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[atalanta0jess]

Things I don't get, Part 2:

This blog entrya) 100,000 in debt doesn't seem like that much to me when you consider that it includes a mortgage. I mean, shit. That actually seems decent. I'd be happy to own a house and only have a hundred thou in debt

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[atalanta0jess]

Yup. I really disagree with her a lot. Her blog is definitely one where people whine about how hard it is to go into academia because you are starting your career so much later than your peers and making so much less money than them. But of course by "peers" they mean people their age who are going into business and finance and shit. Not people their age in general.

Jon and I make a comparable amount of money to many of his friends that are older than us and have children, and of course our prospects for the future are much better, and the type of work we do is much more pleasant. I don't feel bad about it in the least.

You've got it exactly right. We are lucky that we don't have to work as dishwashers until we are 70.

[anonymous]

Funny you should say so, because I've got a great uncle who does precisely that, and I think he's closer to eighty now.