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comment by goobster
goobster  ·  2010 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: September 26, 2018

Well, when you are a 50-year old DINK with no house payments due to a family fluke two generations ago, the salary goes to things other than diapers and after school sports and minivans and providing calories to voracious growing humans and saving for college and/or retirement and all that.

The people your age that are doing alright financially are not story-worthy and don't fit the model the media is selling. So you don't hear about them much, except when someone complains about "gentrification", and then realizes it's caused largely by millenials making Amazon/Google/etc money, and paying exorbitant amounts for things, because they can.

It ain't 35-year old parents of 2 that are paying $2500/mo for a 500-square foot one-bedroom apartment/condo in that new LEED-certified building that replaced that classic old Seattle craftsman bungalow...





OftenBen  ·  2009 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    The people your age that are doing alright financially are not story-worthy and don't fit the model the media is selling.

There also aren't that many of them.

goobster  ·  2009 days ago  ·  link  ·  

In your circles.

OftenBen  ·  2009 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I mean in general.

rezzeJ  ·  2009 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I'm around the same age as you and plenty of my friends are doing alright. Well enough to have kids, get married in lakeside hotels, and own their owns houses and shit

It's no coincidence that they all work in the IT/Tech industry. That's where all the money is (as goobster mentioned). I mean, have you seen how much a digital agency will pay to poach a half-talented employee from a competitor? I'm talking an easy 10k pay rise, if not more. It's ridiculous. The freelance offers are even crazier if you're prepared to work for some soulless corporation and do your own admin.

I also have friends getting by on bar work and other lower paid jobs; I know it's not great for everyone. But there's definitely a significant amount of our generation who are doing just fine financially.