How are you able to afford Hermes bags?

[papertiger]

Just to remind everyone that this thread is 12 years old from OP to this message.

Take part in the poll if you like, but be advised the OP may have evaluated how people afford their Hermes.

 

[pyrexia]

Honestly, I think if you measure success in terms of the number or type of material goods you have, you will never make it in life. Why? Because luxury is constantly evolving and what you get today may not be at the top of tomorrow's luxury pinnacle. You will spend the rest of your life chasing a material dream.

The other ladies have offered great, sound advice on choosing life's path. You don't have to make up your mind now (heck, I'm graduating in 3 months and MY mind's not made up!) but you need to weigh your abilities and skills against things that you enjoy. The most successful people are usually those who are doing something that they enjoy - whether taking pictures, or dressing someone up or operating on someone.

Work hard, but also work smart. You don't need to earn xxxx million of dollars a year to be financially worry-free; you just need prudence and a sensible head on your shoulders. Don't dream of the LVs, Chanels and Hermes you can buy - dream instead of being debt-free, financially worry-free. The rest will fall into place.

 

[ms piggy]

Ardneish, ouija board and Pepper sum it up very nicely. Do what you're passionate about (it might take some time to figure it out though) and be true to yourself. Luxuries at the end of the day are just stuff albeit nice stuff. It would not bring you the happiness and fulfilment. When you have the Birkin (or ___), then what? The current financial crisis has clearly demonstrate that nothing is permanent or forever.

 

[Julide]

Honestly, I think if you measure success in terms of the number or type of material goods you have, you will never make it in life. Why? Because luxury is constantly evolving and what you get today may not be at the top of tomorrow's luxury pinnacle. You will spend the rest of your life chasing a material dream.

The other ladies have offered great, sound advice on choosing life's path. You don't have to make up your mind now (heck, I'm graduating in 3 months and MY mind's not made up!) but you need to weigh your abilities and skills against things that you enjoy. The most successful people are usually those who are doing something that they enjoy - whether taking pictures, or dressing someone up or operating on someone.

Work hard, but also work smart. You don't need to earn xxxx million of dollars a year to be financially worry-free; you just need prudence and a sensible head on your shoulders. Don't dream of the LVs, Chanels and Hermes you can buy - dream instead of being debt-free, financially worry-free. The rest will fall into place.

Excellent point Pyrexia!!

 

[turboflgrl]

To turbo,

I'm sorry that you interpreted my comment as a pot stir, when I have no stir in me. I stated my opinion, only; your mileage may vary. I wish this young person happiness and success.

As is common on the Internet. Sometimes I wish we had a button that could decode how things are really supposed to come across.

Thanks for your sweet response - I found it quite refreshing!!

 

[Rose100]

Took my husband and me, oh, about 25 years of having our own business, now more than one.
I was just telling someone today how we started out by going to college and, at the same time, having two jobs each. We bought our first apartment when we were 22, we worked 7AM to midnight, for years.
It was a lot of work, a lot of discipline, a lot of optimism, and some luck, too.
But mostly it was setting goals, sticking to them, and not letting anything bring us down or anyone tell us that we couldn't make it.
Good luck to you. Simply asking your question shows that you are on the right path!

 

[pas de cheval]

littlepea
here is my 2 cents...
work hard, play hard
be independent
the best thing in life is freedom
you have to make choices about what sacrifices you're prepared to make
or how hard you want to work
choose something you're good at
success follows you if you've chosen well
it doesn't feel good until you've earnt it
if it came easily, it could also leave easily

 

[ken-doll]

littlepea do you currently own any Hermes?

 

[Flipper]

I have to agree with a lot of the replies here, don't shoot for a career based on the number of luxury items it can afford to get you, you will never truly be happy at the end of the day. Find something that brings you life satisfaction and work hard at it. Most people in extremely successful positions, good investment bankers, doctors etc are people who are passionate about those jobs. That's usually what makes them so successful in the first place, passion

 

[Roxane]

Honestly, I think if you measure success in terms of the number or type of material goods you have, you will never make it in life. Why? Because luxury is constantly evolving and what you get today may not be at the top of tomorrow's luxury pinnacle. You will spend the rest of your life chasing a material dream.

