re: How true is it that money marries money?

I remember a statistic from a sociology class I took called marriage and family. Well I don't remember it but I remember being in awe of how much education correlates to who you marry. I think it was 80% of college graduates marry other college graduates. And I think only what 35% of the population has at least a bachelors degree. Pretty interesting.

I think it is mostly true. Its been said in here the class thing over money but they are tied pretty closely.

Teachers also span the money boundary. Plenty of teachers marry doctors or wealthy professionals.

Again we are not talking the few that do make good money, we are talking the majority. There are exceptions to everything and I am sure some 60k sales manager has married up into someone making 6 figures.

There is a correlation between education and old money. People from old money are typically very educated. A lot of new money might not have a tradition of every generation being highly educated, at least the one who broke the mold and advanced to a higher social station.

I have experience in this. When I was 36, I held an upper management position at my company. It was pretty good size company. We did over 400 million is sales andbI was over all Commercial accounts. I had 34 sales reps who reported to me. However, I grew up dirt poor and worked my way through college. I was earning a six figure salary with great bonuses and benefits and was considered rich by my siblings and parents standards.

I met a woman who was 39 at a black tie benefit event at the Marriott Marquis in Atlanta. She was beautiful, elegant, and sophisticated. Never married and did not want kids. She was the VP of the Atlanta Junior Leauge and was a VP at her company. She graduated from UT and was homecoming court her senior year. She was selected to be a placard holder for a team and escort them into the stadium for the 96 Olympic Opening Ceremonies in Atlanta. Her father was a retired Major General(Army) and was the forward commander for Desert Shield. She was waaaay above my humble station.

We dated for 8 months but she rarely took me around her Junior Leauge friends. She did take me to her mom and dads house on Choctawatchee Bay twice and I got to know her parents very good. Every date in Atlanta was clandestine....or so it seemed. She always insisted I drive her Benz instead of my company car (Tahoe.) She took me to Callaway gardens for a long weekend for my birthday. When we got back, we went on our last date. Junior Leauge was having a benefit and a group of us went to dinner afterwards. She seemed very embarrassed when her friends and their spouses asked me about my occupation. My intuition told me something changed that night when I dropped her off at her condo. She did not want me to come up and that had never occurred before.

I called a couple of times the next few days and she never called back. I knew the deal and I wasn't going to chase her around. Her fling with the boy toy from across the tracks was done. I felt good knowing that I was the one she went "slumming" with for over half a year and took pride in knowing I wrecked it good and proper like for as long as I could.

Bottom line is that I did not have the pedigree to make the cut. Although I was not entertaining the idea of ever marrying someone who was almost beyond child bearing age and did not want kids. It was just a fun experience and I learned a lot about this particular subject.

women don't like marrying people with less education than they have

Not sure where all the nurse = meh class job comes from. Average RN salary is in the upper 50's. My brother in law used to be a head murse and he made six figures (in his mid to late 30's). They're not doctors or lawyers or business executives, but a pair of married nurses can live a very comfortable life.

There was no way I was gonna end up with a girl whose parents weren't well off. I wanted my kids to have both sets of grandparents to have sweet birthday and Christmas presents.

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Average RN salary is in the upper 50's

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That is just depressing, I would quit and go back to school for something else if I only made upper 50s as a nurse. South(especially LA) pays RNs HORRIBLY compared to other areas in the country(even accounting for difference in COL).