How do you afford private school?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:One word -- grandparents

+1

Us as well.

And from what I can tell, at least one third of our school...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Worked hard at good paying jobs, HHI over 2mil. Don’t even feel the cost for 2 kids.


Good career choice and luck.

Please enlighten me on career choices that produce this income? You don't have to tell yours. We're make about 200 k and are on FA but both grew up in very poor families so I have no idea how to even earn this! Would love to be able to discuss these things with my kids. I want them to have a broader outlook on opportunities than I did. (Yes they will do what they love, etc- but its still good to be knowledgeable)

Own your labor. Own something. Don’t work for someone else. You end up working yourself into an early grave, laboring under the misperception that you have security while they grow rich.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Worked hard at good paying jobs, HHI over 2mil. Don’t even feel the cost for 2 kids.


Good career choice and luck.

Please enlighten me on career choices that produce this income? You don't have to tell yours. We're make about 200 k and are on FA but both grew up in very poor families so I have no idea how to even earn this! Would love to be able to discuss these things with my kids. I want them to have a broader outlook on opportunities than I did. (Yes they will do what they love, etc- but its still good to be knowledgeable)

One spouse is probably BigLaw partner. But there are other jobs with comparable incomes in the area.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:All of these incomes are insane. Please get some perspective. We do just fine on $80,000/year.

You do you

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:One word -- grandparents

+1

Us as well.

And from what I can tell, at least one third of our school...

Two words: white privilege. The truth is most minority families can’t rely on mommy and daddy’s money to attend private school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:One word -- grandparents

+1

Us as well.

And from what I can tell, at least one third of our school...

Two words: white privilege. The truth is most minority families can’t rely on mommy and daddy’s money to attend private school.

That’s not what white privilege means.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:One word -- grandparents

+1

Us as well.

And from what I can tell, at least one third of our school...

Two words: white privilege. The truth is most minority families can’t rely on mommy and daddy’s money to attend private school.

Truth is most white families can't either.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:One word -- grandparents

+1

Us as well.

And from what I can tell, at least one third of our school...

Two words: white privilege. The truth is most minority families can’t rely on mommy and daddy’s money to attend private school.

Truth is most white families can't either.

+100.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Worked hard at good paying jobs, HHI over 2mil. Don’t even feel the cost for 2 kids.


Good career choice and luck.

Please enlighten me on career choices that produce this income? You don't have to tell yours. We're make about 200 k and are on FA but both grew up in very poor families so I have no idea how to even earn this! Would love to be able to discuss these things with my kids. I want them to have a broader outlook on opportunities than I did. (Yes they will do what they love, etc- but its still good to be knowledgeable)

Own your labor. Own something. Don’t work for someone else. You end up working yourself into an early grave, laboring under the misperception that you have security while they grow rich.

Pp here. Thank you. Im a first generation college grad. Foreign ideas in my family.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Worked hard at good paying jobs, HHI over 2mil. Don’t even feel the cost for 2 kids.


Good career choice and luck.

Please enlighten me on career choices that produce this income? You don't have to tell yours. We're make about 200 k and are on FA but both grew up in very poor families so I have no idea how to even earn this! Would love to be able to discuss these things with my kids. I want them to have a broader outlook on opportunities than I did. (Yes they will do what they love, etc- but its still good to be knowledgeable)

One spouse is probably BigLaw partner. But there are other jobs with comparable incomes in the area.

Thanks. I had no idea they made this type of money.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:One word -- grandparents

+1

Us as well.

And from what I can tell, at least one third of our school...

Two words: white privilege. The truth is most minority families can’t rely on mommy and daddy’s money to attend private school.

+1. This is where slavery , segregation and the inability of our grandparents to attend college and have decent jobs have trickle down affects many generations later. It's a cycle that is difficult to break.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:One word -- grandparents

+1

Us as well.

And from what I can tell, at least one third of our school...

Two words: white privilege. The truth is most minority families can’t rely on mommy and daddy’s money to attend private school.

The phrase "white privilege" is growing old already. It doesn't explain everything in life. You really need to target your anger on Bezos, Zuckerberg, Buffet, and Dimon, etc. You're attacking people of roughly the same class as you because they are doing slightly better financially and making different choices than you. Redirect your anger elsewhere.

Yes, my son's mommy and daddy are paying for his LS. He's under 10 y/o - difficult to be self-made at that age. And before you start about my being born w a silver spoon in my mouth - think again. I was a latchkey kid of a single mom who attending junior college while I was in upper ES and MS and finished her BS while I was in HS. She went to law school when I went to college. I watched her bust her arse and tried to work even hard than she did. Took FA loans, the whole bit, and somehow overcame the odds with some luck, some mentoring, and some hard work. So go away with the privilege argument. It's stale.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:One word -- grandparents

+1

Us as well.

And from what I can tell, at least one third of our school...

Two words: white privilege. The truth is most minority families can’t rely on mommy and daddy’s money to attend private school.

I think this is a troll trying to stir up purported "class divide."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:One word -- grandparents

+1

Us as well.

And from what I can tell, at least one third of our school...

Two words: white privilege. The truth is most minority families can’t rely on mommy and daddy’s money to attend private school.

Well, it’s a little racist to assume they can’t.

There aren’t tons, but there are enough minority families with second generation wealth (especially in dc) for you to come off a little tone deaf.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Worked hard at good paying jobs, HHI over 2mil. Don’t even feel the cost for 2 kids.


Good career choice and luck.

Please enlighten me on career choices that produce this income? You don't have to tell yours. We're make about 200 k and are on FA but both grew up in very poor families so I have no idea how to even earn this! Would love to be able to discuss these things with my kids. I want them to have a broader outlook on opportunities than I did. (Yes they will do what they love, etc- but its still good to be knowledgeable)

One spouse is probably BigLaw partner. But there are other jobs with comparable incomes in the area.

Thanks. I had no idea they made this type of money.

Economic consultants and litigation consultants make big bucks, a lot of different types of bankers (investment banking of course, but there are others), most people in investment management, management consultants, MDs with specialties working in private practice. The list is long.