You don’t like to talk about public employees who earn $100,000 a year?? Then you DEFINITELY won’t want to read “Fortunes, Fortunes, Everywhere” where I highlight a bunch of public service employees making $100,000+/yr, and that’s not even from work, it’s their pensions! Got to love it!

Best, FS

I am also not too sure why there is so much fuss about making $100,000. While a nice milestone, it doesn’t mean as much as it used to thanks to inflation.

People should be more concerned with attaining financial freedom – not their household income. The fact is people who know how to manage their personal finances can be financially free and live comfortably on far far less than $100,000 per year.

Don’t you agree?

And don’t get me started on public employees who earn $100k per year for their pensions (guaranteed by law, unlike the private sector, and courtesy of the taxpayer) – many are actually able to retire at age 50! Outrageous.

My $0.02 (after taxes)

Len
Len Penzo dot Com

I think you’ll be amazed by how much potential we all have to make a good chunk of change. There are plenty of jobs out there that pay well, we just have to find the right one that fits!

Thanks for your kind words. Those type of comments really inspire me to post more! It’s so fun interacting with folks who share similar goals. Best, FS

FS – Great blog…I check through here on a daily basis just about.

There was definitely a negative undercurrent from many posters on FMF’s post, basically thinking making 100K is bad, and why FMF was posting this stuff. People felt he was being presumptuous, whereas I was thinking, hmmm… great tips, people should really benefit!

It’s almost as if it’s “cool” to NOT want to try and make more money. Donno if you remember in high school, some kids thought it was “cool” to not study and be morons. Look where they are now.

Random comments may not be so random, given selection bias. But, maybe I’m too trusting, because it certainly seems like there is much more wealth out there than I can imagine (see “Fortunes, Fortunes, Everywhere”). It gives me comfort a lot of people have made a lot of money this year, so we can pull through this recession.

Best, FS

To be honest, as I scanned through the comments, I noticed more positive comments than negative, but maybe I skimmed too fast or were paying to the actual constructive criticisms.

I’ll be honest in that I also thought the $100k+ annual income was more than 5-6%. But its probably because I’m used to keeping on top of household income figures.

I think you know full well that random comments on the interweb can’t really be a good sample set for people making more than $100k+ — though it did seem like many of them were defending making 100k+ from the few negative comments.