rainbowtrout
Ideal_Rock
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So, I''m going to go out on a limb here and say NO.
Teens always have unrealistic expectations! It''s normal...they get kicked in the butt when they go out on their own, which is becoming later and later, perhaps what is making this 20something phenomenon we''re talking about.
Re: myself. I grew up without much money (not poor, but still not a lot). There were times when we didn''t have health or car insurance, lived month to month, etc. I distinctly remember earting tuna fish for lunch for 3 months, haha! So my desire has always been to have more than that/more security than that. Hence my occasional freak-outs about not having gone to law school!
I never think FI and I will have enough money and he has to reassure me frequently that if we are frugal we will be OK. It is an interesting difference--he grew up with a family with a combined income of 200k and has a much better idea of how to eventually make and live with that money/invest it/have security and I have a much more "OMG I can''t buy that drink are you kidding it costs 10!!!" kind of thing going on.
My big thing is that I want enough money to provide for children and send them to either a) a solid state school if they get in, or 2) if they get into a top 10 school to pay for them to go. My kid gets into Harvard, they''re going. I also want to have enough money for retirement, a nice home, and travel. I would also like to be able to afford to have our first baby by 32.
Is that unrealistic? Not sure. I''m also a grad student going to be living in NYC for 20k/year plus whatever I make in the summer. After that its 40-60k until tenure. But, FI is going to med school and wants to be a neurologist or a neurosurgeon. So that helps. And if you need money you can always make money, my dad''s gotten enough second and third jobs over the years to show me that.
Teens always have unrealistic expectations! It''s normal...they get kicked in the butt when they go out on their own, which is becoming later and later, perhaps what is making this 20something phenomenon we''re talking about.
Re: myself. I grew up without much money (not poor, but still not a lot). There were times when we didn''t have health or car insurance, lived month to month, etc. I distinctly remember earting tuna fish for lunch for 3 months, haha! So my desire has always been to have more than that/more security than that. Hence my occasional freak-outs about not having gone to law school!
I never think FI and I will have enough money and he has to reassure me frequently that if we are frugal we will be OK. It is an interesting difference--he grew up with a family with a combined income of 200k and has a much better idea of how to eventually make and live with that money/invest it/have security and I have a much more "OMG I can''t buy that drink are you kidding it costs 10!!!" kind of thing going on.
My big thing is that I want enough money to provide for children and send them to either a) a solid state school if they get in, or 2) if they get into a top 10 school to pay for them to go. My kid gets into Harvard, they''re going. I also want to have enough money for retirement, a nice home, and travel. I would also like to be able to afford to have our first baby by 32.
Is that unrealistic? Not sure. I''m also a grad student going to be living in NYC for 20k/year plus whatever I make in the summer. After that its 40-60k until tenure. But, FI is going to med school and wants to be a neurologist or a neurosurgeon. So that helps. And if you need money you can always make money, my dad''s gotten enough second and third jobs over the years to show me that.
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