£150k salary aged 35 AMA

[RaeS345]

Mum of 2
Married, 35
AMA

What's your favourite soup flavour?

Cat or dog?

What industry do you work in?

London or elsewhere?

what’s the take home after tax?

also, what is your job?

Team Edward or Team Jacob?

Is it all salary or some of that bonus?

Does money buy happiness?

Do you own a house and how much is the mortgage.

Do you feel rich? Only ask as we bring in about that amount and don't feel wealthy in the slightest. Still wearing old clothes, we don't eat out. Just spend a lot on home renovations.

What job and career path ?

Are you ever going to respond or was this the least subtle brag ever?

+1

I work in marketing, used to work in advertising then moved to brand marketing

Work in London, live outside and commute in - long and expensive commute (£1180 a month season ticket)

All salary, I don’t get bonuses so this is my total comp

If a Jaffa cake was ruled to be a cake due to the softness of the sponge, would you agree the cheapo versions with much harder sponge are therefore clearly a biscuit and thus should be taxed accordingly?

Yes own the house (well we have a mortgage with 25 years left!) our mortgage is £2,433 a month. We overpay so while we are on these inflated salaries (my husband is also lucky to be a high earner) we are overpaying the mortgage

Educational background. Did you network to get your role?

I pay £5,000 a year into my company’s stock option scheme

I pay 7% a year into my pension

£6,860 take home each month after the above and tax

In true MNstyle:

is that all?

please describe the lifestyle you manage to afford for your children.

our household joint income is also high - but I can’t help feel that we can’t afford the kind of lifestyle we’d imagined. Although we started working for this kind of income 10 years ago, thinking our future children could enjoy a certain type of lifestyle from it.

Do you both have a long commute in? Do you have to pay for wrap round child care before and after school or are the boarded?

Are you concerned about the influence of post-modernist thinking in academia and subsequently employment spaces since the 1990s, with regard to the cultural context and social positioning of women in western workplaces?

In fact, would you agree that para-post-modernist ideology has been used as a form of oppression to disadvantage women and that by posting on Mumsnet in this fashion you are a product of this neo-stochastic world?

Also, plain or salt & vinegar?