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So a guy working as a highly paid consultant that does not have time to spend any of his money runs out of it in less than a year... And his top "warning" for the whole thing is social pressure. Is this a joke?

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I would imagine that once you're into a certain lifestyle (i.e. not leading a student life anymore) you have very high monthly expenses and lifestyle choices that are not that easy to get rid off.

Yeah but if you go the startup route and you don't take that into consideration, you are probably going to fail. You have to sacrifice.

Not justifying it, but I guess that's what happened there.

And it is indeed something, that he points out.

You'd think, "if your salary goes from $250k to $20k, start living like you make $20k" wouldn't really need to be communicated out like some sort of secret.

I promise you, they don't teach you that in business school

"There's 2 things they don't teach you at Harvard. How to handle failure, and how to handle a shotgun. I'm about to do both" - the dude from the Simpsons movie

Consultants are rarely entrepreneurs, he would have been smarter hiring 1-3 people to build his startup idea, then quit his job. People with startups have this fascination they can do it all themselves, it rarely works.

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