re: Are you as wealthy as your parents were at your age ?

Yes, but only because of my husband.
He is as well because of his work ethic.

Yes I am. But the murder of my father kind of skews the odds in my favor.

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Don't know. I honestly have no idea how much my parents made when I was younger.

Income was one thing my dad would never talk about.

My dad was a much harder worker. Had a fairly poor childhood after his father left his family very early on. Didn't do much in high school, then went into the marines. Joined the police force and eventually became the youngest Capt. in NOPD history at the time. Went to night school and got a degree from Loyola. Would work all day then come home and work til 10-11:00 every night in the garage building his own sign business. Business grew rapidly. I do pretty damn well, and he was making what I make now back in the '80s- '90s. And he has never bought anything that he couldn't pay cash for. Paid cash for things like his houses, a 42 ft. diesel pusher, a 34 ft. motoryacht, etc. You'd never know he was a baller from the looks of him and the way he dresses.

My wife and I are leaps and bounds over our parents. We make more than what our four parents made combined. I'm 25, she is 24.

We were able to do this though, because they busted their arse to give us the opportunity to go to school and get an education.

Sidenote, her dad is a maritime service manager for rolls-Royce now and makes great money (he's 50ish) and my dad retired making silly money working for Schlumberger for 30 years (he is 60 now).

No... I think my Dad and I are pretty similar in terms of career paths at my age, but he was in a higher paying profession.

So, probably reasonably similar success, but not as much wealth.

Not even close.

Probably not when you factor in our debt service to student loans. Straight income? We're probably a tad higher or equal than my parents.