Of Filthy Lucre: I long ago accepted the fact that I will never be wealthy. In doing some salary research today, I'm getting the impression that I may never be more prosperous than I am now. It's a disheartening thought.
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Uncanny MONCHICHI said, (268 days ago)
That's the thing, isn't it? Investments are the way to get ahead, but you kind of need to BE ahead already to get started on them.
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@AArtaud: but what about modern medicine! 150 is cheese. But then again your replacement heart will cost 150k.
Whatever - you can't control everything. Drink booze.
fuznotfuz said, (268 days ago)
I'm currently not at the top of my profession in terms of eventual earnings, but it might take me a good 5-10 years to get back to this point when I leave this temp job to take a permanent position.
Oom Mao Mao said, (268 days ago)
Really? You'd have to take a pay cut for a permanent position? That sucks.
sparky said, (268 days ago)
In Australia, at least, casual jobs pay more to offset the things like superannuation and paid holiday leave that come for free with a permanent position.
Quential said, (268 days ago)
They say that the average person goes through seven careers in a lifetime. Not jobs, CAREERS.
Uncanny MONCHICHI said, (267 days ago)
In which case, I feel another career change coming on.
Though I'll give this field a bit, see if any opportunities arise outside my current company.
I realize that a lot of you don't even HAVE jobs. Maybe I should quit my bitchin'.
But I look down the road, at my future and at inflation and what I can actually do and what people would pay me for what I can actually do... and I think I've topped out.
At what seems to me to be a relatively low level. And what with stagnant wages and inflation, I will probably be making LESS as the years go on.
Crap.