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Re:The Surprising Ease of Plain Text Accounting by logicallee on Tuesday July 19, 2016 @02:15PM (#12123625)
Just to make this formal, my prediction about jfowles income was false. I made a wrong prediction.

You might still increase your income more than the time you spend saving money, though :) I was able to read your resume after adding an exception in Firefox, but I don't think employers would do that. It's a question of mentality, and I consider likely that you could increase your wage if you wanted to. But of course only you know that - for all I know you're exceptionally well-paid and kind of lucky to have scored your current wage at all. In my experience this is not commonly combined with tracking every expense.

But what do I know? John D. Rockefeller wrote every expense from when he was a teen through a billionaire. So who knows.

Re:The Surprising Ease of Plain Text Accounting by lfowles on Tuesday July 19, 2016 @02:40PM (#12123795)
> You might still increase your income more than the time you spend saving money, though :)

Possible! It's more of a pesky human thing that I track my money anymore, having gone through a period where I was tiptoeing overdrawing my bank account every day. I feel much more comfortable (less stressed) about making moderate to large purchases knowing that every cent is already accounted for and previously allotted to those purchases.

As for my place in the wage distribution it is a freak circumstance of well paying job and low COL area. Not that I'm dissatisfied with the area (yet..), but it also makes it hard to justify moving for a 2x salary when housing will be 3-4x.