What is Your Salary, and cpsam thread for struggle session

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Spergin Morlock: Aug 8, 2009; Fun Shoe

$57k at mid level IT job in the Seattle area. I'm not living large, but I also have no complaints.

# ? Nov 11, 2018 04:00

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# ? Apr 24, 2024 17:46

Lastgirl: Sep 7, 1997; Good Morning!
Sunday Morning!

Clowner posted:

It's a little place we like to call "Good China"

Taiwan is comically first world and there is a real bourgeois living here that does not include English Teacher lowlives such as myself

Since I've lived here it strikes me as very odd that a city like Taipei - modern, clean, extremely safe, extremely convenient, where pretty much any Western comfort you can think of is available 24/7 on every block, with universal health care, outstanding mass transit and world-class food, is somehow a cheaper place to live than some shithole in Alabama that aspires to have an IHOP.

Taipei is very pretty

I know from seeing lomography pictures of the taipei 101 skyline during sunset

# ? Nov 11, 2018 04:04

super macho dude: Aug 9, 2014

$25.42 an hour @ 40 hrs a week doing manual labor for the city in which I reside.

# ? Nov 11, 2018 04:16

Peanut President: Nov 5, 2008; by Athanatos
(and can't post for 10 days!)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wkQSF3TdQU

Peanut President has issued a correction as of 06:47 on Nov 11, 2018

# ? Nov 11, 2018 06:21

kitten emergency: Jan 13, 2008; get meow this wack-ass crystal prison

this thread is going to turn people into republicans or communists, one or the other

# ? Nov 11, 2018 06:22

Love Rat: Jan 15, 2008; I've made a psycho call to the woman I love, I've kicked a dog to death, and now I'm going to pepper spray an acquaintance. Something... I mean, what's happened to me?

$60k at the last job I had before funemployment. I live in Seattle, and if I didn't have a partner with a good job and a house, I'd pretty much be hosed due to student loan debt and ever-increasing rent* lol.

I hear rent is finally tapering off though.

# ? Nov 11, 2018 06:44

Star Phlatulence: Jan 14, 2006; by Cyrano4747; Bleak Gremlin

my salary varies day to day based on many factors, including how i'm feeling

# ? Nov 11, 2018 06:47

Frumply: Dec 7, 2004

Dead Beef posted:

I get paid way too much money to do work that literally protects rich people from facing any consequences for their criminal behavior and am complicit in conspiracy to rig self-regulating industries so that there's literally no chance the rich wont get richer.

You can guillotine me as long as you guillotine the people I work for first.
s a m e

I'm coming for you first collaborator.

# ? Nov 11, 2018 07:05

Caithness: Nov 10, 2012; HEY!!!
YOU CAN SEE ME, CAN'T YOU? THEN WHY ARE YOU IGNORING ME!?

I've never made more than $25,000 a single year in my life. If I didn't live in my parents' house and pay subsidized rent I'd be in trouble. As is, though, I've got several years' worth of living expenses in savings.

# ? Nov 11, 2018 07:23

Former DILF: Jul 13, 2017

I sell autism and autism accessories

# ? Nov 11, 2018 07:26

Mariana Horchata: Jun 30, 2008; College Slice

The Ol Spicy Keychain posted:

co-signed

trigger warning that shiet

# ? Nov 11, 2018 07:37

IDONTPOST: Apr 18, 2018

40k not a poser

# ? Nov 11, 2018 07:37

Scrub-Niggurath: Nov 27, 2007

I�m a sommelier at a good nyc restaurant group so my income is 90% tips but on average I make around $120k/yr and get decent health and dental

# ? Nov 11, 2018 07:38

JohnnyC: Jun 8, 2008

i hope you all are having the same conversation with the people you work with

# ? Nov 11, 2018 08:15

Mariana Horchata: Jun 30, 2008; College Slice

JohnnyC posted:

i hope you all are having the same conversation with the people you work with

*takes off headphones and tries 2 appear str8*

what?

# ? Nov 11, 2018 08:24

i say swears online: Mar 4, 2005

I make $14.65/hr as the highest-paid person in an accounting auditing office at a resort. I work overnight and live in a medium-cost-of-living city. My rent and utilities are 60% of my take-home pay. The night shift plus availability of alcohol at work keeps me from pursuing anything better. I'm just slowly drowning.

I did this same job at 17 for $7.50/hr. I'm 33 now.

