You helped get yourself fired? Why? Why not just quit?
Anyway I get that you're making progress mojo. I'm simply pointing out that you're doing it in an unnecessarily slow pace. I work 40 hours a week - or more - and most people here do the same.
It's great that you changed a bad job for a better one, but don't throw a 9-5 in there as something that interferes with your social life.

Single moms are roughly the equivalent of your typical guy. They'll take just about anything they can get because they don't have any options.
You're looking at it wrong. First off, everyone wants to surround themselves with fun loving people. Not just young women. Have a mild sense of humor and don't be a couch potato. Come on, bar isn't that high.
Good in the sack? Most 20 yo somethings wouldn't know good sex if it hit them in the face. Because they've never had it.
Has the right image? Damn, what man in his right mind would want to have the right image?
Pass mating tests? I must be really good at that since I'm passing them without even knowing what they are.
Whatever superficial else? You haven't really mentioned anything superficial. Unless being fun, looking good and having some bedroom skills is superficial.
Gets along with their single annoying friends? Are they annoying because they're single or because they're her young friends? Kids nowadays am I right? False narrative, am I right?
And young women want guys that don't care much about their career huh? Makes sense, guess that's why you never see dudes with their own businesses or otherwise booming careers dating younger, beautiful girls.. - oh. Wait. You do see that don't you?
"He has his own business and/or great job? Ewww, what a loser" - said no woman. Ever.

You suffer from a severe case of limiting beliefs mojo. Hope you're starting to see that. Try to let go of your "old geezer" view of the world. You're in your 30s for fucks sake. Man in his prime. The autosuggestion action you have going on is doing you no favors.

What's the thing with you and money? If you're a software dev you shouldn't have any issue in hiring a photography coach. Why are you even using craigslist? Or buying 1$ books?

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Mojo, how can you claim to know so much about what certain demographics of women want? If you knew what they wantes, you'd be fucking them. All you really know for sure is that,for now, they don't want you.

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I don't claim to know anything... I'm spewing my assumptions, and I'm aware that they need to be challenged...

Reading, over-analyzing, lack of real-world views on sexuality comes from parents.

Both my parents are bookworms. Always reading. They met at a frat party where the nerd sorority showed up to meet the nerd frat.

Mom worked at library her whole career, dad was a college prof and researcher. Dad always sees things in the world in terms of his "enlightened" view of things, is sure he knows everything because he's read it.

Money behavior comes from mom.

My mother's father had a chemical engineering degree but needed to take a job on an assembly line during the Depression, sometimes he lost money from gambling too. He was extremely tight with money. She inherited the behavior and is the same way. Most of my parents income came from my dad but she generally had total control over it. They were always saving for retirement.

My parents are now retired, have tons of money saved, and go on vacation every week but my mom still volunteers at rummage sales so she can get to the "good stuff" first.

I tend to mirror my parents behavior because they brought me up and gave me a template for how to survive in the world and how to view it. Don't know who else to trust...

Every time I bring up the issue of dating and sex with them my mom immediately goes into this thing about "When I was younger, Seventeen magazine would write articles about whether it was okay to KISS on the first date."

So, my parents are not liberated in their views of sexuality and money. It's hard to break from the way you're brought up.

This printing of Pimp I got for $1 is usually selling for like $50 so I got kind of excited.

Another cause for obsession with money is mathematics background... Money is all numbers.. I'm obsessed with numbers... to a fault...

What's the point of making good money if you're not gonna enjoy it?

I don't really understand how people don't develop a personality outside their parents influence. You've supposedly lived with them until you were 18. Ofcourse there's gonna be commonalities, but it's not like you inherited genetic personality traits and you can't override them.
So what do you mean you don't know who else to trust? Trust yourself, you're the one living your life.

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Retirement planning is also kind of an issue, regardless of how my parents live.

At my age, I'm supposed to have between 1 to 2 years salary saved for retirement, unless I want to be housebound and living off of macaroni in my golden years.

If you guys are interested I can bring over a post I wrote someplace else about retirement planning. All of you should probably be thinking about this... You need to put money aside now, instead of later, because you need money saved to accrue interest and grow in value...

Your money needs to be invested someplace... You can't just spend $1 now and then wait 40 years and save that $1 later.... Assuming about a 10% annual return from a retirement account, 40 years from now, that you need to save $45 just to replace that $1 you spent instead of putting it aside.... Yes, $45 of retirement, vs $1 now... You tell me what sounds like a good idea

Here is the math for $1 compounded at 10% annual interest for 40 years...

1 * 1.1 ^ 40 = 45.26

Retirement isn't my end-game, though....

I'm reading a book called The 4-hour Workweek which is about starting your own business and beginning your retirement NOW instead of later....

I'm on the first step, which is reducing the number of hours I need to be in the office...

Next step is business plan.. My business plan is actually pretty ambitious... I want to start a hedge-fund that uses computer algorithms for trading stocks and commodities....

I have the skills and the tools ... the approach I want to employ comes from these two books:

https://www.amazon.com/Following-Trend- ... B009WWQD08
https://www.amazon.com/Stocks-Move-Beat ... 1511466146

Anyways, I haven't had the discipline to work on my business plan because I keep getting distracted by this stupid photography hobby... This stupid fucking hobby involves more interaction with girls than my business idea... Business idea will take lots of time in isolation to implement... It's a tough call about which one to prioritize...

I would LIKE to hang around the med student library while working on my business plan and work up the balls to talk to a med student girl about what I'm working on...

It's just that some of the girls I have interacted with at this school get offended really easily and are known to play politics...

When I was studying biomedical sciences I was accused of sexual harassment for saying "Aww .. XXXX doesn't like me" to a girl who hated me... and then later say "Hi XXXX" very sarcastically when I passed her by in the hall.... She was actually very ugly and I had no sexual interest in her.. The only reason I was trying to talk to her was to get some data I needed that she refused to hand over because I was being asked to redo some of her work...

Also... I made a joke about a journal called PNAS to some girls in an elevator.. I said.. "Do you like PNAS?" (It's pronounced "Pee-Nass") ... it did not go over well... they said "You're making me uncomfortable."

This was years ago.