work to live, there are things more important in life
Coaltrain, you're young & you're earning good money. I think its natural to want to play with it a little & have a good time
Your parents are older & wise, when you get to be a fogey like me, you concentrate on life stuff - a mortgage, running your business, kids expenses, superannuation & like hyjack said, try to find some semblence of balance, so its not just about servicing your commitments, but retaining a bit of that element of 'play', so you're also working to enjoy life.
You're in a position now, where you could be setting yourself up for the much longer term & thats probably why your Mum & Dad are on your back?
Parents can be pains in the arses, but one thing we always want, is for our kids to have a better, easier & more comfortable life, than we did.
They love you
'Live, Work, Play AND Plan - if you can' thats my motto
Enjoy it mate but remember that it goes for a long time and you want to be able to enjoy the later bits too. Not good to be healthy and 75 and angry at the silly, young prick who spent all your money 45 years ago.
Do a bit of both. If you are making good money then learn to say no to yourself every now and then and put some cash aside into good shares or something else that will be there for you later.
I've hated work since the day I left school, but it was work to live in the early days.
Earning money for the first time and being able to spend it on anything I wanted was a great feeling (as I grew up really poor and had nothing, compared to other kids).
Spent it on cars and mostly gambling back then, continually looking for get rich quick opportunities to free myself from working, they didn't work
After a while, virtually all the guys I went to school with had finished their uni degrees and were starting to set up their careers and earn good money.
At this stage, I was still a builders labourer on low $ and this made me feel really bad for missed opportunities by taking instant satisfaction over delayed gratification.
Got married at 25 and was broke, so figured I'd better do something about it.
Since then it's basically been live to work for the past 10 years, but worth it.
Now I have the choice to work or not and can buy or do pretty much anything, anytime I want.
The person who said the only constant thing in life is change was talking about my spending habits. I will generally live to work for a year or so then get sick of working so much and go on a spending spree like tiger woods in a sex shop. Then when I'm broke I'll start the process over again.
I lived in China last year and one thing I admire about them is their ability to save money. I remember this homeless guy saying once I save half my pay I don't have enough money to pay for rent or food. They would rather be homeless or starve then not save money. Aussies would always say after rent and food I have no money left to save.
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