don’t eat yellow snow

Vote. For what little it seems to matter never skip an election. Always vote. Sometimes things change.

Do whatever the fuck you want to do. Most things aren’t irreversible at this point, and the future is never guaranteed anyway. Give your love generously. Tell your friends how you feel about them.

Know Your Numbers - This is my most important key advice I’ll ever give to anyone. You need to know your numbers, in anything. You need to know how much you’ll earn, you need to know your total expenses, you need to apply mathematics to make sure you are in the clear. You never, ever, want to guesswork numbers because not everything is going to fall into place as you’d like. You could be off a few hundred and you’ve been spending your money gleefully and now you suddenly are in a jam of choosing between rent, car payment, food or whatever.

You never want to be in that situation. Do not spend more than you earn. Budgeting is important. Knowing what you’re comfortable living with and live by your means.

Thrift and Thrift Away! - Thrifting can sound like a dirty word to those who prefer to buy everything new and I totally understand. But you can’t entirely ignore it either because it is a money-saver in the long run. 85% of the things in my apartment are thrifted items and I’ve saved so much money and still do to this day whenever I go out.

You just need to set yourself up some rules as to what you’re comfortable getting used from what you’re comfortable getting new.

Ignore the Rat Race - Getting too caught up in what people have more of than you and how luxurious and seemingly enjoyable their life is compared to yours is a trap of itself. It makes you not appreciate what is around you and enjoy what you’ve gained, you’ll be wanting what they have and thus will almost do anything to get it.

Don’t get the impression that you should be happy being rock bottom or twist it that way. The point is, the Rat Race lifestyle is a destructive lifestyle. It just destroys your meaning of life by pasting over an idealistic life of another’s.

Do Not Get Children in your Teens/20s - Just don’t. It is not worth it and I’m proud to not ever have done this but damn did I get close to. A child, on average, costs $250k to raise from birth to age of 18, maybe more depending on how much is spent on them. Not a lot of people are that ready as they tell themselves when it comes to getting a kid in this stage, it is all just peer pressure.

Plus, the economy is like not at its best anyways, do you think it is now a good time to have a kid? People underestimate so much about children and what it takes to raise one. They are not pets, they are not things you can just simply sit and forget about (people have gone to jail and gotten charged for child neglect this way).

And no, it is not easy to retain your previous lifestyle, it becomes more impossible if you even bother getting more kids. But people do try and they don’t look real good in doing it.

Case and point, you have a young life ahead of you, full of ambition, potential and capability. It would be much wiser to build a foundation that is a career, net a secure and high-earning job and then see where you are before wanting kids.

Stay out of Jail One of the last things you want to have on any record of yours is that you’ve been charged with something and went to jail over it. A criminal record could likely but will destroy your life and it is not worth screwing around to find out how bad for experimental purposes. If people think finding a job in a competitive job market is bad, they won’t know how hard it really is if they’ve got a criminal history on their record and trying to find a job.

And in worse cases, the more crimes you rack up, you mind as well as declare your life being over. Because you lose time while incarcerated, you’re probably going to be chipping at a mountain of debt that are in the forms of bonds and legal fees. Not to mention how much of your reputation is going to be dragged through the mud during all of this because you’re just going to simply be a name tossed around in a state system.

By the time you’re eventually released from prison, you are going to be lost, you’re going to be out of touch with who you formerly were in contact with and you’re going to be tied down with whatever bond/probation conditions you’re tied down with.

Do a ‘Smart Quit’ A Smart Quit is when you’ve lined up a job underneath where you’re currently working and you hop ships. It is never a good idea to quit a job cold, especially if you’re out on your own. Because that euphoric feeling of qutting a job you absolutely hated working at, is going to wash away and be replaced with worry about how you’re going to have to uphold your expenses. Then you’ll be fumbling and have to tap into your savings, the same savings you probably been working to stash for big plans or whatever.

You can only afford to quit jobs cold if you live with parents or a very caring roommate/friend that you live with that acknowledges that you’re going to try something else. By the way, it is more wise to quit jobs if you’ve been with them after 1 ~ 2 years. If you keep quitting jobs after a few months or weeks, you’re going to have people interviewing you who’re going to think yo

Enjoy life, friends, the world. You have no real obligations apart from school, you have no real worries. YOLO.

There are two main scenarios: Preventative advice, and Advice when something has happened. For me as a teenager, i struggled with advice after something had gone wrong. I’m reading the lists below and wondering how I might have wanted to hear it

Get a vasectomy

Protect your privacy

Open a free brokerage account now and buy an index fund. Only index funds and even if it is $20 or $4 a month keep investing in index funds. Fidelity has several with no fees. Google what an index fund is. Don’t ever gamble on a regular stock, it’s basically gambling and not worth it.

I thought I was too poor for the “stock market” but I was an idiot and now I’m a much older still-broke idiot who is never going to get to retire.

Also start saving for retirement now. Open a Roth IRA and fill it with index funds.

I know this sounds ridiculous and stupid and not fun but seriously preparing for your financial future is the best thing you can possibly do for yourself. I wish I had.

Don’t be me kids.

Get off instagram and tiktok

stop caring what people you don’t even like think of you

it was a serious moment of clarity for me at 14

Don’t worry it will be over soon.

Fail fast and fail forward. Don’t be afraid to start, be afraid of looking back having never done anything. Regret is poison.

Learn what the pareto principle is and live by it. Be efficient.

When life gets hard focus on what’s in front of you not on the world, ideology, news, thats all distraction. Learn to stay in the moment, what’s right here, right now, infront of you.

Cherish loved ones. Focus on your health now. Your health can be gone at a moments notice, life is about balance. Every action has a reaction.

Focus on your strengths not your weaknesses. You have infinite weaknesses. Your strengths will be your lynchpin at times.

Always be curious. Don’t lose the will to learn and ask questions. Knowledge is everything.

Always stay moving physically that is biggest key to health diet and exercise and good sleep. Stay doing something productive. Being idle is the devils playground.

Listen to your gut during times of uncertainty. Trust very little of others. Words mean nothing. Actions never lie.

The greatest temptation is to use ALL the old school phrases that we got as kids. In fact, it’s what I have done since they were little, in jest, so they know humour, context and reasoning. Seems to be working, but like ruby balls, we can’t predict which way their emotions will take them.

kill all your social media accounts. you will do 5-10x better in life.