re: Millennial baws, how you hanging on?

You're coming off like the caricature that everyone invisions the modern millenial male being.

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You’re a truly dumb person if you think everyone around our age makes 6 figures or is a pussy. This is the reason our country is in a shitshow

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Even my friends that do not have degrees are making 60-80k a year. Everyone I know with a degree is making 6 figures.

My dad makes like 70k working as stock manager for a big box store

I'm close to 200k adding in bonuses, wife is well into 6 figures with her bonuses included.

First job out of college in 2010 I made 40k a year and still managed to purchase a starter home.

Upper end of the age range, but we are 5 years into “real” jobs, live in a house worth 1x our current annual income, have no debt that isn’t the mortgage, retirement accounts + investments currently right about 1x of household annual income (majority in Roth retirement accounts). Driving 6 and 8 year old cars. Have an older ‘fun’ car. 3m expenses are in an emergency fund (really just our checking account).

I make my coffee at home.


The real struggle is cars. They’re awfully expensive, and they make it difficult to plan. We just finished paying off the loans. Next goal is to add a pretty average new car’s worth of money into the emergency fund. It’s a conservative strategy, and it will stifle growth to some extent, but I’ll sleep better at night.


Overall, I can’t complain. But I see how it would be very easy to get into trouble fast.

This is a common bias. I can say everyone around me makes 500k but if I’m a doctor, that makes sense. This is why we look at distribution of incomes overall, not just our social circles

I'm using my social circle as an example as I know people that have degrees and those without.

One guy I know is a cabinet maker/installer.he makes more than I do

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My parents were able to give my siblings and I (4 of us) an extremely comfortable life with two cars, vacations, etc., all on a single income

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Same, and my dad worked a normal blue collar job with some overtime. He worked hard and earned it, and missed a holiday or a baseball game here and there, but it's not like he had to sacrifice his relationship with his family to do it.

These days, shittttttttt. Aint gonna happen. If I had his job right now, we'd have to be living in the trashiest trailer park in existence to swing it on a single check.

It's fricking hard out here with a young family and the people 10 years younger than me have it even worse.

Brother your kids eat no veggies or fruit for the bean and rice days?

Housing index for Greensboro, NC. I'm guessing this graph isn't a good thing for homebuyers? Really ramps up after 2020 doesn't it??

Only debt is the house. We can afford the things we need just not a whole lot of what we want. God will provide.

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Grow a pair, have kids, live within your means and you’ll figure it out as you go. Like a man. You think this is the first time America has seen difficult times? That’s just the selfish, self-centered mindset I’d expect from this generation. Pick up your limp wrist off the floor and hold your head high.

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TDsngumbo

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This dude here. Can't take a shite without asking the OT how to wipe your arse and you're in here preaching this. Lol