I was reading Yahoo.Finance.com (one of my favorite things to do) and came across an article entitled "My So-Called Financial Life" by Penelope Trunk.  Her theme is that you should change your job if you want to, and that sometimes you have to make big sacrifices to do so.  She talks about how she and her husband moved from big money jobs in New York City to much less lucrative jobs in Madison, Wisconsin.  It is a good article.

When I was divorced from my first husband I got a roommate so that I could meet expenses and have some money to save.   I have friends and relatives that would be much better off financially if they would get roommates--but this is their choice. 

It was at that time that I became interested in the stock market and my 401K.  For a long time, the company I worked for gave bonuses and I would dump them in my 401K.  I was also fairly frugal (not compared to my Mother, but certainly compared to most of my friends).  Because I started seriously saving early the compounding interest over time makes me feel financially secure.

Back to her theme of changing jobs if you want to.  It took quite a while for that to happen because I liked the paychecks and didn't know what I really wanted to do.  I always thought I wanted to be a psychologist but the company I worked for would only pay for a degree in business or engineering.  Hence, I finished my business degree--and will never be sorry for that; because it did enhance my job skills and made me more valuable to my employer.

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