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It'll probably help to think longer term. Your education/interviews/early career are adding value to your skills and remuneration, if you follow the most typic

It'll probably help to think longer term. Your education/interviews/early career are adding value to your skills and remuneration, if you follow the most typical paths, each year you will make more money than the previous year - occasionally in small payrises, sometimes in big steps as you shift jobs to better ones thanks to the experience/skills/network you gained in earlier roles. This will mostly "just happen" unless you fuckup or sabotage it big time. It'll be the assumed progression for you by your managers, recruiters, lenders, partners, "the world". Your cousin does not have that. In five years, you'll be well on your way to her $10k/month, if not beyond already. And you'll be wondering to yourself "are they gonna try and stiff me with just a single digit percent payrise here, cause I have a bunch of recruiter calls I'll letting go to voicemail I could start picking up on.." What's your cousin going to do when her admittedly valuable youthful beauty inevitably wanes? What's her $10k/month Instagram influencer income going to look like when she's 25? Or 35? or 50? Be happy for her that she's taking advantage of what she's got. Be generous with any advice you can offer her about planning for her future, when some new pretty young things come up underneath her and leave her wondering where all that money went...

Memosyne 6y ago
> What's your cousin going to do when her admittedly valuable youthful beauty inevitably wanes? Isn't marriage usually the escape hatch in these situations?
- Kaze404 6y ago
  No, not even close.
  - Memosyne 6y ago
    Care to explain? I'm basing my judgment on anecdotal evidence so if you have a different perspective I'd like to hear it out.
sgeorge96 6y ago
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- bigiain 6y ago
  $10k/month might sound like a lot of money (and for a lot of people, it genuinely is), but it still takes a _long_ time to become a millionaire at that rate. 100 months or ~8 years if you save every single cent you earn. Pay tax on it and you're up to 11 or 12 years. Pay rent/bills/groceries and you've probably doubled that again to 20-25 years, even if you're super diligent saving and live very frugally (maybe significantly less than doubled if you like somewhere very inexpensive, but it'll still be more than 12 years.) "Youthful beauty" doesn't last 20+ years. She needs another plan.

Memosyne 6y ago

> What's your cousin going to do when her admittedly valuable youthful beauty inevitably wanes? Isn't marriage usually the escape hatch in these situations?

Kaze404 6y ago
No, not even close.
- Memosyne 6y ago
  Care to explain? I'm basing my judgment on anecdotal evidence so if you have a different perspective I'd like to hear it out.

sgeorge96 6y ago

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bigiain 6y ago
$10k/month might sound like a lot of money (and for a lot of people, it genuinely is), but it still takes a _long_ time to become a millionaire at that rate. 100 months or ~8 years if you save every single cent you earn. Pay tax on it and you're up to 11 or 12 years. Pay rent/bills/groceries and you've probably doubled that again to 20-25 years, even if you're super diligent saving and live very frugally (maybe significantly less than doubled if you like somewhere very inexpensive, but it'll still be more than 12 years.) "Youthful beauty" doesn't last 20+ years. She needs another plan.