Quote: (12-19-2015 02:30 AM)Peregrine Wrote:
Seconding (or thirding) the don't take a gap year advice. Your teens and 20s are for working hard. You should have tons of energy and zero family commitments, which means you can go balls to the wall in building a career or a business. If you do this, you should be on or near easy street by 30 while all the guys who spent their 20s chasing skirts are busy trying to catch up.
Not saying you declare celibacy, but it should be money first/bitches second until you've established yourself.
That model won't work so easily in the United States or Western Europe. Maybe in Eastern Europe and other parts of the world, but in the west, the average man who follows that model will probably just end up at 30 stuck in a matrix with lots of responsibilities and crappy dating options. Unless you're super killing it, a moderately successful, 30yo white collar western man will mostly be left with washed up carouselers, single moms, divorcees, and the fat and the fugly for prospects. Hence, all the 30+ guys on this board going abroad to get their pussy fix or find a marriageable girl.
OP, I say, it's better to leverage your youth, especially in a few years when you can legally hit the bars/clubs. Don't be a total moron and knock someone up or completely fuck your life in some other way, but have fun and get the experiments out of your system while you're still young. Figure out your passions and how you can parlay one of them into making a living out of. Perhaps you'll need to get a university degree for this, but maybe you don't. Start learning Game (if you haven't already) in your free time and use your youth as an advantage to get in front of girls your age and have some fun. You'll learn about yourself, and as long as you don't fuck up and saddle yourself with a bunch of baggage, you'll become a more well-adjusted, poised man as a result.