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The Ramsey Show Highlights

I Have The Potential To Make $400,000, But My Wife Is Saying "No"

The Ramsey Show Highlights

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Self-improvement, Education, Investing, Business

4.6682 Ratings

🗓️ 3 August 2025

⏱️ 10 minutes

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0:00.0

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0:10.0

So I've kind of found myself on a predicament. So historically, I've got a job that has paid pretty well. I'm primarily commissioned, but a lot of the jobs that I've been working with

0:23.8

have kind of dried up at the time. And so the salary this year isn't quite as high as it has

0:29.6

been in previous years. What were you making? And what's kind of like a rough year that you're

0:34.8

looking at? So, which, I mean, my rough year is still not that bad.

0:39.2

The rough year, it's going to be about 75, 80.

0:43.3

Last year, it was 120.

0:45.9

Okay.

0:46.8

And so it's gone that a little bit, which, again, you know, 80 is so comfortable.

0:51.0

We're still, you know, it's not anything bad, Not to mention, you know, completely babysit two last year.

0:57.2

Awesome.

0:57.6

All the trucks, all vehicles, and then trying to, you know, I've got everything.

1:03.8

I've got about three months saved up.

1:05.4

So still we're kind of lower on babysat three, but, you know, trying to, um.

1:10.7

On stretch. Yeah, exactly. So trying to three, but, you know, trying to, um, on stretch.

1:12.3

Yeah, exactly.

1:13.3

So trying to look ahead and, you know, save money for, uh, I got two kids,

1:17.1

try to save for, you know, their college and, uh, our retirement.

1:20.9

So with the, you know, with paying off the debt, I haven't really saved much for

1:25.3

retirement.

1:26.7

Um, so, you know, obviously in the statistics of it, I'm a little bit behind on that.

1:32.2

But my wife's just stay at home, and I'd like to keep it that way.

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