Even though there is quite a bit of appeal to the idea of buying low and then selling  higher, with something like bitcoin the more prudent and  reasonable approach is to actually just keep buying without selling until perhaps 10 years or more later, and even when the selling time comes, there is no need to sell all at once or even in BIG chunks, but just sell a little bit as you need it when that later time comes. 

Selling has the appeal of both short term profits and people want to lock in their profits (in dollars), yet it seems like large numbers end up selling way too many bitcoin too early and at too low of a price... live and learn and live and regret can end up being common themes for guys who are not able to accumulate and hold for a long time and stop trying to skim off short term profits before the BTC  has been allowed to grow over a couple of cycles or more.

Since the long term is not guaranteed, that would be the reason for not overly doing the investment, and to invest as much as you are comfortable to put away for 10 years or longer.


You seem to be referring to issues of bitcoin position size and long term money management, which should not exclude the conclusion that investing into bitcoin is a thing that is likely going to make your life better, especially if you can continue to invest in bitcoin and maintain it for 10 years or more.

No one can tell you how to increase your income or how to make sure that you don't lose your job or how to improve your job skills, and yeah there can be some very challenging times that contribute to more people not being able to invest as much into bitcoin, since they don't have much if any discretionary income.  So yeah there are needs for discretionary income and some folks can afford $100 per week, and others can afford $1k per week and others might only be able to afford $10 per week.. and yeah, it can be tough for those who are not even able to afford $10 per week.. and I am not sure how to get out of those kinds of situations if you have already cut all of your expenses, and if you cannot figure out ways to increase your income, then you might not even be in a position to put $10 per week into bitcoin because you don't have an extra $10 per week, and you actually need to have an extra $10 to be  able to buy bitcoin, since if you need that money for short term expenses, then it is not available for buying bitcoin.


Some folks get into higher circles or are ONLY able to network because they agree to and/or apply to an internship.  Some people also create their own internship by approaching companies or individuals who are in a position to be able to create a position, and surely sometimes it can be quite difficult for some folks to get access to higher positions and opportunities with more skills and better pay, but sometimes they do get into such positions through internships.... and surely it can be even especially important to show that you are skilled, you are likable, you are a kind of person who can identify problems and solve them or follow direction very  well to accomplish goals of the decision maker, and surely sometimes after having you work and benefit their company (or business) for a while, they either will offer you a paid position, or you might end up putting yourself into a position in which you can apply to another company (business) and get a similar position or even a higher position that is paid, since your internship had gotten you access to information about the ways that things are done in a certain industry and a kind of insider knowledge. 

I am not saying it is easy, but there are some guys who can be capable of entering into better employment if they are able to get access or to do an internship... which also can mean dressing for the part, having mannerisms and behaviors to show that you are qualified for the part, showing up early, staying late, studying on your own time and even off site, and just being generally likable and potentially desired because you may well end up contributing in such a way that increases their business and profits and even they might see that you contribute so much that they can just pay you from the additional profits and they still make more by paying you versus not having you... and yeah, it might not be easy to find such a situation or even to accomplish such a task... and I am not even claiming to be an expert on the details of how to accomplish it, since it will be different for different kinds of skills that you might have and what kind of needs a company (business) might have and how well suited your talents and/or personality might be within the company (business).


Some kinds of activities are monetizable and other kind of activities are not monetizable.  So there can be things that you learn (even on your own) that you are able to lend your skills to someone who is willing to pay you, which sometimes goes back to building a reputation of being good, trustworthy and beneficial so that people will end up paying you for your services, and yeah sometimes you might have to do it for free or for low pay while you are building a reputation and building customers/clients.


Those are decisions for you to make.. so yeah, I understand that some folks might never be able to advance out of their position, so they don't have enough time, skills or even extra money so that they can afford to spend in unpaid labor, yet some higher positions might not open up for certain people unless you can make it appear that you are able to do that higher paid work.  Another thing is that if you know that there is a certain kind of way to get into a higher paid position, then if you are not ready, willing and/or able to do the steps then you might be stuck with lower paid jobs for longer periods (and perhaps forever), and sometimes knowing about a path can be helpful, and some people will specifically attend a specific tech school or even short amount of college for the opportunities for the internship and not necessarily for the school training itself, yet both the school training and the internship may well end up being the route that a person has to take in order to be qualified for a paid position.. and sometimes the early paid position is not paid very much, but it has promotion opportunities.

