Basically I’m 20 years old and pretty much work all the time and rarely have days/nights off. Because of this I’ve got a lot of money for someone my age but I don’t have anything else outside work and gym. My few days off are usually spent cleaning and meal prepping. I’d like to start doing some recreational activities and hobbies but I don’t have the time for it, and if I make time that means I’m earning less money and spending more on the hobby. money’s what I need most so I can one day get into business or investing real estate.
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Make money. Money will give you access to great hobbies in future. Also life becomes more expensive as you get older. So the more money you make when you are young, the better you will be.
So:
* Work
* Eat healthy
* Stay in shape
* Go out with girls (comes easy with the first 3)
And you will be good.
Government ain’t gonna ask you for a considerable part of your hobbies nor give you some if you ain’t got any
Making money. Please do not make the mistake of so many of my friends who followed their hearts and didn’t choose a more realistic path. You pick the most lucrative career path that fits your interests. Money comes first. Once you are financially secure, then you pursue hobbies.
It’s about balance, yeah moneys important but so is your mental health and relationships. Take care of you or the money don’t matter
Whatever makes life worthwhile and happy for you. Making money is important but burnout is real – sometimes hobbies are the pressure valve that keeps us functioning optimally at work too.
Productive hobbies (where you can track progress and see the fruits of your labour) can be great for building confidence and self-actualization.
Ideally find something that’s both (a hobby and a way to make money).
Money now turns into hobbies later friendo
Based on what you wrote, I’m assuming (which I hate doing without more context) is that you’re paid hourly and not salary.
Not sure what you do for a living but seek opportunities and/or a career that will get you on salary pay (and hopefully with more days/time off). By default, start chipping away at taking college courses for a degree or attend a trade school for certifications. This will be good time, energy, and money spent that will have a strong return on/for you.
Personally I’d say hobbies. I agree with the other posters here that financial security is important, but I’ve worked with a lot of successful people who are crushingly lonely and completely 2 dimensional – they wish they had an interest outside of work and are generally pretty miserable, in spite of their material wealth.
It’s about striking that balance – as someone else here says life gets more expensive as you get older. Time becomes more of a premium. There are certain things that if you don’t do when you’re young and ‘carefree’ then you will never, ever get the chance to do again. It’s a lot easier to make up for lost time in earnings than it is to regret never working out what you enjoy in life.
Working for low wages makes you pay an opportunity cost of the most valuable resource we have: time. It is better to develop skills and hobbies, to hone talents, than to “grind” away as a cog in an uncaring machine.
I’d say it’s better focusing on developing skills – education that can allow you to do both. Nothing but props for people who hustle, but there is such a thing as work smarter not harder. That is how you can then allow yourself some hobbies or perhaps a wife – family if that happens to be your thing.
Lots of time spent making money, meal prepping and the illusion that you’re winning. Don’t ever try and validate your worth by posting on this god awful website, there is always a nastier cunt.
When I was 20 I was driving a BMW and flogging photocopiers to anyone who would see me, we can swing dicks all day mate.
My life, my hobbies, my everything was that job. When I was 22 I bought a fuck off house 100m from the office where I worked, everyone told me it was stupid but now, not so much that house is triple what I paid for it.
My advice to you: go buy a fucking house you can rent out and make some money on.
I still rent, last month I bought a unit in the block I live, the couple who rent my unit don’t know I own their shit it’s in the Missus name. A little something to keep the pussy sweet.
MOney’s what you need? then know what to do with it and take it from a man who shoved so much up his snout that he forgot about the golden rule.
Don’t you have school?
You either create memories (hobbies) or create a stronger you (work and making money). No in between.
If you’re trying to get into real estate or investing stay on that grind.
Redditors are generally not entrepreneurial and there is some bad advice here. If you want those things it does take GRINDING if you’re not making very good money already. Don’t let anyone disuade you from doing those things.
If I were your age and didn’t have my fiancee and child, I would be working as much as I’m awake. Get those rentals, sell your first house, get into investments, create wealth for yourself.
I suggest you read Rich Dad Poor Dad by Robert Kiyaoski as well, OP.
Keep working until you have a solid foundation, then you’ll be able to afford a nice hobby. But don’t wait until you’re like 50, that’s not what I mean.
Do you *need* the money?
If not, take the time off you want to take and have a life. Your life is now.
On your deathbed you will want something ( friendships, relationships, events ) to look back on, not just side jobs.
Even if it’s only half a day, take it off and do something you enjoy. Money will come and go, and it’s not hard to save up and work towards a career path with only a small part of one day being taken off the table for it. If you don’t learn to find your work/life balance now, then you’ll either grow up to be extremely dull but wealthy, or stressed to the point you can’t do what you worked so hard to achieve. It’s fine to work hard, but that means you need to take breaks.
You gotta feed yourself before you can treat yoself.
You have to learn how to balance it. I started working on my business right out of high school and was very focused on it, even working two jobs while building my business. Bought my first house at 19. Still made time for girls and fishing in order to stay sane. My career may have derailed me from marriage and kids early on, but I’m only 35 now and in a great relationship and financially independent, so there’s still time. I wouldn’t change how I did it.
The money I make funds my hobbies.
Finances are the foundation to a good/enjoyable life. Build that foundation now. Learn skills that make acquiring $$ easy. Save $$ and delay gratification so your money starts working for you.
Sure, do some fun things while you’re young, but be frugal overall and solidify your financial foundation. 30 yr old you will thank you.
Source: 37 yr old dude who was grinding at your age, and now enjoying myself
Everyone is saying money, and while I understand why, I disagree.
You’re 20. You should be trying out hobbies, traveling, learning about the world and who you are and your place in everything. You won’t be able to do this once you’re tied down with mortgages and family. Live a little. You can settle down and make money later, you obviously have drive.
Find a hobby that makes you money. I play poker.
Both. Hobbies need money
PS gym is a hobby