i agree.

if everyone didn't go waste their money on new cadillac's/hummer's/etc they would be able to pay off debt and invest for their retirement (we all know that the company will not do it for you anymore)

materialism is rampant in our society. Hard to imagine what it will be like the next 10-20yrs.

Educating your children on the pitfalls of such decisions is vital. They probably won't listen now.... but hopefully will thankyou for the "talk" later in life.

cheers,

500and2

500and2, I'm going to stalk your posts here....I love your comment about materialism.

You sound like an interesting bird.

Ooh, ooh, stalk me too, stock me too. You know I was the founder of the posse of legend on this very forum! I can be an interesting bird albeit an older one. Quack Quack Tweet Tweet. Can you tell us about your knockers? I mean, can you tell us about how you came to be miss knocker?

This post is right on the money, (no pun intended). Who the heck needs a $45,000 SUV and a 3,500 sq. ft. house? It's just crazy. I'd much rather live modestly and attempt to retire early - with any luck I'll beat the AME to making my career decisions for me.

My family is comfortable, warm, fed, and we have our hobbies. What more do you need?

Spending less is a great idea however it is no fun when you are forced to. I agree that modesty in lifestyle is key to happiness, but I wouldn't use this mantra to talk yourself into a low paying job without a future.

Spend less but always work to earn more. The full price of a lower middle class lifestyle on the west coast is around 100K per year for a family of four. Don't use minimalist ideals in order to talk yourself into a miserable career at a regional airline.

You owe it to yourself and to your family to constantly strive to provide better for them. There is no shame in working to better ones standards of living. In fact the opposite is true.

Skyhigh

CTS goes for 51k. I'll take just one; I don't need one a year(after all that is what partially drove this industry down....pilots making too much)
As Charlie Sheen's character asked Gordon Gecko in "wall street": "how many yachts can you water ski behind?"

30k plus a year? come on things aren' that bad?!?

Relative to the average joe, pilots do make a lot. Skyhigh has posted before that local cops make more......bull$hit. I don't know where you got your figures for that. lol.Secondly, I can easily compare and boast my paycheck over the nextdoor neighbor CPA, the the store manager on the other side, and many others! Pilots DO make a lot of money relative to the rest of the country.

A few pilots do well but those days are rapidly coming to a close. By that statement I would guess that you are either a FedEx or UPS pilot. You wouldn't get a comment like that from anyone at UAL or DAL these days.

Skyhigh

Hotmamapilot,

Here is one for you. It is for an entry level police job

http://www.policeemployment.com/cityjobs/torrance/

It lists the starting pay at $4860 to $6264 per month.

There are several more. Read up you might learn something. Next we can go into teacher and firefighter salaries.

SkyHigh