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re: What's Your Ideal Salary/Life balance?
Posted on 3/20/18 at 10:35 pm to RogerTheShrubber
Posted on 3/20/18 at 10:35 pm to RogerTheShrubber
I’m about to accept a new job. If you had told me 10 years ago that at 32 I’d be making what I do today, I’d have thought you were arse backwards insane.
I barely made it out of LSU with a 2.5 GPA after dropping Finance as a major in my 3rd year.
I would like to sit here and say that my hustle put me over the top, but it hasn’t. I’m lazy in the respect I hate work but get the job done.
The only thing that really makes me unique and successful in my field is people like working with me and I’m easy to get along with. That’s it.
I barely made it out of LSU with a 2.5 GPA after dropping Finance as a major in my 3rd year.
I would like to sit here and say that my hustle put me over the top, but it hasn’t. I’m lazy in the respect I hate work but get the job done.
The only thing that really makes me unique and successful in my field is people like working with me and I’m easy to get along with. That’s it.
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Posted on 3/20/18 at 10:54 pm to YoungManOldMan
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I barely made it out of LSU with a 2.5 GPA after dropping Finance as a major in my 3rd year.
Sounds like an ideal hire to me.
I want someone that actually had a good time in college. I care more about hiring people that are interesting to drink a beer with from time to time than hiring some braniac that had his face buried in a book for 4 years.
This post was edited on 3/20/18 at 10:55 pm
Posted on 3/20/18 at 10:58 pm to 337tigergirl
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85-90k is not very comfortable for me
Your standards are too high.
I am single with no kids. I make 85k and I put the first 16% in my 401K and another $100-$200/month in an investment account.
I feel like I am living pretty damn good on what I have left over.
When I want something, I buy it. When I want to go somewhere, I go. Within reason of course.
This post was edited on 3/20/18 at 11:00 pm
Posted on 3/20/18 at 11:01 pm to PurpleandGold Motown
It is a catch 22. When I have worked making a lot of money I have no time to do anything. When I have worked making way less money I have a lot of time but no money to do anything. 
Posted on 3/20/18 at 11:03 pm to YoungManOldMan
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I’m easy to get along with
Good work ethic, decent social skills and charisma are all it takes.
Posted on 3/20/18 at 11:11 pm to RogerTheShrubber
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Good work ethic, decent social skills and charisma are all it takes.
I think college degrees are overrated as well and I have 2. Some of the best employees I've had were college dropouts and one of the worst had an engineering degree from Tulane. It's more about being punctual, reliable, having the right attitude and having some aptitude in your field. Almost everything else is learned on the job.
This post was edited on 3/20/18 at 11:26 pm
Posted on 3/21/18 at 12:03 am to PurpleandGold Motown
Bout tree fiddy
Posted on 3/21/18 at 4:55 am to PurpleandGold Motown
500k/yr would be ideal.
Posted on 3/21/18 at 5:10 am to PurpleandGold Motown
My work life balance would be much better without an hr and 15 min commute.
Posted on 3/21/18 at 6:15 am to SG_Geaux
My standards may be too high but the OP is asking what each person’s ideal number is, not what is on average for everyone else.
What Is important to each person is different. I don’t want to live 20-30 minutes from nightlife, restaurants, and events. I enjoy taking international and domestic trips all the time. along with everything, I have student loans and bills. I do what i want when i want but i will always want more.
What works for each person is different. I’m glad most of y’all got by on 24k a year and bought your own home with that salary. Hell, I wish I could have done that but circumstances are different. I can’t buy a house under 250k inside the loop. I can afford it but I don’t want to trade my lifestyle so I can own a home(liability).
I know people get by on 70k with 4 kids. I know I can shuffle priorities around to accommodate a family but I don’t have to think about that. I’d prefer to live in the loop and do almost all the same things when I have a family. It would require more than 70k or my current salary, which is fine because I will be making more by then.
Different strokes for different folks.
What Is important to each person is different. I don’t want to live 20-30 minutes from nightlife, restaurants, and events. I enjoy taking international and domestic trips all the time. along with everything, I have student loans and bills. I do what i want when i want but i will always want more.
What works for each person is different. I’m glad most of y’all got by on 24k a year and bought your own home with that salary. Hell, I wish I could have done that but circumstances are different. I can’t buy a house under 250k inside the loop. I can afford it but I don’t want to trade my lifestyle so I can own a home(liability).
I know people get by on 70k with 4 kids. I know I can shuffle priorities around to accommodate a family but I don’t have to think about that. I’d prefer to live in the loop and do almost all the same things when I have a family. It would require more than 70k or my current salary, which is fine because I will be making more by then.
Different strokes for different folks.
This post was edited on 3/21/18 at 6:18 am
Posted on 3/21/18 at 6:54 am to Mingo Was His NameO
Or everyone that posts on here are making six figures
Posted on 3/21/18 at 7:20 am to YoungManOldMan
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The only thing that really makes me unique and successful in my field is people like working with me and I’m easy to get along with. That’s it.
What's your field?
Posted on 3/21/18 at 7:25 am to PurpleandGold Motown
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Saw a guy on Tv yesterday state that the ideal salary for most was 52k a year.
I'll just assume that is after taxes. But, living in BR on that, you won't have boatloads of extra to work with.
Posted on 3/21/18 at 7:26 am to PurpleandGold Motown
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the ideal salary for most was 52k a year
Definitely not in Florida. I make just under 52k a year, and all I get to do is pay fricking bills. Rent/mortgage payments are high af. Utilities are high af. And gas/groceries are high af. I barely have any money left to do anything after I pay the bills.
I used to make close to 80k a year. That was more closely to ideal. I had money left over for savings, to vacation, etc.
Posted on 3/21/18 at 7:30 am to deltaland
quote:That much stuff takes a lot of resources to maintain bro.
To be clear by fishing boat I mean one with a cabin capable of 2-3 day trips out to sea that you pay to keep in a slip. So anywhere from 250-500k boat. I'd like about 1,000 acres of good deer/duck land with a cabin on it
Posted on 3/21/18 at 7:35 am to PurpleandGold Motown
About tree fiddy
Posted on 3/21/18 at 8:41 am to TH03
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I mean, OP gave no details, but a single guy making $110k could live almost wherever he wanted in Dallas.
If he's married, his wife is likely working too, but even a household income of $110k is perfectly livable in Dallas.
Im laughing at the folks downvoting you because its 100% true.
I am pretty much doing it now
Posted on 3/21/18 at 8:43 am to TH03
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Nah, those are starting in the $350k+ range nowadays. You have to go north of 380 to get under $300k on new construction.
TH it may be too far West but Lantana and the surrounding areas in Grapevine are ~300-350.
It's about a 20 min drive to Las Colinas though and tack on another 15 to your part of the woods.
Posted on 3/21/18 at 9:04 am to 50_Tiger
Don't you live in las colinas? That's not Dallas.
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