Posted on 09/12/2019 8:18:01 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
My brother is a lineman who never graduated high school and he easily does 200k a year.
I opted for marriage at a very early age, but I can't imagine that romps with lots of partners can substitute for the joy of raising children and growing old with the love of your life.
Skilled labor makes good money in my area. Well above the threshold mentioned in the article.
Watched my wife’s sister run her marriage into the ground and pretty much destroy the life of her husband. Very women have earned their divorce as much as she did.
Husband was a successful and basically decent guy and good husband- just never near good enough in her eyes.
She got near six figure alimony in the divorce when she in truth deserved to be horse whipped for her disgusting and abusive behavior.
For nearly a decade husband had to watch her ignore their kids while she took the alimony and blew it riding around on the back of bad boy’s Harley’s and spending her alimony treating a succession of toy boys who were up front that they had no interest in any relationship but were just in it for lavish, expensive road trips where she was paying the bills
No way was she going to get married and lose that gravy train
Pretty hard to take but he said it was worth 10 times the cost to get rid of her. He’s been very happily married now for quite some years and their kids are doing great
She’s not doing quite so well and their kids are a hot mess thanks to her neglect
Needless to say, her family still bad mouths the guy like he was the worst husband and biggest loser on earth.
His second wife strongly dissents and still feels like she won the lottery even after all the time they have been married
Moral of story
Our culture seems produce an excess of seriously immature, abusive and incredibly toxic members of both sex but that does not mean there are not still a lot of good people out there looking to rebuild their lives after having their lives uprooted and ruined by one of the toxic ones
I have no problem with those with STEM college degrees making good wages. Some stock traders make much more profits than any STEM graduate will ever make. Trading profits (where very little useful product is produced) and Hollywood celebrities and some ball players make unjustified wages based on useful products, but at least there is demand for entertainment worldwide.
Therefore IMHO the only unjustified earnings are those of stock traders. I made 3 times as much trading stocks than my work as engineer with a masters degree, working for 37 years.
Traveling to storm damaged areas and getting overtime or double overtime helps a lot. Also, that twenty-six eighty-six is an avarage. Many make more than that.
And since women in HR control the hiring decisions, they pretty much favor women exclusively. It’s a girls club. Men need not apply. Here where I live there is a push to get women into construction jobs. When they start filling more and more jobs with women, men will have few career opportunities. This affirmative action crap has got to stop.
Words to live by, for sure
This is because our society gave women more economic opportunity, legal rights and social status. You reap what you sow.
Agree totally.
So we’re only good for our money? I had that sneaking suspicion.
Let’s see how to go about solving this problem. Make job opportunities EQUAL for men and women. Same for college admissions. Eliminate the minority set-aside whereby governments illegally and unjustly favor women and minorities in government contracting. Start there and get back to me when that’s done.
My heart goes out to the people who would like to marry and can’t find someone. I think the cultures where family members are on the lookout for potential spouses have a good idea there. Not all families know best, some don’t, but meeting people through people who know and love you seems a lot better than going to a bar.
Probably because most of these searching for $$$$ are educated far beyond their intelligence.
“No kidding! Finding a decent and successful enough man is not an easy task these days!”
This has been going for at least 6 decades. I had great jobs in the summer, and a lot good part time jobs in high school and college.
My Dad was a disabled vet on a pension, and my mother was a school teacher.
No problem getting dates in college, shortly after discovering that I was not from a wealthy family. I became a lost cause for most of the females looking for a rich hubby instead of a good degree. After they found out that I was not from a rich family, they moved on or put me in neutral.
I was one of the first in my college senior year to get a good job offer from a big company. The Company’s data and my monthly salary was posted on a bulletin board outside of the dean’s office.
A recent phone call from my roommate my senior year in college drove that point home. He answered my call to him as, “Hello to the guy with the $450 /month job offer his senior year in college in 1960!”
He laughed and retold, how he and my other room mate joked about standing guard and charging admission for the college girls suddenly interested in me, not my room mates.
That continued until I quit that job after graduation. For about 4 weeks, I became a leper. Then, I got another and even better paying job. Suddenly, I became very popular with women I had known or just met.
Flash forward a few decades and a younger relative, a chef, in his 40’s left Portland and moved back to California. He ended up in the wine industry and held two top jobs with his new company. He moved to a smaller town near the winery and started dating.
He felt that the women, who came on to him were validating his credit report and Dun and Bradstreet rating. He had made friends with an older female psychologist, and she confirmed his feelings.
He is a handsome and very smart young man. He actually did a small cameo movie role for an established Hollywood actor while living in Portland. He had one of these prospective gold diggers, who while in bed with him asked him how much he had in his 401K.
His free psychologist lined him up with a great woman, who had the local male gold diggers after her. That will be 2 years ago in a few weeks. They are a great couple.
So things have not changed in 6 decades.
They will be even more intense with guys with IUDs/Instant Unemployment Degrees.
And guys, your wife gets half so your scheme won’t work
Amen. Stupid people can NOT fix cars, air conditioners, and all the stuff of modern life. In this millennium it’s all technologically advanced. We need to get over blue collar stereotypes.
My wife is younger than I, and every now and then I tease her that when I get old she’ll be leaving me for a younger man.
Her response is - “No - older and richer”.
MPAI.
My current work brings me into intermittent contact with attractive american women, some of whom over time become divorced. The story then frequently becomes that they had been in “abusive relationship(s)”. They then get loads of emotional support from their 30 something attractive american woman peer group, and then so far as i can tell go on romps with a succession of playboys.
I had an uncle who likewise was divorced. He had to pay child support and alimony, which he did faithfully.
His ex had a sister who also got divorced from her husband. He was a police officer. She made an allegation that he had sexually abused his kids. This was a huge scandal locally and was all over the news. After some time it was determined that the charges were groundless, but his life and career were already ruined.
My uncle saw this and did not want to take the risk of the sister he was married to doing the same. He continued to pay till his kids turned 18, but never had any further contact with them. He was too afraid.
At some point his ex remarried, which should have ended the alimony. Except that she neglected to tell the court. She had been married about two years when his attorney discovered by accident that she had gotten hitched again.
They dragged her to court. The judge gave a stern finger-wagging lecture about how she should have told them, but did not make her repay the money. He did however end the alimony.
She turned around and filed for an increase in child support that was EQUAL TO THE DOLLAR AMOUNT she had just lost in the revoked alimony.
The courts GAVE it to her.
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