The cost of living is out of control, my wife and I never go on vacation and haven't since before the pandemic, work like dogs, and we wanted to upgrade our home to get a little more space for the kids and stop paying condo fees, but due to interest rates and high prices we could barely even buy the house we currently live in.
Cost of living is absolutely out of control and wages seem to have stagnated. How are others handling this? Everywhere I look there are fast cars, full restaurants, people just getting back from Mexico. What the fuck are all these people doing for work?!
PS: I'm in Canada. Things here I feel are much worse than the USA.
Honestly, there are a lot of bullshit jobs out there-they were/are made up out of thin air and the pay is completely out of step with real careers.
It goes something like this:
College: we need more fucking money! Let's make a new degree program for some mundane job!
College Cronies: How about Human Resources? I know traditionally speaking, it's been bottom rung.. but we'll just make a bachelor's degree program for it.
Workplace: HR position available. Bachelor degree+ 2 years experience required.
Starting Salary: $100k
Then rinse and repeat this ideology over and over again the past 4 decades.
It is insane what HR makes these days.
HR used to be the guy who would interview people and fire people. Shit jobs
gophers.
They still are but you know, that pay...
I recently found out music professors at my local university make $280k a year.
Make HR payroll again!