Background: I went to university for eight years and got a bachelors degree followed by a professional degree, and I'm currently wrapping up my masters degree. My job requires that level of education. I'm thirty and I live in Canada.
My gross monthly pay is $7100. From that, I pay $1325 in taxes and another $1050 in deductions (mostly to a pension plan, but also to the union). I take home $4725. My relatively-fixed monthly expenses are:
I also have a few fixed annual expenses. Typically I try to put a little bit of extra money aside each month starting in January because these tend to hit hardest in late spring:
Where does the rest of my money go?
As per the last line of your question, I am increasingly dissatisfied with my life, which is basically work-work-work-snow-work-argue with conservatives-snow-work-snow and spend a lot of time dreaming about cashing out (I think I'd come about about $50K ahead if I sold my condo today) and moving to Europe. I've lived in a few different countries and know from experience that what I will lose in income I will gain in lifestyle.