi-national then we're good I guess.

I can only imagine that the next stage would be regret and acceptance afterwards. Although to be fair, we gotta admit that we still have that emotions when we invest and every bear trap is like a sudden surge of panic for us. I've been there so I can really feel those people that kinda reacts to it quite quickly. It's just that they're not realizing that it's all just part of crypto or even the market as a whole.

I mean you can even tell that 100% of people in Facebook are crypto experts. /s

Sarcasm aside, these are just memes and not really what you should take literally. I ain't even fighting these trolls in Facebook or even Twitter sometimes since they do not have a single idea what they're talking about anyway. If it affects or triggers people that much, I suggest that they should unfollow every crypto pages in their social media accounts.

Spot on.  I just don't get why people would assume that scams would just disappear with these precaution. We never know how clever scams would be, since even ponzi schemes seems to pay newer investors and they would think that they're in legitimate platform. Let alone even hackers everyday, they just keep coming at anyday and there ain't nobody that could stop them even if the government tries to just control it all.

I disagree and in fact they could listen more to anyone's advice. It's just that they're listening literally to "everyone" like literally blind to what's going on. Everyone was there at one point and we all just became really skeptical about it all making us be more vigilant about this.

You're still young like you mentioned. Better save up for your white collar work and keep at it instead of resigning to trade. I am going to tell ya that it's going to be a mess once you started trading Bitcoin. I did day trade back in the days just like the story I mentioned in every trading related discussion and believe me that you'll be hella exhausted at the end of the day and it ain't just worth it.

It's possible like examplens mentioned, but it is going to be a sloppy experience for ya. You could do trading as a side income as long as is it not breaching your contract in the company you're working at. If your 9-5 is not really paying well, it might be better to just job hop.

This is exactly me except it was around 2018, if I can recall correctly and I was day trading that time. It's just not worth it. The money isn't just worth it if your mental health is screwed at the end of the day.