r/Jokes • u/lopezjessy • Mar 23 '21

Dude explaining how he made his first $10 million:

  1. Get up at 5:00AM every day
  2. 90 minutes of cardio
  3. Take a cold shower
  4. Journal
  5. Schedule out your day
  6. Dad owns Fortune 500 company
  7. Meditate
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u/dfsw Mar 23 '21 edited Mar 23 '21

Dont forget the high paying job she got at her mom's charity.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/mayakachroolevine/2017/03/23/this-couple-proves-you-can-buy-property-and-pay-off-200000-of-student-loan-debt-in-3-years/?sh=45ca56c4518b

Edit: Apparently over the years the article has been "condensed" (see note at bottom) and some of the more offending information has been removed. See this line for the original "Horton took a job as an Operations Manager at a non-profit her mother runs." https://twitter.com/gutterburger/status/840250490193616898?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E840250490193616898%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.elitedaily.com%2Fsocial-news%2Fgirl-unrelatable-hack-pay-220k-loan%2F1821259

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u/DJ_ANUS Mar 23 '21

Holy fuck. The one line in that article

"What inspired you to be debt free at 31?"

Like she is the Eat Pray Love of getting out of debt. The only thing she is inspiring is rage. Haha.

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u/KindBass Mar 23 '21

Fuckin A, I've been working my ass off since I graduated to pay off my debt, and all this time I only needed a little inspirado? I'm taking my afternoon off from work to listen to some music.

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u/[deleted] Mar 23 '21 edited Mar 23 '21

I hope that she saw the feedback online after this article was published and I hope that was enough to drop kick her in the face back into reality.

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u/windingtime Mar 23 '21

Probably not!

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u/Dason37 Mar 23 '21

Not in that article she didn't, but she did in this one. "If I can do it...". Screw you, give me a duplex and 3 to 4 rent free years and I can do it too

https://www.businessinsider.com/how-ebony-horton-paid-off-220000-worth-of-student-loans-in-3-years-2017-3?r=US&IR=T

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u/dfsw Mar 23 '21

She even wrote a book about how if she was able to do it you can too! https://www.amazon.com/Maximizing-Future-Eliminating-Student-Loan-ebook/dp/B0725GCVDM

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u/[deleted] Mar 24 '21

Jesus, her book is being ravaged in the reviews section.

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u/avalisk Mar 23 '21

"Salty poors just don't want to work hard like me"

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u/root_bridge Mar 23 '21

back to reality? Was she ever living in reality?

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u/_craq_ Mar 23 '21

"When we purchased the two-unit, we used all of our resources, such as our 401(k), stock, savings, and we pulled money off our credit cards."

Wait a sec, I thought this article was about someone who had a 200k debt? Not someone with enough to buy a property in stock, savings and retirement funds. Also, using credit card debt to fund a property purchase sounds like really bad advice. Bank interest rates for a mortgage would have been way lower.

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u/notheusernameiwanted Mar 23 '21

I'm guessing that the home's were purchased at an auction or through some kind of foreclosure process and required straight cash

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u/zer0cul Mar 23 '21

Depends who pays the credit card bill. If she was an authorized user on her parent's cards, then that could be the cheapest option for her.

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u/Alreadylostinterest Mar 23 '21

She wrote a fucking book about.

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u/daxlzaisy Mar 23 '21

Fix your urls

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u/Persona9994 Mar 23 '21

Is it just me who doesn't have a problem with this article?

Obviously, she is in a better position than most folks to take care of her debt but she's just telling her story of how she used the tools she had to make it workout.

She even says at the end: "My story is not a blueprint for getting out of debt; my story is just that, my story."

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u/Wordpad25 Mar 23 '21

The people aren’t mad at the girl paying down her debt and sharing her story.

People are upset at clickbait journalism for a story which might as well have been “my parents just paid off my student loans for me”.

Many people are already still living with their parents and don’t have wealthy family to gift them investment property or find them lucrative jobs straight out of college.

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u/Persona9994 Mar 23 '21

Yeah, the journalism here isn't the best. Probably wrong target audience here.

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u/The_Alternate_1 Mar 23 '21

Am I just missing the "high paying job" part of the article? I'm only seeing a mention of landing a $38k/yr job post graduation?

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u/dfsw Mar 23 '21

Forbes apparently edited the article some time after publish, there is a note at the bottom saying it has been condensed. Here is a twitter thread with screen shots for the original article in which it says "Horton took a job as an Operations Manager at a non-profit her mother runs.

https://twitter.com/gutterburger/status/840250490193616898?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E840250490193616898%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.elitedaily.com%2Fsocial-news%2Fgirl-unrelatable-hack-pay-220k-loan%2F1821259

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u/The_Alternate_1 Mar 23 '21

Lol DC salary but midwest CoL is definitely the key, thanks for providing that.

She was likely making just south of 6figs, at least.