>35 years old making $140-150k, $70k+ debt. Super hard job.>From 29-34 I had the best work from home gig ever making $90k and it was pretty easy.>Had drinking and gambling problems. Got into $40k debt on crypto at 32.>Turns out to be a blessing in disguise. At 32 I decided to get sober, build my 401k to erase my debt, and get into the best shape of my life. For 7 months I was sober, lifting weights, and going to AA meetings. Living by the beach with my easy $90k job. It was the coolest time.>Meet super hot, smart woman from a wealthy family. At first it seemed awesome. She comes to my little studio apartment and doesn’t leave.>Turns out she is crazy (probably borderline personality). She accuses me of being into other women, slaps me, breaks all of my stuff and stabs my couch when I ask her to leave. I end up scared of her. Turns out she filed legal action on her last two exes (who were really successful career guys).> I can’t get her out of my apartment and she won’t leave. I end up stuck with her for like another year trying to work on the relationship. I relapse on alcohol and go back to gambling on crypto. I lose the $24k I saved in my 401k.>Forced to take on more debt, I have no choice but to leave my cushy $90k dream job and have to move to a new city to make $140-150k in the job from hell.>I’m back to drinking again and live in a tiny 200 sq foot apartment with no kitchen. But I hope to have my debts paid in 2 years by the time I’m 37 and somehow move back to my old city and get my old gym membership back and be a happy dude. I think my old $90k employer would take me back but I need the higher paying job right now.>I look back and realize that the summer of 2023 when I was sober and without a woman and in the best shape of my life was freakin AWESOME.>Lesson to you other guys out there? Don’t let some hot woman come in and wreck your happy situation.
