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This thread has a lot of people saying things like “don’t get a degree” or “get a trade cert” or “work in a different field to get experience” which I feel completely side-steps many issues and the realities that many people face. It’s just a fundamentally broken system. The value of degrees fluctuates so much because of a political climate that has the stability of a pane of glass being violently thrown off of a building and a job market that prioritizes either posting ghost jobs to overwork employees to death or outsourcing its candidate search to whoever can guess the most buzzwords in an application.
While volatile is a good way to describe the day to day. It’s been trending worse for many years now.
worse for whom?
if you are making 100K or more, you’re doing great.
Hard disagree. Tax breaks don’t get that low. Nobody making 100k is setting up shell companies and passing on generational wealth. That’s food security, a decent vehicle, and enough buying power to get a mortgage on a really cheap house.
It’s not nothing, but you’re not doing great. You have the buying power of two people making 30k 20 years ago.
My father was able, as a tradesman 35 years ago to buy a house outright, have two cars, new clothes and a vactaion every year.
My 3 bedroom apt was $800 a month in a nice area in the early 2000’s
disgaree all you want. the facts are the facts.
bitching that you can’t have shell corporations or afford first class plane tickets is very different than not being able to afford food, fuel, or housing.
people who make 100K+ typically come from generational wealth. overwhelmingly. they had educated parents, overwhelmingly, etc.
you’re just mad you can’t afford a house, cool. i can’t afford one either, but I’m not mad about it. i own a condo instead.
i could also easily afford two kids in my condo. but i’m single because every idiot around me thinks you need 5000sq ft home to have two kids, and there is no point in having kdis unless you can take them 1st class to france every summer. but none of that is being poor or struggling, it’s being a delusional idiot who has absurd expecations that only the 1% can really afford.
You gave no facts. The facts you manufactured is wrong AF.
Every developer out there who’s worked withint 3 hours of a large city is generational wealth?
Get outa here.