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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It is not the company’s job to over pay you as you have high bills.

I worked at an amazing company once 830 am to 430 pm job, subsidized cafeteria, great 401k match, job security, amazing health insurance. The catch pay was 1/2 of other companies.

Our workforce was largely people under 30 lived at home, people over 55 laid off and needed steady income and health insurance till 65 and “semi” stay at home Moms 30-50 who wanted low areas job with great health insurance and most lived close to office.

We used to joke 
what do you say to an employee quitting for higher pay at 30? 
See you at 55.

I worked there when single loved it. Plenty time to date, go get MBA at night, hang out happy hours and when got engaged quit as needed more salary to afford buying a house, wedding having kids.

Guess what I had a high stress high pay job from 34-60. Now I am at a BS job semi non profit lower pay waiting till retirement date.

My current job the demographic is just my my job 30 years ago. We post VP level and SVP jobs around 100k less than market. And people 52-62 laid off facing age discrimination gladly take them. And our junior role kids out of JMU, Towson type college with B averages gladly take lower paid job, get experience and move on,

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Ok, except in the current job market, the salary is low, most places aren't remote anymore and the benefits are terrible. Be grateful you're almost to retirement. We were on track to retire early-ish but not anymore. [/quote]

The job market is not bad it, is the same. The Hard jobs, in person, long hours, with travel with lots of credentials required still pay a lot. Trouble is I will tell people go to Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac or Capital One in DC area for higher pay they are like it is in person, they make you do a lot of work, very political, no job security, higher stress, longer hours or I tell them move to NYC go to Goldman, JP Morgan or join a FAANNG with RSUS and they are like oh no Nivida, Amazon, will make me work a ton of hours and have strick KPIs if I dont meet could lose job.

Well dude thats life. There is also problem they have mediocore resumes. Went to second tier college, worked at no name companies, have no certifications, weak networking skills and want high pay 9-5 jobs that are 3-4 days remote. Yea in 2021/2022 in red hot job market they existed for a brief period. It is 2026 if you want high pay it is in person, high stress and long hours.  [/quote]

It sounds like this pointing to leaving the coasts and HCOL areas.

While you might make a little less in a lower COL area, the housing cost alone will more than make up that difference. [/quote]

The housings costs are in a way less when I was in NYC than DC. Because property taxes on large  houses sky high by in NYC surburbs and first tier public schools home prices were sky high it was acceptable to live in a small split or cape in a second or third tier neighborhood here in DC that is not. In NYC in 2012 I had a paid off split level of 1,300 sf, two used cars, a small plot close to train and mowed my own lawn and with property taxes of $600 a month and a 300K salary was doing great. Moved to DC and that is not a thing. Dont know why. My neighors were CPAs, Lawyers, worked on Wall Street in my town mixed in blue collar people and older people. Job loss or getting less pay at work was as big an issue. I have neighbors now making 500k in DC but are stresed as have a one million mortgages, lease on two cars, day care, private school. It is a house of cards. And kids off two school here has to be Georgetown or T20 schools my old town in state college or live at home and go to college up the road. It seemed in NYC everyone scare to take on debt but here we love it. [/quote]

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