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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here. I may sound spoiled and immature but it doesn't change the reality that my parents didn't stop me from pursuing a non-lucrative career.
I wish they had been more authoritarian when it came to this. Now at 41 and making only $80k, i'm a laughing stock in our friends circle. 
I'm lucky that my parents help pay for childcare and put a 50% down payment on our home so we could afford to live in NW DC.

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OP, your problem isn’t your field. Your problem is that making lots of money was never your priority and for some reason you now regret that. As a fellow middle-aged designer who makes about 40k more than you and isn’t terribly ambitious, I think the “problem” is that you expect an upper NW lifestyle but for whatever reason haven’t been good enough to be a creative director. Do you think Paula Scher cries all day that she didn’t become a day trader? Do you think Jessica Walsh or Louise Fili or hell I could name a dozen female designers doing quite well here in DC and NONE of them think their problem is that they chose design. Maybe your problem is that you lack talent or work ethic. [/quote]

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