I just had a sudden vision of my future

[chimchimcheree]

I own a mini amusement park, with a roller coaster, ferris wheel, carousel, haunted house, train ride, and a cafe starring the RAE. I feel like I'm gonna go far. :D

[RetroGirl]

I own a mini amusement park, with a roller coaster, ferris wheel, carousel, haunted house, train ride, and a cafe starring the RAE. I feel like I'm gonna go far. :D
Go for it!

[TheRealBMcD]

Sounds realistic to me

[captslappy]

I did it, sort of... I don't have the roller coaster but I do have a train ride. Save up, go to college, get a good paying job and focus on the right things and you can do it.

[chimchimcheree]

I believe I can succeed, unlike most of the kids at my school, I never smoked, done drugs, or drank. I also don't well, you know what most teens do with their bf/gf these days, ya I don't do that either. I pay attention in school, I don't spend too much time focusing on how I look, I actually WANT to go to college (my best friend said she didn't because she didn't want "more school")

[RetroGirl]

Plan the work, then work the plan, girl!

[captslappy]

College was lots of fun and I even graduated with a degree. I don't get ppl that don't wanna go.

[chimchimcheree]

College was lots of fun and I even graduated with a degree. I don't get ppl that don't wanna go.

That's what I'm wondering! Saying "I don't wanna go to college" is saying "I don't want a life." Teenagers are weird.

[fuzzymoochicken]

I did it, sort of... I don't have the roller coaster but I do have a train ride. Save up, go to college, get a good paying job and focus on the right things and you can do it.
Oh, if only life were really that simple. ^^;;;

[TheRealBMcD]

Life is about working until the day you die. Very few people get to live the life they dreamed of. You will most likely be like the rest of the world, in debt, struggling to make ends meet month to month. It's what I'm doing now and I know it's never going to get better.

[fuzzymoochicken]

Life is about working until the day you die. Very few people get to live the life they dreamed of. You will most likely be like the rest of the world, in debt, struggling to make ends meet month to month. It's what I'm doing now and I know it's never going to get better.
Yeah, pretty much. The only feasible ways I could forsee a person attaining the amount of wealth to have and maintain their own amusement park is if either:

1. They are born into a wealthy family (or have wealthy relations of some sort).
2. They strike out with extreme luck - being at the right place in the right time period especially helps. Just ask Bill Gates and the Rockefeller family tree about how timing can equal wealth.
3. They use their math and con artists skills to play the legalized gambling game of the stock market - though even there, pure luck and coincidence play their parts.

Scientists, artists, doctors, writers, and engineers all make good money, but don't count on becoming a multi-billionaire with any of those professions. It's not a realistic expectation. If all you care about is making money, and not, like, making the world a nicer place, then the only street you want to be on is Wall Street. Aside from the math, your success there can depend largely upon skills they don't teach you in school - such as how to effectively lie to, manipulate, and deceive other people. The more effective a con artist you are, the more prepared for Wall Street you'll be. Good luck!

[RetroGirl]

Wow, you guys are just a bundle of positivity, aren't you? People have to have dreams first. Then you work on ways to make those dreams happen within the context of your life situation. Sometimes they work out. Sometimes they don't. But you always start with a dream.

Quit squashing a young girl's dream just because you can't see it. You might be wrong.

[PaulKTF]

Wow, you guys are just a bundle of positivity, aren't you? People have to have dreams first. Then you work on ways to make those dreams happen within the context of your life situation. Sometimes they work out. Sometimes they don't. But you always start with a dream.

Quit squashing a young girl's dream just because you can't see it. You might be wrong.

Dreams are nice, but you have to be able to deal in reality first and foremost. Besides, she's 15 and frankly at that age she doesn't know anything about anything yet so it's pretty easy to daydream online about this stuff.

[PaulKTF]

I think a much better and more realistic plan would be to try and get a job at alocal amusment park and try to work your way up through the ranks there.

[fuzzymoochicken]

Right. We were just keepin' it real around here.

Dreaming is something that I don't have a problem with, but I think it's almost cruel to be telling someone "As long as you do really well in college and get a good job, you can own your own amusement park!" >_> Meh.