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This chapter really did feel like the next big topic that would be, like there's college, there's graduation,

and then the very next thing that hits you is money and work, and how do you get through the day,

and how do you pay for things?

Navigating the world and trying to understand the difference between, you know, kind of the new

American capitalism and young guys selling, you know, software or an app or game and you know making millions as compared to the new

minimalist movement which says no give away everything you own keep one one shirt, and that's real Christianity.

Welcome back to the Ransom-Heart Podcast, John Eldridge, with my son Sam here, for week two two reading to you some excerpts from our new book

Killing Lions a guide through the trials that young men face this week's chapter is about money.

Chapter 2 bouncing checks. I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money. Pablo Picasso. The Aaron Runner job I took hardly

seemed to be what I had been working toward in college. I took it to pay the bills, and because they were the first people to return my emails.

Four years of higher education and I found myself returning cat food.

My alma mater didn't offer a Bachelor of Science in that career track, but the job certainly felt like BS.

When did wanting to do something worthwhile turn into just wanting a day to be over and done with?

Before graduation, we used to go to be over and done with.

Before graduation, we used to go to the beach

and talk about swan diving into the unknown.

The ground was falling out from under us,

but if we were going to be thrust into the black, we figured we might as well go down with a flourish.

It took me almost a year before I couldn't take the meaninglessness anymore.

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