A childhood belief about money

I used to believe that for adults, your age was equal to your wage. 35 year olds make $35,000 a year, a 45 year old makes ten thousand more than that. In my family, the older someone was, the more money they seemed to have, so it made perfect sense. I finally realized that people's ages can be much smaller or larger than their wages. (No comment regarding how I'm doing!)