The other ladies have offered great, sound advice on choosing life's path. You don't have to make up your mind now (heck, I'm graduating in 3 months and MY mind's not made up!) but you need to weigh your abilities and skills against things that you enjoy. The most successful people are usually those who are doing something that they enjoy - whether taking pictures, or dressing someone up or operating on someone.

Work hard, but also work smart. You don't need to earn xxxx million of dollars a year to be financially worry-free; you just need prudence and a sensible head on your shoulders. Don't dream of the LVs, Chanels and Hermes you can buy - dream instead of being debt-free, financially worry-free. The rest will fall into place.

 

[tbestes]

this may have turned into the best advice thread on the boards lately! I agree with those who advise that you do what you love - the riches (and perhaps in forms other than money) will follow. Nothing is worth having a job that you hate.

 

[India]

One should never choose a career or a spouse based on the amount of money either will generate. It's always a VERY bad bet and leads to tremendous unhappiness and unfullfillment that no amount of Hermes can remedy.

Do something you love and are good at! Marry a man who makes you laugh and who comforts you when you cry and on whom you can totally depend. Work hard, be responsible financially and debt-free. Keep your body healthy.

If the Hermes comes at some time down the road, hooray; if it doesn't, it won't really matter because you will HAVE what really does matter.

 

[littlepea]

To turbo,

I'm sorry that you interpreted my comment as a pot stir, when I have no stir in me. I stated my opinion, only; your mileage may vary. I wish this young person happiness and success.

Thank you for posting this, I also thought you may have been trying to be mean, it's so hard to tell the way people say things on the internet and it scares me being new and posting threads. I really wasn't trying to be intrusive though I was trying to be as general as possible

And thank you so much everyone for all of your advice, it's nice to see the numbers in the poll, but I truly got a lot from each and everyone one of you!!

The main reasons I wanted to ask this question was:
1) well I'm curious.
2) I wanted to see if there are any successful artists out there.
3) I wanted to know how many of you followed your dreams and had to struggle to get where you are and afford what you can now, or did you find something you liked (and maybe wasn't your dream) and that has the lifestyle that you would like (as far as maybe stability, money, free time, etc.) and choose from there? And I ask this because I've always been the kind of person who believed strongly in my dreams, but as I've grown up the past couple of years, as my mom's implemented in me that money is everything and love can be learned (which I will never believe) and as I've seen the economy crash, I have to admit that it has somewhat influenced me and made me think more practically and realistically in terms of finding a job because I think most of us can't find our completely dream job that has every single thing that we want. I don't know if that makes sense, but I mean there's always something you have to sacrifice, like if I wanted to be an artist I would be following my dream and enjoying myself but at the same time I might have to struggle, my job may not be stable, I may have to move around a lot, vs. if I was something like being a pediatrician, which is a job that I would like but it wouldn't be exactly my dream job, but it would be stable, it will always be in demand, I will probably make enough money to at least support myself, etc.

It makes it so much harder for me to decide what to be with the economy in the state that it is, with so many people losing their jobs, and not being able to support themselves or their family anymore, the only thing that's on my mind is a finding stable, always in demand job. :s

 

[littlepea]

littlepea do you currently own any Hermes?

No I don't own a Hermes.

I also wanted to mention that while I asked about how you can afford fancy things, I really wanted to know how you are able to make enough money to be able to not worry and have money left over to buy those types of things in general. Bags, accessories and material goods are important to me, but they are far from the most important things in my life. My main goal in life is to first and for most be happy, have love in my life, be able to support myself/not have to worry about money so much, obtain knowledge and intelligence, to be able to make wonderful memories, and see the world/travel.

 

[mrssparkles]

^^ littlepea, without answering your question directly (I can understand your curiosity), may I direct you to search for a thread in the past that discussed the H forummers' professions. That will give you a clue.

I, was not gifted a Hermes orange box when I was born. Although my children were!!!!!!! Lucky pigs.

 

[mrssparkles]

Here you go ...

http://forum.purseblog.com/hermes/what-do-you-do-for-a-living-83133.html