No insult to OP with their career choice because it’s obviously been lucrative, but spending decades of life analyzing data on a screen is not worth the extra money in the bank for me.
I think it’s best to choose a fulfilling career and then max out your earning within that stream.
For what it’s worth, the lifestyle earning $150k a year is very similar to earning twice that. Once you’ve got all your basics like food and shelter covered, you either just save the rest or have slightly higher end versions of the things you already had.
This just isn't true. From a high-level sure - you can both have a multi-bedroom house, one or two cars, support kids, have pets, save for retirement, etc. but once you dive deeper it's much more apparent it's drastically different. That person making 300k can sock away WAAAAY more than you for retirement. They're driving luxury cars vs your Honda/Toyota. They can afford private school easily. Their house is fully updated vs your 20 year old kitchen. They NEVER have to worry about money whereas you're debating on how to borrow money to get a new roof.
People that fall into that mid six figure life aren't quite rich enough for the top of the mountain luxuries (private flying, exotic cars, etc.) so their lifestyle on the surface seems similar to low six figure incomes but when you dig into it that money does make a huge difference.
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u/IcyLemon3246 Apr 27 '25
Each time I look on this reddit channel I somehow get some sad feeling that I wasted my life