Thank you, I will keep making more videos. I am approaching this channel as what would I tell my wife and daughter if I was no longer around and what gives them the best odds of having an easier life, how to make more money, how to save on taxes, and how to invest. If you have a question/request for a video let me know as a separate comment train since only new comments will show up on my feed.

The hardest classes in engineering were normally the math classes and I have seen a lot of people take them at community colleges as pass / fail which helped the GPA in the 4 year university when they were transferred in, just a thought if your university allows up to 4 classes of transfers. Good luck and keep at it. mid career engineers generally make over $100,000 per year.

Keep at it. If it is too hard look at other engineering majors. Get through the hard classes no matter what and try to take easier electives. Try to find a subject you really enjoy and focus projects on that (like analog circuits, etc). I was physics/Industrial Engineering. Make it happen!

I agree, the saying at my school was that the limit as credits approach completion engineering students went to business. Generally in order of difficulty was Nuclear, Chemical, Mechanical, Electrical, Civil, and so forth. Chemistry engineers left because of chemistry. Most left because of math. Electrical from AC circuits, programming logic, and math. I have had some friends take 6-8 years to finish their degrees but it is the same piece of paper as everyone else. When I took the FE and PE, I passed on the first attempt and others took 6 times but they still get the same letters and pay. They never gave up and it has paid off for them.

Yes, it worked in 1985, 1950, and it still works today. Life is hard and it helps to work as a team. Leverage helps the most to make more money.

Big items to make sure you agree on would include: values, morals, religion, political views, and finances. These become huge especially once married and even more so when raising children. Looks fade with time. Have fun debating over which way is the right way for the toilet paper to go or not only how, but when various chores should be done. Also agreeing on should you save, invest, spend what money on what thing when one person likes to spend everything be in debt and live for today when the other may think about the future and put off spending money because they care about security.

Correct, but it is very difficult to make a higher income when someone is a single parent that dropped out of school before graduating high school to even work full time due to childcare issues and lack of education. Life is much harder for that individual and the statistics show that they would have a 52% chance of living in poverty vs someone that graduates high school, is married, works full time, and waits until after 21 to have children has only a 3% chance of living in poverty.

@@financial_freedom101 You have to consider opportunity cost in your assessment. A woman who waits for children is less fertile and doesn't attract as valuable of a mate, for example. Postponing children risks never having them because you skipped over a mate opportunity. Staying in school may mean forgoing starting a business or learning a skill, or getting married earlier, or having an extra child. Income is not the only measure of wealth, so opportunity cost needs to be more strongly considered. In old age people rely on children more and income may be less necessary with more children to help.

It was only referring to graduating high school which most will complete by age 17 or 18 and waiting to have children at 21 years old which is still around the prime time to start having kids biologically. It is very hard to provide a stable loving home when constantly worrying about paying for a place to stay, food, utilities, safety, etc. I grew up poor and my parents divorced and I saw this in my family as well as friends. It puts a lot of stress on all involved and if it is a single mother the children have significantly increased chances of using drugs, dropping out of school, committing suicide, being incarcerated, etc. We agree that success is not all about money and I would add it also has to do with how the children become kind, caring and productive members of society when they reach adulthood also. 85% of youths in prison come from fatherless homes 71% of high school dropouts come from fatherless homes 90% of all homeless and runaway children are from fatherless homes 60% of youth suicides are from fatherless homes www.nolongerfatherless.org/statistics#:~:text=85%25%20of%20youths%20in%20prison,live%20without%20their%20biological%20father Consider these dire statistics from single parent households: 63% of youth suicides (Source: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Bureau of the Census) ➲  90% of all homeless and runaway children ➲  85% of all children that exhibit behavioral disorders (Source: Center for Disease Control) ➲  80% of rapists motivated with displaced anger (Source: Criminal Justice & Behavior, Vol 14, p. 403-26, 1978.) ➲  71% of all high school dropouts (Source: National Principals Association Report on the State of High Schools.) ➲  75% of all adolescent patients in chemical abuse centers (Source: Rainbows for All God`s Children.) ➲  70% of juveniles in state-operated institutions (Source: U.S. Dept. of Justice, Special Report, Sept 1988) ➲  85% of all youths sitting in prisons (Source: Fulton County Georgia jail populations, Texas Department of Corrections 1992) post.ca.gov/portals/0/post_docs/publications/Building%20a%20Career%20Pipeline%20Documents/safe_harbor.pdf