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[quote=Anonymous]OP, you need to get a handle on your unreasonable envy.  You shouldn't be measuring your life against others.  You should be striving to achieve the best that you can for yourself and your family, but keeping score against your classmates from college is just pointless.  Unless you think they beat you our or stole a job from you, you haven't had the same opportunities that they have.

I make a comfortable UMC income as a government contractor.  I know several college friends that did far better than I did and I know several that didn't.  I'm somewhere in the middle.  I am very happy for my friends that have done well, especially the ones that have done very well.  I've recently seen information that three of my friends who lived in the same dorm as me freshman year did very well.  One got a PhD and ended up starting up a company that did extremely well.  Unfortunately, he passed recently from cancer, but his family was left very well off from the corporation that he started and ran for almost 20 years.  My roommate from sophomore year became the Director of Finance at a major Wall Street company.  And another is now a senior department doctor at a major hospital.  All of them make (made) beacoup bucks.  I'm just sorry that I lost touch with the former two.  I still see the third one occasionally.  But I'm very happy for all of them.

You need to work on why you aren't happy for your friend's success and that you are jealous.  It's not healthy.[/quote]

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