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A review by tophat8855
Secrets of Six-Figure Women: Surprising Strategies to Up Your Earnings and Change Your Life by Barbara Stanny
3.0
I am making six figures, so I'm not the target audience. Also, it was published in 2004, so it feels dated and old. All the stats are at least 20 years old and you get some residual 90s sexism and "women are this" and "men think like that." Also awkward to throw quotes from civil rights leaders such as Martin Luther King Jr. and Nelson Mandala into a book about bring women up into the upper middle class. Just felt off.
But I do need to invest more. I definitely invest more than my husband does and I get better than inflation returns, but it's always something I could do better at.
And I have lost money by not pushing myself more- I know of a guy who has the exact same tech education as me and same internship and first job. We both got our second tech jobs a couple of months apart and his minimum requirement salary in his job search was $40k more than I was hoping for. And that was 4 years ago. With raises and such, I probably have lost out on $200k that he has.
But also, I'm not a "money for money's sake" which seems to be the push of this book. Having money is pretty useless if there's no goal. People who sit on wealth with no end goal for it (charity, retirement, education, philanthropy) are terrible people, or at best mediocre people who don't know what they want out of life.
Would be a good book for someone just starting out with deciding to get into a career after being a parent since it addresses gender roles and how that shapes how we view money, but other than that, there are newer books that are better.
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But I do need to invest more. I definitely invest more than my husband does and I get better than inflation returns, but it's always something I could do better at.
And I have lost money by not pushing myself more- I know of a guy who has the exact same tech education as me and same internship and first job. We both got our second tech jobs a couple of months apart and his minimum requirement salary in his job search was $40k more than I was hoping for. And that was 4 years ago. With raises and such, I probably have lost out on $200k that he has.
But also, I'm not a "money for money's sake" which seems to be the push of this book. Having money is pretty useless if there's no goal. People who sit on wealth with no end goal for it (charity, retirement, education, philanthropy) are terrible people, or at best mediocre people who don't know what they want out of life.
Would be a good book for someone just starting out with deciding to get into a career after being a parent since it addresses gender roles and how that shapes how we view money, but other than that, there are newer books that are better.
Listened via Hoopla