My 25 year old kid has a household income of 300k. AIMA

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Questions welcome. He’s from a poor northern comp.

Does he know you’re gossiping about him online?

What was his route into this role?

If Uni, which one, which degree, and grade?

Big woopeedooodaaaa.

Half term.

Doing what?

I don't think a thread can be an ask me anything if there aren't any replies to questions. Your boy has done very well for himself OP but I'm not sure posting about him was a good idea. I wouldn't tell him if I was you. My children would go ballistic if I randomly posted about them. Not cool.

This is a bit weird. A few on my close friends (not me sadly!) have this kind of income - we’re in London. I wouldn’t presume to do an AMA about someone else's achievements though.

Why did you send him to a "poor northern comp"?

But do you get any of it? My cat is pictured everywhere on the tv, magazines and adverts but we don’t see a penny of his royalties, not one penny. He is a secret millionaire.

Well done to both of them.

I made my first million at 33 and lost a lot of it in the crash.
My son has a well paid job but does not want to work the eighty hours a week I did. He never saw me and remembers that well.
I gave up my C-suite job to nurse my parents and I highly recommend professionals get carers in and don't do that. I lost so much career progression and money. Also my sanity.

I helped a young company for nothing a few years ago. I got a small shareholding for my trouble. I've just sold the company for millions. Lucky for me as I've been very ill and can no longer work full time. I thought I would have to sell my house but I kept going.

Fwiw I was a council house kid but I had ambition not to be poor. Many times I hid behind the sofa when people came to the door. I went to a RG university after getting an apprenticeship which paid for my A levels and I'm always optimistic.
I work in a fashion related industry.

Make sure your DS puts half his salary away. I've been made redundant many times even at my level.

This was me in my 20s - newly qualified lawyer, on (a decade plus ago) £140k plus bonus. I call your poor northern comp and raise you a unheard of school and uni in a backwater abroad. It does happen. It usually entails working for a "your soul belongs to me" US law firm and working unpleasant hours for months and years on end, weekends very much included when a deal is about to close.

It allowed me to buy a flat in London and think about what kind of work would make me happier. I then left. I earn much less now!

Reading pages of this thread to find out what AIMA actually stands for, can someone please enlighten me?

Ask Me Anything

@veggie50 , usually it's about something different, interesting or unusual and the OP engages with people posing the questions. It's often enlightening.

Plays for a Premiership football team.

To be fair my comment is a bit tongue in cheek because he realises he is receiving huge amounts of money for what he does but says that competition between players in terms of fairness of salary is rife.

Daytime tv presenter for itv1.

Sure 🤣

My mother used to show off how much I earned (City lawyer) so by the age of 27 I simply stopped telling her which took the wind out of her sails for the next 20 years. It was so embarrassing the way she seemed to flaunt MY wealth and take the credit for my hard work (yes she provided me with food and a roof over my head but that was about it. I had to battle at a crap school with no textbooks and my parents didn’t even know what subjects I was taking let alone helping me with applications to uni and training contracts).

stop living vicariously through your son or you will push him away and your friends will be cringing at your showing off.

Am I My Aunt

And I Munch Apples

Does he put 20k into pension to get below £100k tax cliff?

That’ll pay for a lot of coke

Not if it's full-fat; that sugar tax is a bitch!

My 16 month old earns twice that.

Well, to be fair, "by shacking up with a high earning woman" was quite a surprising answer!