I have no debts of any kind because I've managed myself after mistakes that I paid them and I run as much as I can of loans and credit cards. If I cannot afford it, I cannot have it and I have downsized myself a lot of materialism for purposes like I hate to clean and I barely have time.
Now, the excuse that I need to work for debts it's gone but I need to Eat, Water, Gas, etc… and they are getting expensive to the point that cannot be afforded.
Now, I am working four days a week in a Restaurant, where they just raised the salary to $9.00 an hour (Puerto Rico's salaries are $7.25, now $8.50 started this year since 2007 not having a raise due to Federal Minimum. They abuse that system) – Puerto Rico has the worst abused case of money. You can FIND here a Nurse or Dentist Assistant, no joke, making $7.25 an hour and people accepts that crap like no tomorrow. I've been asking around, and one of my friends who was an Emergency Nurse, was making like $11.00 an hour in the Emergency Room.
My ultimate goal is to drop it all of and move to a Sailboat (since it doesn't need gasoline), work my passion which is music and art in general, but to make money out of my art, I need to sell it and I need time to create it. I want to do a year to invest my full-time on it. I have my partner and she supports me in all of it, but IT'S the FEAR of having to afford the mentioned before that drives my motivations away. I've been homeless so I've been in the bottom of losing it all but it's NOT the fear of losing it all that drives my fear but it's the society pressure of having the slavery of working for a company, you guys must understand me right there, right? – Like family pressure and I don't care about people but it's that programming that they injected us since we started school.
(I have savings, I'm close to the goal of what I want saved)
I love working, money is NOT my motivation but rather to afford what I want to do, I technically, have to work?
So my question is that, how the people here in this sub that had a passion did it after dropping everything, like; “F*ck it! – I will do my thing! and F*ck this society capitalism!”