Just another manic Monday...

I can't get over how wealthy the people I work with are. They're great people, really nice and everybody's been really friendly so far so it's not like anyone's a snob or anything, but it catches me off guard when I realize the different economic classes of my coworkers. Granted, most of them have been in the business for a long time and have had a chance to establish their finances. Today when I came in two of my coworkers were talking about graduations. One of the guys had a son and daughter graduating and we were just talking for a second about that and then the other lady said "So they're both getting the Boxster for graduation?" And he goes "Oh yeah, they both are" then the lady said "Yeah, Gretchen asked for one too" and I wondered to myself, "Hm..what's a boxster?" I figured it was either a lunch combo meal from a deli or some sort of mp3 player or other various piece of electronic equipment that I was not aware of, so I decided to look it up on google. So I sit down on my fancy schmancy chair at my fancy schmancy desk and type in "boxster" at my fancy schmancy computer. Then the screen came up and I was awestruck at what was before me. A ''boxster" is not a small electronic device. No no friends, a "boxster" is a freakin Porsche. A p-o-r-s-c-h-e that's right, A car. but not just any car, a porsche that costs somewhere in the neighborhood of 45 to 55 THOUSAND dollars. I about had a heart attack at my fancy schmancy desk. I could not believe it. I then told my coworkers that they could give me a graduation gift if they wanted to.

But honestly! It blows my lower middle class mind. My family has never owned a car that costs over 20,000 dollars, and even then we drive them for 14 years or until they blow up, whichever comes first. Not that we've ever been in dire need or wanted for anything, but I just can't fathom that kind of money. What would you do with all of it? That is one thing that I've never really been comfortable with in my chosen career path. Yes, there is the opportunity to make exorbitant amounts of money while spending other people's insane amounts of money, but I've never really been ok with that much money. Which makes me wonder. although I do aspire to do my best, It's never really been a goal or desire of mine to climb the financial ladder. So, if my best ends up making me a six figure salary, then what? I could definitely take care of my family, but I don't want to lose touch with reality and I definitely don't want to live like I'm making a six figure salary. Is that crazy? I don't know, Money changes everything, even though you don't want it to. I guess what I'm saying is that even if I make enough money to end up buying two freaking porsches in the same year for the kids that I probably won't have, I hope I don't buy them.