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

[ByFirmStork]

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

This isn't AMA, it's Am I getting Mother of the year Award?

(as obviously OP isn't coming back to answer any questions)

I do agree with you @anyolddinosaur
The kind of jobs that society needs people to do - medical/healthcare, other emergency services, education, social services etc are disproportionately underpaid compared to (what are perceived as greedy professionals) banking/finance/law.

It isn't jealousy before anyone stamps on me. Those kind of jobs don't appeal to everyone.

Either showing off or lying, yawn 🥱 🙄

Good for You
(Not sarcasm, by the way)

Or Am I Missing in Action?

Who cares?

My Peekapoochi earns about £30k a week on TikTok.
Unfortunately she is paid in Pedigree Dentisticks and I can no longer get up my drive. Must dash, here comes another delivery!

"Questions welcome"

Why are you calling your adult dc a 'kid'?

How do you know how much either of them earn? Do people just announce this?!

@ByFirmStork 25 year old kid? I mean an adult surely. Also what’s the point of the post? So he’s a banker. Okay. And you’re inviting Qs but to ask what? There’s many children from low income state schools who go onto have great careers. It’s hardly a unique thing that we want to ask you Qs about it!

What's the difference if the comp is "northern"?

How is his mental and physical health on his 18 hour working day?

What an extraordinary achievement. I suspect that Pooch was trained somewhere rough, perhaps in the "North"?

I'm curious - do they realise/feel wealthy recognise that this is quite unusual?/ do they do wealthy type things or are they because of his upbringing quite keen on saving/investing. Have their earnings ever caused tension/issues within the family i.e jealousy or expectations to sub others. And do they live in London or have they chosen t hole up in some lovely country pad! Thanks!

Why do you describe him as a ‘kid’? My father was married and had a very responsible job at 25. He wasn’t a ‘kid’.

Nope sadly not. It’s to encourage middle class smirks of disapproval. How ghastly someone should brag about earning power. We don’t talk about money, dahling, so uncouth.
Not that the thread has any merit.

cough

stealth boast

Why are questions 'welcome' (which implies you're dying to be asked about this) and why are you boasting, oops I mean posting, about this at all? It's not you that's earning this income when all's said and done...

Some of the replies on this thread just stink of resentment and jealously.

God forbid someone wants to earn a high salary. There are countless jobs of higher social value, people who work just as hard as those on these high salaries…but why shouldn’t someone want to work hard AND also earn a lot. That’s the whole point of working, we’re not doing it for free.

maybe there’ll be people who have genuine questions about the route and decisions the OPs child took, to get them to a point of earning this salary at that age.

why on earth can’t people be ambitious anymore?

plus, can you even really boast in an anonymous forum?!

I agree
If one is doing well, don’t broadcast it .

Bingo.

Do you really not think it is crass and tone deaf to boast about money? Do you genuinely think that qualified doctors should earn a third of a lawyer's salary?

I wouldn’t consider this thread a boast and I don’t consider it crass in the slightest. No one has any idea who the OP is. Fine if this was in the local pub on a Friday night and someone announced their child was on this salary - then yes that’s crass and a boast. But things an anonymous online forum…not sure why people get so offended by this

jobs that earn less than lawyers and bankers is irrelevant to this thread. If my child came to be and wanted my opinion on a career, I wouldn’t be recommending them to be a doctor - they’re underpaid for the work they do that’s for sure but that’s a completely different discussion.

As my mother has always said ‘All fingers are not equal’
My dd2 is obsessed with making money and therefore has chosen a career in finance
DD1 has chosen a vocational route and as a result may not make as much
They both made their choices

Well then he has an income of 120 for working in the city.

Well done him but there is nothing more to say about that - it’s not especially unusual.

I don’t think his girlfriend would regard her income as his though 😁

Good for them. But what questions would they be?

Pay inequality is real. Some people are paid way more than they need. While others are paid so little they can’t afford essentials.

Grotesque.

Ok so your son is a banker. I don't think it's that interesting of a topic to want to ask about? Surely you don't really know about banking anyway as it's not even you who's doing it.

There are millions of people who's children work in law or finance. If he was a pop star or movie star or something then fair enough. But it's just a normal job that happens to pay well.