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I've become too envious of wealthy people...need helpAfter the USA Mega Millions lottery, I cant stop thinking about how lucky the winners have become. Also I was reading about hedge fund managers earning up to $4bn annualy and I have become angry that I have to work my a** off to obtain a good salary and enjoy life
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I feel like spending all my savings on lottery tickets hoping I am able to win.
How do you cope with this? I am finding this especially difficult in the last few days. I've never encountered these emotions before which have just materialized in the last few days.Last edited by Oceanic; 02-04-2012 at 15:17. -
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Re: I've become too envious of wealthy people...need helpI never have to cope with it - because I try not to compare myself with other people. I also don't think that money would escalate my happiness to never felt-before heights. If it does; give me 6-12 months to get used to the lifestyle and I'm sure my happiness would come down, back to normal levels.
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Re: I've become too envious of wealthy people...need helpI'm with u mate, will add that i'm also pissed off at being made to believe that a solid education would guarantee a good job and life for myself. Im just generally pissed(Original post by Oceanic)
After the USA Mega Millions lottery, I cant stop thinking about how lucky the winners have become. Also I was reading about hedge fund managers earning up to $4bn annualy and I have become angry that I have to work my a** off to obtain a good salary and enjoy life.
I feel like spending all my savings on lottery tickets hoping I am able to win.
How do you cope with this? I am finding this especially difficult in the last few days. I've never encountered these emotions before which have just materialized in the last few days. -
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Re: I've become too envious of wealthy people...need helpHave you been having trouble finding work/feeling crap with whatever job you have? Sorry if that sounded like a very cliched ad, but I have been having similar thoughts recently! It annoys me as I've always felt the opposite - I tend not to trust people with money and while I do have expensive taste, it only counts if it's my money! I've had a really stressful year (more than a year) after uni in minimum wage jobs, not getting anywhere, losing hope that I ever will really. Anyway the last month or so, I've been envying people who used to come into the pub where I worked who were obviously upper class 'top-drawer' and I kind of thought it'd be nice to be them, be protected and have it easy in life for a while. I know it's not totally easy for everyone, even if Daddy has money but I'm just at the stage where I'd like to think it is. I even wanted to move home and cry and have my parents keep me lol I'd hate that but I'm getting desperate with feeling down for a long time.(Original post by Oceanic)
After the USA Mega Millions lottery, I cant stop thinking about how lucky the winners have become. Also I was reading about hedge fund managers earning up to $4bn annualy and I have become angry that I have to work my a** off to obtain a good salary and enjoy life.
I feel like spending all my savings on lottery tickets hoping I am able to win.
How do you cope with this? I am finding this especially difficult in the last few days. I've never encountered these emotions before which have just materialized in the last few days.
But um, if you're not struggling, then... yeah, just ignore all that
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Re: I've become too envious of wealthy people...need helpThat's unbelievably heartless...(Original post by Alexandra's Box)
Just look up some kidnap-ransom reports about posh brats or stories about now-penniless and alone ex-winners snivelling in their derelict mansion.
Anyway OP, the only way to become rich if you aren't born into money is to work hard. The CEOs and best-selling artists of this world didn't just sit around playing the Lottery. -
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Re: I've become too envious of wealthy people...need helpHmm, if I was a rich man, I could build a very big needle...(Original post by The_Last_Melon)
It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God. -
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Re: I've become too envious of wealthy people...need helpThey might have a better lifestyle than you, but it doesn't make them a better person than you.
Realise all the hassle and unwanted attention they get. Plus they get used to the lifestyle but it can all end as quickly as it came especially with lottery winners and they may go through all the stress of having all their stuff takne by baliffs cos they can't keep up their lifestyle. -
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Re: I've become too envious of wealthy people...need help(Original post by Sprockette)
Have you been having trouble finding work/feeling crap with whatever job you have? Sorry if that sounded like a very cliched ad, but I have been having similar thoughts recently! It annoys me as I've always felt the opposite - I tend not to trust people with money and while I do have expensive taste, it only counts if it's my money! I've had a really stressful year (more than a year) after uni in minimum wage jobs, not getting anywhere, losing hope that I ever will really. Anyway the last month or so, I've been envying people who used to come into the pub where I worked who were obviously upper class 'top-drawer' and I kind of thought it'd be nice to be them, be protected and have it easy in life for a while. I know it's not totally easy for everyone, even if Daddy has money but I'm just at the stage where I'd like to think it is. I even wanted to move home and cry and have my parents keep me lol I'd hate that but I'm getting desperate with feeling down for a long time.
But um, if you're not struggling, then... yeah, just ignore all that
I'm in my final year at Cass predicted to achieve a First Class Honours in my BSc Accounting and Economics degree. I have also been offered a place by the London School of Economics for my MSc in Management, Organisations and Governance.
It all sounds good but I am still enraged at the fact that I wont be accomplishing that level of salary
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Re: I've become too envious of wealthy people...need helpWhat salary are you expecting/is achievable for you? Sounds like it'd pay well. I know not millions probably but...(Original post by Oceanic)
I'm in my final year at Cass predicted to achieve a First Class Honours in my BSc Accounting and Economics degree. I have also been offered a place by the London School of Economics for my MSc in Management, Organisations and Governance.
It all sounds good but I am still enraged at the fact that I wont be accomplishing that level of salary
I do get a bit annoyed and feel inadequate sometimes when I see millionaires who are years younger than me though! -
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Re: I've become too envious of wealthy people...need helpAh the Bible, always wanting to keep people in their place.(Original post by The_Last_Melon)
It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God. -
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Re: I've become too envious of wealthy people...need helpYa ha deedle deedle, bubba bubba deedle deedle dum.(Original post by Miraclefish)
Hmm, if I was a rich man -
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Re: I've become too envious of wealthy people...need helpJokes man.(Original post by najinaji)
That's unbelievably heartless...
Anyway OP, the only way to become rich if you aren't born into money is to work hard. The CEOs and best-selling artists of this world didn't just sit around playing the Lottery.
