Most jobs aren’t worth it financially

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Hi - I majored in history and still make over 250k. I do work in tech but my liberal arts education has never been a barrier there; in fact it's been a huge plus.

What do you do in tech that gets you $250K but doesn't require tech education? Sales? Or do you actually know how to code but just didn't go to school for it?

Product Development/Management. Don't know how to code, don't do sales. Started in tech from the bottom (QA/Design) and worked my way up.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I make $100K, $180K household, and we have a comfortable middle class life. There's not much I want that we don't have.

NP. I’d love to know, where you live now, where you grew up, where did you go to college, how much debt did you graduate with and how much help did you have from family to pay for college and with purchasing a home?

What is your racial/ethnic background?
How much guidance did your parents/family provide on getting started in life? Do you have kids?

NP - No one needs to provide you a backstory. You clearly have an internet connection so are therefore better off than the vast majority of the world.

Sure, nobody is obligated to provide a backstory but I'm with PP wanting to know more info, because it definitely seems like there's something the OP left out.

So often people come into these thread being like "I don't know what everybody is complaining about, I make [$X] and live in a big house in a neighborhood with great schools and never want for anything!" and it turns out they bought their house for $400,000 in 1997 or their parents gave them $800,000 for a down payment which is great for them but completely useless for the people who actually have to pay for things on their own in the present day.

You are assuming people are leaving out that they got help, or didn’t have student loans, or whatever.

In my case (not the PP you were questioning) the reason I have a $250k HHI and everything I need and many things that I want, and feel well off, is that I am satisfied with things that many people don’t find acceptable. My house is a 1950s 1200 sq ft cape that needs work, in a neighborhood where everyone else’s first language is Spanish. I have only one child. I really couldn’t care less about cars. Does it go? Fine, I’m happy. We haven’t been on any international vacations, and we’ve never been to Disney. I shop at Food Lion, and they don’t even carry things like nice cheese and olives or expensive cuts of meat.

BUT. I love my job, I love my kid, I love my spouse. We laugh a lot and do fun things together. We save for retirement. We go on vacation and stay in the woods.

You probably see my life as unacceptable, but I see it as a very good life.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hi - I majored in history and still make over 250k. I do work in tech but my liberal arts education has never been a barrier there; in fact it's been a huge plus.

What do you do in tech that gets you $250K but doesn't require tech education? Sales? Or do you actually know how to code but just didn't go to school for it?

Product Development/Management. Don't know how to code, don't do sales. Started in tech from the bottom (QA/Design) and worked my way up.

There are lots of other non-coding roles in tech that pay well and don't require specific degrees:

Product and Growth Marketing, Customer Success Management (can be pseudo-sales and can be very different), Design/Creative Director, Business Development, Project or Development managers (different from Product), and the aforementioned Product Management track. Without a targeted degree you might have to start out in some more junior roles, learn on the job, and grow into those fields; but all of them can easily surpass 250k in base salary at the Director/VP+ level and some at even junior Manager levels if it's at a big tech firm.

[Anonymous]

CS? You could be replaced by AI that can write and repair code in 3.5 seconds. No human can do that, OP. I wouldn't be so cocky. AI is coming for your job, and much sooner than you think.

[Anonymous]

I don't know, they make me have food to eat and roof over my head and some heat in winter. So, seems worth it to me.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:CS? You could be replaced by AI that can write and repair code in 3.5 seconds. No human can do that, OP. I wouldn't be so cocky. AI is coming for your job, and much sooner than you think.

Not only did the OP go into CS, they seem to not work in tech either. Coding for a government agency might be rewarding in other ways, and that's fine if it is, but if you're chief complaint is lack of pay... maybe OP should be looking into working in tech considering their degree.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:CS? You could be replaced by AI that can write and repair code in 3.5 seconds. No human can do that, OP. I wouldn't be so cocky. AI is coming for your job, and much sooner than you think.

I don’t think you know anything about computer science but I’m glad you enjoyed that article you read.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I make $100K, $180K household, and we have a comfortable middle class life. There's not much I want that we don't have.

NP. I’d love to know, where you live now, where you grew up, where did you go to college, how much debt did you graduate with and how much help did you have from family to pay for college and with purchasing a home?

What is your racial/ethnic background?
How much guidance did your parents/family provide on getting started in life? Do you have kids?

NP - No one needs to provide you a backstory. You clearly have an internet connection so are therefore better off than the vast majority of the world.

Sure, nobody is obligated to provide a backstory but I'm with PP wanting to know more info, because it definitely seems like there's something the OP left out.

So often people come into these thread being like "I don't know what everybody is complaining about, I make [$X] and live in a big house in a neighborhood with great schools and never want for anything!" and it turns out they bought their house for $400,000 in 1997 or their parents gave them $800,000 for a down payment which is great for them but completely useless for the people who actually have to pay for things on their own in the present day.

Well, if that’s what you mean, then I agree with you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I make $100K, $180K household, and we have a comfortable middle class life. There's not much I want that we don't have.

NP. I’d love to know, where you live now, where you grew up, where did you go to college, how much debt did you graduate with and how much help did you have from family to pay for college and with purchasing a home?

What is your racial/ethnic background?
How much guidance did your parents/family provide on getting started in life? Do you have kids?

NP - No one needs to provide you a backstory. You clearly have an internet connection so are therefore better off than the vast majority of the world.

Sure, nobody is obligated to provide a backstory but I'm with PP wanting to know more info, because it definitely seems like there's something the OP left out.

So often people come into these thread being like "I don't know what everybody is complaining about, I make [$X] and live in a big house in a neighborhood with great schools and never want for anything!" and it turns out they bought their house for $400,000 in 1997 or their parents gave them $800,000 for a down payment which is great for them but completely useless for the people who actually have to pay for things on their own in the present day.

You are assuming people are leaving out that they got help, or didn’t have student loans, or whatever.

In my case (not the PP you were questioning) the reason I have a $250k HHI and everything I need and many things that I want, and feel well off, is that I am satisfied with things that many people don’t find acceptable. My house is a 1950s 1200 sq ft cape that needs work, in a neighborhood where everyone else’s first language is Spanish. I have only one child. I really couldn’t care less about cars. Does it go? Fine, I’m happy. We haven’t been on any international vacations, and we’ve never been to Disney. I shop at Food Lion, and they don’t even carry things like nice cheese and olives or expensive cuts of meat.

BUT. I love my job, I love my kid, I love my spouse. We laugh a lot and do fun things together. We save for retirement. We go on vacation and stay in the woods.

You probably see my life as unacceptable, but I see it as a very good life.

LOL.

"I have a great lifestyle because I'm happy with the simple things. Also because I make a full $70,000 more than the person the comment was addressed to."

The only thing about your life I see as unacceptable is your propensity to insert yourself in conversations that have nothing to do with you.