{"id":51,"date":"2008-10-24T12:32:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-24T19:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.inverseflux.com\/2008\/10\/24\/1000000\/"},"modified":"2008-10-24T12:32:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-24T19:32:00","slug":"1000000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/inverseflux.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/1000000\/","title":{"rendered":"$1,000,000"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A long time ago, I gave myself a goal of making a million dollars by the time I was 35.&#160; When you are twelve, this is a lot of money if you aren\u2019t born with a silver spoon.&#160; Well, the idea of that much money is a lot, think of it this way.&#160; Let\u2019s say, you make $50k\/yr.&#160; It would take 20 yrs to get $1,000,000.&#160; See what I mean?&#160; $50k is a decent wage for a person to make, but to reach my goal, I\u2019d have to be making that by the age of 15.&#160; So, this leaves me with a few options, but it all really does rest on my shoulders.<\/p>\n<p>I am the type of person that really doesn\u2019t ask anyone for a whole lot, but when I do, they know I need the help.&#160; I am speaking strictly financially here, not in the sense of something with a computer.&#160; I\u2019ve got no problem saying, &quot;\u2019shit, I don\u2019t know\u201d and calling someone to ask them.&#160; It is rare that I do this, but I stay by my word and pay them back.&#160; This has always been the case.&#160; Personally, I\u2019m a bit flaky, but financially I stand by my word.<\/p>\n<p>This combined with knowledge, again, I should be able to do this.&#160; It\u2019s like Theodore Roosevelt said, \u201cA man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.\u201d&#160; I\u2019d like to think I\u2019m smart and capable, so why shouldn\u2019t this work for me?&#160; It\u2019s like the recent surge of the book\/movie\/whatever <em>Secret.&#160; <\/em>If you think you can do it, you will.&#160; I don\u2019t think I can, I know I can.&#160; Even amidst a financial crisis, I still think I can pull this off.<\/p>\n<p>For example, look at Kevin Rose.&#160; Digg.com, great website, great idea.&#160; When I frequented slashdot.com, I always thought to myself, \u201cIt would be really great to have a website like this, where people can comment and rant about whatever, but on user submitted content.&#160; For everyone, not just for nerds.\u201d&#160; Guess what, he pulled it off and pulled it off well.&#160; The guy is a literal fucking badass, who at this point, can do 100 things have 1 be successful and come out way over the top of the 99 failed attempts at what he\u2019s done.&#160; Aside from that, loves beer!&#160; Who doesn\u2019t love beer, you know?<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, back to reality here.&#160; This is just my blog, I don\u2019t plan to make any money here, but you never know what can happen.&#160; I, of course, do have a few ideas on my plate that I want to execute.&#160; Now I just have to figure out how, and with what time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A long time ago, I gave myself a goal of making a million dollars by the time I was 35.&#160; When you are twelve, this is a lot of money if you aren\u2019t born with a silver spoon.&#160; Well, the idea of that much money is a lot, think of it this way.&#160; Let\u2019s say, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/inverseflux.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/inverseflux.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/inverseflux.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/inverseflux.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/inverseflux.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/inverseflux.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/inverseflux.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/inverseflux.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/inverseflux.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}