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5 February 2016 | 13 replies
You will still lose money and then you'll be living in a miserable place (unless you are fine in the piping hot desert with no one to hang out with).
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17 December 2015 | 41 replies
When I graduated I landed my "dream job" ... after a few years the dream turned into a nightmare and I found out that what I went to school for and thought I wanted to do for the rest of my life was not at all what I was expecting and made me miserable.
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28 September 2015 | 5 replies
I spent the next year just educating myself and meeting and talking with as many people as I could to understand why some people are successful and some fail miserably.
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9 March 2016 | 49 replies
The plan worked except she was miserable managing the tenants and they eventually got divorced.
12 August 2010 | 21 replies
Chances are if you are not really interested you will be mediocre at best and fail miserably at worst.I also have found that your interest level can help motivate you.
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28 November 2017 | 81 replies
What if you come across someone who once had the same goals you did, but failed miserably?
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31 May 2017 | 4 replies
Do we have enough cash to take a lower paying job back home that allows time to manage our business or do we need to keep working our miserable jobs for more cash?
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8 April 2016 | 11 replies
Here I was surrounded by 10 other guys who had an extreme passion for doing this stuff, while I was miserable.
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26 March 2022 | 31 replies
There are a lot of miserable landlords out there who wished on a genie lamp for 100 units and discovered it's more than a full-time job.
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14 May 2019 | 94 replies
I tried my own method in my 20’s and failed miserably so I gave up on my method in my early 30’s.