And getting paid six figures.
I get paid 6 figures to make AI do my job
Unfortunately that’s not the same flex it used to be given our current economy. I get paid six figures and I’m scraping by.
There are too many zeros on those bills, and not enough coins.
6 figures used to be ‘you made it money’. Like if you were making $100k a year, you were decidedly upper class. Now this puts you probably right smack in the middle of middle class, especially if you have kids.
I’d say that ‘made it’ threshold is now probably around the $300k a year mark, if not higher.
Affording a house in California on $300k is challenging. Mortgages are $10k. Government will take half your income. Paying $10k/month for housing will take most of the rest.
Depends where you are and your housing situation. I know people with no kids who inherited houses and make $30-35/hour and live like kings.
Your biggest expenses as an adult tend to be kids(daycare/food/etc) then housing, so yeah its no suprise people making 60-70k who dont have to worry about those would be able to do real well.
Even then, location matters a hell of a lot for housing prices.
My 2b2b 1200sqft house in small town Texas cost me $110k in 2018, and the value really hasn’t changed a ton since (I think it’s up to 150 now).
At the time, a comparable house in Houston was at least twice that.
How big is your house?
1500 sqft.
And I presume you’re asking because maybe you’re suggesting I have a big house and fancy cars and spend my money wildly. I don’t. I live frugally., and I budget my money accordingly.
But my pay is stagnant (NC hasn’t passed a budget in a couple of years, so no pay raises for us state employees), my car and mortgage insurances are rising, as are grocery and gas prices. Kids are expensive, especially as they get older.
I also stopped buying Starbucks and eating avocado toast. I’m still waiting for those millions to pour in as a consequence. 🙄 /s
Well shit there you go, kids is the answer. You can’t say “I make over 100K a year and I’m barely scraping by” and then not mention you have done -the single most expensive thing you could have done-
100k is so more than enough. Is it enough to own a house and raise kids while the other spouse stays at home? Also yes, just less so.
Your take is delusional, my dude, and reeks of unacknowledged privilege.
This suggests that only the wealthy should be able to have kids, this is a pretty bad take.
There are plenty of lifestyle choices that can earn judgement, but having a kid or two should be a realistic option in life for people if we have a vaguely decent society.
I mean, people should be a little smarter about kids. There doesn’t need to be a law or anything of course, but I know way too many idiots that have 0 money and are having kids. I feel bad for them.
I enjoy my time and money and doing whatever I want, so none for me thanks.
No, I’m suggesting that it’s insanely expensive to raise kids in the United States, because it 100% is. It’s morally repugnant, ethically evil, and absolute bullshit, but it’s the truth.
Having kids in the US (as in multiple children), you need both parents working, or one partner making at least $100k per year.
Coming on here and pretending that 100k is barely enough for you is some performative bullshit, unless you give the full story. My wife doesn’t work, we have 3 kids, we live in a really nice part of town… etc. etc. These are hugely expensive and unnecessary things to do. Live in a worse house in a worse part of town while your wife works, and that income sets you up like a godamned king.
My cousins live in bumfuck kentucky, and raise children on FAR less. Go tell them you’re having such a hard time “scraping by” with your pitiful 100k+ salary 🙄
He never said anything about his wife, or if 100k is combined household income or that he lives in a really nice part of town.
As long as we are inventing circumstances, colud have an elder parent that needs a great deal of life care and medical care. Or they are otherwise trying to take care of poor relatives. Lot’s of circumstances can evaporate $100k despite very reasonable lifestyle choices.
As a coincidence, I also have some folks living on far less in the family. Their strategy is inherited housing. At least in my rural family, if not for inherited land they would be screwed. If they didn’t directly inherit land, they find a vaguely viable trailer and have it towed onto a cousin’s land and plug into their power, well, and septic. For one of the poorer cousins, their strategy for child rearing was “dump their kids on the wealthy cousin” (thankfully not me).
I just don’t think lamenting that a reasonably modest house for a family and indpendent living burns through $100k is “performative bullshit”.
Ehh, regional cost differences are crazy. It may be that to live within a reasonable distance of his job the cost of living far exceeds averages in the rest of the state. That 1500 sqft house might be $3500/month versus $1000 somewhere else. That extra 30k/yr cost makes 100k+ drop out of “luxury money” into “enough to live near I work” money, which is far from a windfall.
You got me. You know everything about my life, and how privileged I am from two comments. Good job.
~Go touch grass.~
same. CT prices. My past does involve misspending as a way to “fix” depression. So i’m working on THAT but yeah. Trim.
I was at a birthday party the other night, and I spoke in passing about how I had performed a brand new comedy set the previous night (I’m an amateur stand-up comedian). I’ve been doing it for a few years and I’ve gotten pretty good at it, to the point I don’t even try out my new stuff at lesser mics, I know what’s funny, I write a brand new set every couple of weeks and then go perform it at the one good show my city consistently has. I’m proud of my art, and like I said, I’ve gotten pretty good at it. like, I consistently have to slow down my set so people can finish laughing at the previous jokes.
