Designer bags for kids

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You are on the wrong board. This is DC Urban moms and dads. A large portion of people you are so jealous of (oh they go to Europe!!) live the same lives as the doctors you describe. And guess what, hardly any of them are saving lives. You would lose your mind here with all the big law, lobbyists, financial services, CEOs that are making way more than specialist physicians. It’s really gross how jealous you are.

1. I asked on DCUM last Christmas if they thought it was appropriate to gift a teen a $600 Dyson Airwrap and there were 6 pages of fuming about how it’s too expensive and kids should not be given such expensive gifts and how even DCUM members with 2 mil HHI would not buy such an expensive gift to their kids.

2. I’m not so much jealous, but more put off because a doctor in any other country in the world does not be make this much money and I’m well aware of middle class families doing fundraisers to pay medical bills.

Oh so noble…of course you’re not jealous, you’re just a private school mommy who is worried about middle class medical debt. Instead of blaming doctors, why don’t you grab a clue and educate yourself about the corporate greed that is pervasive in medicine.

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https://www.statnews.com/2022/05/12/health-insurance-ceos-raked-in-record-pay-during-covid/

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Anonymous wrote:OMG, OP. Doctors also had to work in person through the worst of Covid. They deal with a-holes like you day in and day out. I have a ton of family members who are doctors and they deal with a lot of bullsh*t on a regular basis. They work incredibly hard and very long hours. They deserve the high salaries they get. You sound incredibly jealous and kind of a b_.

that’s a load of bs

Most specialists work 8-4 with lunch breaks and Fridays off and are not available during school breaks.

They definitely do not.

Have you tried to make an appointment with a specialist in provincial America? The wait list is at least a couple of months long and they don’t work 40 hours a week.

Actually I’m married to one and I promise he works way more hours than you do

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Anonymous wrote:OMG, OP. Doctors also had to work in person through the worst of Covid. They deal with a-holes like you day in and day out. I have a ton of family members who are doctors and they deal with a lot of bullsh*t on a regular basis. They work incredibly hard and very long hours. They deserve the high salaries they get. You sound incredibly jealous and kind of a b_.

that’s a load of bs

Most specialists work 8-4 with lunch breaks and Fridays off and are not available during school breaks.

They definitely do not.

Have you tried to make an appointment with a specialist in provincial America? The wait list is at least a couple of months long and they don’t work 40 hours a week.

This is because they are BUSY. You do know they work outside of clinic hours, right? They might have to operate until 9 pm, they work all weekend, many holidays. And they had to work for pennies for 4-8 years after they graduated medical school. Doctors earn every cent. Outside of cosmetic surgery/derm, they are not making millions. Maybe top 1% get close to a million, but it is earned. Unless they are shady and own a nursing home or pain pill business..

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Wait until friends start getting expensive cars. My kids go to public school but there are many there who are very wealthy. Don’t be upset by what others give their kids.

My kids won’t be getting any cars from us. They might be allowed to drive ours sometimes. There will always be people who have more and always people who have less.

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OP is full of hate and has decided to hate on doctors.


She's clearly mentally ill.

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OP, what did you expect when you put your kid in a pricey private?

This is one of the reasons why we picked a more diverse public school. We moved out of the wealthy area we were in when our kids were little in part because of these kinds of stories we heard about the HS there. Rich kids with their rich material goods - expensive cars, expensive vacations, expensive clothing, shoes, bags...


We did not want our kids to be surrounded by that.

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Anonymous wrote:OMG, OP. Doctors also had to work in person through the worst of Covid. They deal with a-holes like you day in and day out. I have a ton of family members who are doctors and they deal with a lot of bullsh*t on a regular basis. They work incredibly hard and very long hours. They deserve the high salaries they get. You sound incredibly jealous and kind of a b_.

that’s a load of bs

Most specialists work 8-4 with lunch breaks and Fridays off and are not available during school breaks.

They definitely do not.

Have you tried to make an appointment with a specialist in provincial America? The wait list is at least a couple of months long and they don’t work 40 hours a week.

Actually I’m married to one and I promise he works way more hours than you do

I'm not convinced. My dermatologist, for example works 8 -5 four days a week with a lunch break 12 to 1, and 8 -12 on Fridays. The wait time for an appointment is at least 2 months.

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Anonymous wrote:OMG, OP. Doctors also had to work in person through the worst of Covid. They deal with a-holes like you day in and day out. I have a ton of family members who are doctors and they deal with a lot of bullsh*t on a regular basis. They work incredibly hard and very long hours. They deserve the high salaries they get. You sound incredibly jealous and kind of a b_.

that’s a load of bs

Most specialists work 8-4 with lunch breaks and Fridays off and are not available during school breaks.

