Pocket change at best barring very occasional lottery style wins.
We have received between about three to twelve equivalent weeks of my wife's pay a year from dividends and capital gains.
Basically the drive to dating, couple-up, and have sex are all based on this drive to reproduce. This drive to reproduce is a cornerstone of civilization.
I am a democratic socialist. Forbes seems to really like the end result of socialism, and rakes many socialist countries higher than America. I think that if America had the same regulations as Canada that the 2009 fiasco would not have occurred.
I am also a capitalist. I love buying, selling, and trading things.
I am trying to earn money via buying, selling, and trading Kickstarter Board Games. Over the last three-years or so I have been slowly building up the amount of product I order. I need to do more figuring of ink, paper, and packing materials, but I have bought about $40,000 of product, and after Paypal, USPS, and eBay fees I am almost breaking even at about $39,000 worth of Kickstarter board games (and will buy more as the good ones come available). I have an inventory of items that I need to sell and/or list.
I also buy and sell other items on eBay, and have been working on emptying my basement of goods so that we may remodel. I buy items on clearance at Target and sell them on eBay (toys, games, and Lego sets).
The last several years I have also been buying Lego's online from the Lego store during Christmas, getting 10% store credit, 2% credit card credit, selling the Christmas promotional item, and then selling the left over Lego sets. I still have a bunch of sets to list and sell. I think I have the formula down for next year, and should be able to get a 25-40% return.
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It would be desire to have boarding schools for everyone, as they mint financial success at a crazy high rate. They have the formula down.
In rare cases I'm sure this works, but in the real world there's plenty of fairly well off guys who are better than me (in every way a woman wants) and thus they needn't settle for someone like me or any other equivalent aspie guy. Or she'll dump you when bored or when a better looking (equally rich) guy comes along.
Money solves all sorts of problems, and is a quite a desirable commodity.
Money removes a great deal of stress that not having money creates.
Stress is not good for relationships, and stress can lead toward a relationship failure.
The wife of Bill Gates (Melinda) was not attracted to Bill, but agreed to go out on a date with him. Her mother said a bunch of nice things about Bill, and they ended up getting married.
Teaching- as in being a teacher? Not sure why you suggest the rest, even though or if it has worked out for yourself, you could just be lucky.
Because teachers tend to be:
[1] Women (in America elementary school teachers are overwhelmingly women).
[2] Extroverts (it is extremely useful for those with Asperger's Syndrome to couple-up with an extrovert to do all the body language and talking. They will often want to do this, or do this automatically. Thus saving lots of social guessing and body language guessing work with a seeing-eye-body-language-person).
[3] Strong willed (bossy women who speak their mind, and tell you want they want seems exactly what would we need).
[4] Stable government job with the summers off (in America) are very nice perks.
Took ages to read this and sorry but I couldn't see a single point to this.
It was slow at work, and I needed a project to occupy my mind. We have overtime right now just to bill hours as allowed on our contract (it goes from busy to dead depending on the time of the month). The end bit where I say how I handle the aftermath of stress:
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But all in all I try to make sure to apologies if I become frustrated. Frustrated looks like anger to many people. No matter how many times I say that I am frustrated, she reads it as anger. [Anger bothers her. Frustration and anger are not the same thing, and definitely feel a lot different to me. I can control anger. I can control myself when there is a danger. Frustration is harder to control for me.] All the same I apologize to everyone [after I get frustrated, and make sure to tell them that I love them]. We need to keep this frustration seeming to be anger confusion in mind, and in check.”