When did it occur to you that you were never going to be wealthy?

[Karin]

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NNN0LHI  (1000+ posts)      Tue Jun-01-10 04:50 PM
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If it ever did when did it occur to you that you were never going to be wealthy?
 It was the first day I began working. I looked at what I was making per hour and realized if I got paid that hourly wage for the next 30 years and it hit me I was never going to be wealthy. It can't be done. So I figured the hell with it. Just try and live a decent life, don't hurt others trying to get ahead, and then die.

That is pretty much it, isn't it?

That ain't asking for too much.

Don
 

That's what happens when you have the exact same skill set on day one as day 10,950. 

RT Atlanta  (1000+ posts)      Tue Jun-01-10 04:52 PM
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2. I wish more "republican" voters would wake up and realize this
 then maybe they'd stop voting against their own self-interest so much.
 

  There you go again, speaking for my self-interest.  Mind your own damn business. 

provis99  (1000+ posts)      Tue Jun-01-10 04:52 PM
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3. when I realized stupid conservative criminals made more than me.

BuelahWitch  (1000+ posts)      Tue Jun-01-10 04:57 PM
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12. When GW Bush got (s)elected
 At the time I was making a pretty good wage, and grossed more than I'd made in my working life. Those of us who remembered the years of Daddy Bush and Reagan knew what hell a Republican administration was for jobs, even if you were working (wage freezes).

B-b-b-but Boooooosh!!!!!   During those years, I consistently got a raise each and every year.  What is wrong with you?  I also got promotions.  What were you doing, witchy-poo? 

guitar man  (1000+ posts)      Tue Jun-01-10 05:01 PM
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13. When I worked 18 hours a day
 7 days a week for 5 years at my own business, trying to propel it over the top only to have it all eventually blow up in my face and crumble into dust. One thing is for sure, it's not hard work alone that gets you there, if it was, I'd be a billionaire...there's more to it than that and whatever it is, I don't have it.

Then comes a long sad story about a bad partner.  Not terribly interesting.

mdmc  (1000+ posts)        Tue Jun-01-10 05:42 PM
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45. I was 19
 attending college..
I realized that helping people will never get me the big bucks..

I must admit that I never thought that I would not be able to afford medical treatment.

  It always has to come full circle to that, doesn't it?

Odin2005  (1000+ posts)        Tue Jun-01-10 07:27 PM
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71. My working-class parents drilled that into me from an early age.
 "It's a rigged game, don't expect to ever get rich."

  Charming. 

[Ralph Wiggum]

So I figured the hell with it.

Pretty much sums up the DUmmies attitude, huh?

[Mike220]

I must be crazy then. I still haven't figured it out.

[Carl]

I must be crazy then. I still haven't figured it out.

I have been at various rungs of the economic ladder...from dirt poor on the farm here to okay to comfortable.
Have never wasted an ounce of time or energy being jealous about what someone else has because it is just stupid to do so.

[ScubaGuy]

Typical DUmmie looser!

I took my first job after school for just above minimum wage, not because I couldn't get more but because the job was fun and I was presented with challenges far beyond what my peers would see for quite a few years.  I took advantage of that job and learned all that I could, left after a year and more than doubled my salary.  I kept working hard, improving my value to my employer and in a few years my salary was once again double from where I started.

From then on it was work hard, keep improving my skill set and remember who writes my check each month. 

I don't think I'm overly wealthy, but I'm sure the DUmmies think I'm loaded and should be taxed out of everything I worked for.

[The Village Idiot]

and realized if I got paid that hourly wage for the next 30 years and it hit me I was never going to be wealthy

who plans to have the same job at the same pay forever?

[The Village Idiot]

Answer: The 200th time I played the lottery

[thundley4]

The DUmmies obsession with wealth and the envy of those that have it,  is what keeps them miserable.  I'm likely to never be wealthy, but that doesn't mean I can't be happy with what I have.

[dutch508]

The DUmmies obsession with wealth and the envy of those that have it,  is what keeps them miserable.  I'm likely to never be wealthy, but that doesn't mean I can't be happy with what I have.

