15 you say? Shoot that's only 3 years off...
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Ain't gunna' happen. She's VERY goal oriented, 4.0 Baccalaureate, two academic scholarships already lined up, working on a third, has a dad that will kick the crap out of any guy that distracts her, and she already claims she won't get married until she owns her own house and Jeep. She want's mine. That ain't happening either.
70k a year isn't enough to live on? I make less than half that...
Yea but you dont live in commifornia, you live in free spirited Colorado. Im with you there, leave it to a Californianan to make the rest of us feel like we work for peanuts lol.
70k a year here is like 200k a year in Cali....I *wish* I made 70k a year!
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$70K anywhere is a good job. But yeah, the cost of living is higher here than in other areas. I pay more in property tax each month than most people in nice tract houses pay in a mortgage payment. ($1690)
It's all relative. The more you make the more you spend. The more you spend the more you have. The more you have the more you have to lose. The more you have to lose, the harder you have to work to keep it.
Is it worth it? You bet your mother it is. If you work hard enough and smart enough, you can have what you want later. Fill the needs and cut back on the wants until you can afford them. Most people can't do that.
All you need is courage to make sacrifices, and stay with your dream.
Totally doable!
I've always thought about dressing myself up really nice, and driving around the neighborhoods with 500k+ houses with brand new 60k cars in the driveways, knocking on doors and asking "WTF do you do, how did you get into it, and how do I do that too!"
Coming from a "working class" family, I don't know what jobs exist other than ones that physically build or repair things...and I wanna join the 6 figures a year club!
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You are a smart guy. You don't need their ideas. Put more thought into your own dream and don't look to others for it. That is the exact reason poor people buy lottery tickets. The lottery is how the government taxes the poor.
Funny story.. When we were stilll living in our guest house while we were finishing the main house, we went around to all the neighbors on our street. Keep in mind there are only six hoses on the whole street. Gated five plus acre properties. As we were putting together Christmas cookie gifts for all the neighbors, we realized that other than us, every house on this street is owned by a single woman. Mind you all these houses are in the 3 million range. Still to this day, three are still owned by single women. The nicest house on the street has a 70 foot waterfall that drops into a lake with paddle boats etc.. It's an amazing house, and she is a really good looking woman. She won the house in the divorce and he has to pay to keep her in the lifestyle. He's a multi millionaire so he can afford it. Betsy does not like me to go to her house alone. The one directly across the street is owned by a woman in her late thirties, early forties, former fitness champion, and she owns some children's fitness company.
Another one is a single woman that ... crap, this post is getting too long. Sorry. I'll stop.