I have been listening to an audiobook story on Audible called " Rich Dad, Poor Dad. " It is about managing your money and not working for money but instead having money work for you. And understanding how it works and how to do that. It has been really good so far! I would so recommend it! It is called rich dad and poor dad because this kid in a small town whose father was poor and his friend's dad was rich, and the writer is the kid whose father was poor. And so his friend's dad has been teaching his kid and him how to manage your money and make money work for you, and the story is about that. And also, the rich dad's son is nine years old, and the poor dad's son is also nine. So pretty young and learning how to make money, but they are getting along and understanding well.
Do you want to know how the poor dad got poor? And how the rich dad got rich? It's great how! So how the poor dad got poor is that he went to school. And went to college. And got good grades and won awards. You might be saying," What? He got good grades and went to college! How is that possible that he is poor from doing that?!". Well, let me try to explain; by going to school, what do you learn? You learn math, algebra, reading, science, Biology, writing, and history. Yeah, you learn a lot, but what don't you learn? Try to guess. How to manage your money, make a business, and get money working for you and not you working for money. They teach you how to make money by working for money in school.
Well, you might say, why is that bad to work for money? Ok, well, let's say you have a job that you go to every morning, and you have to get up and eat, get dressed, go to work, come back, let's say around 6:00 PM, eat, get dressed, sleep, get up in the morning and do the same thing every day of your life—working for money. And your dreading to pay your taxes. Trying to save money. But also, when you get a raise, let's say, and you are really happy about that, and there is something that you have been saving up to get. And you buy that thing, and you get tired after a month. It's not exciting anymore! And you wonder, why did I buy this? That is what money does to you. It makes you greedy to want more and more! It was a great idea to buy it in your mind at the time, but after a while, you ask yourself again, why did I buy this?
And you want to know why college is bad to go to? Well, number one, college is crazy expensive! And you have to get loans to pay it off. And after you get the loans to pay for college, you buy books there to learn about math, etc. At the end of the day, you learn what? Well, this is what you don't learn. How to raise a business, how to manage money and do the things you love to do! Those things are super important to learn! If you want to be a doctor and get a degree, you need to go to college for that. Because let's say you went to a doctor's office and you need to have surgery done. And this doctor who is homeschooled and has been practicing how to be a doctor and didn't get a degree yet to be a professional doctor, well, I don't think you want him to be doing surgery on you! So do go to college if you want to be a doctor or other things that need to have a degree. But if you went to college just to get a good education, well don't go! I am not so anti-college because you do need to go to college to be a doctor and etc. But the things I have been saying, you probably think I am anti-college. But just know that I am trying to say don't go to college just for a good education. Go do homeschooling!
Now back to what I was saying earlier. After you pay for your books at college and other stuff too, and it's time to pay up for the loans, you don't even have enough to pay for it! Some people have enough, but it will be hard to get through, and it's a waste of time! You can learn that when you are homeschooled, and even better, you can learn how to manage your money! And have money working for you! And it's free! You don't have to pay thousands of dollars! You don't have to go to college because you literally learn the same at home or wherever you are. It's pointless. I am not saying that learning math, science, etc. Is bad! I am not at all! Learning all those things is also important, but I am saying that learning how to manage your money and having money work for you instead of you working for money is important too! And you know what? That is how the rich dad got rich! He only did the math and all of that till 5th grade! I am not saying you should do that either at all! But that is what, in the story, the rich dad said about the 5th-grade thing.
After you learn how to manage your money and already have money working for you, you don't have to wake up dreading paying your taxes, doing the same thing every day, and not learning anything. You can wake up and do a lot of different things every day! Learning more and more about money and how to manage your business better! And you can learn how to buy things that will help your business and not be something you want just because your neighbor has it or you think it's pretty cool to look at it. But sometimes you can buy something that you have always wanted! But you must be careful of how much of those things you buy. And even buying a Starbucks every day or every other day! Now I know I am only a 12-year-old saying all of this. But this is what I think and what I learned from the audiobook. And I am still learning more and more!
This is what I want to put at the bottom here.
Don't go to college. Be homeschooled, learn what you're passionate about, and see what your talent is! You should always do the things you think you are really talented about! The things you love to do. God gave you and me and everybody a talent so we can do what we love and be praising him for it! And be faithful to him. Don't throw your talent away and do other things you don't like to do but only like because you get a lot of money. A talent is super special. " Each of you should use whatever gift you have received to serve others as faithful stewards of God's grace in its various forms. 1 Peter 4:10.
Thank you for reading my blog post. :)