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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]In our 20s, my peer group consisted of non-profits, consultants, law school students, first and second-year lawyers, and a few engineers.  The differences between us didn't seem huge, we went to bars, lived in apartments and group houses, dated, went on lame vacations with our parents or not at all... you all know that life.  Were all basically kind of the same poor"ish".  A few of my friends threw down lots of money shopping, or had slightly nicer apartments, but the financial differences between us all seemed minimal.

But I'm 45 now, and the discrepancies between those who chose high-paying careers and those who didn't seem huge.  The differences in earnings just compounded over time. If I had been able to fully internalize and visualize the difference between a for-profit and non-profit career.   [/quote]

[b]DC is full of aging do gooders who pursued low paying, but noble sounding degrees.  Eventually the bitterness sets in and then they turn sour and are easily triggered. [/b] These are most of folks behind the Connecticut Ave bike lane push.  They can’t afford homes in upper NW or Montgomery County and their sad revenge is to make everyone else miserable.  [/quote]

Unfortunately, some people go into these jobs unaware that these jobs are for the trust fund set. Then they feel duped when they realize that these jobs aren't really meant to support a family, and that their colleagues have $2M homes, nannies, and private schools paid for by someone else. [/quote]

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