Ever since 2016 I have wished that I could go back in time and Biff Tannen my way to being a trillionaire by 2014--a benevolent trillionaire!
I wouldn't quite gamble my way to unprecedented wealth, I would back things like these:
https://ceoworld.biz/2016/12/08/50-b...-11-years-ago/
Buy houses in 2000, sell in 2007, etc.
You expect me to do something genius? You ought to know me better!
That first step, developing time travel, would be a doozy!
Yeah, I would be a trillionaire, yay, but I would have three goals:
- Customer satisfaction
- Employee satisfaction
- Providing good healthcare
I am sure that I would have the opportunity to buy a health insurance company and maybe some hospitals. If I am a trillionaire, I would have millions of employees.
Then in 2014 I will buy up all of the air time that I can, donate it to charities, and run for President on the platform of "I already provided great healthcare to millions of Americans. If elected I will sell all of my assets to my employees and donate 100% towards the National Debt." I will tell rivals "I raised X millions of dollars for charity. What have you done? How will you help pay down the national debt?"
Well, that was a good use of everyone's time...
I guess that Publisher's Clearinghouse still has not officially chosen their $1,000 a day for life winner. Supposedly I have a one in billions chance.
Fingers crossed!
I spent hours recently trying to figure out my cashflow, but I honestly cannot tell you how much I have been able to pay down my debts in the last year. If I could not afford health insurance on that amount then I argue it is too expensive and my health expenses have been $500 or $600... ever?
That is how much I have spent this year, but I had not seen a doctor since leaving the Guard, and all of my expenses were covered since I joined the Army in 2008, and I was rarely sick.
I was rarely sick before then, but I had health insurance.
I have zero reason to believe this will sustain forever. Who would pay my expenses if that client put me in the hospital--or my mom did?
What if I hit another elk and was seriously injured? What if I needed to have my tonsils or appendix removed?
I want health insurance, I just do not see any reason to stay in debt for it. However, open enrollment for the healthcare marketplace opens on the First. I have it on my calendar. Coverage was supposed to cost something like $750 for a year. Hopefully I still do not get sick, but I will budget in that much.
I start applying to grad schools soon. My first supervisor already wrote a letter of recommendation (although I am not sure that I will be able to use it). My other supervisor said she would and a previous supervisor has written me letters before. Grad schools only care about school, they don't care how well you already do the job that you may or may not do after you cease to be their responsibility, they care how well you will probably do in school, but I should have a chance with NAU's summers-only program and three on-line ones.
Become an SLP, have job offers for $60,000 a year for 10 months before I graduate, and have health insurance through my employer.
I would also see some clients after school and per hour that probably pays twice as much.