[hemiblas]

Here is my rant:

Everyone tells you to go to school so you can be successful. So we go to school with some student loans and all of a sudden you are 15-200k in debt. So you think no big deal, I get my dream job and pay it all back. Then you realize there are very few jobs and that people who have been in the business took serious pay cuts to keep their jobs. No one wants to train you, since the economy is so bad. Then someone tells you to looks for another career and invest in yourself. We guess what, all we are doing is cross training ourselves on new careers that dont have any jobs either.
Then you finally land your job, if you are not working at a 7-11. You realize the 60k a year you were supposed to make is 30k. Now you can get on with your life.
Now you start making good money and the more you make the more you get taxed.

I'm sorry, but at the end of the day, you are no better than a service industry worker, working at a nice restaurant, or parking cars, that probably keeps his tips hidden from the IRS. He got to start his job right from high school. He doesnt have student loans to pay back. He makes just as much as you do with your degree after you figure he gets to keep his 60k a year while you pay taxes on all of your 80k a year.

Bottom line, the more you work, the much more you get taxed, and the less you get to keep. I'm not sure going to school is really as rewarding as everyone thinks it is. The IRS has it set up so that people who make between 60 and 250k get to pay all the taxes while everyone else doesnt have to.

Then you get married and your wife works and you get to pay some serious taxes, while your kids get to go to day care so you can barely make more than if your wife stayed at home.

All this time you are supposed to be saving to buy a house, but the good news is they keep dropping in value so eventually you will be able to afford one.