# ? Nov 11, 2018 08:31

Spergin Morlock: Aug 8, 2009; Fun Shoe

i say swears online posted:

I make $14.65/hr as the highest-paid person in an accounting auditing office at a resort. I work overnight and live in a medium-cost-of-living city. My rent and utilities are 60% of my take-home pay. The night shift plus availability of alcohol at work keeps me from pursuing anything better. I'm just slowly drowning.

I did this same job at 17 for $7.50/hr. I'm 33 now.

lol night auditor. say hello to mr patel for me.

# ? Nov 11, 2018 08:36

i say swears online: Mar 4, 2005

that was the owner where i worked at 17 lol

# ? Nov 11, 2018 08:45

i say swears online: Mar 4, 2005

i got my mba a couple years ago. that did gently caress-all

# ? Nov 11, 2018 08:46

Spergin Morlock: Aug 8, 2009; Fun Shoe

i say swears online posted:

that was the owner where i worked at 17 lol

I used to work at Paymentech back in the day which is how I know approximately 75% of the men who own or manage hotels in the US are named Mr Patel

# ? Nov 11, 2018 08:47

fatal oopsie-daisy: Jul 30, 2007; by R. Guyovich

I work in Tokyo in a salaryman office company and I make $3000 a month working like 80 hours a week but there�s health insurance and a pension and twice a year we get like $6000 bonuses so it�s okay I guess??

I�m moving back to America soon though and I�m closing on a house in Las Vegas that is 3 stories and I�m converting the room behind the garage into a small mini-apartment and I�m gonna AirBnB that and use that as my main income and just live in the upper 2 floors with my wife. Might work part time or might just sit on my rear end and play video games all day, who knows

# ? Nov 11, 2018 08:56

Sing Along: Feb 28, 2017; by Athanatos

fatal oopsie-daisy posted:

I work in Tokyo in a salaryman office company and I make $3000 a month working like 80 hours a week but there�s health insurance and a pension and twice a year we get like $6000 bonuses so it�s okay I guess??

I�m moving back to America soon though and I�m closing on a house in Las Vegas that is 3 stories and I�m converting the room behind the garage into a small mini-apartment and I�m gonna AirBnB that and use that as my main income and just live in the upper 2 floors with my wife. Might work part time or might just sit on my rear end and play video games all day, who knows

*scribbles something onto a notepad*

# ? Nov 11, 2018 09:51

etalian: Mar 20, 2006

$48 a hour working as a engineer

# ? Nov 11, 2018 14:27

SMILLENNIALSMILLEN: Jun 26, 2009

I'm a butt doctor, whatever I finds I keeps

# ? Nov 11, 2018 14:56

JohnnyC: Jun 8, 2008

Dead Beef posted:

also even though I make too much money a big part of what I make has to be used to support my parents, grandmother, and in-laws

my parents are both working in their 70s and will probably work until they're dead, they live with my grandmother in a very small house
my grandmother worked until she was 90 at a casino where she also gambled away her life savings a couple decades prior, she only stopped working because she started to go blind
both of my in-laws work at walmart in rural missouri and don't make enough money to pay the bills because an accident left my father-in-law partially paralyzed and they have to support their two failsons. one of them is addicted to meth and the other is addicted to jesus

every single of one them is a chud that will vote straight republican forever, my dad thinks he's only poor because taxes are too high smdh

all I do is give them money, and they're going to work until they die on their feet
GREATEST COUNTRY ON EARTH

mark kozelek, confirmed goon

# ? Nov 11, 2018 15:24

jarofpiss: May 16, 2009

fatal oopsie-daisy posted:

I work in Tokyo in a salaryman office company and I make $3000 a month working like 80 hours a week but there�s health insurance and a pension and twice a year we get like $6000 bonuses so it�s okay I guess??

