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cstine
Apr 15, 2004

What's in the box?!?
Were I you, I'd stay in California long enough to build up a 12+ month living-in-NCY emergency fund, basing the amount you need on what you'd need if you ACTUALLY lived in NYC, then go do what you like doing in a place you like.

Life is too short to be loving miserable because you'll make more money in one place than another, if you hate what you're doing.

Also, don't buy any real estate in CA if that means you're there another couple of months. That's stupid.

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cstine
Apr 15, 2004

What's in the box?!?

Enigma89 posted:

What happens after 30 for people in companies? Do the salaries start to sky rocket? Or are the salaries just so depressed now that its basically only executives making the money?

Salaries do not 'sky rocket' unless you get a MBA and a job that has stock options, through the connections either you or your family have to the upper c-levels at some company.

Raises not a guarantee anymore. Most places you don't get annual raises and bonuses because of 'the economy' or 'we didn't do as well as our stockholders wanted' or whatever. If you want better income and raises, you job hop every other year or so to a new company who will pay you more and *that* is where your raises are.

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