So how much do you make?

[AtreyuKun]

Very little. But with my wife, we can afford a nice cozy little house, 2 fairly new vehicles, snus, and video games. We're doing alright. Not rich at ALL, but we are comfortable.

[spirit72]

Re: So how much do you make?

Ever since I got on with this forum I've wanted to start this poll. I've never started a poll. Keep it anonymous if you want, that is my assumption, no need for comments, just click for me that's all I want. I'm curious as to what ya'll are pulling in, especially in this economy. I'm a fairly young dude, 31, with no clear direction as to where to go. I earned a liberal arts degree but so far I haven't used it. After college in Portland, OR the unemployment level was high (for 2003) and I fell into the travel industry, I guess because I love to travel more than anything else. I'm still at it, and I've gone from seller of Eurail passes, to travel agent, to my current position as director of air operations (lol) for an interesting high-end tour company. They pay me 50K as of next Friday, which I realize is lucky in my line of work simply because no one else in the company knows how to do my job.

50K is pretty good bank at age 30. I'm going on 40, and I'm less than 10k ahead of that.

Especially in this current predicament of ours, If It Ain't Broke, Don't Fix It.

I work in telecom, handling large business/government data services. Has nothing to do with my education, directly(I earned a BA in History). I don't hate my job, I like the work to a point, but it isn't hardly my passion. Rather, it's my 'Hustle'. It's what I do for money. So I use that money to live, fairly frugally as much as possible. And I do the things I enjoy in my free time, since I wouldn't be able to earn a living from them as far as I can see.

I think too many people these days define themselves by their career. Be careful about falling into that trap. :wink:

[spirit72]

0-whatever i can get my hands on.

i wish more employers were like Red

all these douchebags care about is a piece of paper that costs $25,000-$200,000 and 4-8 years of your life.

I've heard the baccalaureate degree in the U.S. described as being little more than a 'White Collar Union Card', and I think there is some truth to that.

[spirit72]

I hope the housing market keeps crashing, I hope it burns to the ground. They say theres some big crash but a 2 bedroom house in a bad part of town is still 500k here, I want to see at least 40% reduction in housing prices before I even consider the market as "adjusted", but with Obama's new rules for foreclosure etc and pumping gov money into the housing market, I think instead of letting the market correct down to affordable prices again, they want to just keep maintaining the bubble.

That's exactly what they're doing. They're papering it over. And they're doing it because the bubble is far bigger and deeper than anyone realizes. If they let it deflate like a normal bubble (dotcom comes to mind), the rest of the gargantuan banks would fail within weeks, and it would be pretty much all over.

[Monkey]

Hey! Where's the option for "not enough"?

Mike

[f. bandersnatch]

I'm self-employed, and I don't make that much money right now, cause I don't really work that much. I accepted the fact that work is an unfortunate fact of life at a very young age and have been making various efforts to get out of it since then.

[Roo]

Hey! Where's the option for "not enough"?

Mike

All but maybe a few of us would have clicked it and thrown off the poll. I know you were joking, just wanted to take th opportunity to say keep voting people, this is interesting. If you haven't voted yet, what have you got to lose? It's as anonymous as the workday is long. Do it.

[bmwgsa]

Before taxes, 75k+
After taxes 0

i see what you did there...

Oblahma-nomics - you just gotta love it......