How do you earn money?

[paulpablo]

Marketing & advertising dept for a firm, and while I love my job, and the salary is great ...corporate America can be a pain. :/

I'm not very frugal, but getting better. My family is wealthy, and never taught me how to save money. So, that has been a hard learning curve for me. But, nowhere near the shopaholic I used to be. If/when I spend money, it's often on my friends, I love to treat friends to nice dinners to celebrate them or life, or whatever. I also give to some charities, but if I'm shopping for non-essentials, I tend to go for perfumes, clothes, and make up. lol Usually shop online more, because the deals are better than at a retailer/mall.

I think my frame of mind around money has changed a lot since I was younger. 
When I was younger I would think having a few hundred pounds would make me ecstatic, not just because I'd spend some of the money on ecstasy, because everything I wanted at that age cost a lot less than a few hundred, for example clothes, drugs, computer games, a few nights out.
 I'm 31 now and I have different desires, I mainly desire sex (which I wouldn't pay for) health ( I have a gym membership but you can't buy health directly from a shop) and now I also have a newborn baby to pay for my desire is to pay for specific things for my baby.
I've saved up quite a bit in the hopes of maybe putting a deposit on a house, possibly on my own but it would be easier if I made a commitment with a girl I liked and did it with her.
 The whole thing could turn out to be like of mice and men though, you save up for your own piece of land and end up getting shot in the back of the head by someone you trust.