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Most of us coming from the regionals were well above $100K when we gave our two weeks notice to come to ups. Sure, I was able to live off $45K/yr when I was single, childless, and in my early 20's at the regionals. But after over 20 years in this pos thing called a profession I will not apologize for having children, a responsible mortgage, or various other financial obligations during my midlife years and UPS's assanine year 1 pay (for which we cut everything and reduced our output by a third but we're still over $45K for the year). No way in hell was I going to sell my house for a loss to move into some low income housing shiphole with crappy school districts, sell my cars to use public transit, feed my family crap food, skip a year of kid's sports, music lessons, 401K payments, etc., hold off on healthcare treatments, house/car maintenance, drink crap wine or use single ply TP just to prove I could survive at an arbitrary income level. We planned, financially, to go to DAL or UAL. UPS called first and like everyone else before and after us, we made it work. Perhaps rethink your bad financial planning comment a little.