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And yes, lots of guys (even gay) just have zero clue about textiles.
Also a small nitpick, an espadrille is not a woman’s shoe, it’s a style as far as I’m aware. I have a pair I wear in the summer.
In this country we typically don’t care how our actions and policies affect broader society, from NIMBYism to faux-meritocracies to non-universal healthcare.
I really can’t fault anyone for not caring how their actions affect others, it’s been engrained in our culture/laws/policies as long as I’ve been alive.
Let the strongest survive. We do it in every other facet of our lives (well it’s more let the strongest take all and let the weakest suffer for decades).
I’m vaccinated, boosted, and wear masks when needed. I do that for me, not for society. Personally, I’d love 20-40M Americans to kick the bucket with this pandemic, free up housing, decrease the labor supply, lower carbon emissions. Sounds wonderful.
I had two full-time jobs during the pandemic for 1.5years. One I had been at for 3 years previously and 70% of the time I had a very manageable work-load. I was only 100% remote for 3 months at the start of the pandemic, then in hybrid office/wfh, they are highly flexible and I can work Saturday instead of a Wednesday if I want, etc.
Other position was 100% remote (even before pandemic), semi-flexible, and was for such a large organization and had so many stake-holders on every project that I barely needed to think. Pick-up a ticket, follow instructions.
A typical day for me would be to wake up at 6am and start job B, have a scrum at 9am for job B, then head into job A (10minutes commute), work at job A until 1pm, come home for a 2 hour lunch and work job B, then back to the office for job A, around 6pm come back home and finish up any work for job B and job A. When things piled up I would work 10-15 hours on the weekend.
At job B, I saw many coworkers fired for underperformance. At job A a few were also fired during this time period, but not in my dept.
I did burn out after 1.5years and left job B, also gained a bunch of weight from sitting at a desk so often. I would do it again, I saved up a down-payment for a condo in HCOL.
I have put both positions on my resume and will happily talk about this experience, have had no qualms talking to recruiters about this. Some like it, some don’t. Have been talking to one about a potential role in sales, they seem to be pretty ok with this/slightly impressed.
Also, for those that didn’t grow up poor, this is called making things work. This isn’t some crazy decision with no rationale behind it. I am used to putting my head down and working hard for long periods of time. I had a full-time job my senior year of high school (still able to earn a double ride to undergrad), I’ve had a full-time + part time job some college summers, have had 3 part-time jobs other college summers. I worked part-time through 50% of college and 70% of high school. I worked a full-time job while in grad school part-time.
So as you can see, from just wanting to exist and get ahead in life, I have unintentionally trained to be able to work two full-time jobs for awhile without fucking anyone over and delivering fair value in return for my paychecks.
If very few have a degree, companies will adjust and people will end up in similar careers without the massive time/money investment of college.
But I grew up in a place most of those on this site would not want to live (including me, though I appreciate growing up there) and as such the teachers were paid enough to buy modest homes on their own salaries without a spouse/roommate.
Listening to my own local library has been a continually worse experience over the last 2 years. Not to mention, I use wired headphones with a lightning adapter 70% of the time, which somehow causes even more issues. Disconnects. Will refuse to play unless I unplug/replug or restart my phone altogether, increasing/decreasing the sound now has occasional lag that can take upwards of 5 seconds (and you have to unplug or restart to fix).
If I thought I had a shot of whatever job is in charge of this, I’d apply in a heart-beat just to fix all of this for my own needs.
Now they very much care about your credentials and the way you got those credentials, but also jump through these extra hoops. No doctor, lawyer, nurse, etc is asked to do this asinine shit in their interviews (and yes, an RN in the bay area can bring in 200k/year...I know some).
What started out as a great idea has turned into an even more employer-centric way to sort the working class.
I hope we get to the point where the top 10% of individuals own 95% of wealth/assets in the next decade.
I work for a small, non-VC funded, company where I contribute to products that have the potential to help people live longer, healthier lives. And I get paid pretty terribly compared to the COL of my area and compared to what I could make in other industries.
It seems the vast majority of jobs we deem to “make the world a better place”, pay not great. Teachers, social workers, scientists, healthcare workers outside doc/nurse, non-profit work, etc.
Give society what they want. They want to live in a bubble of misinformation, good for them. They want to be angry and incited into violence, good for them.
From where I’m sitting, if I help people live longer, I’m shooting myself in the foot. I can barely afford a crappy condo, currently. If I have kids, their lives will be worse because I had some weird need to care about the mission of my work.
If YOU think people need to work on problems and for companies that make the world a better place, then you should be working on how to incentivize working on these problems and disincentivizing working in companies that “make the world worse.” You’re going to have to figure out how to get teachers paid as much as a banker, I wish you the best of luck.
My dad barely graduated high school and made a very nice living for himself. If anything is wrong with my life/anything goes poorly/I don’t have enough money for a house/vacation, it is because I am morally subpar and do not have a good enough relationship with Jesus.
