Why You Don’t Need F U Money

Prioritise what you need, not what you want

Johnson
Write A Catalyst

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I’d love to have F U money, I really would.

I’d crash through the windows of my office building, standing on the deck of my new luxury yacht. Jet-propelled from the back of an articulated lorry. Giving my manager and my non-playable character work colleagues the finger as I go.

No, we were NEVER friends.

And I would loudly exclaim: “F U. F U All.”

You’ve had that dream too, right? The one where you tell everyone you can’t bear being around anymore to go swivel? Because you’ve made it. You’ve got all the money.

And now any dependency on them to make a living has gone. You’re wrapping the chains of their control around their necks, like Princess Leia did to Jabba The Hutt. You’re out of here. Running towards the sunshine of financial freedom…

Snap out of it.

The F U money seems a long way off right? And it’s not guaranteed either. It could come as a lottery win, or an inheritance. Either way, making it yourself is hard.

You need the right blend of personality, skills, taste for the grind, good ideas and luck to make that happen — regardless of the gurus trying to…

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Johnson
Write A Catalyst

Writer and content designer. Here to help you and me get better at writing. Being weird over at The Offbeat. https://medium.com/the-offbeat