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Lol, we're making too much money? You sound like someone who wants national equal pay. If you want to make $100k, then quit whining and do things to get your income up. Get a 2nd job, change professions, move to a different city/state, etc.
The millennial generation is royally screwed and are now, and will always be, making minimum wage or just above with college loans in the hundreds of thousands of dollars or they're in the top 5% or so of wage earners in the US.
Exactly what I thought.
You cannot have it both ways, people!
1) there are obvious cases of investment bankers and software engineers doing it by 25. Several of my employer's clients had people in the Forbes 30 under 30. I'd say those folks are doing well over $100k, but they were in SF, NYC, and Boston mostly.
2) Some hourly occupations that get a lot of OT will do it. think cops in high COL areas or young guys working in the oil patch.
3) Nurse practitioners can be out of school by 25 and can make $100k in a big market.
I made 100k the first time at 24. Last year was my 3rd year (at 26) making over 100k. By quite a long shot too. In fact, my take home was over 100k. I also only have an associates I just got at 25. I usually work 50 hrs a week, mostly office, with the occasional Saturday.
I know a few other people my age making the same, some more. Most are usually in the Oil and gas industry.
Just last week I got a contract job offer paying 80/hr with all expenses paid down in Mexico. The contract was only for like 5 or 6 months so not worth losing my full time gig for. If it would've been a year I might have considered it.
I don't know people with this much success at that age, but... there will always be some big-shot CS majors at good schools who get great jobs at Google, etc. They also sign away their life and live in incredibly expensive cities like SF. Try getting the same job in Phoenix or Salt Lake City and seeing how much you get paid.
I know plenty of people unemployed or working jobs that make them close to nothing at a library, etc.
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