You are being modest and bashful. Seriously, it does get better Delta. Assuming I haven't mixed you up with someone else, I suggest you persist. A partner in a middle ranking firm can earn as much as $500,000 a year (and still get home in time for dinner most nights). Eye candy aside, even the most senior Qantas pilots can't match that. You'd have to be a Medical specialist to earn that kind of money......most GPs don't get anywhere near that, even those who specialize in sheep-dip consultancy.
China to blow up this year...
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You are being modest and bashful. Seriously, it does get better Delta. Assuming I haven't mixed you up with someone else, I suggest you persist. A partner in a middle ranking firm can earn as much as $500,000 a year (and still get home in time for dinner most nights). Eye candy aside, even the most senior Qantas pilots can't match that. You'd have to be a Medical specialist to earn that kind of money......most GPs don't get anywhere near that, even those who specialize in sheep-dip consultancy.
It's alright, since you've mixed me up with someone else anyway. Though if I really were in the profession, I'd quit asap... so many ways to make money and this is one of the slowest and menial ways. Upside when you're 40+...
there is no upside at 40+, you're halfway through your life, glass half empty and it's all downhill....
joking...
joking...
Haha so true. And most of it is laid/built between 25-50. Afterwards there's not much anyway. So more than halfway through your working life.
....LIVING life.....
my plan was to be ready to grow by 30.
if i'm not a decent way to being retired and enjoying my life at 40 then god help me.
no and no... I am very anglo. although I suspect on the inside, I'm quite asian in my attitudes. many of my close friends are asians, and they usually say I'm the most asian anglo they know.
and I dont speak any mandarin at all. I speak some Japanese, but I'm really not good at languages, and apart from some basic greetings I've all but given up on learning........
I generally am with someone local who can drive me around and do all the translation for me.
I do like China. Not as much as Japan, but its probably my second favourite country in Asia.
Pen
i'm in Thailand now. Staying in a very nice resort in Pattaya (which is one of my least favourite parts of Asia).
Driving from Bangkok airport here, I think there are all the signs of a housing bubble. there seems to be a huge number of apartments being built, largely targetting foreigners with "exclusive" communities etc.
Pen
Driving from Bangkok airport here, I think there are all the signs of a housing bubble. there seems to be a huge number of apartments being built, largely targetting foreigners with "exclusive" communities etc.
Pen
Agreed.
My current target is to have the option to pull the plug, hopefully pre-30 or 30 (defn not post 30) with sufficient passive income and enough personal deals on my plate.
I guess to be earning that sort of figure only at 40 at a mid-tier firm as meconium was saying, you just wouldn't bother, not to mention there are people in this country earning that sort of figure (ok not exactly that, but maybe 100k off) in a relatively standard 9-6 job, a decade in a half in advance.
In law, I know people a bit older - say 30 or so - who are somewhat friends at much bigger firms than mid-tiers. They're what they call Senior Associates (ie anywhere between 1-4 years off partnership) and life seems pretty miserable/underpaid for them.
Just type in firmspy on google... most salaries at the top tiers and mid tiers are revealed there anyway.
if I got enough money to retire on comfortably right now.........I dont think I would. I really enjoy my work and it would take a lot of convincing to think sitting around on a beach in Thailand would be as much fun as my job is right now.
Oh, hang on a sec, I am sitting on a beach in thailand...... and I'm working, and the company is paying for it!!!!
Seriously though, I think earning lots of money is not worth as much as enjoying the job you do. I consider myself very fortunate to have found a job which matches and extends my skills and my temperament, as well as paying me a comfortable salary and giving me the opportunity to travel.
If I was retired, I dont think I'd enjoy it as much. I need a challenge and some competition, and, to be honest, the nice level of frustration that I get from working in a company that I want to see changes in. I'd get bored if everything were just smooth sailing!
Oh, hang on a sec, I am sitting on a beach in thailand...... and I'm working, and the company is paying for it!!!!
Seriously though, I think earning lots of money is not worth as much as enjoying the job you do. I consider myself very fortunate to have found a job which matches and extends my skills and my temperament, as well as paying me a comfortable salary and giving me the opportunity to travel.
If I was retired, I dont think I'd enjoy it as much. I need a challenge and some competition, and, to be honest, the nice level of frustration that I get from working in a company that I want to see changes in. I'd get bored if everything were just smooth sailing!