They definitely do not.

Have you tried to make an appointment with a specialist in provincial America? The wait list is at least a couple of months long and they don’t work 40 hours a week.

Actually I’m married to one and I promise he works way more hours than you do

I'm not convinced. My dermatologist, for example works 8 -5 four days a week with a lunch break 12 to 1, and 8 -12 on Fridays. The wait time for an appointment is at least 2 months.

How on earth do you know how much your dermatologist works? Hopefully you aren’t just stupidly looking at her appointment windows and assuming that’s the only “work” she does. If so you are clueless. When do you think she does her patient chart work? To say nothing of reading medial literature and work of running the office.

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Anonymous wrote:OMG, OP. Doctors also had to work in person through the worst of Covid. They deal with a-holes like you day in and day out. I have a ton of family members who are doctors and they deal with a lot of bullsh*t on a regular basis. They work incredibly hard and very long hours. They deserve the high salaries they get. You sound incredibly jealous and kind of a b_.

that’s a load of bs

Most specialists work 8-4 with lunch breaks and Fridays off and are not available during school breaks.

They definitely do not.

Have you tried to make an appointment with a specialist in provincial America? The wait list is at least a couple of months long and they don’t work 40 hours a week.

Actually I’m married to one and I promise he works way more hours than you do

I'm not convinced. My dermatologist, for example works 8 -5 four days a week with a lunch break 12 to 1, and 8 -12 on Fridays. The wait time for an appointment is at least 2 months.

First, you have no idea how much your dermatologist works. Second, 90th percentile salary for dermatologist is 400,000. Most aren’t racking in millions per year

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Envy is a deadly sin you know, OP.

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Anonymous wrote:Why are you not after the finance and tech parasites? Doctors save lives, they deserve what they get.

You know, I started to write a post how most software engineering jobs cap at 120K.

But then decided to look at the parents in DDs grade in the most expensive private school in our area.

In DD's PE class which is one of the larger classes there are

- 1 teacher parent
- 1 lawyer
- 1 pastor
- 1 company president
- 1 gov contractor program director
- 3 people in tech - VP, Product Manager and a startup founder
- 1 orthodontist
- 6 doctors

I can count in other classes, but trust me, most of them are doctors.

Do you live in DC? Because in our northern Virginia private, the parents are overwhelmingly lawyers, government contractors, and people in technology.

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Anonymous wrote:OMG, OP. Doctors also had to work in person through the worst of Covid. They deal with a-holes like you day in and day out. I have a ton of family members who are doctors and they deal with a lot of bullsh*t on a regular basis. They work incredibly hard and very long hours. They deserve the high salaries they get. You sound incredibly jealous and kind of a b_.

that’s a load of bs

Most specialists work 8-4 with lunch breaks and Fridays off and are not available during school breaks.

They definitely do not.

Have you tried to make an appointment with a specialist in provincial America? The wait list is at least a couple of months long and they don’t work 40 hours a week.

Actually I’m married to one and I promise he works way more hours than you do

I'm not convinced. My dermatologist, for example works 8 -5 four days a week with a lunch break 12 to 1, and 8 -12 on Fridays. The wait time for an appointment is at least 2 months.

Friend, you have no idea how much time charting takes, LOL!

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I'll address the question of designer bags for kids. OP - the answer depends on your family, your family values, your budget, etc. Only you can decide what is appropriate for your child. Will your child be spoiled or will they be grateful to receive such a lavish gift? Do you want to set the precedent that your daughter can have such things when she can afford them herself or is this an appropriate special birthday treat for her?

[Anonymous]

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OP is full of hate and has decided to hate on doctors.


She's clearly mentally ill.

- and probably from South Arlington.

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Also, 99% of doctors do not have that kind of money. What kind of uneducated idiot do you have to be to believe this? Did you grow up under a rock? Do you not know any doctors in real life besides the ones who are millionaires at this school? Are you a conspiracy theorist in other areas of your life as well?

I don't know about that.

I don't live in DC area, but ALL the doctor families in our school live this type of lavish lifestyle and this is about 50% of the school. They have estates, multiple homes, homes worth millions of dollars, they drive Teslas and Porsche, go on international trips more than once a year - Italy in the summer, Costa Rica in the fall, skiing in the winter, London in spring, they have cleaners of course, nannies. Many of them have 3-4 kids in the private school. The kids are dressed head to toe in Lululemon, have the latest and greatest and now designer bags.

The only ones I've met in my life that don't make that type of income are urgent care doctor and our pediatrician. Honestly, this all feels like a feast in time of plague.

Lemme guess - you're based in Small Town, SD? AL?