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Introduction:
I was born into a piss-poor migrant family. My parents didn't know shit about making money, education, and wealth creation. Looksmaxxing-wise, I learned here so much that I will be generous enough to share years of learnings and lessons learned with you. What children of wealthy parents already knew by the age of 10, I had to learn brick by brick in a life full of hurdles and stress.
KEEP IN MIND, BEFORE YOU READ, HATE OR WHATEVER: You will most likely NOT become a crypto millionaire. You will NOT be an entrepreneur. What you see on Social Media is either FAKE or will simply be reached by 1 out of 100,000 people only. What is left for people coming from the bottom or middle class to become rich are three options:
So here we go, step by step:
1. The first ticket to success: Your University Entrance Qualification
In the UK, they call it A-Levels. In German, Abitur. In the US, it's the High School Diploma and AP exams. GIVE EVERYTHING! In all countries, a very good grade in school opens most doors to top-universities and popular fields of study. If you are still in school WAKE UP: High School is so fucking easy. Now with AI, you really can't leave school without having good grades. If you are an average school student, you are just making it so hard for your future self to build a comfortable and wealthy life.
Do NOT be fooled by gaming and laziness, please, trust me on that. You will regret it bitterly once you leave high school and work in shit jobs with stupid colleagues and an awful salary. Once you are stuck in the middle class, maybe even less than that, you will truly realize how low IQ most people are. You are setting yourself up for failure in life, constant back pain, and one or more addictions. This is not a joke. If you don't trust me, take a metro ride early in the morning and see for yourself how depressed poor and middle-class people actually are when on their way to work.
So I say once again: Give EVERYTHING in high school. You see what all the girls are doing? Don't be the cool guy, follow their example: Get the best grades possible. Get good with your teachers, since in most cases their grades are subjective and based on sympathies. Always offer presentations and projects for better grades. Do some extracurricular activities. It's all about the image the teachers have of you, so follow their teaching, laugh at their jokes, and just be a pleasant student.
2. It's time for college, choose wisely
Once you have decent enough grades, many highly-ranked universities and colleges are in your reach. The university's brand can determine your entire early career trajectory, but it depemds on where you live! Let me clarify the concept of target universities:
In some regions, especially in Anglo-Saxon countries, the college you go to will determine most of the value your future employers see in you. Why is that? Elite firms receive a shit ton of resumes per year. In each corporate job, applications are filtered automatically. The more desired the job is, the better the university tier used as a filter mechanism. Being a target university alumnus brings prestige with you. It is a great way to signal confidence and cultural fit. People out there will literally consider you something special and superior. You are not, but in corporate and life in general, signaling is everything. Especially in the UK and US, no one gives a shit about what you can offer skill-wise at the start. It's all about the brand.
It is that simple, to be honest: Get into the best university possible. Have the best grades possible. Attend some recruiting workshops, and you're set to go. Now obviously, most of you won't make it to the top-tier universities, but that is okay. Look at your nation's university brand ranking. If you make it to a top 10/15 (in Europe) or top 50 (in the US) university, you are still way above average and many good jobs will be in reach for you.
That means: They expect you to do multiple internships during your time in college. I can't stress how important this issue is, as I had so many college friends who finished their college degree quickly, just to not be able to find a full-time job. NO company there desires unskilled college graduates with zero corporate experience.
Internships are everything in those places. Try to identify your future job type as early as possible and start doing internships. If you manage to secure one, use this experience to prop up your CV and find an even better internship after that. If there is a clear, tier-wise evolution in your CV, you have done everything right.
The shithole exception: Non-western or Mediterranean countries. Africa, Latin America, Balkans, Italy, many parts of Asia, and so on. You are cooked. There are barely any corporate jobs in your countries. If there are some, you need personal contacts, a rich father, or an uncle. If you don't have them, gg. I have nothing to advise you, except maybe think of migrating to Western Europe or North America.
3. Choose the field of study on money-making potential
Some jobs will never make good money. It is what it is. Others will always, but are hard to reach. Let me break it down:
1. High Finance
Very selective, insane hours but also insane salary. Easy field of study (something with business). Your whole career path must be almost perfect. Then you need to accept the reality of spending your life in the office. You will not sleep 8 hours a day. After 5 years, you might exit to private equity or do other shit. This is probably the only job where you become a millionaire before 30.
2. Consulting / Corporate Strategy
Easy field of study (business stuff). Can be very selective if you want to reach for top firms, then you'll have hard hours too. You can decide though to work in your ordinary big4, which really is not that fancy, hard and complex like these fuckers try to claim (again, it's all signalling). Good to great salary. Problem: You need to be quite extroverted, which most of you surely aren't. Exits are very easy the better your experience and brand is.
3. Medicine
So hard to get into and takes so fucking long to finish. Once you set sail though, insane wages + an area which can't be more crisis-proof.
4. Big Law
A job for introverts and aspergers. Insane wages, but hard to get into. Very hard field of study.
5. Sales
Not for you lmao, as long you don't ascend and have terrific social and selling skills.
