Barely Getting By

– Jay M. 

Just after reading a blurb on her books, I definitely fit the profile. I have an MBA from Top-10 Carnegie-Mellon, 17 years of professional experience (yep - one of those “loaded” resumes), but I’m just a Business Analyst at 44. Despite huge work accomplishments, impossible projects made possible, years of unpaid overtime, downsizings, salary cuts, unwanted relocations, etc. we’re barely getting by trying to make it as a family of 3 on a single-income. I’ve given up on ever retiring, let alone to someplace nice & warm. I’m hanging on to my last small hope, which is that I can manage to stay under the hit-list radar for another 10 years so my son can at least get through a reasonably decent public school. (Sidebar: Private School? At $15K a year, where the hell would I find that kind of cash? We can’t afford to go to

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