What's Your Yearly Salary?

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I get paid weekly, enough almost pay rent with one check. Every body tells me to buy a house , i like my Expendable income thought.
Plus i dont have to mow yard, scoop snow, about 6 years ago my dishwasher kicked out on me , and with in two hours i had a brand new one installed, free.
A friend of mine lives in chicago, she pays twice as much as me around 1500 for an apartment i dont if that includes parrking.
Oh i work in manufacturing for a long time ive had people call me a grease monkey. You know the young professionals.

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you donā€™t always want to knowā€¦

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What an odd question for a public forum. :flushed:Lol.

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You are underpaid!!!

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This is what Iā€™ve always found funny. I live in Finland and here the older generations are extremely protective of the exact amount and some even any info of their salary. It even took my own mother 20 years to tell me anything about how much sheā€™s paid.

The younger generations however are pretty liberal about it and I donā€™t see any problems in telling my exact salary.

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Nothing good comes of that.

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But whatā€™s the big fuss? I live in an extremely jealous country and we even have a saying that a Finnish guy is ready to pay $50 so that his neighbour doesnā€™t get $100 but Iā€™ve never ran into problems when discussing salary.

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My experience has been that, when people find out how much you make, they know how much to ask you for.

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That only shows what kind of people to eliminate from oneā€™s life.

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As much as eliminating family from oneā€™s life can be cathartic, it causes more drama than it is worth in many cases. I find it easier to just not bring up income and maintain civility vs knowing the exact income of people now no longer in my life, haha.

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Iā€™ve seen very similar T3h Pwnisher. And thatā€™s just family.

If other people (friends, or friend of friend types) even think you make more than they do, suddenly you OWE them something.

Like ā€œCome on man, you can spot me a fifty. Didnā€™t I loan you some a while back?..ā€

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Must be cultural differences then. I havenā€™t encountered anything like that and even those Iā€™ve heard about have been raging alcoholics and junkies asking money from every one of their relatives.

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Iā€™m not rich by worldly standards, but I have most everything I want/need. I live in Alabama. Our cost of living is low compared to other places. My $350k house in Alabama would be a $2 million house somewhere else. Salaries are adjusted as well. I make less here than I would elsewhere, but I am still in the top 2-3% of Alabama citizens.

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The problem is these generally arenā€™t bad people and this kind of shit only happens when it comes to income. And when income disparity gets high enough, accompanied by certain negative societal perceptions of high earners(corrupt; ass kisser; luck(LOL!); sits around and do nothing all day while subordinates do all the work etc), things can get ugly when you really donā€™t want them to.

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Yup. Itā€™s that little bit of ugliness that is under the surface of a LOT of people that just doesnā€™t have a chance to manifest if income isnā€™t brought up.

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Here people generally donā€™t have such issues with friends and family even if they have a very well paying job or got one coming. Unless of course the one asking for money has other issues like alcoholism etc. But when it comes to neighbors and people that arenā€™t friends, ooooh boy itā€™s free for all. Hard work is good unless it yields money, then itā€™s bad. A guy making profit from a company he built by himself is frowned upon while a lottery winner is congratulated. This seems to be changing a lot during the last generations since young people tend to have completely different views.

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Oh yeah, all work is virtuous. Until its time to pay up. Then that whole field is just garbage.

Oh, the stories I could tell you about catching that attitude.

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Itā€™s almost funny to see people praising the hard work of a lone entrepreneur until his work actually pays off. If he is able to build his company big enough to hire people to work for him, somehow he owes all his success and most of his income to his workers.

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I make enough that anywhere else but in NY people would think I was doing quite well -lol.

S

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I make enough to have a nice place to live, a nice truck to drive, good food to eat, more than one girlfriend, a cocaine habit and a serious gambling problem.

Just not all of those things at once.

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