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Received an offer as Engagement Director from Salesforce (CSG, pre sales, L9). Great benefits package, 40% increase in total comp and better WLB.
I do love the people in my practice and current client, but career trajectory has stalled after taking parental leave earlier this year and (yet another) change in leadership.
Realistically, making to Director is 2-3 years away and will require sacrificing time with my family that I am not prepared to give up.
Should I stay or should I go?
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If you have cash that you want to invest. Please consider Treasury Series I Savings Bond (Electronic). Interest is 7.12% right now. While it's not guaranteed that the 7.12% will remain until next year, it's still a good deal.
My SO and I just invested 20k (10k max per person even married).
https://www.treasurydirect.gov/indiv/products/prod_ibonds_glance.htm
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I hate these questions. I just wanted a family. A kind husband and 4 kids. I came from broken family and I wondered what stable parents would be like. I have the vivid memory of a mom walking her kids to school every morning. We lived in a tough neighborhood. Gangs...Where was mine? Sleeping, no joke. Did I manage it? I wish I could say yes. At 40 hubby found himself in his midlife crises. I have forged ahead and became my 3 kids rock. We are tight. I’m in a good place.
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Congrats! I think is going thru that makes us better moms! You got this!
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Back when I was in high school I worked in room service at the Marriott in Paris (I’m French).
I was mind blown by those fancy people ordering 18€ burgers or just one bottle of beer with a huge room service fee on top of the 200€+ a night/room. I was fantasizing that they were world travelers on glamorous vacations in Paris with no money worry in the world.
Now I realize that they were people like me now who had to spend the night in their dumb hotel room eating there while churning slides instead of discovering gourmet nearby restaurant.
I feel sad for them and I am so glad I only realized that later instead of being jaded and disappointed in what the future could hold.
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I have European and Asian heritage and I thought life wasn’t worth living unless you lived in London and Paris. I still love both cities but not sure I can live in either now.
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A girl on my lacrosse team would practice in a nice jcrew boatneck shirt. To me that would have been considered “good clothes” that should be saved. I remember thinking, “oh to be so rich that you can wear expensive/good clothes to practice like no big deal...”
ED1 - for me, being on a lacrosse team is rich people stuff. Haha - I never knew anyone that played lacrosse! It was up there with polo to me - almost made up/something no one really did.
A glass front door. If the neighborhood you lived in was safe enough that you could have a glass door, then you had made it.
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To have consistent electricity and don’t need to study under candle light.
A kitchen island.
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Matching towels. And matching finger towels!
They are small (usually decorative) hand towels so each guest can use an individual towel. All the rich people (or so it felt to me when I was younger) had them in their guest bathrooms. My family did not have matching towels, let alone guest towels, when I was growing up.
I'm not rich but I have them now 😎
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Grew up in a third world Asian country and when I was growing up all I could ever hope for was that my mom would have enough money in the grocery budget to get doritos or lays chips instead of local chips... 😂
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Having food in the fridge, particularly orange juice. When I would see scenes of families eating breakfast on tv I would always wish we could have eggs, bacon, and orange juice.
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Yea I never understood the American tv breakfast - eggs AND bacon AND a huuuuge stack of pancakes with a pile of fruit AND toast, plus milk AND fresh juice???? To feed a family of 4, one of whom just comes in and chugs a cup of coffee and leaves??? Our breakfasts were porridge made from last night’s leftover rice and one egg. And our orange juice came from a can of concentrate from the freezer.
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Being able to afford anything not store brand
Having a second phone line (remember dial up?)
Real cheese (I vividly remember the first time I had real cheddar after years of store brand kraft singles. Mind was blown.)
Not being told I can’t have something yet because it’s cheaper in China so wait 6 months and your uncle will bring one back on his next trip
Staying in an actual hotel where the entrance to your room was INSIDE the building
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Being able to pay for college without financial aid.
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I grew up on Long Island so my perception of wealth was a bit skewed. Having a boat was an obvious one. If your clothes were designer (back then it was Juicy, Hardtail, Michael Stars, Theory). If your house had a gate. Where you had your sweet 16. I realize how obnoxious that sounds. It’s fascinating and humbling to read these replies and see what a more normal upbringing looks like.
Huge 1 - curious. Are you planning on having your family in the same area you grew up?
Eating out at Red Lobster 🤣🤣
Getting dinner that wasn’t out of a can was a big thing
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A fridge with ice in the door, too!! And a guest room so that when family came to town I wouldn’t be relegated to an air mattress— how you know you’ve made it.
An in-ground pool was the epitome of wealth for me.
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Indoor pool or movie theatre
I had both of these in my home
I actually loved going to my friend’s crowded neighborhood pool because it felt less lonely
Having a trampoline on your yard! Or having gaming consoles in your home, or a bath tub.
Having a video game console. My mom would always say we couldn’t afford it and I thought my friends who had one were so lucky.
When a child has their own room/ bathroom or they had an iphone
I agree with this one! Not only iphone, but a new phone every year or two people the phone broke.
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For me it was my friends’ clothes. Certain brands (abercrombie & fitch, hollister, etc.) made me feel like they had all the money in the world while I wore my thrift store clothes lol
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Everyone in your family having their own bed.