Trying to get to know the community a bit more.
If you want to share figures (you don't have to) you might probably want to use a throwaway account, better safe than sorry.
Would never say no to more. Could probably make more at same level. But am mostly happy / feel fortunate for where I’m at.
I always feel like the tipping point is where you are starting to mostly consider other aspects (work-life balance, work load, colleagues, type of work) over pay.
For me that's happening now, before I would mostly take the salary into account.
This is where I’ve been for a couple of years now. Could I make more money and have more responsibility? Absolutely. But I make plenty, I work with good people, and I “work” from home twice a week. My week is 10 hours of real work, 10 hours of meetings about that work, and 20 hours of fucking around waiting for other people to finish their work. I do most of my fucking around at home where I can do whatever I want. Do I really want to give up this slack ass job to chase a 10->15% raise? I’m not sure I do.
Hah. No. Not even close. I'm struggling with finding job, and measly minimum pay would be a live saver for me. I guess I'm not worth it.
Don’t confuse capitalisms determination of whether you will work a given job with your worth as a person! You’re worth it
I am extremely overpaid. I am also quitting soon and will most likely find an underpaid job, so I'm really trying to make the most of my extra money right now!
Satisfied enough, I guess. I make a little over half a million a year. Thing is, I burn about $30k/mo right now trying to keep my small businesses afloat (debts from mid-covid, payroll, medical benefits for employees). A little less than $10k/mo goes to my own bills, savings, retirement, health, etc. Rest usually goes back to the community or local charitable causes.
I take zero money out of my businesses and haven't for 3 years or so now.
What would be great is if I could get back to where the businesses are self-sustaining, but the last few COVID years changed so much that I'm beginning to doubt it's possible and at the moment I don't have the heart to just shut them down or leave the employees without a job.
But, I can't work 80 hours+ a week forever. I have a family too. I think it will help once the debts are paid off, but just trend/trajectory-wise it will still take some additional foot traffic and sales growth that I'm just not sure will happen anymore.
On my side, I am happy with my current salary.
When I started working, I was always looking for the next raise, because I felt like I was never making enough.
Now I feel like I have enough money to live a good life and save enough to feel safe, so pretty happy at the moment.
I was. I was making 100k AUD, able to support another through University and easily pay my relatively small mortgage.
With interest rates gone up, I'm paying 50% more for the mortgage, and bigger increase than that on food, gas, electricity, rates and hot water. We are on the edge of comfortable, though our budget still has a little fat we can trim. I don't like the effective pay decrease I've had this last while, so no; I would be happy going back to two years ago levels of comfort.
Wait, your interest rate on your mortgage changed after you signed it? That's whack
Yeah, in Australia we don't have fixed rate mortgages for more than a few years.
