If your a carpet layer and you bring in 150,000 a year then you just described the problem. Ain't no carpet layer on the earth worth that kind of bank. Blame yourself for that one. Gimmi the 50,000 dollar a year guy and he is still over paid.

A good engineer right out of school with a masters makes 55-60k a year, and when he is old and sage he gets over 100,000 K

I call B.S on the carpet layer deal... lots of story telling getting thrown around in this thread