I am middle-class, live in the midwest, am pretty average looking, slightly plump, drive a 5 year old car, and make less than all the teachers who complain about their pay! (sorry teachers, all in good fun). Who wants to AMA?
This made me literally LOL.
No takers?
Not everyone can be a size 12 (okay, pushing 14) without trying very hard!!!!
Thanks for answering all our nosy questions. This is a way better AMA than 99% of them. Sorry, GBCN-ers, but no one really wants to know "Where would you go on an all-expense paid vacation?" or "What do you wish you were drinking right now?"
We all want to know the actual interesting things, LOL. Take warning, anyone who starts an AMA from here on out. 212 set the bar high.
I was expecting so much worse!
I'm seriously just very normal. I'm wearing Hello Kitty pjs and eating cheddar bunnies.
Thanks for answering all our nosy questions. This is a way better AMA than 99% of them. Sorry, GBCN-ers, but no one really wants to know "Where would you go on an all-expense paid vacation?" or "What do you wish you were drinking right now?"
We all want to know the actual interesting things, LOL. Take warning, anyone who starts an AMA from here on out. 212 set the bar high.
I was expecting so much worse!
I'm seriously just very normal. I'm wearing Hello Kitty pjs and eating cheddar bunnies.
Not goldfish?
Look at that rich bitch, eating her organic cheddar bunnies.
My H was a comparably high earner for a few years but he took a step back because his work/life balance sucked and we decided to re prioritize.
Do you think you and your H would be happy with a lower income/more balanced lifestyle or does he love his job too much? When does he spend time with your kid? (I don't mean that in a snarky way at all). Do you ever have time for date nights?
We HAD a part-time nanny, but she left us for greener (full time) pastures. We just got a cleaning lady today and that was pretty awesome. She's coming back next week!
That's all, folks.
Do you send little 212 to any type of preschool or anything? Because how do you manage otherwise!?
"I make slightly more than middle class according to that link posted on MM AMA". No? Ok, never mind.
I am middle-class, live in the midwest, am pretty average looking, slightly plump, drive a 5 year old car, and make less than all the teachers who complain about their pay! (sorry teachers, all in good fun). Who wants to AMA?
Everyone has a funny story! Or at least everyone is fucking funny in a drunk AMA.
Thanks for answering all our nosy questions. This is a way better AMA than 99% of them. Sorry, GBCN-ers, but no one really wants to know "Where would you go on an all-expense paid vacation?" or "What do you wish you were drinking right now?"
We all want to know the actual interesting things, LOL. Take warning, anyone who starts an AMA from here on out. 212 set the bar high.
"I make slightly more than middle class according to that link posted on MM AMA". No? Ok, never mind.
Fuck you, you're the best. You know I love you so hard that I still talk to you post-HFM quarantine catastrophe!
I will ask you all the questions. I will start with how is your skin so fucking perfect?
I've heard of someone here in Houston who I think does something similar to what your H does. He definitely makes more than 1M/year. Also a workaholic. When I heard of him, I thought of you! Is that creepy, lol?
Nope.
Also, next NYC visit, dinner? I will out creep you any and all days of the week.
Sometimes, but it's very fleeting. Of course I can look around and see the people who fly private, or who own a townhouse, or are trust fund babies. But you know what? Good for them.
I do worry about my kid. I didn't grow up with this type of wealth, and the kind that he'll be exposed to? I don't even know how to process that shit. That part makes me nervous.
Re: preschool. I just want him to go to the one with the one that seems to have the most "normal" families. Like, the moms walk the kids instead of the chauffeur dropping them off. It happens to be very well regarded. It is also hella close to my apartment, and that sounds fucking rad to not have to cart a kid around town.
As someone who grew up around that kind of wealth, and from the stuff I've seen you write here, I think you've already won that battle halfway. The fact you worry and try to mitigate your income/assets/wealth and raise him "normal" is already a huge step towards not raising an entitled asshole like you say. XD
That is insanely nice of you to say. It worries me. A lot. I'm sure I'll be calling on you in the future.
I am middle-class, live in the midwest, am pretty average looking, slightly plump, drive a 5 year old car, and make less than all the teachers who complain about their pay! (sorry teachers, all in good fun). Who wants to AMA?
Everyone has a funny story! Or at least everyone is fucking funny in a drunk AMA.