I�m moving back to America soon though and I�m closing on a house in Las Vegas that is 3 stories and I�m converting the room behind the garage into a small mini-apartment and I�m gonna AirBnB that and use that as my main income and just live in the upper 2 floors with my wife. Might work part time or might just sit on my rear end and play video games all day, who knows

aspiring rent seeker

# ? Nov 11, 2018 15:28

Mariana Horchata: Jun 30, 2008; College Slice

JohnnyC posted:

mark kozelek, confirmed goon

# ? Nov 11, 2018 15:30

JohnnyC: Jun 8, 2008

quote:

This one's the lead single off my new album, it's called "My Parents Live With My Grandma And She's 90 And Lost All Her Money At The Casino And She's Blind"

# ? Nov 11, 2018 16:24

Mariana Horchata: Jun 30, 2008; College Slice

JohnnyC posted:

v

play "I Love My Hot Tub"

# ? Nov 11, 2018 16:28

JohnnyC: Jun 8, 2008

i will say that the concept of a guy making a shitload of money doing a morally repellent job and funnelling all of that money to his family who has slipped through the cracks is basically the same correct indictment of current north american society as depicted in the great Andrew Garfield/Michael Shannon vehicle 99 Homes. any way i make $40k a year, three weeks vacation that i never get to really take, and a $500 HSA

# ? Nov 11, 2018 16:38

fabergay egg: Mar 1, 2012; it's not a rhetorical question, for politely saying 'you are an idiot, you don't know what you are talking about'

one of my coworkers told me that some other contractors through a different recruiting firm make $4/h more than me and him and i hate it

i bet the contracting company pays the recruiters the same amount and they just keep a much bigger slice

# ? Nov 11, 2018 17:16

wilfredmerriweathr: Jul 11, 2005

I touch computers and get paid more than I should but not enough to take away the pain

# ? Nov 11, 2018 21:17

Necro-tron: Jan 12, 2003

i say swears online posted:

I make $14.65/hr as the highest-paid person in an accounting auditing office at a resort. I work overnight and live in a medium-cost-of-living city. My rent and utilities are 60% of my take-home pay. The night shift plus availability of alcohol at work keeps me from pursuing anything better. I'm just slowly drowning.

I did this same job at 17 for $7.50/hr. I'm 33 now.

Dude, go to USAJobs, throw your hat into the federal employment sector. You have that god drat much time in accounting auditing and an MBA? There's gotta be a government agency with comparable pay and better benefits that you would fit great in. Hell, some might even give you telework.

# ? Nov 12, 2018 00:40

Mandoric: Mar 15, 2003

writer/translator

got my quarterly royalty check this week, i've had bigger receipts at liquor stores and i'm not even a whisky guy

and the publisher isn't even loving me, there just isn't the volume there to make it anything but a side gig by normal standards

thank heaven for a long list of welcoming couches, otherwise i'd have to go back to computer touching/being extra suicidal, except i don't even know how to touch computers anymore

# ? Nov 12, 2018 01:33

i say swears online: Mar 4, 2005

Necro-tron posted:

Dude, go to USAJobs, throw your hat into the federal employment sector. You have that god drat much time in accounting auditing and an MBA? There's gotta be a government agency with comparable pay and better benefits that you would fit great in. Hell, some might even give you telework.

I know it's all in my head. I'm just depressed and don't have the self esteem to try and make things better

# ? Nov 12, 2018 03:19

Calibanibal: Aug 25, 2015

whats with all these loving lurkers crawling out of the woodwork to actually post their wages and poo poo. what the hell lol

# ? Nov 12, 2018 03:21

Moridin920: Nov 15, 2007; by FactsAreUseless

Love Rat posted:

I hear rent is finally tapering off though.

Lol

# ? Nov 12, 2018 05:27

El Mero Mero: Oct 13, 2001

Calibanibal posted:

whats with all these loving lurkers crawling out of the woodwork to actually post their wages and poo poo. what the hell lol

I think we've figured out the trick to make the ultra guillotine fill itself.

# ? Nov 12, 2018 05:53

Accretionist: Nov 7, 2012; I BELIEVE IN STUPID CONSPIRACY THEORIES

Clowner posted:

somehow a cheaper place to live than some shithole in Alabama that aspires to have an IHOP.

I blame the FIRE sector driving up everyone's cost-of-living.

America is #1 at soaking the poor.

# ? Nov 12, 2018 06:05

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H.P. Hovercraft: Jan 12, 2004; one thing a computer can do that most humans can't is be sealed up in a cardboard box and sit in a warehouse; Slippery Tilde

i pay over 50% of my take home paycheck to my landlord

since this is silicon valley our rent is higher than the national median household income, for a small two bedroom apartment in the suburbs

most of the neighbors pay an even higher portion of their income, everyone here is paycheck to paycheck and the #1 topic of discussion here is where everyone is planning to move away to

# ? Nov 12, 2018 06:23

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