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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Not at 50. Especially if you are a woman (no offense, I'm a woman).[/quote]

+1 no job is easy to get right now. $100k is a good salary. At 48, I came so close to finally making six figures and got laid off about a year in. Now I can’t find anything and will likely have to take something for far less if I find anything at all. Some of you all are completely delusional.[/quote]

Do you have a degree? I only have a BS and made $120k 15 years ago. $100k is basically poverty now. [/quote]

Congrats, you are completely out of touch with most people’s reality.

And yes, I have a degree from a school that most people in the College forum would love to brag about their kids attending. Careers do not happen in a linear fashion for many people though, particularly women with children. [/quote]

Unrealized potential has nothing to do with being a woman. Or a mom. [/quote]

It has everything to do with one’s career or salary trajectory perhaps not being a straight line upward (there could be other reasons for this, too, of course). To be clear, I have no regrets. I accept the consequences of my decisions. I’m simply refuting the idea that anyone with a college degree—particularly if they’re near 50(!)—can walk in off the street and get a $100k job. That’s absurd.[/quote]

Ok but don’t make like your experience is the total norm for everyone else. I took 18 months off when I had my kid. Then returned to the workforce. Kept working at it as a working mom. I made 450k last year. Maybe I’m the outlier. Maybe You are. [/quote]

DP- You are the outlier! You must know this... how could you be so oblivious??[/quote]

DCUM always reminds me that the people who makes the biggest salaries and went to the most prestigious schools are consistently the most clueless. All they know is their tiny sliver of the world.[/quote]

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