These days six figures is about what you need to live like you made $60,000 about 10 to 15 years ago. So now to live like a journeyman tradesman 15 years ago you got to make about twice as much.
I make nowhere even near $60,000. My Fiance earns around $20 or $21 an hour, which is considered super duper good - she gets around $40,000 or less PRE-TAX. 2,000 hours x $20 = $40,000. THEN TAKE YOUR TAXES, and all of the other fucking taxes and fees and 10% increases in across the board for everything, and I mean everything, you ever need to pay for - if you're lucky the increase hasn't surpassed 10%, at least so far. Where in the hell are all of these supposed good jobs outside of politics and healthcare? Union steel mill starts around $19 or so, same shit, filthy theater of operations, and bullshit rotating shifts - for the same shit pay.
Well that's why I'm going to school. I'm working on qualifying to be a sonographer, which starts you out around six figures with a associate's degree. My hope is that with my income plus my girlfriend's, there will be enough in the household to start getting ahead of this shit. Get a piece of land where we can grow our own produce, put an off-grid home on it like a yurt, because they sell some really nice yurts for like 20 or 30,000 bucks, keep our debt to a minimum, and invest all the savings that we can in order to get income passively on top of our salaries. My hope is that we'll be able to pull ahead enough to outstrip the inflation and achieve our financial independence within the next 15 years. If you don't plan ahead and get some kind of assets that you can keep, and get some property that you don't have to rent that somebody else can't throw you off of, and if you don't get ahead of this shit sooner rather than later, you're going to be in some deep trouble. Long-term, my goal is to work remotely in the Philippines or Thailand or some country with a relatively high level of safety and a good exchange rate for the dollar.
I was in college from 2007-2011. During perfect recession #2. Perfect recession #1 I was in 7th grade, 9/11/2001. Perfect recession #3 was 2020 and we're still on the way down - not even on the way up yet (we won't ever truthfully be on the way up without drastic measures and changes taking place.) Fuck globalists, I hate them with a goddamn passion. I'm not so sure investing in your education will net you the benefits that you seek, especially with the "big lie" that no one wants to work floating around - covering up the real truth that in reality, businesses aren't really hiring above minimum wage jobs, and even then they're not moving the process along quickly. When they pay someone minimum wage they're not paying them to remotely thrive and contribute in this sort of economy.
I'm not going in just to get a bullshit degree, I'm going in to get a specific associates degree with a very specific skill set attached to it. It's sonography, those jobs are on indeed right now and I'm willing to move to where the work is at. Those jobs pay $90,000 a year it really depends on what you want to do and what degree you get. I'm looking to go into medical. I don't see the need for doctors and hospitals going away anytime soon
These days six figures is about what you need to live like you made $60,000 about 10 to 15 years ago. So now to live like a journeyman tradesman 15 years ago you got to make about twice as much.
I make nowhere even near $60,000. My Fiance earns around $20 or $21 an hour, which is considered super duper good - she gets around $40,000 or less PRE-TAX. 2,000 hours x $20 = $40,000. THEN TAKE YOUR TAXES, and all of the other fucking taxes and fees and 10% increases in across the board for everything, and I mean everything, you ever need to pay for - if you're lucky the increase hasn't surpassed 10%, at least so far. Where in the hell are all of these supposed good jobs outside of politics and healthcare? Union steel mill starts around $19 or so, same shit, filthy theater of operations, and bullshit rotating shifts - for the same shit pay.
Well that's why I'm going to school. I'm working on qualifying to be a sonographer, which starts you out around six figures with a associate's degree. My hope is that with my income plus my girlfriend's, there will be enough in the household to start getting ahead of this shit. Get a piece of land where we can grow our own produce, put an off-grid home on it like a yurt, because they sell some really nice yurts for like 20 or 30,000 bucks, keep our debt to a minimum, and invest all the savings that we can in order to get income passively on top of our salaries. My hope is that we'll be able to pull ahead enough to outstrip the inflation and achieve our financial independence within the next 15 years. If you don't plan ahead and get some kind of assets that you can keep, and get some property that you don't have to rent that somebody else can't throw you off of, and if you don't get ahead of this shit sooner rather than later, you're going to be in some deep trouble. Long-term, my goal is to work remotely in the Philippines or Thailand or some country with a relatively high level of safety and a good exchange rate for the dollar.
I was in college from 2007-2011. During perfect recession #2. Perfect recession #1 I was in 7th grade, 9/11/2001. Perfect recession #3 was 2020 and we're still on the way down - not even on the way up yet (we won't ever truthfully be on the way up without drastic measures and changes taking place.) Fuck globalists, I hate them with a goddamn passion. I'm not so sure investing in your education will net you the benefits that you seek, especially with the "big lie" that no one wants to work floating around - covering up the real truth that in reality, businesses aren't really hiring above minimum wage jobs, and even then they're not moving the process along quickly. When they pay someone minimum wage they're not paying them to remotely thrive and contribute in this sort of economy.
I'm not going in just to get a bullshit degree, I'm going in to get a specific associates degree with a very specific skill set attached to it. It's sonography, those jobs are on indeed right now and I'm willing to move to where the work is at. Those jobs pay $90,000 a year it really depends on what you want to do and what degree you get. I'm looking to go into medical. I don't see the need for doctors and hospitals going away anytime soon
yeah i took a job making over 60k and thought i'd finally arrived. but it turns out i still have very little buying power after taxes and bills.