You should try a career in academia. It's all the hours and none of the money!
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You should try a career in academia. It's all the hours and none of the money!
Yes they are vampires, but if you have 450k after tax you have nothing to worry about
Yeah, and I feel so scummy for complaining. It just sucks knowing I'm losing 30% of my income to the IRS when I'm not even a US citizen
LyleLanley
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Investment banking is the epitome of the saying "money can't buy happiness." I know very few bankers that aren't miserable.
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This sounds really cool
In scandinavia you would be a boss. I guess you live in US.
neurosyphilis
Definitely not an STD, as I'm a pure.
I'm 19 year old student, attempting to get an Engineering degree. If that doesn't work out I may just get an IT degree so I can work from home since I'm also a very sickly person.
-$9.00/hr at Publix (You won't know what this is, unless you live in the Southeastern US)
-Only things I have to pay for are my phone bill which is about 80 dollars per month with AT&T, but if you work at Publix you get like an 18% discount on your phone bill as long as you have AT&T or Verizon. Also just help my mom out, I give her like $300 every month.
-I've been off from work for a long time due to a medical problem, and now I have to get surgery at The University Of Florida in Gainesville which is 3hrs away from me
-$9.00/hr at Publix (You won't know what this is, unless you live in the Southeastern US)
-Only things I have to pay for are my phone bill which is about 80 dollars per month with AT&T, but if you work at Publix you get like an 18% discount on your phone bill as long as you have AT&T or Verizon. Also just help my mom out, I give her like $300 every month.
-I've been off from work for a long time due to a medical problem, and now I have to get surgery at The University Of Florida in Gainesville which is 3hrs away from me
Liquidsnake
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I live in the US, and I live paycheck to paycheck. I feel like a loser. I cant affiord to marry the girl I have been with for 8 years etc............
When i see
29 years old
90K on here, I really feel like I didn't do anything with my life.
ViewtifulJC
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Always love how these threads averages are well above the national average. Average over 6 feet tall, top percentile dick sizes, dudes making 80k in here "failing at life"
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Say you had a lottery ticket that you had a very good feeling you would win the lottery with. Someone comes up and says give it to me. Would you give it to them?
$70K translates to £45K give or take a few hundred. While not mega bucks, you could live pretty damned comfortably on that sort of money. "Paycheck to paycheck" is hard for me to fathom on that money unless you have an expensive mortgage (or rent) and you're living frivolously.
It's just short people with small dicks don't want to post in those threads.
LucidMomentum
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I'm 6'7", but that only means that you fit on an airplane better than me.
GAF is a bunch of liars.
Dont lie to them.
Life is ALL about money. Yea family and the like are fine and good, but if youre broke, youre unable to enjoy things with family.
acheron_xl
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I'm a 37 year old janitor making about $25k/yr. Not terrible for what I do, but definitely below the 100k median GAF wage.
Astral Dog
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well with that attitude you are not going to get anywhere :/
Money is not everything, better start thinking about yourself and not others.
PipefishUK
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I've never worked less than 60 hours a week. Often 72 and when I was in the management role I was 84+ a lot of the time.
60hrs is completely normal to me. I'm always surprised when I tell people who work normal hours and they go, 'What?! How?! I couldn't do that...'
With this being a videogames forum, with lots of industry people and developers and related stuff, I expected a lot of high earners - but anyone on an above average wage who's all like - I failed/you failed is a bit of a dick to be honest. Doesn't matter what you earn, money isn't everything.
If you chose to have a life rather than chase money or if you fell through the cracks and ended up in a normal or what's seen as a lowly job, doesn't mean you aren't just as good, intelligent and valid as any high earner.
Kleegamefan
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46 years old
$150K per year
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$150K per year
Underground miner
wilder.Boy
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30 yrs, 50.000 as an it project coordinator.
I used to make $65,000 a year in the US as an operations manager for a logisitics provider.
I now make about a little under 20,000 euros a year in Spain for one of the biggest steamship carriers in the world.
