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Shut it. It's pertinent to the point
How much money do you make per year?
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Very telling if that's your interpretation. Anyway, don't hate, I support the Duck, got one kid at UO and my family vacations in Bend, I will stop in to Portland next week and give you a long, soft hug.
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I completely agree. It's not that I dwell on others having more money than me, it's just an unavoidable observation at times - one that invokes conversation rather than jealousy.
Anyway, I do believe that people gain wisdom and perspective with age (no offense), so as a senior member of this MB what would you prefer: big fish in a small pond, or small fish in a big pond. Assume same level of personal income and net worth in both scenarios.
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Babba-booey. Go Ducks.
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Just got a new job so I'm happy to disclose because I'm excited. My salary is 140k.
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Damn, man. Take a nice vacation when you can. If you have a new job and can't afford time off right away, head to Vegas for an epic weekend!
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If other threads are truth I am a couple of years older than you. I made 2.15 cents an hour washing dishes in 1970. No one I knew made 10 dollars an hour unless they were selling drugs. The best money I ever made was 5.10 cents an hour working for a furniture store in early 1972 before I joined the Navy.
I am proud to say I have worked my ass off for 39 years and I do make 6 figures with no college degree. I put 2 children through college and paid for a wedding the amount I will not disclose. But you can't sniff my job today without at least a BA in electronics. So I believe it is much tougher today to get where I have gotten than when I was young. No doubt. I received considerations in employment because I was a Viet Nam vet. Not so sure those kind of considerations still exsist for our brave men and women in uniform.
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$37-40K depending on OT. Not much but with no college education, I'm pretty pleased.
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I actually had a union job at Good Humor while in college and the pay rate was $9.90/hour. I worked in their ice box filling orders for the drivers, was a part time book keeper and did some quality control. On top of that I could have as many hours as I wanted. I remember working 79 straight days with over time. So, it was easy to pay off my yearly college costs which I remember being around $3200/yr
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$3200 a year? That aint even half of a semester of tuition at a decent school now.
4 years of college for you cost around as much as 1 year of tuition at U of I's college of Engineering for me lol
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That's why I keep saying it's harder now then when I was growing up
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Yeah it is actually a bit surprising to see you say that.... most folks in your generation shrug off the college costs of the modern day and mutter something about bootstraps but the debt most college educations incur is terrible.
I am envious of people I know whose parents ate the cost of their college education.
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WE'RE SUPPOSE TO GET AN EDUCATION THEN MAGICALLY HIGH PAYING JOBS WILL JUST COME TO US! COMEON NOW!
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WE'RE SUPPOSE TO GET AN EDUCATION THEN MAGICALLY HIGH PAYING JOBS WILL JUST COME TO US! COMEON NOW!
To be frank.... I have a high paying job in IT.... and it still isn't easy being weighed down by loans.
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Well, you were still able to buy a house. So there is that.
But yeah, student loans suck.
I think its easier for those who go into computer science to get a job than other fields at the moment... Not everyone can go into CS though.. And eventually it becomes so saturated that it won't be a desirable field.
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Computer Science? I doubt it becomes a saturated field.... its not something that anyone can just do because it has a nice job market.
And yeah I am doing fine.... my point being that even with my degree and my job... if student loans can slow me down... I know they are crippling for other people in our generation who don't get into a high paying job or any job right away.
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Ahhh....Union...that explains why it was twice as much as anyone else made at the time.
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You'd be surprised how many people get CS degrees and dont have any idea what they're doing when they get a job.
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I put both my kids through college but their spouses not so much. My daughter-in-law racked up so much in school loans that they had them consolidated into a 30 year loan. Just like a mortgage. Now that sucks
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