DH has a BA from a decent but not great school. I have a BA (summa cum laude) from HYP plus a PhD. I figure its enough education for both of us, with some to spare.

Anonymous wrote:Life is full of ups and downs. You understand this better when you are older.

That ambitious young guy making big bucks at 30 may be rich by 45, or he may be unemployed at 50 due to changes in technology.

Extremely competitive people sometimes have difficulty with relationships, which require more give and take than some ambitious people are willing to do.

And health issues are quite unpredictable. If you're young and healthy, you just don't realize how quickly things can change, even if you work and and eat healthy.

This is so true. I have a bachelors an masters from Columbia, a masters from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, a law degree from Cornell and an LL.M from NYU. I had a great law career. I worked out all the time. But my health started to fail me in my early forties. As the years went by it declined further and I had to retire at 56. The worst thing about it is that I can't be as good a father as I thought I would be. All the degrees in the world can't guarantee anything.

Anonymous wrote:You've peaked at 200k in your 50s. You don't get to give people life advice, OP.

No one writing a post like this gets to either, PP.

Anonymous wrote:Life is full of ups and downs. You understand this better when you are older.

That ambitious young guy making big bucks at 30 may be rich by 45, or he may be unemployed at 50 due to changes in technology.

Extremely competitive people sometimes have difficulty with relationships, which require more give and take than some ambitious people are willing to do.

And health issues are quite unpredictable. If you're young and healthy, you just don't realize how quickly things can change, even if you work and and eat healthy.

This. +1. I'm in medical research, and in 2003 the landscape changed almost overnight, going from lucrative with career advancement potential to underfunded, hostile, and stagnant. Many people in the field are so specialized that lateral moves are nearly impossible, so they're stuck in what amounts to dead-end career positions. You never know.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm a teacher. I make 60 K. I make ends meet by living on the outskirts of the metro area. I love my job. I look forward to going to work (almost) every day and that fulfillment affects my demeanor. It's not all about the money or a prestigious degree. I got my Masters at GMU--an average school. If that somehow makes me less attractive to some people, I don't think we'd be a good fit anyway. Do what makes you happy and try to mute the naysayers around you.

$60K? You are dead to the women on here.

I'm crushed.

Anonymous wrote:I'm a teacher. I make 60 K. I make ends meet by living on the outskirts of the metro area. I love my job. I look forward to going to work (almost) every day and that fulfillment affects my demeanor. It's not all about the money or a prestigious degree. I got my Masters at GMU--an average school. If that somehow makes me less attractive to some people, I don't think we'd be a good fit anyway. Do what makes you happy and try to mute the naysayers around you.

$60K? You are dead to the women on here.

Anonymous wrote:You've peaked at 200k in your 50s. You don't get to give people life advice, OP.

You realize that's more than the vast majority of people in the world, right? Or probably not...back to your DC elitist bubble...

As for degrees, some are truly better choices than others and I do question certain degree/field combinations (like most liberal arts degrees when the end goal isn't to teach or apply to a grad program). These people can still obviously be amazing partners, but that wasn't a great choice. Also not a great choice would be amassing enormous amounts of debt for any degree with a low probability of paying it off, even for HPY.

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Anonymous wrote:I would date any of these. University of Phoenix would make me hesitate though since I think of that as kind of an iffy academic credential. (It may not be iffy anymore.)

But I have also dated men without degrees (do you know what Master Electrician's make, for example? And I dated one non-degreed Dot-Com millionaire).

Just looked it up. Only 54K?!? How much in DC? 80K?

I think it depends on a lot of factors - this one did electrical architecture for commercial buildings.

Yes, commercial is where it's at. A bunch of my cousins are electricians in NY and by far the most successful has risen to be CEO of a commercial electrical contracting firm. He owns multiple houses, belongs to a very expensive country club, takes amazing vacations.

Anonymous wrote:You've peaked at 200k in your 50s. You don't get to give people life advice, OP.

I do not think I am OP (OP's background is very similar to me, but it does not read like something I would write; but it was a while ago and I may have copied from another post)

Money is not everything. 200K is more than comfortable. I would rather enjoy my life at my salary THAN MAKE 10X but be too busy to enjoy.

I'm a teacher. I make 60 K. I make ends meet by living on the outskirts of the metro area. I love my job. I look forward to going to work (almost) every day and that fulfillment affects my demeanor. It's not all about the money or a prestigious degree. I got my Masters at GMU--an average school. If that somehow makes me less attractive to some people, I don't think we'd be a good fit anyway. Do what makes you happy and try to mute the naysayers around you.

Anonymous wrote:University of Phoenix is not a real school. And I would not date anyone who used STEM in a conversation. I supposed I am too old for that. I greatly dislike made up things like that. However, I do understand the value in labeling it for funding and academic consideration.

Huh? Isn't it just an acronym?