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by firstplacelast 3y ago
Middle managers have very little power…they know or at least the good ones do. If you’re in even a medium COL area, housing has sky rocketed. Even the old boomer middle managers worth their salt know this. I quit a job in biotech earlier th
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by firstplacelast 3y ago
Hard agree, but it’s not actionable for anyone not rich. Bottom up approaches are the only things that will solve these things, so yes you and me have to put our money and talents where our mouths are. This board tends towards believing in
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by firstplacelast 3y ago
I’ve never really believed in aliens/UFO sightings, but have been doing some online reading the last 6months. The forums are filled with 99% delusional people trying to connect made-up information to every other conspiracy theory out t
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by firstplacelast 3y ago
Hahahahaha…I wish this could be a serious contender, but seems not. I will go work construction for 1/3 the salary than work in an open-office ever again. I’ve done manual labor jobs in the past, so not hyperbole. I’d probably figure s
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by firstplacelast 3y ago
Maybe it’s because of my learning style (I don’t do well with lecture-style formats), but I disagree. I love learning and have a couple degrees, had a full-ride (academic) to undergrad and only went to 50% of classes (was docked full letter
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by firstplacelast 3y ago
That says more about you than them, though. You’re projecting your own inability to translate knowledge into new systems and assume the same of others.
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by firstplacelast 3y ago
People living longer makes the world worse. Maybe there’s an economic system that would not do this, but currently most people’s lives are not improved with increased longevity across the board. It’s one of the reasons I left my job in phar
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by firstplacelast 3y ago
Beauty has just as many caveats as intelligence. “You’re not ugly, just poor.” Is a saying for a reason. There’s plastic surgery, ozempic, having the time/drive to work out consistently, dressing well, eating well, etc etc. People can
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by firstplacelast 3y ago
I’m not in SF, so maybe easier for me, but most of my good friends are outside of my industry. On one hand, it might remove opportunities for networking/progression. On the other hand, I want to get out of my work-self when I’m off the
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by firstplacelast 3y ago
Absolutely, yes. I can’t speak for everyone, but for whatever reason those things cause me (a very middle-class person) a lot of stress. Maybe because of what I was taught or how I grew up or my experiences, which are not the same for every
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by firstplacelast 4y ago
I think people/execs/etc, have shot themselves in the foot with housing. Sure a 200-500k salary sounds great, but in the markets where they exist, they don’t go super far on the essentials. You can eat great, you can buy a fancy c
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by firstplacelast 4y ago
I mean there is a way out, it would just require a large swath of people to quit feeding into the machine for a few weeks to a few months. It does not have to be violent at all. 99% of people do not allocate capital, do not write laws, and
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by firstplacelast 4y ago
There are tons of things America could do for the rental and home-ownership market, but we won’t because people will scream that it’s unfair and it will hurt the upper class and existing home owners. The government could force and pay for c
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by firstplacelast 4y ago
I never used stitch fix, but remember looking at them several years ago. Agree that it’s a very tough problem to solve, especially for men’s wear. I think it’s a great idea for a company and can work very well, but I don’t think it has the
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by firstplacelast 4y ago
Anecdata…I took a new job for a decent raise at the beginning of the year. The inflation this year ate up 1/3-1/2 of the raise. I quit a month ago as the money wasn’t enough for me to move forward in life (VHCOL area), management
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by firstplacelast 4y ago
People aren’t anymore interesting than anywhere else. Work is no more meaningful than anywhere else. It’s a big “selling point” for the industry, but it’s just a way to get people to get paid less (yay you’re making the world better than al
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by firstplacelast 4y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33671264 ^Most recent discussion I’ve seen. I worked in genomics, left this year because you’re underpaid and often disregarded “IT-help” that assists wildly over-educated and underpaid
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by firstplacelast 4y ago
The thing is many will pay big bucks to contractors/consultants/IT services/LIMS systems, but if you’re an employee, nope. They have a hard time having someone with a BS or MS making 50-75k more than a freshly-minted PhD. I j
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by firstplacelast 4y ago
Food shortages/expenses is probably one of the few things that would actually get the average person to revolt/do something other than work their crap career-job that cant buy them a house. This could be fun ! I mean when it happe
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by firstplacelast 4y ago
Reminds me of this old blog post about being homeless in the sims ( https://aliceandkev.wordpress.com/2009/06/09/alice-and-kev/ ). A funny and slightly sad read.
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by firstplacelast 4y ago
Maybe it’s because I have better soft skills, but I’ve had a much easier time getting freelancing gigs than full-time employment. I’ve only had a handful of freelancing gigs and only on the side, but no one has ever made me do a code test o
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by firstplacelast 4y ago
Could I please have your peanuts?
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by firstplacelast 4y ago
…or form a union with only those capable of generating 10M/year and dictate that market together. Easier than starting a company.
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by firstplacelast 4y ago
Enough to put 20-30% down on a very nice condo/town-house pre-pandemic in HCOL area. That was my goal for the money. I’ve given up on that for the time being. I can rent for cheaper, so took a little chunk and had fun with it (I’m not
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by firstplacelast 4y ago
Yes, in software. More data science related. Only got it because an old boss of mine reached out to me to do some side work.
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by firstplacelast 4y ago
I finally made it to a point that I have no debt and racked up a considerable savings over the pandemic. I quit my job a couple months ago (have a side consulting gig that pays 80% of my expenses for minimal hours) and I have been loving it
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by firstplacelast 5y ago
I did address this fact in my comment as well.
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by firstplacelast 5y ago
On a population wide evaluation, you are correct. However, some people are just more susceptible. It's complex, but if you just take a simplistic view of a single gene becoming cancerous, some people are only 1 mutation away and others
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by firstplacelast 5y ago
That seems ridiculous. If I buy something from an online store, I pay the same no matter where I live. I might pay more in transit costs/taxes, but I have personally never seen prices change for the actual product no matter where my sh
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by firstplacelast 5y ago
So I get it, but also people are way overhyping software development in this thread (which is expected on a tech website). The only thing going for it is an insane salary and lots of us don’t have those. I’ve worked in biotech/healthca

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