Why aren't you rich?

I would rather enjoy my family then to put in 16 hour days pimping myself out in sales. This is where I would make my millions but I do not like to feel sleazy. I make it on my own schedule. I am able to attend EVERY event my daughter is involved in. I take care of my father, help my mother and am close with my family. This is more important to me than money. I figure, nobody has gone to their grave saying "I wish I would have spent more time at the office".

I dont know why i am not rich yet.Lol

It all depends on how one defines "rich". If it's all about money then the answer is "NO!", I'm far from rich but if it's about family, friends and love then I'm the wealthiest woman alive. Sometimes it's been a struggle to STAY alive because there wasn't much money but I think you know what I mean. I guess I could say the choices I made years ago led me down the path to not being rich and "successful" in the conventional financial sense. I "coulda, shoulda, woulda" gone to college but instead I got married young. Yes, I was pregnant when I got married, which I think I've "confessed" here in the past. I can't say I regret it because if I'd have done things differently I wouldn't have the wonderful daughter I have or the amazing grandchildren I have. I wouldn't have made the wonderful memories I've made through the years. I'd probably have still married my husband even if it would have been a bit later in our lives but that doesn't mean things would have been the same. If I'd have waited to get married and gone to college I'd probably have had an easier life physically because I wouldn't have had to spend all those years working first in sewing factories and then delivering mail. I'd probably have a bigger bank account and maybe a fancy house, who knows. On the other hand, maybe I wouldn't have been able to be there for my mother when she needed me to be her caregiver for her final years and maybe I wouldn't have had the great vacations with my grandkids and the rest of the family when the kids were younger because I'd have been working like a fool to make more money. When I grew up everyone did have an opportunity to succeed in this country, or close to everyone. I'm afraid that's not true anymore and it's getting worse. I didn't come from a wealthy family but I still could have gone to college, it was my own fault that I didn't. Today many kids don't even allow themselves to dream about going and it's not their fault at all. Annie

I also am not an American. If I may say this, i think everybody wants to rich and enjoy the convenience that life has to offer. I have chosen a career that won't even get me near that path of becoming rich especially in my country. The wages are low for a teacher like me. But I can say through proper budgeting, it is enough. If I want to be rich out of teaching, I may as well teach in the US, UK, Canada or Australia. That way I can have a mansion of my own.. ;)

First I want to be clear, I'm not American. Why I'm not rich yet? Easy now, I'm getting there! No, but seriously money isn't everything but I wouldn't mind if I got rich in the future though. So I guess I'm not rich because I haven't tried to get rich :o)

it depends on someone's perception of wealth. health, a good family, peace of mind, happiness are what i considered real wealth that could not be determined in weight by gold.

Well, being rich would be great, but the problem is money can get to people's heads. People can become egotistical when they have a lot of money and they can be controlling because as we all know "money = power". I am going to college right now to get my degree so that I can get a great job and earn enough money to support myself.

I am not rich and with the career path I choose I could never be what many would consider right, but I could have been better off if I had followed a few simple plans. Early in my career I did not invest in an extra retirement plan and could have been better off if I had just invested as little as $25 a month and increased it by $12 each year. Today I would be looking at an income of $500 a month more. Not rich but better off if I had done that.

The reason people aren't super rich isn't because the rich are taking it all and hoarding it at the top the reason is people don't realize just how hard it is to make money and they don't want to put the effort that it takes to make a successful business or to take themselves to higher levels in their own life. The issue is choice most of us talk of making it rich but we choose not to take actions that will lead us that way. See all it takes is a choice and tons of dedication and hard work and you can make it. Even in a bad economy one of my friends just started a company and sold it off it was becoming a success now he is an employee of the company that he built and it is owned by a bigger company but it took him a better part of a year to actually get the Business to where it is today. It took him dropping his life style down to a point where he was just able to afford food and shelter over his head so that he could keep the business running. People are not willing to do this they don't want to put the hard work in or if they do they don't plan enough and end up failing and giving up. When they should be looking at a failure much like Edison when asked how did it feel to fail 1000 times to make a light Bulb Edison responded " I didn't fail 1000 times I found a 1000 ways not to make a light Bulb. That is what we have to do when we want to make it on our own. Realize we could fail many times but learning from each and every failure will bring us closer to that goal. I am currently working on starting a business online.

It isn't for lack of trying. Evidently libraries would rather shelf plagiarist crap like Paolini and Meyers than an original novel.

I chose my path because I wanted to make a difference. And, I was a divorced single parent and needed to get a good job, fast. I've made some mistakes that have held me back as well. I'm like you. I would like to just be able to pay the bills, have a fun hobby and help my kids succeed. I do buy a powerball ticket once in a blue moon, just to say I may get rich! But I agree, happiness is not in being rich. Happiness come from doing something that matters to you.

I guess i not yet hit the lottery numbers yet.Not yet married a weathly widow or girl.Haha.Not yet invented a must have devices, not yet get a bag of moneys and stuck in a cheap skate job and such.Sometime money is important in many expects.I guess for a person there is always not enough richest level that can satisfy oneself.Someone is always richer that u or poorer than u.

Why am I not rich yet? Because I am far too young. I'm in my mid twenties and still stuck studying in the hope that I will one day have that dream career that I have always longed for. However, even if I achieve my goals, there is no promising that I will be wealthy. With that said though, I bet most of us here are technically "rich" because of the developed countries we live in.