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What is your yearly income?

What is your yearly income?

  • 0-5000$

    Votes: 155 8.5%

  • 5,000-10,000$

    Votes: 74 4.0%

  • 10,000-25,000$

    Votes: 203 11.1%

  • 25,000-50,000$

    Votes: 430 23.5%

  • 50,000-100,000$

    Votes: 525 28.7%

  • 100,000-250,000$

    Votes: 342 18.7%

  • 250,000-1,000,000$

    Votes: 71 3.9%

  • 1,000,000$+

    Votes: 29 1.6%
  • Total voters
    1,829
I could raise my children comfortably, pay for their tertiary education without a second thought, let my 3 dogs to continue to have the lavish lifestyle they lead, and own my property and home all by myself. Zero problem. Add my partners income and we're in that bracket of couples who can retire by 40 if they choose.
 
knotjen said:
I personally am far more impressed with those who out of need, pull out a junkyard transmission and shove it into their car in the street in front of their apartment so they can go to work the next day.
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BTDT... puked the rear countershaft bearing in my newspaper/pizza delivery car out on the paper route one night around 4AM. The bearing giving up let the countershaft drop far enough that it caused 1st, 2nd, and 3rd gears to unmesh from their corresponding countershaft gears, leaving me with only 4th (1:1 gear ratio - not very useful for getting moving on a hill), 5th (0.78:1, AKA "overdrive" - even worse for getting moving in hill-country), and reverse, in territory full of up- and down-hill driving. Triple-A dragged the beast home, I spent most of the day yanking the tranny out of the wrecked clone I had sitting there and bolting it into the "live" one, and clocked in for my pizza-delivery shift at 6:30 that evening. Yay me! :)
 
knotjen said:
Awesome and congrats!

I hope with each salary increase, you put a little more away each month.
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Not gonna lie, I went a little crazy at first, but I'm restructuring my budget and properly saving so I can hopefully stop living in apartments before I'm 35. Apartments suuuuuuuuuuuck hahaha
 
UR20Z said:
BTDT... puked the rear countershaft bearing in my newspaper/pizza delivery car out on the paper route one night around 4AM. The bearing giving up let the countershaft drop far enough that it caused 1st, 2nd, and 3rd gears to unmesh from their corresponding countershaft gears, leaving me with only 4th (1:1 gear ratio - not very useful for getting moving on a hill), 5th (0.78:1, AKA "overdrive" - even worse for getting moving in hill-country), and reverse, in territory full of up- and down-hill driving. Triple-A dragged the beast home, I spent most of the day yanking the tranny out of the wrecked clone I had sitting there and bolting it into the "live" one, and clocked in for my pizza-delivery shift at 6:30 that evening. Yay me! :)
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You said "tranny" you fucking transpobe!!!

Lol.. all kidding aside, yea, know what you mean.

Rolled a spag in a ford c6.. 2nd gear wasn't a gear anymore, but a total lockup..

Had to drive maybe 60 miles in manual low.. Fun with a 460 with straight pipes...

Happened to have the guts from a c6 I had torn apart months earlier.

Problem is sprag is the last piece to have to come out of the tranny case..

Long story short, discovered I can pull a c6 on my own, totally go through it, and reinstall with enough time to get a nap before work.

Funny.. I still live that way except I try to keep at least 2 vehicles going so I don't get put in that kind of time crunch again..
 
GenericUsername69 said:
Not gonna lie, I went a little crazy at first, but I'm restructuring my budget and properly saving so I can hopefully stop living in apartments before I'm 35. Apartments suuuuuuuuuuuck hahaha
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I made a goal years ago to make owning a home a reality.. Granted the place I bought was cheap, near the end of a dirt road way out in the country, but it's mine..
 
K_9River_rat said:
You said "tranny" you fucking transpobe!!!
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Feel free to be offended - I don't mind :)
K_9River_rat said:
Long story short, discovered I can pull a c6 on my own, totally go through it, and reinstall with enough time to get a nap before work.
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That's impressive. Tearing down the busted tranny I had to find out just what had gone wrong took me the better part of a day and a half. Thankfully, I had the exact same unit (that had been crashed out from under me by a moron in a hurry to get to the casino for the start of the evening bingo session - he also managed to total out a less-than-two-weeks-off-the-lot PT Cruiser along with my ride and his. Advice for a happier life: DO NOT PASS ON THE RIGHT like that meathead tried to do...) sitting there just waiting to be pulled out of the wreck and installed. Made life a WHOLE lot simpler.

The idea of going into an automatic transmission - of whatever breed/brand - for any reason terrifies me... The idea that I could tear one down and get it back together as a functioning unit is a joke! And this, despite the fact that I do pretty much all of my own wrench work...
 
UR20Z said:
Feel free to be offended - I don't mind :)

That's impressive. Tearing down the busted tranny I had to find out just what had gone wrong took me the better part of a day and a half. Thankfully, I had the exact same unit (that had been crashed out from under me by a moron in a hurry to get to the casino for the start of the evening bingo session - he also managed to total out a less-than-two-weeks-off-the-lot PT Cruiser along with my ride and his. Advice for a happier life: DO NOT PASS ON THE RIGHT like that meathead tried to do...) sitting there just waiting to be pulled out of the wreck and installed. Made life a WHOLE lot simpler.

The idea of going into an automatic transmission - of whatever breed/brand - for any reason terrifies me... The idea that I could tear one down and get it back together as a functioning unit is a joke! And this, despite the fact that I do pretty much all of my own wrench work...
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They (some) aren't near as mysterious as you'd think from looking at the together or torn apart.. In fact a ford C6 is about the easiest thing I've ever worked on.. Only word of advice on an automatic, especially if you go into the valve body, is cleanliness!

One tiny speck of trash can cause a valve to stick.

Other than that, if you can handle snap rings and o rings, they're really pretty easy.

You don't even have to know how they work.
 
K_9River_rat said:
What I enjoyed seeing in the poll results is the numbers of people with higher incomes.

While I'm not saying that a person's income equals the quality of their person, and high income folks can be deviants, higher incomes does point towards more responsible type folks in general.
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I can say from experience that I know many different zoos, some with very high incomes that have had or wish to have experience with animals.

My partner's a doctor. She's old money and "heiress" (real estate). It's a long story, but she has an absurd financial income.
I also had a crazy ex-girlfriend in university (a zoo who really wanted to be initiated) whose family was unbearably rich. Her family's employees earned more than I made at the time.

I have some zoo friends and there are few who actually practice. They have different professions, sexuality, marital status and appearance, but most have a high income.
 
Amount is based on the combined income of myself and my closest friend and room mate. Ironically when I retired back in 2006 I was earning around $75K a year. 17 years later my retirement income is about half that. The cost of everything has skyrocketed since the 2020 pandemic. People blame the president when it's the career members of Congress that vote their own raises and have no term limits that are the issue! It's sad and tragic when the wealthy in America only get wealthier and the working class has to struggle to make ends meet!
 
4stallions said:
Money talk is un tasteful …
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Usually I would totally agree, but in this instance since we don't actually know each other or anything like that, I do find it interesting...

Mainly from the standpoint of what one makes says about the person, ie, while not absolutely certain, it does stand to reason that the more a person makes, the more responsible they are.
 
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