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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No not really.

We still live in a middle class neighborhood and hang with middle class friends and neighbors. We have a net worth of over $5M in our late 30s (perhaps that is not considered rich though) but you wouldn't know it by our house, the way we dress, or the cars we drive, etc. We just don't feel a need to flaunt it.

We do take some nice vacations though.[/quote]

This is us.  Our circle of closest friends is the same from when we were in our 20s.  We're now mid 40s and through work, we have a net worth of around $10M.  It hasn't changed much about our life.  We take awesome vacations.  That's about it.

My thought is what made you get caught up in that lifestyle in the first place?  That says something about you.  I always knew I didn't want to be a big law partner or hang out at the golf course or belong to the fancy country club.  But I suppose it's good you figured it out.

Point being, there are plenty of rich people not living the life you're trying to get away from and that you don't like.  [/quote]

You are wrong in assuming that I got caught up in that lifestyle. I never did. I just observed. I’ve always lived a different life than the rich, but I had a family to support.  So I sucked it up for as long as I could stand, then walked away from all of it.  [/quote]

Okay.  But I guess my point is you chose to make your money being a big law lawyer and you must have been in the scene a while and played the game well to make partner.  First, there are other ways to make money.  Second, no one needs big law money.  You might want it.  But if the whole thing is so gross to you and you can't stand the people, live by who you are and your principles and go a different path.  Plenty of people do just fine and support their families without having big law money in life, to say the least.

It just seems awfully convenient that you bought into the whole system to get rich but you're holding your nose the whole time.  Get over yourself.  Obviously you're driven my money and you're not all that different than the people you're judging.[/quote]

OP here. You make some good points, I will give you that. Suffice it to say that I was very young, already had a family, and thought going to law school would be a good way to support them. And once I got into the game, it was hard to get out, because it’s very hard to walk away from that kind of money when you have a family.  But, in the end, I did walk away.   Had I stayed I would’ve made millions more, even if I just phoned it in.  I’m clearly driven by more than money - my decision proves that.  [/quote]

Yes, you are a legend in your own mind. It could well be that your law partners got tired of you and wanted you to go "of counsel" and that led you to walk away and you created a new story to rise about the heathen rich people. [/quote]

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