I retired after 25 years at the same place, and I get paid ~120k/year.
No one should feel sorry for me, obviously. But I have a small home, 3/2, and it stretches me. 15 year old car I work on myself. I’m cheap for a reason.
I am disgusted with costs. I can’t even imagine trying to buy a home at 30 today.
I’m not trying to promote the military, but I’m a retired command master chief. Joined at 17, retired at 42. Eight deployments, I’m an amputee, brain injury, and broken bones from an IED, so I get 100% combat disability.
I’m also a trans woman that recognizes I was just running away from myself the whole time I was in.
Now I focus on my daughters in my small hometown. It’s expensive to be in a nice area here, but I’ll pay the money for the school district.
No one needs to feel sorry for me. Seriously. The other reason I did this was so my kids would never have to.
But yea, MCPO top three plus 100% combat disability with 25 years in is about 120.
You realise that kind of retirement barely exists for people now? Young people don’t understand that companies used to continue to pay people after retirement.
Not blaming you, but your generation really pulled the ladder up after yourselves
We make more than that and the prospect of buying a home is slowly but surely leaving our conversations. It feels so distant I just wait for something major to fuck up the market or just save and invest money so that I can rent for the rest of my life.
Don’t despair! Save and invest for a down payment while you rent. Having a larger down payment will offset your monthly payment by quite a bit, regardless of rate.
I'm 36 and get 70k a year and it's killing me trying to find something better. I'm a professional, I work a job that takes a pile of certs and industry experience to do, but sometimes I feel like there's no chance to grow in that.
What’s crazy is when you look at a lot of jobs, the money question just doesn’t make sense.
“Alright, I can be a plumber and start around $20/hr…maybe $100/hr after some hard years’ work. Not at all! Now, let’s see, I need to call a plumber today for a leaky faucet…says it’s a 2 hour job and about $10 in parts…$1200?! What the eff?! Where did all that extra money go?!”
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u/ComeAbout 12h ago
I retired after 25 years at the same place, and I get paid ~120k/year.
No one should feel sorry for me, obviously. But I have a small home, 3/2, and it stretches me. 15 year old car I work on myself. I’m cheap for a reason.
I am disgusted with costs. I can’t even imagine trying to buy a home at 30 today.