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| Topic | Ppl get mad at the truth; $100k is not a lot of money nowadays |
| Hinakuluiau 02/20/25 11:23:11 PM #46: | Part of making more money is incremental expenses keep piling. And I don't mean lifestyle creep in the sense of keeping up with the Joneses and getting new cars and going on expensive vacations. I mean that you can afford to fix that weird noise your car keeps making and bam, now you're out a couple grand. You choose to live 10 minutes from work instead of an hour and now you're out an extra $400 a month. You want to start saving for retirement since your company has a 5% match so you at least put that in since it's free money. Your dress code is professional now and/or your job doesn't give you a uniform, so you have to budget for work clothes. Soon enough you're ending up where you were at before you made six figures with not much to show for it so it just feels like the raise disappeared. --- There are some things where I just bypass critical thinking. - ROD ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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