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I'm 27 now and was a "late bloomer" so to speak and hadn't even really started to grow up until a few years ago. The changes in my life from 2007 to now: enjoyed my first 6-figure profit year in domains and all signs pointing to steady increasing income, that prompting the quitting of my day job, moving out and buying a condo, had my first serious relationship...then things start going downhill as that ended up screwing up my income flow due to losing focus plus the relationship ultimately didn't work out, my first condo drops a total of about 40% from when I bought it, my "rainy day" stocks to fall back on drop about 50% before I have to sell them because of needing the money, the economy screws up domain industry a bunch and that further screws income, everyone else in my family has become poor more or less because of their business stuff not working out as soon as hoped, and I'm essentially living month to month with a ridiculous amount of debt. Basically went from fairly broke with a shitty job to decently rich, independent and in what seemed like a good relationship to broke and single again but with no steady job income to fall back on and a shitload of debt. 2 of the bigger things I had always been told in life, that real estate is the best investment one can make and that it's good to have some stocks long term w/ dividends reinvested so it's a growing fallback etc. were basically destroyed.

So yea, have grown up a bit from all this. And no longer enjoy much of life, but am confident things will turn around. It helps having gone from rags to riches once before and having experience under my belt. The worst thing is that if it wasn't for the relationship, which in hindsight was a bad idea from the beginning, I'd probably have made it into hog heaven before the economy went down.

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