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[quote=Anonymous]You assume a lot about people’s lives that doesn’t bear out statistically or even if you knew them well. Doctors tend to not accumulate wealth due to huge student loans and lifestyle competition. They feel pressured to join the country club and buy the Audi.  They are mostly in debt to their eyeballs.  Lawyers have less debt but feel pressure to get the McMansion to host clients to make partner.  Meanwhile many teachers have strong pensions, drive a Camry, spend all summer with their kids instead of hiring Nannies, and many of them retire as millionaires.

It just depends on what YOU want out of life.  I have an Ivy degree but work part time and have an accountant husband.  This has been a good compromise for me.  We have three kids and I enjoy spending their out of school time with them.  We paid off our house and steadily fund the 529’s.  Yes they will attend state schools for college and our modest house is in a exurb (with a great school pyramid)  but I have no regrets about choosing this path.  I do have friends who are driven to make partner, ski in France every year, send their kids to privates and that’s ok too.  But don’t assume that life doesn’t have its own pitfalls.  Don’t try to be someone you think more men will be attracted to, you will be miserable if you are not true to yourself.  [/quote]

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