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working vs college then working
2005-03-13, 4:11 PM #81
100,000 is definitley enough to live on. Our family probably brings in 120K a year. If you've ever heard me just talking in the chat, you would know that our family does have a very decent amount of luxuries, with a brother that goes to a 20,000K/year college. The only thing we don't have is a really big house. If we were still younger, my dad said we would've moved, but with me only living here for 2 more years, it's not worth it.

But yeah, 120K is good enough. I know a few people have asked me many times "dude, are you rich or something?".
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2005-03-13, 4:14 PM #82
Budgeting is where it's at. My dad got layed off several years ago and we're living off my mom's 25-30K salary. All three children at $30,000/year schools as well as paying for her own education for her masters degree. How? Financial aid. All you ****ers are helping pay for it, haha, I love socialism.
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2005-03-13, 4:48 PM #83
Since my dad died we've been living off my mom's 30-40k salary. When she lost her job we'd go on welfare for a few weeks.

Good thing school is practically free here. The school I'm going to cost me 75$ for a year, because I'm a resident of Quebec. Residents of other provinces have to pay 2.5k, and students from other countries pay around 30k/year.


[edit; it's in fact 30k, not 60. Hit the wrong key :p]
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2005-03-13, 5:17 PM #84
Yeah, my parents spend like no tomorrow. We bring in anywhere from 170-200k a year, my parents put about 40 or 50 of it away, and spend the rest. Seriously, they're horrible models for budgeting. They complain about not having enough money to buy me something every once in a while...good god, it's not THAT much.

Of course, I DO get fairly big things every once in a while. But still, most of the time I ask for like a 3 pack of Orbit, and they say "Well we're trying to save money so I don't think so..." Save from what? It's a 1.50 dollar pack of gum.

Bleh.
D E A T H
2005-03-13, 5:49 PM #85
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Originally posted by Dj Yoshi
Yeah, my parents spend like no tomorrow. We bring in anywhere from 170-200k a year, my parents put about 40 or 50 of it away, and spend the rest. Seriously, they're horrible models for budgeting. They complain about not having enough money to buy me something every once in a while...good god, it's not THAT much.

Of course, I DO get fairly big things every once in a while. But still, most of the time I ask for like a 3 pack of Orbit, and they say "Well we're trying to save money so I don't think so..." Save from what? It's a 1.50 dollar pack of gum.

Bleh.


Considering my above post, I say anyone with an income above 50k and less than two kids who can't live very well is just plain horrible at managing money.
The music industry is a cruel and shallow money trench where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side.
2005-03-13, 6:00 PM #86
$50 a year for two people is more than enough to live comfortably. There won't be many extras, but it's by no means poverty.

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Originally posted by Freelancer
4% of the population makes 100,000 dollars or more. It's ****ing rich, people. Get your heads out of your asses.


Sure, it's rich in some areas, but there are places where $100k a year puts a family of four right smack dab in the middle of the middle class bracket and I just happen to live in such a place.
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2005-03-13, 9:19 PM #87
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Originally posted by Wookie06


Personally, I feel an option that is often scoffed at and, admittedly, not for everyone is serving in the military. Pros include the fact that for a period of roughly 3-6 years you have a guaranteed income, guaranteed job training, guaranteed room and board, 100% tuition assistance. Then when you quit you'll be considered a veteran and elligible for much more financial aid and have a minimum of $30,000+ of your own education money. You will have grown and will probably have clearer goals. Plus, most parents probably won't mind their returning soldier moving back in where as they might mock the failed worker/student! Of course the biggest con includes the fact that you could go to war and die. Like I said, not for everyone but if you look past the fact that I'm talking about the military, you should see that their are many benefits to service.


ah didn't see your post previously....that's what i had planned out last year....unfortunately i freaking failed basic training (went straight through, failed the weapons and pt doc thought i had asthma, i got screwed out of shipping to another company) Now I'm planning on going back in if i can get a specific MOS (31b/Military Police)... back then i wanted to go to college....now it has like 0 appeal to me at all, except maybe going for ROTC.

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Originally posted by MentatMM
For me, it's less about being materialistic, and more about needing money to start a family with the girl that I've been dating for 5 years. I've been telling her that we'll get married after I graduate and land a decent job. Graduation is here, and it's rather humiliating having to tell her, and her parents that I'll be going back to school for another 3 years or so for my BA, because apparantly my AS isn't worth a damn to employers in this area. I don't mean to sound like some sort of victim, but if I could do it all over again, I wouldn't have pushed my friends and family aside for school and work, and would probably be better off now, due to simple networking.

Personally, I didn't go to college so that I could go back to working manual labor. I fractured my toe in December (a manager ran my over at work), my left wrist is swollen to hell, and I'm pretty sure that I fractured my right ring finger, but I'm not quite sure how. Here's to another few years of school, living in my parents basement, and getting hurt at work.

/me jumps back into WoW to escape from his irritating reality.


dude....where do you work? i have a left wrist that hurts like a mother****er when i do pushups, and my right ring finger is close to becoming fractured...caused by opening boxes of listerine all freaking day....
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Through strength I gain power
Through power I gain victory
Through victory my chains are broken
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2005-03-14, 3:08 AM #88
I work in receiving (unloading trucks) at a distribution center for a popular retail store.
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