Well at the birthday party were a couple of other guys that fancied themselves comedians, but only one of them had ever actually done it, and from what I heard, that single time wasn’t the best. It’s a karaoke party, so these guys grab the mic, and start reading jokes from their phone… and… Yeah, just lame, hacky, border-line offensive material. Like one guy just straight up googled a joke website and was reading from it. Then the next guy went on to perform and… Man I recognized half the jokes from reddit 🫥 But hey, his girlfriend was laughing so…
Anyway, they wanted me to go up, but… man, a party of like 6 people in a living room isn’t a stand-up venue. Every comedian knows this, stand-up doesn’t work outside of stand-up. Like, some stuff can, but for the most part, it just doesn’t. Especially for my comedy, I use different mannerisms and affectations to lure the crowd into thinking I’m A, then hit’em with B. So I’m essentially playing a character. If you already know who I am, then it doesn’t work as well. I did not perform for them.
I dunno, All that to say sometimes I feel like I’m a dummy who over the course of three years of regular stand-up has only amassed around 45 minutes of solid jokes… but then I saw these guys, and… I dunno man, I think I might be really fucking funny. I’ll have a chance to prove it to them soon, as I’m inching closer and closer to recording a full special. Hopefully it goes well, or else the real joke will be me writing this circlejerk fluff piece immediately before crashing/burning
Very vaguely reminiscent of the dietician I know whose dietary advice tends to be something along the lines of “if you’re happy with your weight and you’re surviving, your diet is probably fine” vs the nutritionist who insists that everyone drink raw milk and avoid seed oils
Sometimes professionals know to keep their profession at their profession
You go!!! You’re authentic. Those fools are the definition of hacks.
Also in the same vein, just do shit you arent good at if you want to be good at it. Thats not an imposter either and that counts with code (pointing at the mirror)
That’s me being able to play 7 instruments but refusing to treat the guitar as a musical instrument because my brain thinks I should just be able to play it.
The majority of people actually are imposters, but that’s not a reason to stop improving. I’m apalled at the people considered to be professionals in the industries I work in. Reps for billion dollar companies can’t tell me what their products actually do, they can only repeat bullshit marketing terms. An IT manager for a very large insurance company told me i needed to call linux to find out why the broken download link they hosted didn’t work. A plumbing inspector wouldn’t inspect my work because I’m not a licensed plumber, ignoring the fact that everything was to code, he just didn’t want to actually inspect when he could sign off without looking if I hired someone. An ophthalmology practice missed retinal cancer on a patient I sent to them because I had found a rapidly growing tumor in their eye. They saw that I had billed an imaging scan, figured they didn’t need to run another one, and didn’t see anything looking in from the outside. Faxed records are rejected all the time because no one in most offices know how to turn off error correction to allow internet faxes to come through, which I have to use because no offices use hipaa compliant encrypted email servers. A company I hired to lift a massive beam into place for my house measured to the front of the beam on one side, and the back of the beam on the other, so there’s a ten inch slant to my entire second floor. The guy working the window at taco bell asked me what fresco style meant. My partner is lactose intolerant, and the vast majority of restaurant workers seem to think mayonnaise is dairy.
I see people talking about imposter syndrome a lot lately, and i don’t think half of them are good enough at what they do to be imposters.
How did your call with Linux go?
He told me i had to take it up with keyboards.
Imagine Linus Torvalds in customer support :D
Wait wait. Does mayo not have egg in it? Wouldnt that be dairy!??
Or is that ONLY referring to milk. In my experience people call eggs and milk dairy…or I’m misremembering looll
Milk is dairy eggs aren’t. Although I do think they used to be grouped together on the old food pyramid? Maybe that’s where the confusion comes from.
Also yes, mayo is eggs.
OK. Haha felt dumb.
Imposter syndrome really said “you’re not good enough” while everyone else is just winging it 😭
Message received. I need to go use ChatGPT, too!
I’m still relatively new to my role and struggled in the last couple of weeks. So, I’ve started using AI at work and so far, it’s good at doing the most menial document editing tasks which collectively takes up too much time. Then it occurred to me, maybe my colleagues are doing the same to try to look competent. I also discovered shortcuts on my own to do certain tasks on documentation, even though it’s risky but I always doublecheck the work. And then it dawned on me, maybe my colleagues also discovered the same techniques but won’t say it as well, because it’s risky.
What if I’m an actual impostor tho? How would I even know? Everything, my life, reality, it’s all a big lie!
I don’t think anyone is using ChatGPT to drive a walmart van
yet
And some day, we’ll be working for that person.
If only I was as good at discretely impostering as that guy.
I’m not very good at writing code, but I’m really good at impostor syndrome, maybe among the best!
