i hate being young

[chefjamesscott]

I'm 43 and the biggest tank I've ever had was a 190 gallon

Be careful what you wish, I remember hating being young back then... now I'm older and getting older.

bravo great post

I was going to say this I am 42 and my motto is this. BE FOREVER THE PERPETUAL 12 YEAR OLD-young enough to be a freespirit old enough to know enough to keep from silly decisions.

The reality is do not be driven by desire for things you can not obtain, for then they are not dreams but nightmares. Though if it is something you can obtain dream until it becomes reality, for such is the nature of true life.

 

[chefjamesscott]

well i go to school and i know im getting a job in summer. sorry to say but it is not hard to sell a 240 gallon tank lots of people want it. thats why if you have true friends they dont give a F*** about when they get their money back aslong as they get within a year. you must be a crappy friend or have some crappy friends if your friendships breaks up from a loan. busting some scandalous stuff or something.

having friends like you who cant trust others usually breaks up freindships. im glad your not my friend

Rock on, for sure I would lend some $ to a friend to get a big tank. after al it is only money.

Well you are only 18 so just wait till you live a little

Shoooot I know many teenagers that have adults beat handsdown in their maturity level. Age is only a frame of mind.

I know of many 25-50 year olds that are so messed up because their life revolves are the great pity me party and they can not see to understand that if they would stop looking at themselves life might be better.

Many of these people have stuff but they do not have the stuff of life.

I for one am thankful for the wonder of the internet and it's ability to totally destroy these manufactured age barriers that proclaim that teenagers do not know anything.

 

[gangster]

getting old sucks! Im not even 30 and im falling apart

 

[FLESHY]

Bro, i am 14 and have a 55g. When i asked for another 5gallon, they made me tear down the 2gallon. So consider yourself ****ing lucky

Lmao...I remeber when I was in your shoes...when I was 14 I got my first job at an LFS...since I was too young to legally hire they paid me in fish supplies. At the end of my run there my brother and I had more gallons of aquariums in house than they did at the store...it ended when my dad woke up one day and said, "This house sounds like a god %$&# river you need to take down at least...NINE of these!"

That was the begining of the end.

 

[chefjamesscott]

I have to chime in here with a thought for the 14-18 year olds.

Ever since I was the above age I have had big dreams. When I was 17 my uncle who was a car nut who lived with intensity and the cars that could match that speed told me this.

"Little man, put your seat belt on time flies. I can remember when I was your age and now look at me I am 35!"-Randy Klein

That stuck with me and gave me a view that time would indeed fly and totally solidified my desire to live my dreams and not allow anyone to poo poo on them. There is one bad side to this, which is not really a bad side. Sometimes dreams come crashing down to the ground (that part is bad) but the lessons learned from failure is something that money can not buy!!!!!!! Besides the reality is that life is not about medals received but scars earned on the field.

So on the subject of fish dreams, so long as you are not messing with the rules that are on you while you live under another persons roof, give it everything you got to make that dream a reality. Find a job, make a job and make it happen. Shoot the op got spunk I would even go so far as to give him one of my big tanks provided it was ok with his parents.

I can honestly say that having a big tank is a cool thing so much more you can do.

To the op I would say turn your 55 into a breeding tank for a nice pair of frontosa if you can get them. A male and a female breeding pair, the fry that they produce is by far a easy money fish. I have many wc fronts and f1 and mine make babies all the time I just have not bothered to harvest them. I can sell my fronts for min $25/ to easy $60/ do the math when you consider how many fry one couple produces in 2 batches you would not only make your money back on the origional fish but you would have your tank badda boom badda bing!

Or find a killer cichlid couple and let them reproduce and sell them off.

 

[chefjamesscott]

Lmao...I remeber when I was in your shoes...when I was 14 I got my first job at an LFS...since I was too young to legally hire they paid me in fish supplies. At the end of my run there my brother and I had more gallons of aquariums in house than they did at the store...it ended when my dad woke up one day and said, "This house sounds like a god %$&# river you need to take down at least...NINE of these!"

That was the begining of the end.

HHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHHAH

SOMETIMES DRINKING COFFEE AND READING A POST IS A BAD IDEA

 

[bushie12]

Leme get this straight.. You dont like being young because you cant get a fish tank? LOL wooow. Stay young kid. Because being an adult is 50 times harder than it seems.

 

[Scorponok]

get a jpb

Then a credit card.

 

[nomad]

"get a job " is the worst advice to give to someone under 24.....staying in school and getting a education , the higher , the better is key......at a young age the brain should be stimulated not numbed by meaningless jobs.

 

[chefjamesscott]

"get a job " is the worst advice to give to someone under 24.....staying in school and getting a education , the higher , the better is key......at a young age the brain should be stimulated not numbed by meaningless jobs.

I mean this without any offense intended










I have been working ever since I was 12. My first job was to wash dishes in the restaurant where my sister worked. The owner thought it was funny that I wanted so much to work. Now you wanna talk about numbing seemingly meaningless job do a shift in the dish pit. Though it was real funny when I as a 12 year old poured 1/4 of a bottle of liquid soap in the commercial dish machine.

But, seriously work has never hurt anyone and without work it is kind of hard to pay for things. And there was nothing better for reward for me at a young age than to get a paycheque. Here in sask if your parents give the ok you can work. The dish job started out as a joke where I would get my burger and stuff as pay, but ended up turning into real work.