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Example: Comparing engineering salaries :/. It can be addictive and disheartening to look up salaries and see giant numbers.
by therealdrag0 7y ago
Example: Comparing engineering salaries :/. It can be addictive and disheartening to look up salaries and see giant numbers.
- ben_w 7y agoPerhaps I’m unusual, but other people earning more than me doesn’t dishearten me. My first job after uni was UK national average for all adults, so I felt well off even on “only” £24k in 2007, but ever since then, no matter how much I get paid, other people keep telling me I don’t earn enough. If anything, the idea of earning twice as much feels weird rather than aspirational.
- backupcavalry 7y agoPerhaps some of them also meant you don't earn enough in the sense that they feel you're worth more than what you're being paid, which can be a reasonable belief. But I suppose that in of itself can be unhealthy if taken too far.
- yibg 7y agoThis happens with me and I’m not proud of it. I make a pretty healthy salary working in the valley, certainly higher than most. But of course there are plenty people that make more. When I see these I get that brief sense of negative emotion. I don’t like it but not sure how to control it either. Except I guess not look up engineering salaries.