Sometimes it feels like I'm in Invasion of the Body Snatchers. Today at work I had coffee with a co-worker. We kind of bitched about the job a little, and then he said, yes, but when you get that W-2, it kind of makes up for it, huh? I heartily agreed, at which point he said he can't even tell people on "the outside" how much he makes. So I said, yeah, and if I were to tell people I have saved 70% of my income so far this year, they'd think it was insane, but if they saw that I've made more than half my income just in bonus this year, they'd get it.
At that point, co-worker starts coughing and says, well, yeah, but my bonus bought a new car and went toward our basement reno, which is an investment in the house. And I immediately was like, "Yeah, yeah, of course." I thought I was amongst a like-minded dude, but not so much.