The problem with DUmpmonkiez is they really want to be communists or socialists...but in reality they really want to be rich and famous...but in their heart they all want to be Che and Castro...but deep down they want to be rolling in money...

[The Village Idiot]

Just now, you big poo poo head meanie!! 

[blitzkrieg_17]

RT Atlanta  (1000+ posts)      Tue Jun-01-10 04:52 PM
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2. I wish more "republican" voters would wake up and realize this
 then maybe they'd stop voting against their own self-interest so much.

You haven't a ****ing clue what my "own self-interest" is, dumb****. STFU before I kick you in the pants.

[JohnnyReb]

Every time I passed one of the government "projects" and especially every time I wrote a check to the IRS.

[Ballygrl]

Odin2005  (1000+ posts)        Tue Jun-01-10 07:27 PM

71. My working-class parents drilled that into me from an early age.
 "It's a rigged game, don't expect to ever get rich."

Funny, my working class and bordering on poor parents told me I can be anything I want and make as much money I want by working hard, and they never held me back by drilling "it's a rigged game" into my head.

[Ballygrl]

Typical DUmmie looser!

I took my first job after school for just above minimum wage, not because I couldn't get more but because the job was fun and I was presented with challenges far beyond what my peers would see for quite a few years.  I took advantage of that job and learned all that I could, left after a year and more than doubled my salary.  I kept working hard, improving my value to my employer and in a few years my salary was once again double from where I started.

From then on it was work hard, keep improving my skill set and remember who writes my check each month. 

I don't think I'm overly wealthy, but I'm sure the DUmmies think I'm loaded and should be taxed out of everything I worked for.

I worked 2 jobs for 15 years and went to college that I paid for myself, a concept some people today wouldn't even think about doing, but you do what you have to do, my Mother worked 3 jobs to put me through parochial school and my Father worked 2, she did what she had to do and she didn't gripe about it, my Parents never owned a house but their dream came true when hubby and I bought a house, although my Dad died years before we bought the house, I know he'd be proud, and my Mom gets to share in that joy of owning a home since we moved her in with us a few years ago. My Parents were never bitter or jealous and neither are hubby and I.

[bkg]

Wonder how they define wealthy...

I knew I would be PO'd the rest of my life when I turned 16 and went from "sub-contractor" to tax payer...

[dandi]

Who is more delusional, the conservative who imagines themselves becoming wealthy through hard work, sacrifice and innovation, or the liberal who imagines everyone becoming wealthy through Socialism?

At least the former has a fighting chance. The latter can only hope to drag everyone down to the same level of mediocrity.

[crockspot]

It has occurred to me that I may never be as wealthy as I like, but that doesn't mean I'm going to give up trying.

[Ree]

How much do ya got to make to be wealthy? I need a number

[bkg]

How much do ya got to make to be wealthy? I need a number

According to MN state gov't, it's right around $67,500/year.

[JLO]

According to MN state gov't, it's right around $67,500/year.

No shit?

[debk]

I'll always be wealthy....

Because I have two healthy, happy, beautiful children, a great son in law who adores my daughter and his children, two healthy and gorgeous grandchildren and a man who loves me unconditionally and thinks of my children/grandchildren as his own.

 

[bkg]

No shit?

Somewhere around there. State gov't wanted to raise the upper tax bracket so the "wealthy" paid their share... to 12%... and drop the mortgage deduction at the same time.

Only Pawlenty shared the number after he vetoed the bill...

[bkg]

I'll always be wealthy....

Because I have two healthy, happy, beautiful children, a great son in law who adores my daughter and his children, two healthy and gorgeous grandchildren and a man who loves me unconditionally and thinks of my children/grandchildren as his own.

My mom used to say that... Then she realized that I'm an ass and my sister's a communist..  She doesn't say it so much anymore. 

[JLO]

I'll always be wealthy....

Because I have two healthy, happy, beautiful children, a great son in law who adores my daughter and his children, two healthy and gorgeous grandchildren and a man who loves me unconditionally and thinks of my children/grandchildren as his own.

 

You are indeed extremely wealthy!  Enjoy that wealth 

[Ree]

According to MN state gov't, it's right around $67,500/year.

Damn for bein "wealthy" we sure don't have much...