I don't want to steal your thunder in an epic AMA. I will save the stories of how I went to the emergency room for my belly button ring, or how I ended up in the front yard of a single-wide trailer bartering a pile of garbage for a speedboat, or how a creepy 50 (+)? year old salesman asked me out by CALLING MY BOSS my first day of work at a professional job, for another thread.
Post by smilee1079 on Sept 22, 2014 22:15:50 GMT -5
So, I am in education and even have my doctorate. I can't figure out what your H does. Can we play 20 questions with it? How do I get into his type of job?
h and i will fantasize about winning the lottery and doing nice things for people - paying off my parents small mortgage, building them a garage, setting up modest education funds for our nieces/nephews. nothing too extravagant in light of our newly acquired millions, but $10-40k here and there. do you ever think about doing things like this and/or actually do them? i suppose this isn't completely translatable since it's different when you're earning your money month by month vs. getting it in one lump sum.
and lest this come off in "you should give away all your money" way, know that our imaginary generosity comes only after buying our own vineyard, a tesla (h's dream), and an obscene amount of travel
Thanks for posting this. I love that you are showing how you are just normal even with a big dog income. Do you think your ability to not be caught up in keeping up with other high earners is due to your upbringing or do you think you would be this way even if you had grown up as a trust fund kid?
EtA: I used the big dog term without reading the other thread. Doh! I was just referring to the old term on the nest. For some reason it feels weird to say rich or wealthy.
Thank you. I think some of it is upbringing. My dad is a depression-era kid and I constantly have his voice in my head. "Want vs. need, 212." I am fucking far from perfect on every level, but the thing I'm least humble about is that I'm insanely normal, and I never discriminate friendship based on the who-can-do-what-for-me game. I can't handle that.
That said, my friendships run the gamut of socio-economics. The common factor is that everyone is normal and awesome. Rich, poor, self-made, family-made, whatever. Give no shits. Be NORMAL. Be funny. Drink wine. Friends!
Okay, I was just telling my H about this and he mistakenly thought I was interested in changing career paths and was like, "Tamb. You have to be REALLY smart to do that." Lol, thanks a lot, asshole.
212 what do you think of me? Favorite designer? Favorite purse? Want to visit TX?
I love your face. Even in your most neurotic moments, I'm with you, because working widows UNITE.
Favorite current designer? Lululemon. HAHAHA. Good 'ole days? I loved me some Rag & Bone, The Row, Tucker, and Porter Grey. Favorite purse? My Balenciaga Motorcycle bag from a million years ago. Like wine, gets better with age.
AND FUCK YES. Just don't like, take me anywhere where they stone northern liberals, k?
Not everyone can be a size 12 (okay, pushing 14) without trying very hard!!!!
Tell me your most drunken story.
You share, I share.
Most drunken-est story? I was 19 and on a "college trip" (ha) to NYC when we were learning (again, ha) about finance and investment banking by touring financial institutions. Apparently your bars don't card, and 3 long island iced teas and at least a few pitchers of beer and multiple shots of 151 later (note: 2 out of these 3 things taste like rubbing alcohol when consumed at sketchy bars that don't card 19 year olds; also, underage kids have terrible taste in alcohol), my 140-lb at the time self was lucky I did not get alcohol poisoning or catch on fire on the way back to our hotel. Or get an STD from the really hot senior in our group who, last I knew from stalking facebook, was actually living in your fine city making bank working for a fund. Maybe I went wrong there. (Sure, show me how to smoke a cigar! Oh, you need to put my fingers in your mouth to do that? Oh, what else would I do with that? LOLOL college kids are dumb.)
Incidentally, this was completely and totally unrelated to going to the emergency room to have my belly button ring cut out of my pants.
As an adult, I don't do dumb things when I drink. Just get very talkative and laughy and tell you all my deep dark secrets when I have too much wine. :-) (And right now I'm pregnant so I'm not even drinking!)
h and i will fantasize about winning the lottery and doing nice things for people - paying off my parents small mortgage, building them a garage, setting up modest education funds for our nieces/nephews. nothing too extravagant in light of our newly acquired millions, but $10-40k here and there. do you ever think about doing things like this and/or actually do them? i suppose this isn't completely translatable since it's different when you're earning your money month by month vs. getting it in one lump sum.
and lest this come off in "you should give away all your money" way, know that our imaginary generosity comes only after buying our own vineyard, a tesla (h's dream), and an obscene amount of travel
212 bought a bunch of boxes of Girl Scout cookies from my kid. Does that count? I thought it was super nice.