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Girlfriend
Full-time University Job
Part-time IT Job
College Full Time
and FFXI
Christ, lol, how do you manage all that?
I left out a couple of other things (like a perfect 4.0 college GPA, being the GM for several restaurants, managing a project for KU Medical center, weightlifting and working out 2-3 times a week, and playing soccer occasionally, having a decently-active social life, and managing a LS with over 100 casual/occasional members)....
....but I didn't want to sound like I was bragging ;)
Seriously though, it's not how much time you have, it's how you spend it. Just like everything else in this game, there's a trick to doing it. If you put aside the time...and you are patient...I guarantee you'll figgure out what that trick was. After that, you can accomplish anything you want.
If I really wanted to, I could easily make 200k+ in a night. Many of you can say the same thing--and many of you can make even more.
The reason isn't because we're lucky. It's because we took the time to get where we needed to be to achieve our goals. We may have ******** whined, and complaimed, but we still did it. Now, we are reaping the fruits of our labor.
For some of us, that was levelling a job. For others, it was levelling a craft. Some took to gardening. I, personally, took to nm camping. Whatever it was, we didn't do all of them at once; we picked one and we stuck with it.
Why do most pld go for VIT, most blm go for INT, and most nin go for AGI or EVA? Strength is good for a paladin or nin, and mind is good for a blm...so why don't they get a little bit of both? The reason is simple: you can never excel in one thing if you set yourself up for for mediocracy in everything.
There's a million ways to get what you want; I've already named four of them. It's not easy, but I'm sure you've noticed by now that FFXI...heck, any MMORPG isn't your regular console game.
If you want something here, you have to work hard for it. Nothing is impossible though. If you ever get the feeling like something is impossible to get, you probably never really wanted it in the first place.