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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > C-SPAM > What is Your Salary, and cpsam thread for struggle session
 
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Spergin Morlock
Aug 8, 2009

 $57k at mid level IT job in the Seattle area. I'm not living large, but I also have no complaints.

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Spergin Morlock
Aug 8, 2009

i say swears online posted:

I make $14.65/hr as the highest-paid person in an accounting auditing office at a resort. I work overnight and live in a medium-cost-of-living city. My rent and utilities are 60% of my take-home pay. The night shift plus availability of alcohol at work keeps me from pursuing anything better. I'm just slowly drowning.

I did this same job at 17 for $7.50/hr. I'm 33 now.

lol night auditor. say hello to mr patel for me.

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Spergin Morlock
Aug 8, 2009

i say swears online posted:

that was the owner where i worked at 17 lol

I used to work at Paymentech back in the day which is how I know approximately 75% of the men who own or manage hotels in the US are named Mr Patel

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Spergin Morlock
Aug 8, 2009

Gnossiennes posted:

i make about 80k living in CA, and tbqh making more than i ever expected to make in my career. my husband makes about 30-40k working retail (he's been working for the same company for 10+ years).

we do ok. i still have about 30k in student loans and i pay about 1k/mo on it. our rent is like 2.2k/mo. we can't afford a house and probably never will, and houses here start at 500k with a hugely competitive market. plus we're just two people, why the gently caress would we need a whole house???

more critically (to me), i'm trans and terrified to live anywhere else, and i've had an easy experience here with coming out/living as an openly trans person. no issues with my workplace, no one has really been rude to me about it, and i don't want to lose that. i wish all trans people could have this, and god i am scared of losing it. i don't know if i'm strong enough to deal with the alternative.

Not that it's much better cost wise, but Seattle is safe for trans people too.

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