iodine23

iTrader: (1)

24, electrical engineer. Survived the downturn and company layoffs so far, been here for almost 3 years. Got an early start out of college.

I have a live-in girlfriend (who has her own job), 3 "kids" (dogs, cheaper than kids), and a mortgage.

Thwack

Well, I'm 23, graduated last may, scholarship, worked, and lived with parents during school, so no debt. graduated as mechanical engineer, got a 50k year job, put down deposit with 1st paycheck, and have been saving ever since. I pay rent, but not too much since I have roomates. No wife, no kid, no mortgage. I can barely afford the car without being a slave to it, but I expect a raise soon, and my insurance should go down in year and half, and I told the woman to not expect a ring till the car's paid for .. I'm straight.

TaiwanEvo

iTrader: (1)

21 bought my own car.. but my dad seem to hate it

teamdomokun

iTrader: (9)

Im the youngest one here then Im only 17, just a junior in high school.

Mightym

32, hoping to be a new owner soon.

Evo2003.5

25

RTW EVO

24... work from home, really cuts down on expenses

zstryder

iTrader: (19)

I'm also one of the younger ones here, only at 20, still a junior at college now, studying Electrical Engineering (why the hell am I in EE? for anybody that's been through EE, what kinda jobs are you doing now? I hate circuits with a passion ). To be honest I can't say that I'm fully paying for the car out of my own pockets, but ah... how do you say, I'm "on loan" from the parents. My first year outta school on the job will probably be working to pay off this car.

Unlike most other kids in this rich Northern VA area (the town I'm from is ranked 7th richest in the nation by income, according to Forbes), I've driven a **** poor crappy I'll die on you any day '87 Volvo for the past 4-5 years, though I am grateful to even have had a car (the Volvo's completely dead now). I know people who would die to have a car to drive. It was rather frustrating to see those "cool" kids in high school driving BMW's and Benz's. In fact there were even two RX-7's and one NSX at our HIGH SCHOOL. Some girl crashed her brand new 2000 eclipse and her parents just bought her ANOTHER brand new one, 30 day tag 'an all. Isn't that wrong? I bet all of them ended up going to community college anyway... damn.

Regardless, I have no qualms about driving that Volvo for another couple years till I had enough money to buy the Evo myself, but it seems with it's recent death I'll have to borrow some money for the mean time... after all, I don't see the point in buying a used civic just to get around if I plan on buying a new car after I graduate, which is next year. Assuming of course, my EE degree can actually score me a job somewhere

Daveyd

iTrader: (1)

29..will be the big 30 in 5 weeks

skibum

Thwack
50k a year just out of school?
Good score.
You must be one smart cookie!

gtr

iTrader: (6)

23

jnogan

I'm 45 and my daughter is older than a lot of you! I've been driving cars longer than almost all of you have been alive!!!!!

Coolguy949

iTrader: (10)

21, graphics designer/webmaster at a Workers Comp TPA. I go to school full-time, work part time. I also have my own business where I fix computers/networking/web design. I only make 15K / year at the day job and bring in about the same with my own biz. They key here is savings.....down payment. I'm paying for 1/2 the evo with cash and the rest on loan.

lancealott

iTrader: (10)

25

trigeek37

28

1 mortgage
2 car payments when my evo arrives