Awa wrote: ↑Mon Apr 01, 2024 8:37 am
My problem is rather that I don't know where the money is supposed to come from without work. Lottery? An acquaintance of mine has been playing for over 35 years and he only pays into this system. Marry rich? Well, why not? Inherit? That always depends. Maybe I could find a job that suits me and pays well. Who knows, maybe there are many other possibilities that I just don't know about, dear PoE
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Abe always say: "the HOW is NOT YOUR JOB."
I know it's a tough thing to overcome this hurdle
But relaxation (and therefore allowing) really begins, where you stop micro-managing. So, drop this "How". To do so, embrace that really there are soooo many opportunities!
Just a few of them that paid out for me- that I personally didn't think about at all, have been:
-My father (who was untraceable and so, "lost" to me almost all of my life, after he had broken up contact) passed down to me a really big chunk of money. I had no idea!
-My father in law (not fond of us at all, seemingly) gave pretty nice amounts of money to us as a gift "out of the blue" where I would have bet that he would prefer to chop off his hand instead...
-When we bought our property, we really wanted to terrace the big slope that it was in, and mold ponds into it. But we knew, that would have cost about 50.000E, and we were happy to have food on the table. Nevertheless, I kept dreaming of,- and planning the exact shape and form I wanted our property landscaped into, and then came the sewer-duct-construction to our small village. They also built the village-street new, and had more than 100 truckloads of dirt to dispose. I followed my impulse and asked if they would want to dispose it on our land (no need to drive far, and no tolls- very different than the official disposal would handle it). They were in awe, and in return they landscaped our property completely FOR FREE.
-When money at one time REALLLLY got tight, and the factory where DH worked was starting to lay off big times, I was faced with NEEDING to go to work as well (which we both didn't want). I looked for work, and each time I applied, it somehow "magically" lead nowhere. And then, one day, DH came home and reported he would have not only been given a really big rise, but he also had been promoted. No need to work for me, anymore!
-The most jaw-dropping thing happened money-wise to us, was when we found out that we had a saving account filled with a nice high 5-figures of saving. It NEVER before occurred to us!
Abe tell stories that HS's had shared, as finding a big Diamond-Earring in the dirt, or getting the inheritance of an almost forgotten brother in law.
As Abe say: There are endless "heavenly closets" where money can come from, if only you allow it.
Here in Germany, you need an education for everything.
Maybe.
But I (German) wrote a book about environmentally friendly construction- home-automation and -interiordesign. The book never got published (40 years ago the topic was "much too strange", 10 years further it was THE hype...) but I got asked to build a school for Ecological Building, from the ground up. I just had started building a family, so this wasn't convenient to me and so I passed. But theoretically- this things happen!
My husband is a trained toolmaker, and he was building follow-on-composit-tools which really is an ambitious handicraft, but- just a handicraft. He wanted to become a self-employed artist, and when his boss learned about it, he asked, if DH wouldn't be interested to earn some extra money by
designing follow-on-composit-tools, which is one of the most challenging engineer- sections. DH- not having had any training in University, said yes, learned as he went, and 6 month later, the designers that were officially trained gave him compliments that his work would be flawless.
Today, 35 years later, he is Head of Engineering in an internationally operating aerospace- business. No further training!
My son wanted to become a coachmaker, to be able to restore the iconic classic cars of the world (which are often several millions of worth). It was told to him that this would be close to impossible, as almost no shop does this handicraft anymore, and the rare ones rarely train. The normal shops who train just change ready-built parts. By "accident", my son found out, that 10 km further WAS such an Europe-wide famous manufacturer, that- very hidden- did this exact repairs and restaurations, and while they were not able to train him officially, because they lacked a master works-man (which is needed to train officially in Germany), they still showed him all tricks of the trait, and would have loved to keep him. So, he COULD have worked in this very rare dream-job with no education to begin with. But my son wanted to get some certificates, and so, a year later he randomly applied at the most known classic-car restorer in Germany. He immediately got the job- that got up to 1000 applications per year- because he almost knew everything, what was necessary to finish the exam, already, due to his own passionate research and by what he had learned "inofficially". But, as he started to work there, he very disliked the energy of the shop, and looked for a shop with higher energy, after 6 month, instead. It was told to him that this would be impossible- to find another shop with such expertise- and to change in the midst of apprenticeship!
His teachers in training school backed him up, and so he COULD switch, AND he found a perfect new shop, that was in all ways much more convenient for him (and is happily ever after). Besides, he got the invitation to work as teacher at this school and getting the necessary licenses to do so, as he goes- even he has no training to be a teacher, whatsoever to begin with.
I could go on with such stories of "impossible".
NEVER MIND!
Just go ahead and do what you
love without caring for the "how", the "who" or the "when", and trust that paths will open up. They will. Even in Germany!