"The best way to insure that you can live the life you want and have some fun is to put all the effort in that you can now and try to put off having fun until a bit later on."
This is insane. While you need to meet your responsibilities and commitments, once you've done that, live the life you want, and live it right now.
That might involve work non-stop and very little else, if that's what you really want - but if you don't want to work non-stop, that's perfectly fine, and don't let anyone tell you any different.
"This is insane. While you need to meet your responsibilities and commitments, once you've done that, live the life you want, and live it right now."
If I understand what you are saying you are telling people to simply meet your current living obligations and worry about the future in the future.
Good luck with that.
Take a look around at all the people without a pot to piss in that have no savings or can only survive because they have maybe 6 mos. living expenses stashed away. Fine strategy if everything works out. History has shown though for the majority of people (people in corporate jobs that were well paid that lived "hand to mouth" and are now crying the blues) that followed this strategy have no paddle now.
By the way, and importantly, if you think "what I am doing is hot and I will always be able to find a job" let me point something out. Over time there are always "hot" professions where people think they are invincible. The "hotness" attracts more people to the profession and that of course assumes that the profession or what you are good at is in demand X years down the road.
Think programming skills will always be in demand? Maybe and maybe you will always be cutting edge. But you could also end up being a) an out of work lawyer (that was hot at one point it was unthinkable to go to law school and not do well when I was growing up) or b) ask some old timers who knew cobol how much they were in demand (other than y2k a fluke of course!)
This is insane. While you need to meet your responsibilities and commitments, once you've done that, live the life you want, and live it right now.
That might involve work non-stop and very little else, if that's what you really want - but if you don't want to work non-stop, that's perfectly fine, and don't let anyone tell you any different.