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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My friend and her (HS educated only) started a PORTA POTTY business. They make at least double what my DH and I make (doctorate and MBA- and both in high paying fields)

People have no clue.

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It doesn't matter how much money they make, they still have a disgusting job and no education, which was the whole point.

Those people will never, ever fit in with other UMC/UC people. They have absolutely nothing in common with anyone else in that income strata beyond HHI. On the other hand, a couple with advanced degrees, even if they are literally unemployed, would still have many, many things in common with well-off people, because they shared so many of the same life experiences (private schools, top tier colleges, postgrad experiences, etc.). Whereas the other couple literally shovels sh!t all day. They'll never be respected, they'll never be seen as a leer, as an equal, because they aren't. They're just poorly educated trash with money.    [/quote]

I know 3 ivy educated lawyers who left biglaw (gasp) to (i) buy a Subway franchise and then buy 10 more after that first one; (ii) buy a UPS store over 15 yrs ago right when ecommerce was just starting and there weren't tons of shipping options; and (iii) buy a regional trucking company. All of them are making serious money and because they've owned these businesses for a long time now, they aren't sitting at work 40-60 hrs/wk, rather they spend their time investing their money/expanding into more businesses etc. It may shock you that they are making biglaw type money and certainly MUCH more than their biglaw peers who left to take up a GS 14 atty job. They most certainly aren't using their ivy educations now, yet they are making $$$. So you'd associate with them just because they are ivy grads and as you say even if unemployed, those with advanced degrees have many things in common with well off people? Somehow I think you're full of it -- you'd look down your nose at them as a mere truck driver . . . and not want to acknowledge that they own these businesses.[/quote]

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