How much have you earned in your life?

I was reading a book, Your Money Or Your Life by Vicki Robin: 9 steps to transforming your relationship with money and achieving financial independence. Sweet. Step 1, making peace with the past: how much have you earned in your life?

I was like fuck no, ain't nobody got time for that. At the end, I got super curious what that number really is, I took a shovel and started digging.

My student years, I never had to worry about money. Not because I was earning so much, but due to a privileged scholarship. Yap, private funding from Mr father. A bit embarrassing, when I look back at it. Clearly it was with good intention, but not sure it made me a favor, it didn't push me develop any financial skills.

Finishing my studies, got back from Cranfield University in 2013-09. Let's say I became a big boy, started earning my own bucks the next year. We will draw a line and start the calculation with 2014.

If we compress 10 years of data and throw it into one small table, we get something like this.

Sometimes it is easier to see the numbers in columns, let's generate one fancy chart.

These jobs were all occasional, temporary, seasonal, opportunistic. Money was never really the focus, it was more about gaining experience, trying random shit, killing curiosity, having sandwich in my backpack. Hence the numbers. I mean come on, what I made in 10 years, some people make in a month. I have been pretty money ignorant, haven't I?

60k EURO in 10 years, hahaha (nervous, embarrassed laugh).

Leonardo aka Jordan Belfort the stockbroker, made 70k last month. Restaurant scene, The Wolf of Wall Street? Football star players receive 300k per WEEK. To run, play with the ball. Pablo smuggled about 15 tons of cocaine into the US EVERY DAY, making an estimation of 420mil a WEEK. Million, that's six zeros, 420 000 000$ a WEEK.

Funny, couple of months ago, I met Rožo, hi Rožo! We did the same university course: engineering, simulation and shit. Rožo was smart, he stayed in the field, gained experience and knowledge, now runs computer simulation company for Americans, Chinese, walks the dog, goes for vacation whenever he wants, just cashed out a condo for half a million. Meanwhile Frlan: 6 flatmates. You cannot bring a date without everyone knowing about it.

How much dinero have YOU made? Happy, or is it time to step up the game?

Now if you'll excuse me, I've got to run, need to catch my flight to Medellin for an internship.