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Quit your [job] thread
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I did it and now I feel great
Anyway tell us about your life as a $25 an hour intern in NYC forum, I know that's how you're all living
Anyway tell us about your life as a $25 an hour intern in NYC forum, I know that's how you're all living
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And think about it
You actually have to do some work
most single moms making 1/10th of that with 60 hour work weeks and 3 jobs
I still have no idea where they pulled those numbers
This infuriates me more than the mcdonalds "just die already" budget thing
I mean, it's the Wall Street Journal. Capitalist Pigs one and all.
the justification was "millennials spend all their money on phones and avocado toast" in that they were thinking this totaled some like $2000 a month expense as to why we couldn't just save up 20% of a 1.25 million dollar house for a down payment like they saved up 20% of a 25,000 house.
They think the ratios have stayed roughly similar for the past 40 years. Not that people are making a bit less than they did. That's not even accounting for the wildly exponential increase for things like college and houses. Straight up dollar for dollar most people make less now than the people who had those jobs in the 60s/70s/80s/90s.
~3,125 hours vs 34,482
Most people earned something like $2-3 an hour back in the 60s (factory workers).
And that's just the down payment on a house. Saving that up over 5 years? Easy. Most people didn't even need to do that.
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And had to go to war!
But I'm having fun with the return to French class and taking that digital design course, and I'm very excited for the interior design one I'm starting next week!
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And by the time you've saved up that down payment, SURPRISE! The costs have gone up and up and up and you're still short!
That's just retail.
Oh sure, war is retail: the currency is high-velocity bullets, and they're trying to buy your and your buddy's entrails.
I love how concerned the single mother's facial expression is. "I ONLY get $260k per year, HOW will I ever make ends meet?!"
But fuck you — no, fuck y'all, that's as blunt as it gets"
- Kendrick Lamar, "The Blacker the Berry"
See, that's your mistake: the articles aren't written for you.
Turns out the Universal New Yorker Cartoon Caption is even more broadly applicable.
Fucking yes raise taxes. Raise them by a lot.
The language was interesting, no mention of the 6 month gap. Maybe this is normal with Covid?
But there's no safety net in the USA and I don't have enough savings to miss one pay check without being literally on street
I missed two paychecks two years ago and I'm still fucked from it
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I get a call as I'm walking in that the lab is closed due to a lab member coming down with covid symptoms. To reopen if they get a negative test, or for 3? days if positive.
I still got things done in the office, and took care of things outside the lab. But I guess I shouldn't worry about coming in the rest of the week.
I figured I’d get one out of the way before we get students back in the building for the newest shitshow.
I think I'm going to practice at the roller rink just so I can literally skate out.
or several.
I'll settle for a long weekend, gotta make that happen come october.
I know that I am lucky that I am in a position where I can just quit my job. Not that I have any savings or anything, like I can't survive a month without a paycheck, but I also am confident that I can find something within the next 6-7 weeks and I have no dependents that are relying on me. It's a risk, but it's a risk to me alone and ultimately I have my apartment which I could sell up and have some money left over after paying off the mortgage if heaven forbid it all does fall through. Even if I ended up doing something really low paid I could keep the bills ticked off and just live low to the ground until I find something a bit better. So yeah. I am really fortunate, and I am aware of that.
So will end the story of Old Juggernut. Some new and bewildered kid will be led out and handed a wrench and he will take my place. Hitting and being hit by machines until he, too, falls down dead one day. The cycle, unending, unbroken until the last fires of the sun flicker and go out.
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You're full of the spring of life!
My problem is that with quarantine and being a respectable kind of person, there's nowhere to go, and nothing to do when you get there.
Why pay to stay in a hotel for an extra $100+/night just to watch tv, when you can do that at home for free.
I think this complete unability for myself to relax and get away is what's killing me. No vacations or meaningful time off to blow off steam.
Yes.
I've identified some places within a couple hours drive of where I currently live that I could buy like, 30-40 acres of land with no development to speak off in the vicinity for like, $60-$80K. I could have my own little get away spot.
Like, a few years of saving so the down payment doesn't deplete my savings unacceptably and I could do that. If I hadn't needed to buy a car because my Pontiac was dying then I could have done it now. The problem is then that it's an empty plot of land that at best has electricity running to the edge of the property line, I'd still need to somehow get power and internet out to some as-yet unbuilt structure and drill a well.
So close. Yet so far.
Nah, you'll be replaced by a robot long before then.
But fuck you — no, fuck y'all, that's as blunt as it gets"
- Kendrick Lamar, "The Blacker the Berry"
Yeah having enforced time off due to unemployment is NOT the same, cause it's way stressful. You need to know you've got a solid financial footing going forward before you can actually relax vis a vis taking a break