Reddit mentions of Rich Dad Poor Dad: What the Rich Teach Their Kids About Money-That the Poor and the Middle Class Do Not!

I'm gonna throw some book titles at you.

• Your Money Or Your Life
  
• Rich Dad, Poor Dad
  
• Getting Things Done
  
• How to Win Friends and Influence People
  
  The first two will help with the money problems. The third just helps you deal with life and achieving your goals. The last may be the most important because everything in life involves dealing with other people.

Rich Dad Poor Dad

This book is a really easy read, but has a lot of great information in it. I read this right after graduating, and it really helped put life, work, money in perspective. After finishing it, I immediately got myself out of debt.

Not sure how this book will help you, but it would definitely be a good start.

Good luck and remember that you are not the only person who has felt like a underachieving 20-something. We all do (or have in my case).

It's kind of addictive when you start earning good money. You never want to go down. I just had a great two yr contract end and I'm using the cash generated over the next four months to market myself in a sector I'd love to be working in, next.

Also worth buying a copy of Rich Dad Poor Dad if you've not read it. The author's style annoys me, but his message is spot on. Just don't bother buying any of his other books.

And yes, better to freelance as the pimp than the hooker ;)

It's $8 on Amazon, that's probably a worthwhile investment to begin with

Wealthy parents teach their kids to work not to survive or have a comfortable retirement, but rather, to produce or acquire income-producing assets. The income produced by assets -- such as real estate or businesses -- are how the wealthy get wealthier. Eventually you don't have to work at all and you get richer while you sleep because the assets are doing all the "work." In theory, anybody with just a small amount of regular discretionary income could do this, but most people aren't taught to. Instead, they're taught to sink all of their money into a home and retirement savings. Inter-generational transfer of wealth (e.g., inheritance, "trust fund kids," down payment on home as a wedding gift, etc) gets all the attention and criticism as "unfair," -- but really it's the transfer of the knowledge about HOW to create wealth that is the real treasure handed down from one generation to the next, and the real reason for the perpetuation and resilience of the class system.

Edit: For more, read Rich Dad Poor Dad: What the Rich Teach Their Kids About Money-That the Poor and the Middle Class Do Not by Robert Kiyosaki.

This post seems to have dried out. We'll try this again in a couple of days with, hopefully, a more encouraging result. In that time, I recommend you glance over Rich Dad Poor Dad if you've not already done so. This is NOT a book on financial advice, but on the mindset of a rich individual. It is a book on how the rich think.