[Timoteo]

(01-21-2012 12:10 AM)Timoteo Wrote:  

This guy is so much like athletes, except many athletes' money is guaranteed at least. They blow it on the same shit - gaudy jewelry, high-end cars, custom (gold thread in the fabric of his suits...REALLY?) and designer clothing. Stuff that has depreciating, or at some point, NO value. It's money down drain. Tailors, jewelers, auto dealers and realtors LOVE to see them coming. Athletes aren't savvy, but businessmen are supposed to be. Instead of blowing money on all of that shit, he should have been breaking some of that off into something that would make more money for him. Something he could live off of if he hit a rough patch.

This guy was probably doing well enough to keep the bills paid, but had no margin for error. Living check-to-check if you will. Unlike an athlete, he had to hustle for his and didn't have a guaranteed check on the 1st and 15th.