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[ggiese]

"If you don't know where you are going, any road will take you there." - Lewis Carroll

We've heard the pharmacy school bit, and the getting rich bit. Now there's law school in the mix. And I, for one, encourage you, if that is truly your passion for life is to be wealthy. But I find a contradiction with all of the education you are pursuing and the desires to make money. Unless you got full scholarships to both pharmacy school and law school (which you might), you'll be drowning in student loans for years that you're pharmaceutical patent lawyer job won't be able to support. You will never get rich working for someone else. With large salaries comes tight strings. I, myself, am not rich, nor do I even know how much money would constitute being rich.

Learn these skills now, and master them over a lifetime:

1) Negotiate. It's not what you know, or even really who you know. It's what you negotiate.
2) Set goals and timelines, then take steps (even small ones) to attain them. Sacrifice all. Even cigars, if you really want that goal.
3) Pursue ideas and dreams. Even the wildest ones. Always. Don't listen to detractors, but know when to quit; accept defeat and move on when the time is right.

You really need some kind of talent to fall back on. What if you flunk out of pharmacy school? Then where do you go, or what do you do? Learn some kind of skill that makes you marketable while you are working on your wealth dreams.

Finally, money does not equal happiness. You won't ever find it there.

Nothing could be more true!

...and does anyone truly have a definition or "rich" or "wealthy"? I've head all kinds of definitions - from Mother Theresa's version to Malcolm Forbes' view. Best I can tell - "rich" and "wealthy" (regardless of material possessions) is a state of mind, not a destination.

[hondo1312]

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Nothing could be more true!

...and does anyone truly have a definition or "rich" or "wealthy"? I've head all kinds of definitions - from Mother Theresa's version to Malcolm Forbes' view. Best I can tell - "rich" and "wealthy" (regardless of material possessions) is a state of mind, not a destination.

I don't have a definition of rich OR wealthy, but I know the difference, only because I read it somewhere.

"Shaq is rich. The guy who pays Shaq is wealthy!"

And I can echo the sentiment about money not equating to happiness. About 3 years ago, I was rebounding from a very tumultous period of life. Everything became secondary to a goal of personal growth and well-being. I ended up taking a 1/3 cut in pay that year (I'm on a bonus plan and work fell low on the priority list) and it was one of the best things that ever happened to me. I learned in that year what was REALLY important to me.

[craig]

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Nothing could be more true!

...and does anyone truly have a definition or "rich" or "wealthy"? I've head all kinds of definitions - from Mother Theresa's version to Malcolm Forbes' view. Best I can tell - "rich" and "wealthy" (regardless of material possessions) is a state of mind, not a destination.

"Shaq is rich. The white man who signs his check is wealthy." - Chris Rock, 'Never Scared.'

NSFW clip - http://comedy.videosift.com/video/Ch...ck-The-Wealthy