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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As long as you're happy and have a fulfilling career, so what?[/quote]

That's exactly what I thought at 25, but I didn't realize how much of a difference income makes on every area of your life.  Where you can live, where your kids go to school, when or if you can ever retire, if you can travel, if you can afford certain types of healthcare, how you live, the security you feel, the security you can offer your family (parents or children), etc.

It never ends.[/quote]

I have a hard time understanding how you couldn't see this in your 20s or before, tbh. I have understood this since childhood and is why I chose the career path I did (biglaw). Did you grow up in a very economically homogeneous community? I was a middle class kid at a fancy boarding school so the differences were very apparent to me. Of course it's different if you truly have a passion, but most people don't (or don't have one that is possible to turn into a career).[/quote]

Same. I'm 26 and making the next 4 years count because I desire the wealthy lifestyle and refuse to lie to myself about it.

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