#as long as I can afford groceries and clothes and a home.... 🤷🏼 save up here and there for a little treat of some kind

[girlscience]

I don't know if my life is just extremely charmed. but listening to my coworkers talk is so bizarre to me? the way that money is the only measure of success or good life that they care about blows my mind. we are talking about furthering our education and the only thing they are looking at is how much the salary for that field pays. I understand money is important, but that's honestly not something I've given even more than a passing thought to with the programs I'm applying for? I just don't get it? We do science, don't you care more about the work than the money? Am I just blind because I haven't ever had money troubles? I don't know.

#like one of them is a single mom with a teenager so I get you want money to support both of you and to send them to high school and college #but the other one is a single late 30's man with no kids or pets #why do you need a salary that high? #like.... half the time I think I'm basically rich? I am absolutely not lol #but money is definitely not something I worry about right now? #maybe during/after grad school that'll change but as it is I am very comfortable #I can't imagine that it would be much different for them? (with the exception of the kid obviously. two people need more money than one) #did living with my parents for one year after college really make that big of a difference? #idk I get I've never lived in poverty and I've never been in serious debt so money stress is something I haven't felt #but money has just never been that important to me? #as long as I can afford groceries and clothes and a home.... 🤷🏼 save up here and there for a little treat of some kind #I just don't get it. making 100k 500k six figures etc is so so so important to sooo many people (not just my coworkers) #and I'm over here wondering what the fuck you even do with that much money #what purpose does it serve. savings? #maybe I'm just showing my whole ass here and everyone will read this and be like 'please shut up you don't get it' #but money talk is everywhere at work and online and in the world #and I just thought we agreed there were other measures of success that were more important #I thought we all knew money mattered to be healthy and safe but that in the end didn't mean more #I thought idk people wanted jobs to support them but that mostly people went into things like science because they want to help the world #am I just a fucking idiot?