What I’ve learned in my first year as a college dropout

Re:What I’ve learned in my first year as a college dropout by AceJohnny2 on Thursday May 29, 2014 @07:50PM (#7819337)

While it's really interesting and insightful overall, the "$40,000/year is enough" part bothers me. I see it doesn't include health insurance, and while it includes "savings" I have to question how much of a safety net he's actually building himself.

It looks like a classic case of "I'm young and nothing bad's happened to me so why get insurance?".

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Re:What I’ve learned in my first year as a college dropout by Stefan-H on Thursday May 29, 2014 @08:00PM (#7819375)

The author specifically mentions he is still under his parent's health insurance.

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Re:What I’ve learned in my first year as a college dropout by jtfairbank on Thursday May 29, 2014 @08:05PM (#7819389)

He says he's on his parent's insurance, so at least he has that. Also, people survive on far less than 40k a year in the states.

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Re:What I’ve learned in my first year as a college dropout by mentat on Friday May 30, 2014 @12:16AM (#7820250)

"The states" are not the Bay Area.

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Re:What I’ve learned in my first year as a college dropout by xienze on Thursday May 29, 2014 @08:01PM (#7819379)

Actually he said he _doesn't_ save anything -- he had some savings going in to it. Furthermore, if he had an extra $800 per month "savings" would be at the bottom of his list.

Pretty responsible guy.

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