When I first started out in the work force more than 8 years ago, I came across the aforementioned statement but did not really pay much heed to that.
Goals back then were pretty simple and revolved largely around trying to get as far up the learning curve as possible and grab on to those handrails on the gravy train without getting flung off. I shudder at the thought off getting thrown off a train moving at more than 200km/h. Yikes. It has been more than 3 years since I started riding a motorcycle, but to this day, I still feel the fear of human flesh (mostly mine) scrapping the hot asphalt in every single instance when I mount my motorcycle, which makes me feel more alive.
The numero uno goal was to save up SGD1.0m and scoot off to find something more meaningful to do - like ......