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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This post hits home! I’ve find it really hard to mentor students. I totally understand wanting to do fulfilling work. I like my job. It’s good work and I help people. AND, I like that I can afford to make 3-4 international vacations a year and enjoy fine dining etc.

I make $187k + bonus (single. No kids and I’m 38). Along the way, I took some jobs that were not great, but gave me skills I need to keep progressing. Those jobs (ie budget analyst) sucked, but I chose to see the positive and knew it was just a stop along the way.

My sister refused to “sell her soul.” She make $60k with a kid and struggles. She can’t do ANYTHING. Even a pedicure is a tough spend for her.  She has to go on a 18 month payment plan for a 4 day vacation at some 3 star resort in the Bahamas or our dad pays. More often than not, dad pays. 
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I work at a nonprofit and several folks make more than $200k. You can have both.[/quote]

You absolutely can have both. I work for the feds and feel like I have both. but people don’t normally start out in nonprofits or gov making six figures or even in really interesting roles.  And most of my friends in non-profit careers had to really grind and even take on some roles that they didn’t care to do to get to where they wanted to be. The student that come to me with dreams of saving the world don’t realize what it will take to achieve that dream. [/quote]

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