I have a lot of older brother’s, a few who were in their 20’s in the crash of 2008 and I was in high school watching their lives go to shit. Attempting to get my dad to help me with anything (supporting me in programs/sports I wanted to take on in high school, getting money to apply to additional colleges) was met with derision.
His thought process was that education is superfluous, you need to work hard and show-up and that’s it. While both are things you need to do, it is not enough.
Myself and another sibling do not have a relationship with him, the other few do have a relationship but it is severely strained.
His rugged opinions of America and how to make it have alienated everyone around him. Even telling him these things 15+ years ago was not enough to get him to look at the world a different way.
I very much think the way older and younger generations view and experience the world are the main contributors to this massive schism.
But maybe look at some other large cities and see if others might be a better fit…and it’s not like you can’t move around every 6-12 months either.
I’m a techie, love visiting the Bay Area, but it’s not for me.
I do love LA for the density of creative folk that live there + weather. NYC is great for having everything at your fingertips, insane diversity in every facet of life, and so many high achieving residents. Chicago has an awesome big city feel, lots of amenities for cheap, but lacks a certain reach to the higher levels and the weather is brutal.
I think most large cities offer a lot for anyone under 45 who isn’t settled and is willing to put in the work to build a life/friend-group. All have trade-offs, just figure out what sounds the best.
You can always do a 180 and head back to where you came from.
Maybe related to what’s happening in Canadian English?
From run-of-the-mill influencers to professional makeup artists and drag queens.
I found that unexpected and very fascinating.
I have to do contract work as a data engineer (which pays about 60% more hourly than my bioinfo job) so I can live a decent life.
Biotech pays people like dumb-fuck children when you account for the amount of education required. Damn, it is interesting, though, which is what keeps me here.
End goal is to have my own company in biotech, which is why I contract to build up a nest egg for eventual entrepreneurial pursuits.
Many people with PhD’s in computational bio/bioinformatics in HCOL areas are bringing in <130k/year. It’s really bad.
I always thought that was crazy Gossip Girl shit, yet I got into a good university and was in certain clubs and social circles where I met a ton of people with trust funds (1M-30M).
That's when I decided to change the approach to my career. I'm not even a social person, so the number of people I was meeting wasn't astronomical, and I wasn't at an elite university, just a very good one.
I still see it today living in a large city. The number of people who have trust funds or parents willing to give them 200k-1M to put down on a house absolutely astounds me! I know it's a small % of people, but a small % of people is still a ton of people!
He understands about 40% as much about the biology, yet he's very good at getting people to drop/trim things that are not going to be worthwhile. He often adds tons of constraints that allow our researchers to hone in on what's going to drive the company forward instead of languishing in a million possibilities.
I think I will likely see a 1/3 decrease in my take home in 1.5-2 years.
For me it all boils down to a feeling of stability and hope for the future. Houses here start at 700k and retirement is expensive.
I also did just pay off my student loans this year after a decade of grappling with them. So that’s probably contributed to my increased happiness as well (I would have paid them off this year even if I hadn’t gotten the raise).
Why do people think that waiting 2 weeks or 2 months will solve it? Only way that works is if enough people have it and now have immunity, which helps prevent spread when quarantine is over.
We are going to have a worse economic impact from mass quarantine than the 200 thousand people (mostly over 60) that would have died.
They’re only concerned with results and it’s a slow growing business, I am however extremely underpaid.
Getting ready to take the jump to a new job with a 70% pay increase, but the last few years my life has been sweet (besides living in a very shitty apartment).
He spent a decade at one company then left for another company where he worked for 30 years and topped out at a VP making 200-something a year in a low cost of living area.
No college degree, not very substantial critical thinking skills, and not a good “people person.”
When interviewing for his replacement, they wouldn’t consider anyone without an MBA.
I don’t even know how I feel about that, but Novartis as a whole is a shitty company. Quit a year after their buyout because they completely ruined what was once a great place to work.
I'm baffled that SD made it on the list.
After I finished grad school, interviewed at 3 Syn Bio start-ups. Did not get offers from any of them, but all 3 failed within 1.5 years of me applying (blessing in disguise).
I find the technology and ramifications fascinating, but we are at least 20 years out from anything meaningful in the space.
Everyone I knew that had halfway decent programming/math skills ended up leaving eventually. The pay differential for what your skills can bring you in other industries is massive.
There's so many interesting things going on in biotech, but they're always on the horizon and are likely decades from any commercial product (synthetic bio, DNA as data storage, etc). On top of that, no one gets super rich from equity at a start-up unless you are an exec. If you're lucky and pick the right pony when it's under 30 employees and spend a decade there until a massive IPO, you'll at most get a couple 100k's. Employees in biotech are not valuable enough to get big paydays.
Also, you're likely working on products, that if successful, will help people live longer. So when you're already not paid enough to buy the cheapest home in your city, you're at best ensuring those old folks who already have homes will live longer and make your home ownership dream less likely.