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Why? I earn ~8x the salary my Mum ever earned, I earn more than anyone I know that I went to school with. I can support myself and my family. I started paying a
by daleharvey 6y ago
Why? I earn ~8x the salary my Mum ever earned, I earn more than anyone I know that I went to school with. I can support myself and my family. I started paying attention to my spending last year and realise around half of it was on stuff that I not only didnt need, but felt better without (tbh it was mostly takeaway food).
Buying a house was hard despite my "high" salary, thats ridiculous, but I don't think the solution is to earn more. I would like to see more support for my mum who lost her job of 28 years due to COVID, I would like to see less homeless addicts on the street due to lack of support, I would like to see the people around me working as hard as they can barely able to pay rent to have more options.
Seeing what tech has made of the Bay Area and asking for more of that please is misguided imo.
- nivenkos 6y agoDo you own a house though? My worry is what happens when we hit ages 50-80 and the ageism in Tech hits us hard. Without a house, retirement is a pipe dream. And houses are incredibly expensive.
- Dayshine 6y agoIn the UK, median household income is ~£30k. Average intermediate dev salary is something like £30-45k. Mortgage cost in the most expensive non-London areas (Cambridge/Oxford/Reading/South east) is maybe £1.5k/m. If your household is one developer and one person working minimum wage (~£17k) you can comfortable afford to cover all your living costs and probably save a little.