Generation 42

Archive for May, 2009

Remember your first paycheck from your first job, how it seemed like so much money and how everything seemed possible? Remember your first raise, how your expenses expanded to spend it, and you wondered how you ever managed to get by on that first paycheck? With every subsequent raise, you’ve probably increased your spending to use up every penny of it—even though you got by perfectly well before your most recent raise, the one before that, and the one before that.