“Wealth” isn’t a matter of earned income. You can get “rich” off working, if you’re smart and frugal, but true wealth takes at least one generation. Hell, even Bill Gates started merely “rich”.
Anyway, my top pay was $82K American. Even after $1,400/mo. child support, I could basically do whatever I wanted, good enough, live a simple life. I should add, I have a Habitat for Humanity mortgage, small house, big yard, no interest or taxes, $575/mo. My truck was paid in cash, 2004 F150, beat to hell, runs great, Millennium Falcon of trucks.
Unemployed now, but working Lowe’s got me <$30K. After child support took half, and my body was breaking into pieces with no insurance, had to quit. (They call Outside Lawn and Garden in the spring “100 days of hell”.) I was bringing home ~$500 bi-weekly. I can pick free crap off the road and sell if for more than that.
“Wealth” isn’t a matter of earned income. You can get “rich” off working, if you’re smart and frugal, but true wealth takes at least one generation. Hell, even Bill Gates started merely “rich”.
Anyway, my top pay was $82K American. Even after $1,400/mo. child support, I could basically do whatever I wanted, good enough, live a simple life. I should add, I have a Habitat for Humanity mortgage, small house, big yard, no interest or taxes, $575/mo. My truck was paid in cash, 2004 F150, beat to hell, runs great, Millennium Falcon of trucks.
Unemployed now, but working Lowe’s got me <$30K. After child support took half, and my body was breaking into pieces with no insurance, had to quit. (They call Outside Lawn and Garden in the spring “100 days of hell”.) I was bringing home ~$500 bi-weekly. I can pick free crap off the road and sell if for more than that.