Originally Posted by
HotMamaPilot
you can do ALL of that on 120k. if not, then you need a financial planner, cause you are ****ing your money away. hint: stop buying starbucks so much and stop dining out every night.
Not in Seattle with 3 kids AND have options like private school and child care. Oh sure, it can be done. I'm doing it. But, my retirement plans counts on me getting a raise. Maybe you have not taken a realistic look at what you will need in retirement.
Originally Posted by
org1
If you can't do that on less than $200K, it's a good thing you're a pilot. You'd never make it as a financial planner.
It IS a good thing I'm a pilot.
Originally Posted by
LAfrequentflyer
Where are you living? Baghdad?
-LAFF
He could live in San Jose. They can make 100K easily. Also, Cops have very generous disability plans. San Jose cops have up to 90% disability available after they make seniority.
Originally Posted by
Airsupport
HOLY SMOKE MAN,, THIS HAS SPOILED ROTTEN LITTLE KID WRITTEN ALL OVER IT!!! hahahahaha
Guilty. I like the good life because I had the good life. I grew up in a big house and traveled but my parental units never paided for flying or college or any of those things. Still haveing a stable comfortable home upbringing made achievieng all that much easier.
Originally Posted by
ImperialxRat
My mom has never made more than $50k/yr...she and my dad got divorced when I was 2, and she never remarried, nor has she received child support. She raised two kids on her own, in newport beach, and I did go to college.
Its called living within your means, budgeting and sacrificing unnecessary things.
Does that mean I want to live my whole life only making 50k? Hell no. But at least I know that even with the declining airline wages, I will be able to manage.
Your mom got the house in the divorce, no? I wonder how she would manage a family in Newport Beach today and buy a house. Never underestimate how much more difficult it is today to raise a family than it was when we were kids.
Listen all you knuckleheads, you need to make as much as you can, while you can because this career is VERY volatile. Ask a Delta or United guy how his financial situation is today compared to before 911. Many many pilots have gone from the top to the bottom in a heartbeat. In addition to medical, your career could end for a multitude of reasons of which you have no control. Sure, If you could earn 150K/yr every year for a 30 year career, you can make it. No doubt. But, you will very likely not have a 30 year career of uninterrupted earnings. You all understand that right? Now does anyone have any questions?