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re: Tired Of Pinching Pennies!!
Posted on 8/31/23 at 8:39 am to BayouBengal23
Posted on 8/31/23 at 8:39 am to BayouBengal23
Thanks to all for the encouragement, advice, and opinions! Gave me a lot of things to think about. This was mostly just a vent session about how hard it is for the average middle class family to "get ahead". Much appreciated as always!
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Posted on 8/31/23 at 8:50 am to BayouBengal23
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This was mostly just a vent session about how hard it is for the average middle class family to "get ahead"
You own three properties and you are a landlord. You're ahead of like 85% of americans at least. You aren't an average middle class family.
This post was edited on 8/31/23 at 8:51 am
Posted on 8/31/23 at 9:58 am to BayouBengal23
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Thanks to all for the encouragement, advice, and opinions! Gave me a lot of things to think about. This was mostly just a vent session about how hard it is for the average middle class family to "get ahead". Much appreciated as always!
Personally, I’m pulling for you - especially after you mentioned the rat race. I’m not here to give my “testimony”, but after pursuing money and things as a means to an end for most of my early years (and finding that I had something of a weird talent for it), I realized that I’d become a rat in the race. And although I was a pretty talented rat, I was still a rat. It was an extremely sobering (and painful) realization - hating the guy in the mirror is not fun. Believe me.
So as a former Yuppie, I encourage you to just keep on keepin’ on and continue walking the right path (your heart and faith will tell you what that is - not any of us). On those difficult, tiring days, look at your family and what your (not just financial) goals are as a family.
Best of luck to you, amigo. I mean that.
Posted on 9/1/23 at 7:34 am to BayouBengal23
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This was mostly just a vent session about how hard it is for the average middle class family to "get ahead".
I'll never understand this line of thinking.
How did an entire generation grow up thinking it was supposed to be easy to 'get ahead'.
In what world is it expected to not have to work hard after the age of 25, make a high level income, put in 30 hours a week working entirely remotely, have multiple vacations a year, and retire at 50? This is nowhere near average or normal.
You're not supposed to be able to retire at 50. You're not entitled to not have to stress about money.
Almost everyone pinches pennies and worries about money in their early/mid career. This isn't new, this has always been the case.
You're an average family. You have an average job and make average money in an average area. These things do not add up to "getting out of the rat race in your twenties". You want to do that? Work harder, leave your dream job. Can't have it all.
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