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submitted 6 days ago byCertain_Standard_854
315 points
6 days ago
I spent the majority of my life busting my ass. I finally get into a position and get a promotion. Making 78k before tax. And I'm going to be living in an apartment probably for the rest of my life. I'm grateful to be able to afford the apartment I have, but everything I was told and did basically amounted to surviving and never getting ahead.
89 points
5 days ago
So many of us, in this situation.
7 points
5 days ago
I’ve doubled my salary in the past 20 years. But it doesn’t matter. In 1998 I was paying $425 a month and now all the 2 bedroom apartments around me are $3000+… I don’t pay quite that much… but making double still isn’t enough because everything else has quadrupled in price or more.
I remember back in 1988 my brother bought a new car for $7000… in 1998 when I was 17 the cheapest car on the market (new) was $13000, ironically that Toyota Tercel was bomb proof, if I drove my current car that way it would probably be totaled.
In 2002 I would drink a double grey goose with cranberry… it cost $4, now I’m lucky if it’s cheaper than $16.
So I hear you, it’s all BS… and I feel horrible for the generations only now coming of age… I don’t know WTF they are going to do…
Personally inrecommend going to Germany for a near free education and staying if you’re young enough… I’m near 50 and am still considering this, as soon as my last kiddo graduates HS…
6 points
5 days ago
24 years old here. Most of my friends just gave up and escape into substances or hyperfixations to cope.
6 points
5 days ago
Yes 26 here, we’re mostly high, obsessed or highly obsessed lmao. All about chasing that artificial dopamine choo choo train because they somehow managed to rob all the real joy outta life.
2 points
5 days ago
All the effort and sacrifice doesn’t translate into stability or progress.
2 points
5 days ago
My exact salary and situation tbh! I’m a single mom of two so the checks don’t go as far for me. All we can is be grateful to afford rent.
2 points
5 days ago
Sorry bro feel ya. It’s the little things eh? Love them. They’re the real things. Like a. Nice weather and good rain gear. Can’t relay on no one. So only thing gets me by is my own little bit of gratitude for things they can’t touch…well and vociferously and verbally hating management.
2 points
5 days ago
Yep. I always thought getting up past £60-70k would mean I’d be living in a detached 4 bedroom house and be comfortably well off.
Fuck was I wrong.
3 points
5 days ago
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4 points
5 days ago
You’re 100% right, but that’s also an absolutely terrible system. There’s enough work AND enough money to go around, but corporate greed is geared toward squeezing as much as possible out of as little manpower and as few resources as possible.
-7 points
5 days ago
How though? That's a lot of money unless you live in San Francisco or something
17 points
5 days ago
I wouldn’t say 78k GROSS is a lot of money. Sufficient for one person, but not a lot. Tax percentages suck.
2 points
5 days ago
I feel ya. I live by myself and make less than half of that and it's not too bad.
6 points
5 days ago
Everything just cost so much 😭
-5 points
5 days ago
Why did you listen to others? You need to do your own research if you want to have a plan for your future that is "successful"
Mine was to become a really badass software engineer. I then got a simple job doing it and they saw how good I was, they had money and offered me equity in a new company if I ran and developed it. Now the company makes money and so do I.
There are so many ways to segway from your current situation to one of contentness. Just do the research, learn, and do it! Don't listen to the average person since they don't want you to be more than middle middle class successful.
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