I make much less but the quality of living is much better in Spain, and things like rent, travelling, food, etc are much cheaper than in the US.
I also get a months worth of vacation time, a shit ton of holidays, and I live by the beach in the Mediteranean. I could probably be making $80k back in the US but with the experience I'm getting here I'll be able to make t hat plus more in a few years when/if I ever decide to go back to the states.
I'm 29 and never finished college.
I now make about a little under 20,000 euros a year in Spain for one of the biggest steamship carriers in the world.
I make much less but the quality of living is much better in Spain, and things like rent, travelling, food, etc are much cheaper than in the US.
I also get a months worth of vacation time, a shit ton of holidays, and I live by the beach in the Mediteranean. I could probably be making $80k back in the US but with the experience I'm getting here I'll be able to make t hat plus more in a few years when/if I ever decide to go back to the states.
I'm 29 and never finished college.
Original Famous Ray
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39 years old and my yearly salary as a Doorman here in Manhattan is around 46k I think. I usually hover around 50k (usually there is some OT throughout the year) along with whatever I get during the holidays from some nice folks where I work.
Fenderputty
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My wife and I combine for about 125k household. After she passes he PHR certificate and leaves her shithole company I expect that to increase to about 140k household. She an HR manager and just ran a wage survey for her company and is being massively underpaid but her company don't give a shit.
You talking 100% from home? My program pushed us hard to go into consulting but I'm not interested in the frequent travel or long hours. 24 and making 70K, which I'm more than happy with. Are you at a big firm or a smaller consulting outfit?
Omegasquash
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Obviously I'm on GAF, so my member is 9" while turgid and I earn $500k after bonuses. Oh and I'm 25.
I've failed at life, right?
I've failed at life, right?
36, combined income of between $130 - 160k depending on bonuses
32 and making 35K after being stuck at a boring job the past 4 years making 25K. My wife also makes basically the same amount. 70K a year here in central Florida was plenty for us to buy a nice house, about 2K square feet. I'm getting my A+ cert next year along with a few more technical certs because my goal is to make enough so my wife doesn't have to work if she doesn't want to. Upward and onward.
MWS Natural
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34/M/FL
IT Infrastructure Engineer -WFH
Low Six figures +10k Year off Youtube/Website
Wife Doesn't Work
IT Infrastructure Engineer -WFH
Low Six figures +10k Year off Youtube/Website
Wife Doesn't Work
Good luck man! I did the same thing for my wife a few years back when I moved to STL from Eastern WA. She made it about 6 months as a stay at home Mom before going crazy. She then found a new job and everything is right with the world again.
Liquid, you should be old enough to know that money is not the definition of success in life. I fact, you can be rich and be a complete failure of a human being.
I make a solid living, but the things I am most proud of in my life, are not related to money.
NoblesseOblige
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Roughly 38k/yr working IT in the public education system. I have a withstanding job offer for 80k though with a web hosting company (which I'll probably never take).
diffusionx
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It's self-selecting.
this sounds like a nightmare.
55k here, 32 years old, I am a biologist supporting research in academia. The cost of living where I am plus my wife's similar salary means we do pretty well.
100% from home. There is some travel, but since January, I've only travelled 4 weeks in total. They tell us in interviews that it could be up to 50% travel but of the few people I've talked to that is no where near the case.
I work at a larger company that is known for being a reseller of just about everything, but we also have consulting services for just about all Microsoft products, Cisco networking and voice, and others.
Phoenixazure
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27, approx 40-43k depending on OT. Security
Seeing all these 50K plus salaries making me feel inadiquate. Been looking into IT to find something more fulfilling that pays better.
Seeing all these 50K plus salaries making me feel inadiquate. Been looking into IT to find something more fulfilling that pays better.
LucidMomentum
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https://www.rentjungle.com/average-rent-in-san-francisco-rent-trends/
It depends on where you live. If I live in SF, my salary would barely cover my rent.
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kutthoat5150
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28yo make around $85k salary w/ bonuses as a logistics manager. Work long hours but only 4 days a week and my peers are awesome so I'm enjoying it.
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