6. Big Tech
Hell nah, not right now, especially if you haven''t been spending your last 5 years worth of freetime on coding.
Engineering, maths, CS and so on: Don't. Way too hard for the lousy salary you can expect right now, and who knows if you'll get a job in this economy.
Business is everything, because people care about KPIs and what brings money on the table. Money talks. Try to find the interface between your interest and business. For example if you're American and like to code, don't go for computer science, but rather go for Management Information Systems which basically is the best of both worlds.
A note: You do NOT have to reach for the absolute top. Each job type above also exists in good salarys with decent hours. A great salary then comes with your experience, as salary progression in academic jobs tend to be very good the more experience you have.
4. Piece of advice to perform in college
I can really just offer some generous hints as each college and each nation has a different culture and ethics.
a) If you can, learn daily. Do not wait until the last minute. University is so much harder than school so you can't just freestyle a night before the exam.
b) Find a group of friends who take college seriously. Mostly, it's the nerds. Don't waste time on friends who meet up with you in the library just to keep yapping about stuff.
c) Befriend older students. Ask them nicely for past exams, old scripts, and insider knowledge. They know exactly which professor gives great grades easily, who to avoid, and how the exams are structured.
d) Reverse-engineer the exams: Do not read the 400-page script word-for-word. Look at the mandatory tutorials, exercises, and old exam papers. Professors are lazy. They test the exact same core mechanics every single year. Focus on what they actually test, not what they put on the slides.
5. Once you're in the job, do...
that's for another time, maybe a part 2 if I find the time.
Last words:
Don't shit on this guide guys, take your time and read through it. All of this was intended to motivate you! I was so bad in school that I had to repeat 2 classes. I never had friends in my life, no teenage love and i'm very introverted. But that's not (all) what matters in at least corporate life. When I went to college, I spent a whole year without writing any exam as I didn't learn at all. Literally no one believed in me all my life, and yet I did not give up.
Now, I am in a good position career-wise and wish that you'll keep your head up and work for yourself!
Good luck guys, and if you have sincere questions, I will try to answer them.
p.s. i have written this text on my own, based on my experiences. AI corrected grammatical mistakes, as english isn't my first language.
I was born into a piss-poor migrant family. My parents didn't know shit about making money, education, and wealth creation. Looksmaxxing-wise, I learned here so much that I will be generous enough to share years of learnings and lessons learned with you. What children of wealthy parents already knew by the age of 10, I had to learn brick by brick in a life full of hurdles and stress.
KEEP IN MIND, BEFORE YOU READ, HATE OR WHATEVER: You will most likely NOT become a crypto millionaire. You will NOT be an entrepreneur. What you see on Social Media is either FAKE or will simply be reached by 1 out of 100,000 people only. What is left for people coming from the bottom or middle class to become rich are three options:
- a) Become a criminal
- b) Get into trades and become independent
- c) An academic career in the right job types
- a) Don't.
- b) If you have a talent and interest for trades and craftsmanship, go for it. Else, don't, as the working conditions are awful & salary is trash if you are employed.
- c) Good working conditions, potential to make a lot of money & status.
So here we go, step by step:
The Academic Ascension
1. The first ticket to success: Your University Entrance Qualification
In the UK, they call it A-Levels. In German, Abitur. In the US, it's the High School Diploma and AP exams. GIVE EVERYTHING! In all countries, a very good grade in school opens most doors to top-universities and popular fields of study. If you are still in school WAKE UP: High School is so fucking easy. Now with AI, you really can't leave school without having good grades. If you are an average school student, you are just making it so hard for your future self to build a comfortable and wealthy life.
Do NOT be fooled by gaming and laziness, please, trust me on that. You will regret it bitterly once you leave high school and work in shit jobs with stupid colleagues and an awful salary. Once you are stuck in the middle class, maybe even less than that, you will truly realize how low IQ most people are. You are setting yourself up for failure in life, constant back pain, and one or more addictions. This is not a joke. If you don't trust me, take a metro ride early in the morning and see for yourself how depressed poor and middle-class people actually are when on their way to work.
So I say once again: Give EVERYTHING in high school. You see what all the girls are doing? Don't be the cool guy, follow their example: Get the best grades possible. Get good with your teachers, since in most cases their grades are subjective and based on sympathies. Always offer presentations and projects for better grades. Do some extracurricular activities. It's all about the image the teachers have of you, so follow their teaching, laugh at their jokes, and just be a pleasant student.
2. It's time for college, choose wisely
Once you have decent enough grades, many highly-ranked universities and colleges are in your reach. The university's brand can determine your entire early career trajectory, but it depemds on where you live! Let me clarify the concept of target universities:
In some regions, especially in Anglo-Saxon countries, the college you go to will determine most of the value your future employers see in you. Why is that? Elite firms receive a shit ton of resumes per year. In each corporate job, applications are filtered automatically. The more desired the job is, the better the university tier used as a filter mechanism. Being a target university alumnus brings prestige with you. It is a great way to signal confidence and cultural fit. People out there will literally consider you something special and superior. You are not, but in corporate and life in general, signaling is everything. Especially in the UK and US, no one gives a shit about what you can offer skill-wise at the start. It's all about the brand.
