• DagwoodIII@piefed.socialEnglish
    25·
    18 hours ago

    This book actually helped

    “Discover What You’re Best At” Linda Gale

    Turns out that having a job that fits you makes you hate work less.

  • rockSlayer@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    11·
    21 hours ago

    Billionaires don’t want you to know this, but you can end the rat race by forming a union. The work will still be shit, but you’ll get good pay, benefits, and a union

    • Sabin10@lemmy.world
      1·
      20 hours ago

      But what if my non union shop has better wages, pay increases, benefits and PTO than comparable positions in union shops? I know that unions are a good thing but I feel like I’m not in a position where I would benefit from one.

      • Mac@mander.xyzEnglish
        4·
        17 hours ago

        I don’t benefit from one

        They got to em. RIP to this user 😔

      • Mac@mander.xyzEnglish
        1·
        17 hours ago

        The question is:
        What are they getting out of your relationship that more worth it to them?

        • Sabin10@lemmy.world
          1·
          10 hours ago

          In general we delivery above average products in a quarter the time that our competitors are capable of. If you are just average at the job you won’t make it in my shop which is part of why our compensation is a significant percentage above average. Unionizing would mean a 30% pay cut (I’d lose my home at that rate) and half the benefit coverage for me. Maybe it’s their way of keeping the union out (the printer union is notoriously difficult to deal with) but I’ll happily reap the benefits of that arrangement.

    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
      10·
      22 hours ago

      Finding a job is a game of roulette. You spin and you hope for the best.

      I’ve got to say, I’ve done better every time I changed jobs. But I also turned down a fair number of offers once I realized what the business was actually doing.

      Sometimes you get a job just to be closer to where you want to work, so you can keep applying for the better job until you land it.

  • krisevol@lemmus.orgEnglish
    21·
    20 hours ago

    There are a ton of jobs are are cool to have. They are rare, but if you have a good marketable skill they are pretty easy to find. I love my job. I not making the most, but 180k a year is very livable and investing early in my life had made a good nest egg

    • Undaunted@feddit.org
      3·
      17 hours ago

      I don’t know where you live and what currency you’re talking about, but 180k € a year in Germany would put you in the top 2% of highest incomes in the whole country. That’s waaaaaay above “livable”.

      • boonhet@sopuli.xyz
        2·
        17 hours ago

        There are cities in the US where that’s about middle class, I’m assuming that’s where they’re from

        • krisevol@lemmus.orgEnglish
          1·
          17 hours ago

          I live in California. It’s a working class wage and will make it so i have a modesto pension, but my real money will come from my investments. I should have 4.5 million saved by retirement unless everything goes belly up.

          I used to make 100k a yr in 2000, and i will tell you what i was middle class then. To have the same purchasing power i would need to make 350k a year. I’ve had to cut back a lot.

          I would hate to be a new person entering this economy now, it would be even worse. The average mortgage for a median house here is 4.5k a month. After taxes and living expenses making my salary would be almost impossible to start a family as a single income household. I wouldn’t call that middle class. I would call that working poor.

          • thebestaquaman@lemmy.world
            3·
            16 hours ago

            Wait… sorry? In what world is 180k USD/year “working class”? I make the equivalent of like 70k/year before my nordic-country taxes take their share. That puts me decently well off here, at least above “working class” wage. I was in the US a couple years back, and prices were lower than they are here.

            Like, at 70k/yr (before Nordic taxes), I felt like I was pretty well off in the US. Definitely not lower-end at least. How on earth does that translate to 180k/yr being “working class”?