I’d make videogames and game music or be an artist of some kind.
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If I weren’t ill, it’s be cool to be an architect. Since I am ill, it’d be nice to become a housewife or work some low stress job like tutoring or volunteering with people or maybe become a landlord where I just rent out rooms in the house or start an Airbnb.
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My perfect job would be to own several local rental properties and make lots of money from them. I now own only one property. It’s harder to buy properties than you would think. I’ve been trying for the last four years to buy a second one.
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Ever thought about a duplex where you could live in one unit and rent the other out?
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@anon12381882, Duplexes are extremely hard to find at a reasonable price. Everybody and their mama wants them.
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I own two houses but I live in one. Rent the other out. I only make a few hundred bucks a month from renting it out so you would have to own several to make a living from it unless of course you have the money to buy them outright. I have two VA loans. No money down.
I have about $60,000 of equity in the rental house so if I sold it I could make about 50 grand. I am going to hold on to it for about another 20 years or so. I hope to have about twice that or more in equity by then and pay off the house I live in. I bought it as a foreclosure so I got a good deal on it.
It’s a slow wealth plan but it’s a plan.
I lost my ass on a house I bought in California in 2004. Paid $510,000 had to short sell it in 2015 for $360,000. Poured thousands of dollars away every year renting it out up until I sold it.
The bubble shouldn’t happen again but real estate isn’t a sure thing. Today that house is finally worth about what I paid for it but I was so glad to get rid of it. The mortgage was about $4000 per month and I was last renting it for $2295. That was a costly lesson. I thought I was going to be rich when I bought it.
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I went to college to be an economist. I wanted a PhD. Unfortunately I didn’t have the grades and dropped out anyways. I was thinking about being an investment banker too but I think the economy sucked and I probably didn’t have the personality for it. I wanted one of those really nice, high paying finance jobs on wall street. You know, out of the billions of past lives I’ve had, I don’t think I was ever an investment banker or economist. Maybe in my dreams though haha! That’s why I hate my life because I’m in a time loop where my behavior rarely changes too. I’m just a schizophrenic. It’s real to me. Too real. Now, I’m horrible at economics, I think economics is boring and sucks!
I sometimes wish that I was an investment banker at a boutique firm or something. Or in my dreams if I graduated or reality was different. I really did like finance but so do most people in the field. I like the math involved. Even before my illness, I knew I was never smart enough to be a quant. The funny thing is after the schizophrenia, I sometimes think I am now. Like schizophrenia made me smarter or something, but the opposite is true. I’ve lost IQ points. I think psychosis made me way more opened minded and able to think philosophically like about simulation theory, aliens, time travel, and stuff.
I was also interested in being an actuary; more so after I dropped out. But not only is the math hard but you have to take these exams in a timely manner and that’s where I failed. I bought a $100 study manual (first exam) and didn’t really finish the practice exams on time. Took me like 2-3 times longer and some problems just stumped me. I sometimes blame the schizophrenia, meds, and relapse for this. I don’t think I’d make a great actuary but if I could pass the exams, I’d probably fit in better than an ibanker. I think I have the personality for being an actuary. I think actuarial science is better for me than software engineering and stuff. No matter how “hard” I practice programming, I’ll never be as good as some of these kids that learned programming in their teenage years. Plus, it’s hard with schizophrenia. Ever since I started getting the prodromal symptoms, I would constantly forget what I learned in school.
Again, I don’t think I was ever an actuary in a billion past lives. It’s sad. They make good money and I find the field perfect for me now. I feel like God or the greys are doing this to me to make my life hell - like and miserable.
I’ve literally been a suffering bum in this life or timeline (time loop?) for eternity. I’d have to switch time loops or timelines and hope for a better life. But I seem to constantly come back to this shitty time line. I had some interesting timelines to say the least. But that was a long time ago. Sometimes I mistake what I see on TV as real. Wouldn’t be surprised if 99% of my delusions come from the TV. I think some of it was designed this way like being forced to watch the TV in my past lives. But even just watching YouTube probably causes me to get delusional when you factor in my psychosis and dreams.
In a couple of my past lives, I probably did work for the NSA, CIA, and was in the military or something. Maybe it was my dreams or something. Maybe not. It was too real. I’m happier being a “bum” though because I seem to have bad luck or something. I feel like I suffer a lot less being a “bum”. Less schizophrenia and suffering. If things were different I would have joined the military instead of trying to be an investment banker and went to a different school. Probably do something with engineering or electricity. Maybe God or the Gods did something to change my life a trillion lifetimes ago so I’d end up doing nothing with my life or every life I have.
I wonder why that stuff was more likely than me being an investment banker or economist or actuary. Only thing I can think of is I may have always wanted to join the NSA as a kid (never happened) and I somehow got interested in time travel and probably had ET contact or some ■■■■ in my past lives…
Living a trillion lives in a billion different timelines I’ve seen everything or mostly everything. My best life is this life. A life on SSI – I think. I had jobs in my past lives and had a college education. But it’s like the aliens or simulators were behind it or maybe the government. You know we might not even have free will in this simulation. Plus, I’m burned out, tired, and see no point anymore in trying for an education or job. I’ve been in constant fear and stuff from my past life memories. I worry about my family too.
I know I went on many tangents. Not sure I make sense anymore.
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I would never buy a super expensive, high end house and try to rent it out. I shoot for $125,000 to $160,000 houses in good areas of the US Midwest.
Well I lived there first. When the military moved me I had to rent it out. I didn’t want to move. As long as I lived there I could afford it.
I always wanted to be a psychiatrist, or a musician.
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And a great excuse to tell someone to “Stick it where the sun don’t shine.”
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Hell, look at Dr. Phil. Was a star football player at college, doesn’t back down from anybody, is a quadrillionaire, and has a beautiful wife.
If all else fails when you put out your shingle, think of him and use him as an example.
University faculty member would be nice but i quit job dreaming long time ago for some reason… 
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I hereby nominate @77nick77 as president of this forum… maybe that strikes a fair balance
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I accept the nomination. I will be the most efficient president ever. On weekdays I can run the world and on weekends I will vacuum and empty all the wastebaskets in the White House.
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You don’t see trump stepping up like that… that’s for sure.
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I wouldn’t trust him to help me clean restrooms on Monday mornings.
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Well I don’t know how it is… but at my job a no call no show is grounds for termination.
I really want to be a psychiatric nurse practitioner and have my own practice. I want to give therapy and prescribe meds. I really want to work with my patients and find what helps them best towards recovery.
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That’s how I got fired at Target. I didn’t show up for three days straight and didn’t call.
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