Part of the reason that people compare dead end jobs to jobs with promotion opportunities is based upon these kinds of ideas that there are some kinds of jobs that have way more promotion (higher pay) opportunities, and there are other kinds of jobs that may have little to no promotional opportunities.. nothing significant, anyhow... The pay of some jobs barely keep up with changes in the cost of living..and some of the ways to cheat (even though it could take a while to play out), is to be able to figure out which kinds of jobs have higher potential and better stepping stone opportunities..and there might be almost no way in hell for a person to even keep up  with the cost of living increases if he keeps doing similar kinds of jobs, but if there are ways to get promoted into higher positions, then the take up pay at some point go up 20% or more or sometimes the pay might even double or triple at certain points in the career....and again, I am not saying it is easy, and I am not even saying that everyone is able to do it and some people clean up better than other people.. Some people have difficulties fitting their personality or their way of presenting themselves into a position that is going to impress the right people in order that they can receive promotions in pay and/or promotion in skills and opportunities.

I recall doing various voluntary positions, internship, sometimes with low pay but good exposure and experiences, and then other kinds of working my way up, and then there were certain points that I entered into entry level positions that were paid, but then the amount of pay was like 10s of times more than my previous positions since a lot of the stuff that I was doing was mostly unpaid or very low paid, but they were stepping stones to the higher paid positions....and of course, sometimes the experiences were not very great, but if the position was being used as a kind of stepping stone, there can be ways to spin the position and the experiences in a way that made them show that you were ready, willing and able to take the higher qualification kinds of jobs that had higher responsibilities (and perhaps higher pay)..oh and sometimes when there was a good job, it also might have almost guaranteed promotions (and even higher pay), so then if you had already been used to making way less money, then so much of the additional money can be used for investing (into some thing like bitcoin - even though bitcoin was not around during my earlier years of building my work experience and my getting into higher paid positions).


Another part of the amazing thing about bitcoin is that the investment timeline could end up getting cut way shorter than expected.  Of course, there are no guarantees, but so far bitcoin has shown itself to be quite an amazing investment that has potentials of cutting down our anticipated investment timeline in ways that are beyond belief and beyond the expectations of many who had already gotten into bitcoin... but the real and true secret seems to be accumulating and holding it rather than prematurely selling it...so not fucking it up.. we have a great investment.. don't fuck it up. hahahahahaha


I agree with your overall point that some kinds of costs are more flexible than other kinds of costs, but even come of the basic costs, such as food, shelter and clothing, can have way more flexibilities than what we might have had considered to be possible.. So sometimes we might need to be creative in how we consider our costs.. so sometimes with food we might find some ways that we could buy in bulk or at a discount and then share the costs with neighbors so then some of the food quality might be better and the costs might be cheaper.  With shelter we might consider various kinds of sharing relations that might help to reduce costs, and sure we still have to consider how much we might want to  sacrifice in terms of cleanliness, space, privacy, safety and/or proximity to other locations that we need to go.  With clothing sometimes there might be free or low cost ways to get clothes, but also sometimes there might be needs to buy some more expensive clothing, but we might consider if there might be better places to source our clothing.

Many times we have to be careful in regards to some of the ways that we might be saving money, since sometimes it would be better to spend more money on certain kinds of things for either creating a good impression or maybe for your own health and well-being it may well be better to be eating higher quality foods like meat and eggs rather than bread and/or snacks that might seem cheap but they are not good for your health.  Also, it might be better to locate lodging that is close to various places that you need to go so that you are able to better use your time.

Surely many of us already discuss that if there are ways to increase your income, then that may end up being way better than reducing your expenses, and many times there are ways to pay attention to both...for example, a guy might really want to buy a car, and he knows it will increase his opportunities for income, yet he might end up figuring out that a motorcycle might give a lot of the same benefits with way fewer costs... so there can be difficulties to know, and surely sometimes getting the car would be better as a way to improve status, so there could be ways that a car could end up paying for itself even though it is a way higher cost item... and each guy has to figure out these kinds of matters in terms of his own situation and circumstances... and even with a car sometimes it might be better to buy one in the middle of the range rather than buying overly cheap or overly expensive.. so there can be some value spent in learning about trade offs with different models, if you are going down the road of figuring out what might be best bang for the buck...with a lot of the various tradeoffs that could come from choices.