$100,000 a year and still feels poor.....WTF!?

**Shoe** · March 23rd, 2012, 05:10 PM

First Person: How to Earn $100,000 and Still Feel Poor - Yahoo! Finance

Wish I could make 100k a year. I would be better off then I am now. Geeze, some people have no idea. Try making it on 20k or 30k a year, with a house payment/rent, utilities, groceries, car payment and insurance. People around here do that shit day and day out. Sorry but shit like this pisses me off.

**Unchained** · March 23rd, 2012, 06:17 PM

Originally Posted by Shoe

First Person: How to Earn $100,000 and Still Feel Poor - Yahoo! Finance

Wish I could make 100k a year. I would be better off then I am now. Geeze, some people have no idea. Try making it on 20k or 30k a year, with a house payment/rent, utilities, groceries, car payment and insurance. People around here do that shit day and day out. Sorry but shit like this pisses me off.

Lawdy lawdy I'd LOVE to be that poor

**Ironlung** · March 23rd, 2012, 07:08 PM

She kept saying "our" and talking about their kids being in college. So I assumed that she was talking about her and her husbands combined incomes.

**Shoe** · March 23rd, 2012, 09:36 PM

Ah man it's hard to say. But $50,000 would still be good for one person. I can understand the paying for the kids college education but they can get finical aid or whatever to help. How many people out there work two jobs just to put their kids through college? I guess I find it crazy to have a $100,000 income combined or not and still feel poor. Just amazes me lol.

**Ironlung** · March 23rd, 2012, 11:12 PM

Originally Posted by Shoe

But $50,000 would still be good for one person.

Not really. You have to wonder where they live. It's not easy around here on that with a mortgage, vehicle payment, medical bills, day to day living expenses. In a large metro area it'd be like living on minimum wage.

**starbuck** · March 24th, 2012, 10:40 AM

Originally Posted by Ironlung

Not really. You have to wonder where they live. It's not easy around here on that with a mortgage, vehicle payment, medical bills, day to day living expenses. In a large metro area it'd be like living on minimum wage.

that is what i was going to say. a buddy of mine told me my house and land would go for $150,000 up where lives. here it got valued at $48,000

**NotSoSilentBob** · March 25th, 2012, 02:58 PM

Originally Posted by Shoe

Ah man it's hard to say. But $50,000 would still be good for one person. I can understand the paying for the kids college education but they can get finical aid or whatever to help. How many people out there work two jobs just to put their kids through college? I guess I find it crazy to have a $100,000 income combined or not and still feel poor. Just amazes me lol.

Very little, if any, financial aid available for that level of family income.

**R13** · March 25th, 2012, 08:07 PM

Originally Posted by NotSoSilentBob

Very little, if any, financial aid available for that level of family income.

No grants or financial aid at all at that level. My mother is a nurse and stepfather is a coal miner, I never qualified for financial aid or really close to it...it's either out of pocket or student loans after that - without scholarships.