re: do you feel better than others because you have a lot of $

My wife gives me hell because I think I am doing better than all the kids I graduated with who are still living in our hometown doing grunt work, never going anywhere. Out of the ~200 plus I went to high school with, I think maybe 25 of us went to a 4 year school, >10 of us graduated.

It isn't a "I make more money than you" it's more of the "I didn't settle and wanted to grow".