mooty

architect
private banker
RE, equity fund
life coach
retired
now I make latte and trying to get a job at 4tilfour cafe in AZ (they are hiring)

yes, I had many careers bc I sucked in all ha..
but I am good at eating fine food

mooty

bmw are for kids. I know b/c I was one.



wife, MD, says the same....

rodsky

I think this is a good way to go. You seem to have a good perspective. Buy the house and eliminate debt and then play. I'd say a GT4 is a good goal.

I bought my first 911 when 28 - was driving my Honda past a Porsche dealership and saw a red 911 there - stopped to look at it and 3 hours later I had sold my Honda and bought (financed a 911). Oh to be young and single again. However, there's always a balance between buying a great car and putting the $$ to work. Years later and have added wife, kids and I have become a bit more conservative where i view toys as something to be paid for with cash and after 529 plan for kids who are close to college (college at $60K per year each) and private school and wife and now two houses and retirement are fully funded - you get the picture. Having typed this i wonder if i am too conservative. I did the Lambo thing for 2 years - was fun. Now I miss it but dont have garage space or time (or some other excuse). Anyway, find your balance of YOLO and being able to sleep at night. I think there are some starter Porsche's like the 997.2 series that are great cars (had one) and pretty reliable. I feel the really old stuff is fun but they break all the time and sometimes the nostalgia is better than the experience. I bought a 993 3 years ago and after a year was like why did i do this. It was fun (TBH less fun than i thought it would be - having owned some older stuff in the day) but found i only drove it maybe 1500 miles in a year. It was cherry 26K miles (or thereabouts) but still a 24 year old car needs $$ to maintain and stuff broke. Sold it for a loss - move on - now they are going up again during Covid (of course). Now 964's are the in thing. I'd avoid all the older an start at 997. I think the .2 became more bullet proof and a good jump in power. I liked that car. Although .1's 2006 and on maybe safer and fun too. good luck.

Agentorange

My wife works in the OR and just did a travel assignment in LA. They put her with covid patients once they got desperate and doubled her pay.
As an ICU nurse you could make a killing right now. But it is stressful. She finished her LA contract and we got the hell out. Now she’s in Santa Fe NM at an ortho surgery center, way less stress then covid care

MikeGT

Mostly post on the Cup Car and CGT forums, but have been surfing this one as I'm considering a GT3RS. This is a fascinating thread. As for me, came to L.A. as a struggling musician, living in my car, playing gigs. Eventually started buying and selling music gear when I landed an apartment. Jazz dreams did not work out, but most everything else did. Best memories of help along the way: Bank teller who would cash my $25 gig checks when I had no money in my account, so I could eat and put gas in my car. Later on: Manufactures who believed in me and shipped me gear on credit so I could sell it and pay them back. Best part of life is the journey.

tqevo

If I were you I’d do it assuming you don’t share finances with your wife. But you’d likely get tired of the gt4 within a few years. Not enough power and gears too long
personal story first 911 at age 24, gt3 at 27, rs at 31. What is a real job anyway

inverterman

Job? I don't need no stinking job. I'm here because I love people, Porsche's, and a good car story.

Joan Alcover

Love this thread and the diversity of the profiles who replied.

I was in consulting for 30+years, with a Firm that I shall not name.
As a consultant, I advised the top management of Lancia-Autobianchi, SEAT, Mercedes-Benz and Porsche. Plus lots of other companies in other industries.
Owned several Lancia Delta Integrale and quite a few Mercedes AMG, and when I worked for Porsche (late nineties) I bought my first 911: a 993 Turbo S, direct from the importer.
Then a 991.2 Turbo S and now a 992 Turbo S.

One of the most memorable encounters in my life was when I was 23, "tutoring" senior executives in a well known B-School.
One week, one of the "senior executives" I had in front of me for a few sessions was Michael Collins (Apollo XI), 19 years older than me.
I remember vividly our discussions of his experience and how it was to fly to the moon with so little on-board computer power: in those days, real computer power was in huge machines, PCs did not exist and the most sophisticated hand-held calculator was the HP-80 financial!

Since then, I've done interesting things, and met quite a few fascinating people.....
..... but nothing close to what I experienced during those hours with Michael Collins.

k1wi

Really hope that's not the case with getting tired of the GT4. I am not the person to crave the most power from cars. I work 3 days in a row and have 6 days off then 3 on again, I just like to enjoy morning drives, cars and coffee with my wife, nothing too special but just the car has to be special to me.

AlexCeres

you can sample all the flavors at PEC LA or Atlanta and decide for yourself. They’re different kinds of fun. some people have feels that one kind of fun is better than another. But more power than a gt4 is pretty useless on a public street.

ddugas01

Consulting pays the bills. Pension pays for the car.

Norsk

Best advice I ever got: “You’ll never make any real money working for someone else.”

9914s

Define real money?

Norsk

I guess for me now it means multi-generational wealth. My kids are fixed for their lifetimes. As a young man who milked cows for $64 a week, I can’t believe I’m saying that - - -

sonorous

Don't stress about it. While many complain about the power and gearing, and these may be real nit picks, they are nit picks. The GT4 is a sublime package, and for the right owner, it is perfect. I have owned mine since new for 5 years now and love it.

I have a real job, but along with working hard and being smart, I have been lucky in my career. I am an engineer running product development for a Fortune 500 company. My "real money" was made with equity portion of my compensation. The company has done well and it was a pleasure to be part of that growth. I am a frugal saver. I waited to buy my GT4 until I was in my 40's, with my kids college fully funded, a nice house, and my retirement saving in a strong position.

All that being said, I must admit I am doing a 4.5L conversion with shorter gears but that is not to fault the GT4 in any way. It is because I love the car, it is a keeper, this will make it only better, and it fits in my frugal minded budget...