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Before we left San Diego I offered quite a few times to go in, unpaid, to help out. This man works 6 days a week, open to close. I don’t know what sort of upbri
by bsagdiyev 5y ago
Before we left San Diego I offered quite a few times to go in, unpaid, to help out. This man works 6 days a week, open to close. I don’t know what sort of upbringing people on this site seem to have but it doesn’t feel “working class” to me most of the time.
- Dudeman112 5y ago>what sort of upbringing people on this site seem to have but it doesn’t feel “working class” to me most of the time Some people around these parts have ardently defended that 100k USD is poverty wage and that having a net worth of 1 million doesn't make you rich. So I'm inclined to definitely not believe "working class".
- Ma8ee 5y agoI must have missed those people. People here are in general not poor, but most are neither completely out of touch.
- tluyben2 5y agoActually helping run this place showed me how skewed this world is. I met many hospitality service owners, small ones mostly and most of them are lucky to take 5-10k profit in a year in total: that while most people I know in software and management get angry when they cannot go on multiple 10k vacations a year...
- filoeleven 5y agoHow is he living in San Diego on $416 / mo?
- bsagdiyev 5y agoHe isn’t, him and his wife earn around 40k total before tax. It’s possible but it isn’t fun. I talk about it elsewhere in the comments. She works as a preschool teacher.