I had the same kinda meltdown last weekend for the some of the same reasons and partially took it out on my wife, and my laundry room door. It was then I realized I had to remove some shitty "friends" from my life because they enjoy bragging about how much they make.

We were all watching college football when a targeting foul was called. My "friends were arguing the call, in which they were both wrong. After the refs reviewed it one of them had a smart ass remark "Oh well, I don't make $150,000 a year to makes those calls anyways" -referring to how much his new pharmacy job pays him.

I get it, he's young (mid 20's), never really had money, and now is being overpaid imo, to sit at a computer and fill prescriptions that it tells him to fill. It's fucking idiotic how much he makes for the job he does. He just got a brand new sports car and loves talking about how they are looking at these $300k houses.

Meanwhile. I'm an engineer/geotech, 3 years into my career work 50 hours a week, and bust my ass in the field and in the office for my company. My pay is a 1/3 of what he makes and it is so frustrating when I sit and think about it. I can barely save money because of bills, mortgage..

It's all situational, and I understand that, but it really does suck to think how far "behind" I am from the rest of the people my age. It doesn't help that all they talk about is spending money and how much they make/ will make. I literally want to move cities to get away from them.