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Hello Sam. Great topic. I get $7K monthly from my retirement. Worked for Procter & Gamble since I was 18 YO until I was 59 1/2 YO. 41 1/2 years total & still a part time small farmer.
I get $1800. monthly from SS but pay $300. back monthly due to our combined income. Wife retired as a Registered Nurse in 2020 after 40+ years of service. She collects $1500. SS monthly. We are in the Marcellus Gas play and collect pretty good royalties also. We're living comfortably & help our family out with expenses when we can & help at the local food pantry in town 6 miles away. Good thing we have farmers like you to work your a$$ off to feed the world.
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LED headlights bruh.... #thoughtful ![[Linked Image from hosting.photobucket.com]](https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/e78/montanasam/20230123_161354.jpg) Lol
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I make mad cash working wal mart parking lots on tuesday nights. Yall have never seen a lot lizard this big
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Tell her u got a navigator DLX and makes sure she’s got her eyes closed walk-in to the garage
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I make over $5.02 an hour
Ballin
DON’T BE TOO PROUD OF THIS TECHNOLOGICAL TERROR YOU’VE CONSTRUCTED. THE ABILITY TO DESTROY A PLANET IS INSIGNIFICANT NEXT TO THE POWER OF THE FORCE.
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LED headlights bruh.... #thoughtful Lol X2
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Thank you to those that gave honest replies.
Remson, your truthful reply I find very interesting.
My sister is a lawyer in the bay area and she used to make major cash. But she tired of the crazy calls at 2AM from the higher ups and finally couldn't take it any longer.
She now has a M-F job where she does legal work for one of the counties down there and she is much happier.
Same deal with my brother. He is a dentist and went from running his own practice in southern CA to working for a practice in South Dakota. He is also happier. It's all about perspective. My mom arrived in the US with what she was wearing and twenty cents (I don't recall the story of that, but it was given to her before she was released from the concentration camp) and my dad's family had a similar story. We all worked hard when we were kids, from paper routes to delivering furniture and hauling scrap metal. I used to get a $3.50 paycheck for the paper route (weekly) and I got paid $20 a day for the delivery/scrap metal work. My first real job after college paid $15k a year in the late 1980s. When I got out of law school, I was making big bucks at the time $60k to start, and when I left NYC I was making over $300k a year, then it went up from there in CA. The price for that was, as your sister experienced, 24/7 working and ridiculous amounts of stress. It's nice to be able to do something like walk into a car dealer and drive off with a $140k car without even thinking about whether the check you just wrote will clear. It's even nicer to wake up in the morning knowing that whatever you have is paid for and you are happiest driving your older pickup to go hunting and never having to give a second though to how many emails/texts/voicemails will be waiting for you when you get home. I wouldn't change a thing about the years working my butt off for big money, but that's something folks should do between about age 25 and 50. If you keep chasing money after that age, you have lost the game.
Eliminate qualified immunity and you'll eliminate cops who act like they are above the law.
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Again, thank you guys that don't give a damn about fricken money.
I should add my wife works full time for an insurance company and she makes about 50k. Again, relatively small $$$ considering but good for our area.
And this is sure as hell isn't a dick measuring contest but I figured WTF, I'll be the uncouth bumpkin to ask such a thing.
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I built an electronics systems company and sold it about 15 years ago. Now I let a professional management company manage my investments and earn more by doing nothing than I ever did while working. My income fluctuates but was in the 7-figures according to my 2021 tax return. I have no debts and buy whatever I want.
I wish I'd done more hunting earlier. I've been to Africa three times. Now arthritis limits that. I wish someone would invent a "happiness meter." While I'm pretty happy, it would not surprise me if Jim Conrad and some others might score higher than me.
Don't blame me. I voted for Trump.
Democrats would burn this country to the ground, if they could rule over the ashes.
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I was raised, like probably a lot of folks here, to believe that it's taboo to discuss how much money one earns. It's just not something that folks did. I'm still very uncomfortable discussing it, but I guess I can't really think of a reason why. So screw it, if you're really interested, here goes.
I retired from the military and my pension is around $33k/year. I work as a program manager for a shipyard that works on Navy ships and my salary is $125K with a 6% 401K match and an annual incentive bonus that usually falls around 10% of my salary. Maybe a bit more, maybe a bit less. I've been fortunate and pretty frugal, so my monthly bills are covered by my pension. My only debt is my mortgage, so I'm able to sock a good bit away for retirement. I turn 55 this Wednesday and plan to probably keep working for 5 more years. I guess that's a bit more info than you asked for, but that's it.
More important than all that is I woke up today, I'm pretty healthy, my kids and grandkids are doing great, and I have a good woman that loves me. And a couple of really good dogs. Good on you! 
Its all right to be white!!
Stupidity left unattended will run rampant
Don't argue with stupid people, They will drag you down to their level and then win by experience
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75K as an electrician. That equals 50k in 2019 dollars.
“If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.” Tolkien
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6 figures. Various sources including a military pension.
You get out of life what you are willing to accept. If you ain't happy, do something about it!
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About 8500 to 8800 a month combined after taxes and med insurance.
With me bringing in 4980 of that amount after taxes and the med ins.
Me work since 2015???🤣🤣🤣
Khanarella moving up food chain HR for the 2 largest Daycares in town
Via a degree I paid for......
Used to be combined gross around 195 to 210k per yr my last couple of years of civilian work.
Being in the 20 + % tax bracket sucked azz....
And only the 2 of us.....
12 % now sucks azz IMO.
Just wait till the Trump brackets expire in 2025 and the liberal socialist Democrats go ape schit raising em again...
Bohica...
April 15 is coming.
Smile
Do your part
Pay your taxes
10,s of millions of Liberal Socialist Democrat voters on welfare as a way of life depend on you...
I enjoy tax return commercials this time of year.......
Oh and Pray for Ukraine also.😏😏😏
Let's send em some more Benjamin's......
JFC.......
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Youse guys would start a 'go fund me' for me if I had the balls to tell you what we live on.
Well this is a fine pickle we're in, should'a listened to Joe McCarthy and George Orwell I guess.
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Again, thank you guys that don't give a damn about fricken money.
I should add my wife works full time for an insurance company and she makes about 50k. Again, relatively small $$$ considering but good for our area.
And this is sure as hell isn't a dick measuring contest but I figured WTF, I'll be the uncouth bumpkin to ask such a thing. ![[Linked Image from gifdb.com]](https://gifdb.com/images/thumbnail/damn-snoop-dogg-upruc7fz6rggphau.gif) #ballin!
I am MAGA.
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Now you all know who funds my lavish gansta lifestyle!
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When I retired in May of 2021 my salary was ~$74k. Total compensation was claimed to be ~$120k including company benefits, profit share, and the like.
I was an engineering technician component test and evaluation lab <structure testing>.
GOA
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a tenth to God.
a tenth to save.
leaves 80%....
to misbehave...
followed that for years.
now retired with earnings on savings about equal to the top-level of social security..
borrowed money for a new truck, but at 1.9%, how can a person pay off that loan?
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