Yea I know someone who makes the same amount my wife and I do but who recently bought an 800k house and then immediately had the already granite kitchen ripped out and updated again for another 30k as well as the deck ripped up and expanded with the trex deck stuff. All super expensive.

In reality, they have massive amounts of debt and retirement won’t happen until much later in life if at all.

You don’t have to keep up with the Jones’s.

I’ve often wanted to work here because of the environment and thought that working with toys and creatives would be fun. I am bummed to hear that is not the reality.