It is that simple, to be honest: Get into the best university possible. Have the best grades possible. Attend some recruiting workshops, and you're set to go. Now obviously, most of you won't make it to the top-tier universities, but that is okay. Look at your nation's university brand ranking. If you make it to a top 10/15 (in Europe) or top 50 (in the US) university, you are still way above average and many good jobs will be in reach for you.
The Central European & Scandinavian Exception (Internships, Internships and Internships)
There is a big exception: Many countries do not have this kind of strict university ranking, and if they do, it's limited to the top 1% jobs. In those countries, mostly in Central Europe (Germany, Austria, Switzerland) or Scandinavia, it is way more important to have practical experience.That means: They expect you to do multiple internships during your time in college. I can't stress how important this issue is, as I had so many college friends who finished their college degree quickly, just to not be able to find a full-time job. NO company there desires unskilled college graduates with zero corporate experience.
Internships are everything in those places. Try to identify your future job type as early as possible and start doing internships. If you manage to secure one, use this experience to prop up your CV and find an even better internship after that. If there is a clear, tier-wise evolution in your CV, you have done everything right.
The shithole exception: Non-western or Mediterranean countries. Africa, Latin America, Balkans, Italy, many parts of Asia, and so on. You are cooked. There are barely any corporate jobs in your countries. If there are some, you need personal contacts, a rich father, or an uncle. If you don't have them, gg. I have nothing to advise you, except maybe think of migrating to Western Europe or North America.
3. Choose the field of study on money-making potential
Some jobs will never make good money. It is what it is. Others will always, but are hard to reach. Let me break it down:
1. High Finance
Very selective, insane hours but also insane salary. Easy field of study (something with business). Your whole career path must be almost perfect. Then you need to accept the reality of spending your life in the office. You will not sleep 8 hours a day. After 5 years, you might exit to private equity or do other shit. This is probably the only job where you become a millionaire before 30.
2. Consulting / Corporate Strategy
Easy field of study (business stuff). Can be very selective if you want to reach for top firms, then you'll have hard hours too. You can decide though to work in your ordinary big4, which really is not that fancy, hard and complex like these fuckers try to claim (again, it's all signalling). Good to great salary. Problem: You need to be quite extroverted, which most of you surely aren't. Exits are very easy the better your experience and brand is.
3. Medicine
So hard to get into and takes so fucking long to finish. Once you set sail though, insane wages + an area which can't be more crisis-proof.
4. Big Law
A job for introverts and aspergers. Insane wages, but hard to get into. Very hard field of study.
5. Sales
Not for you lmao, as long you don't ascend and have terrific social and selling skills.
6. Big Tech
Hell nah, not right now, especially if you haven''t been spending your last 5 years worth of freetime on coding.
Engineering, maths, CS and so on: Don't. Way too hard for the lousy salary you can expect right now, and who knows if you'll get a job in this economy.
Business is everything, because people care about KPIs and what brings money on the table. Money talks. Try to find the interface between your interest and business. For example if you're American and like to code, don't go for computer science, but rather go for Management Information Systems which basically is the best of both worlds.
A note: You do NOT have to reach for the absolute top. Each job type above also exists in good salarys with decent hours. A great salary then comes with your experience, as salary progression in academic jobs tend to be very good the more experience you have.
4. Piece of advice to perform in college
I can really just offer some generous hints as each college and each nation has a different culture and ethics.
a) If you can, learn daily. Do not wait until the last minute. University is so much harder than school so you can't just freestyle a night before the exam.
b) Find a group of friends who take college seriously. Mostly, it's the nerds. Don't waste time on friends who meet up with you in the library just to keep yapping about stuff.
c) Befriend older students. Ask them nicely for past exams, old scripts, and insider knowledge. They know exactly which professor gives great grades easily, who to avoid, and how the exams are structured.
d) Reverse-engineer the exams: Do not read the 400-page script word-for-word. Look at the mandatory tutorials, exercises, and old exam papers. Professors are lazy. They test the exact same core mechanics every single year. Focus on what they actually test, not what they put on the slides.
5. Once you're in the job, do...
that's for another time, maybe a part 2 if I find the time.
Last words:
Don't shit on this guide guys, take your time and read through it. All of this was intended to motivate you! I was so bad in school that I had to repeat 2 classes. I never had friends in my life, no teenage love and i'm very introverted. But that's not (all) what matters in at least corporate life. When I went to college, I spent a whole year without writing any exam as I didn't learn at all. Literally no one believed in me all my life, and yet I did not give up.
Now, I am in a good position career-wise and wish that you'll keep your head up and work for yourself!
Good luck guys, and if you have sincere questions, I will try to answer them.
p.s. i have written this text on my own, based on my experiences. AI corrected grammatical mistakes, as english isn't my first language.
