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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is so much money, but it doesn’t set off any jealousy in me at all. We earn 250k, split right down the middle between DH and myself, and we have ample time. With our kids, with each other, with friends, with our aging parents. We own our house, have short commutes, will be able to retire and never live in poverty. Why do people contort their lives for vast amounts of money and then sacrifice the things that make life good?[/quote]

Because you don’t always have to contort yourself. My DH works in tech. 100% remote since before the pandemic. Typically works about 4-5 hours a day and makes 750k. Add in a couple big stock grants, which is how we paid off debt and built wealth.

I don’t work. We have a ton of free time. I’d wager much more so than people like you.[/quote]

What a snobby response.[/quote]

Not the PP but I too think it is ridiculous to assume high earners don’t care about their families or work/life balance. Thinking that everyone who makes a lot of money must be miserable and working 24/7 is just not true. It’s a cope.[/quote]

I’m not the PP and I think the PP sounds like a shallow loser.

However we are a 2 income household and my DH works in IT sales and makes anywhere from 200k-900k. He absolutely loves his job. He loves the hunt, he loves competition (former college athlete so it’s in his blood). He’s not working 24x7 at all. I too work from home and how much screwing around he does during the day sometimes annoys me because my job is so much busier and I often make well under half of what he makes. Being a sports and competition junkie he spends so much time with our kids coaching their sports and is even the commissioner for our local rec team and is also a ref. He the one who takes our kids skiing and and is the chauffeur for all their sports practices and crazy games all over the place. I’d say he puts in 35hrs  a week and anything beyond that is done via his two thumbs.

But when it comes down to it he really does love his job and I think he’s very lucky to get paid so well to do it. [/quote]

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