Guidance

As I was growing up, my parents discouraged me from working while attending school. They made a genuine attempt to provide for me the support that I needed so that I could focus exclusively on my academics. Their reasoning for this was simple - Once you start making money, you'll forget what is important in life and will simply want to follow this path. As you read through this paper, ask yourself how true this actually is.

Financial gain drives every market around the world, and quite honestly there are very few things the world as a whole has not yet done for money. To quantify what my parents' believe, I will describe how the lives of the people involved vary from the lives they once lived, and from the lives of a person working a nine-to-five job.