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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]80k on your 30s? Well at 30 pretty good and at 39 pretty bad. That said people reach peak earnings between 40-55. Your clock is ticking. And it is extremely difficult to get a high paying job over 45 if you never had a high paying job. You have time but not much time.[b] You have to triple that salary in next 10-15 years[/b] [/quote] Why?[/quote] Well when I was early 30s and single I was making a meh salary. I just met wife and dating, the cold hard fact is one I knew getting engaged I had to buy a house, have kids, allow wife option to stay home if she wanted, save for college. None of that today can be done on 80k. And even dual income 160k near impossible. Add in look around at people in office 50-65 they are all higher up people. There are no Junior auditors, Junior accountants, Junior HR, Junior IT, Junior cyber people who are 55. If you have not gotten up the ladder by 50. You career is over and as an overpaid, lower level role you will be laid off by 55 and never work again. 22 years after I was married I had two kids in college with merit aid still 70k a year, a mortgage, SAH wife and another kid on way to college. The clock is ticking like crazy for a guy in his early 30s with a low salary. If dual income at least one have to make the climb. Both is better. But dual income low pay is a trap. Childcare alone will kill you. I moved 55k at 34 to 300k at 46. The clock was ticking as soon as I hit 50 it was hold on mode. The climb ended [/quote] DP. Why is the man's job to buy a house or to make sure his wife has the option to stay home?[/quote] Because men never chip in as much as women at home so they better be earning the bacon [/quote] DP. My husband does his fair share and so do many other men I know/I've dated. Plenty of men that don't do anything around the house know they can be lazy at home because they know they can always buy off a woman that will put up with their laziness for money.[/quote] The top earners are never home to help because they travel and work a lot. [/quote]
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