Morning guys. I’ve had some thoughts swirling through my head that I wanted some opinions on.
I’ll need to give you some background on me first. I’m a software engineer, and I make around 80K a year total. Some of that money is coming from my side hustle as a session musician, which I do during the week after work and on Sundays. I live in a small town. I need to drive about an hour to Nashville to have the volume necessary to game.
The biggest issue that I have on my plate right now is that I don’t have a car of my own, due to a bad wreck I got in a few months ago. I’ve circumvented this a bit through rental cars. Originally I wanted to get a car loan, but the people at the bank think my credit is too new, so I got declined. I refuse to co-sign with my parents at this point. I also eventually decided that it was better to do this the Dave Ramsey way and work towards being completely debt free, he’s very against car notes.
That leads to my financial/game goals within one year of today:
1.) Have a car of my own paid for in cash with no car note
2.) After this purchase, retain a decent sized emergency fund to protect against life, potential layoffs and more importantly, the car breaking down so I’m never in this situation again.
3.) Have enough money put to the side so that I can make it through this upcoming wedding season completely unscathed
4.) Sleep with 10-12+ new women through a combination of Cold Approach and Online Dating
When you factor in my fitness goals and my current salary, just achieving those goals alone would put me ahead of the average American imo.
I’m thinking that to achieve these goals, I need to put away somewhere between 1.5-2K a month. However, if I’m renting a car every single weekend to go out, this quickly becomes nearly impossible.
I’m thinking of making an argument that for my current goals, I should rent a car and go out every other weekend instead of every single weekend like I’ve been doing. And no, this is not an excuse to avoid rejection lol. I’m also in a pickup group that has weekly challenges, but I’m still thinking it could be best to explain my situation and haggle to go out every other weekend. I think every other weekend is the sweet spot because sitting at the house saving money but being sexless is not an option.
This Would Have Several Advantages, with the First Being the Most Important:
1.) I can easily save the money needed to hit my goals for this year. I wouldn’t have to be so stressed about finances because my side hustle and game expenses would literally cancel each other out. I really need to achieve these goals, because if a year from today all I have to show is a few thousand dollars in my bank account, I’ll be quite upset.
2.) I usually crash at my Wing’s place every time I go to Nashville. By going every other week, I can make sure I’m not wearing out my welcome. I also buy him drinks and pay the Uber fares when I am there for letting me crash.
3.) Because I’m saving so aggressively, even if I want to go(or get invited) to a trip with friends or to a concert, it doesn’t totally derail my financial plan. It’s not even a worry.
4.) This is somewhat outside of the scope of this thread, but going out every other weekend makes it so much easier to keep getting in better shape. I can extended fast longer, there’s less drinking and less late night bar food. I could even work extra gigs on the weekends I’m not out gaming, to bring in more money and build my financial base. I’d also study my Computer Science and increase my skills so that I can eventually jump into a higher paying software job.
5.) Extra time to do whatever I need to do, since I’m always complaining about never having enough time. Again, somewhat outside of the scope of this thread
The only other option would be for me to take the bus every single Friday up to Nashville, and then game for a day then come back Saturday evening so I can make my gigs on Sunday. I’ve taken the bus to Nashville a handful of times. But at this point in my life, I’d almost just rather not: being on the bus that much would drive me crazy. I’d rather just go out every two weeks with a rental car and game hard on those days. It’s still an average of 4 days a month.
I would love to go out every single weekend if I could, but I think that if I don’t start building a financial base, I’m eventually going to hit a wall that makes it very difficult to game or eventually move to a bigger city because I didn’t plan enough for my financial future. I hate to disappoint my wings by not being out every single weekend, but this is starting to make a lot of sense.
I also think that this is sufficient action to achieve my pvssy goals for this year. There’s absolutely no reason that I can’t hit between 80-100 approaches a month doing this routine, I’d argue that’s way more than the average guy approaches. Combine that with eventually online, and I think that these goals regarding getting new pvssy are very realistic.
Hopefully this didn’t go on too long, but I just wanted to get all of my thoughts on the page and get some feedback from you all.
TL;DR:
Is it a good idea, as a game guy to go out every other weekend instead of every weekend so I can ensure that I hit my financial goals this year?
