Most jobs aren’t worth it financially

[Anonymous]

Isn’t this depressing? Almost all jobs and careers don’t pay enough to live a normal middle class life these days, you HAVE to work in tech/big law/medicine and make 250k+ just to be semi comfortable unless you were born in to wealth. I thank my younger self every day for going in to CS, I almost majored in history because it was an interest of mine (back then I didn’t care about money that much). I would be so screwed now if I did that. My peers who went in to different fields are all broke. Not saying this to brag (I’m not even close to rich), it just sucks that nearly every job pays like s**t

[Anonymous]

You are out of your mind. Your definition of comfortable is crazy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You are out of your mind. Your definition of comfortable is crazy.

You must be old

[Anonymous]

Or we had the American dream stolen from us. One household earner and nice lifestyle with college and vacations attainable.

[Anonymous]

I make $100K, $180K household, and we have a comfortable middle class life. There's not much I want that we don't have.

[Anonymous]

There are a lot of people in law not making $250K+.... DCUM is skewed towards BigLaw and GS-15s...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Or we had the American dream stolen from us. One household earner and nice lifestyle with college and vacations attainable.

You aren’t entitled to it; you have to earn it.

[Anonymous]

It's really just housing costs that screwed everything up. We're all spending too much on housing so money feels tight for the other stuff.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You are out of your mind. Your definition of comfortable is crazy.

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Isn’t this depressing? Almost all jobs and careers don’t pay enough to live a normal middle class life these days, you HAVE to work in tech/big law/medicine and make 250k+ just to be semi comfortable unless you were born in to wealth. I thank my younger self every day for going in to CS, I almost majored in history because it was an interest of mine (back then I didn’t care about money that much). I would be so screwed now if I did that. My peers who went in to different fields are all broke. Not saying this to brag (I’m not even close to rich), it just sucks that nearly every job pays like s**t

$250K is not middle class. That's upper class and wealthy. Middle class is when you barely pay your bills, live in a small basic house under $300K (usually $150K, etc.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Isn’t this depressing? Almost all jobs and careers don’t pay enough to live a normal middle class life these days, you HAVE to work in tech/big law/medicine and make 250k+ just to be semi comfortable unless you were born in to wealth. I thank my younger self every day for going in to CS, I almost majored in history because it was an interest of mine (back then I didn’t care about money that much). I would be so screwed now if I did that. My peers who went in to different fields are all broke. Not saying this to brag (I’m not even close to rich), it just sucks that nearly every job pays like s**t

$250K is not middle class. That's upper class and wealthy. Middle class is when you barely pay your bills, live in a small basic house under $300K (usually $150K, etc.

Where will you find a house for $150k? Even a townhouse or condo? The pp is right, the problem is housing costs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Isn’t this depressing? Almost all jobs and careers don’t pay enough to live a normal middle class life these days, you HAVE to work in tech/big law/medicine and make 250k+ just to be semi comfortable unless you were born in to wealth. I thank my younger self every day for going in to CS, I almost majored in history because it was an interest of mine (back then I didn’t care about money that much). I would be so screwed now if I did that. My peers who went in to different fields are all broke. Not saying this to brag (I’m not even close to rich), it just sucks that nearly every job pays like s**t

$250K is not middle class. That's upper class and wealthy. Middle class is when you barely pay your bills, live in a small basic house under $300K (usually $150K, etc.

OP also seems to be contemplating that each member of a household must earn 250K, so 500K HHI. This is a little extreme -- however, I will say that if you are a parent who will be paying for multiple kids to go to college, especially "elite" private colleges, that is really expensive.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Or we had the American dream stolen from us. One household earner and nice lifestyle with college and vacations attainable.

You aren’t entitled to it; you have to earn it.

People go to college to work in professions and those jobs don’t earn enough to support a family. What else do you think they should do to “earn” it?

[Anonymous]

People are so out of touch with how hard life used to be. They have truly lost all perspective. Op you need to go camping for a month with no electronics you will be 1000xs happier I bet.

[Anonymous]

You just need to be smart about the income you have.