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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Did you all who make less than $100,000/year go to college?  Or, perhaps I should ask, graduate from college?[/quote]

Talk about insulting. I make under 100K and went to law school AND am a lawyer for the government. What world are you living in? [/quote]

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Yes-- PP should understand that a lot of people with advanced degrees earn far less than 100k, especially when the organizations they work with and for are non-profits. My Dh earns a little over 100K, which allows us to live centrally in a high-demand District neighborhood in a condo we bought in 2005. I, on the other hand, work in the intrinsically rewarding field of cultural heritage management, which pays peanuts even to people with advanced degrees whose skills are specialized. I think you lot would be surprised to hear just how little. It needs to be a labor of love, because the compensation is minimal, and there are many more people eager to do it than there are paid positions available.

This is certainly a phenomenon I remember from my own childhood when my father, the academic, provided a much humbler life for his family than other families I knew headed by lawyers  and... I don't know... designers of mechanized prosthetic limbs (just thinking of a childhood friend with a fancier house whose dad was not a lawyer. I guess in those days, though, the doctors also still made enough to set them apart from other professionals with advanced degrees). But the pay chasm between professions is much wider nowadays. It's even easier to be a poorly compensated but highly educated professional if you're not in a field that's part of the general business of generating wealth. [/quote]

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