[Bring_Back_Shantz]

Originally Posted by fotze

I agree to a point with what you are saying, but Sylfan is a long serving member and it does come across dicky (even with a disclaimer).

Also need to remember that us being engineers, some of us begin to clear six digits a couple years after graduation, then you throw in matching savings, options and incentives. If you place is like mine they give you 8-15% of salary matching in RRSP. Its pretty easy to save in that case.

I actually feel bad coming across as dink in the original post because I had not really seen others perspectives before (which is why I made the thread). The biggest reason I can save is because I have been pretty fortunate.

I 100% agree, and withough knowing his sitution, I may have jumped the gun, but even still, the company matching or not is kind of irrelevant to how much he puts away. He's doing as much as he can, and that's great, especially considering he has a family.

I don't mean any disrespect to Sylfan, and I don't think he's the kind of person that the thread is about. But the statement he made about not saving more becasue the company isn't giving him more, I think is a great example of the thinking of the people that this thread IS about. Namely those people who can save more, but instead feel that they're entitled to a better standard of living so they don't think of the future.

Does that group include Sylfan? Clearly not. But the statement he made (if not the reasoning or sentiment behind it), was a pretty sterotypcial example of the kind of things that folks in that group would say.
At least I think so.