<prompt> Human: Im turning 19 soon and have been working friday to sunday for past 2 years. But i notice some of my friends have been working 5 days a week just because they want to buy cool stuff. For example, idiot friend bought a BMW even though i told him hes going to suffer. He bought a 10 year old BMW, 1 week later his AC unit broke down and now he needs to bring up 600 for repairs. My friends work a lot because they want some money for their personal spending. They have a house to live in and their essential expenses are covered by the parents. Although working a lot can give you a good deal of work ethics and experience. Is it really worth using those 4-7 hours of your days to earn 8-12 an hour and just to spend it all when your pay check comes? I have a car and I want to upgrade it. I have summer coming up and I would like to have fun, but no money essentially means no fun. I could ask my parents for it, but i want to come up with money myself. So Im planning to start working 5-6 days a week so that I can throw it on entertainment this summer before college starts.Is it better to just keep the saturday to sunday job and spend the rest of the time self-improving and learning about businessfinance rather than working?Edit: Just to throw in a better understanding of my life. Since i was too busy talking about my friends. My family are immigrants. They work 10-13 hours 6 days a week earning 13 an hour for the past 20-30 years. At times I feel really bad for them because they want me to experience what they havent as a child. So they want me to experience the nice things, like living in a modern house. A little background, they grew up in a very poor village in a 2nd world country. Just enough food to get by. They are farmers essentially. Im not sure why they didnt consider learning about investing and business when they moved to america. Too risky is their response. They want me to find a good paying job and work like they did for the rest of my life. They dont want me investing or doing business. I suppose a doctor and lawyer are good, but unfortunately Im not academically smart enough to work in those areas.I want to become an entrepreneur and I know work will be 2x as arduous compared to the regular 9-5 jobs.  <response>: You need to be doing something full time at your age.School, work or travel. Obviously travel is a luxury that is not accessible for many but a lot of people see value in travelingtake a gap year at your age so Ill leave that in there.Otherwise you need to be a full time student, a full time worker, or both. Doing nothing for large amount of times can lead to problems physically, emotionally, socially, and financially. 