Money doesn’t come easy, or else everyone would be rich
By Steve Poland • August 16, 2007
My buddy Eric Nagel is finally blogging. He’s doing it Shoemoney style, by posting anything — family-related, affiliate marketing related, or random geek things (like how he has the temperature auto-updating online for his hot tub, pool, and office/attic — and also how with the holidays coming up, he has a light show programmed to music).
Eric is a very smart guy — potentially the smartest I know. He also works hard and knows that money needs to be earned — and to save those pennies. Back in highschool he said we’d someday work together — and over the past 10 years, we have here and there, but I’ve moved away from Buffalo 7 times and have been the “live by the seat of my pants” kind of guy, whereas he’s been married with 3 kids for 6 years now.
I’ve always said he’s the ying to my yang, but I think he’s always been way too conservative and I was way too aggressive. I’ve simmered down quite a bit since falling on my face over the years and I think he’s relaxed a bit too, but we’re still not ready to go at it together. I’m now more than likely permanently back in Buffalo, so someday I think we’ll be doing some things together once again.
Recently he told me, “Steve, I’m going to make a million dollars someday. Someday, you’re going to make a million dollars in a day.” Hopefully we both reach financial freedom at some point.
Anyhow, the title of this post was a quote from one of his recent posts. Eric works his own hours, from his own home, getting to spend time with his young growing kids, and he makes twice the salary I do in a year — so I recommend adding his RSS feed and hopefully he’ll keep up with his writing.
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Steve,
It takes all kinds to make this world a wonderful place. Eric’s poignant comment about becoming millionaires will likely come to pass. Thanks for the recommendation; I added Erics feed.
j
Popo..I have a plan, its called winning the lotto. I’ll buy you a car or something.