There's a livechat now from youtube's premier thing so that's got some dumb motherlovers in it.

• Moved to Colorado then moved to Australia then moved to Asia then moved to North Carolina then moved to Austin

• Why aren't you trying to get out of debt? timestamp

  • She's spending 1200 more than her income

  • She didn't know

  • She claims she was wondering why her credit card balance was not going down (no she didn't pursue this any further) timestamp

• I've known about this debt so I knew this was going to happen when I was traveling I knew I was going into debt timestamp

• So I was doing a great job when I was living with my parents timestamp

• So I have my Bachelor's and my Master's in Economics timestamp

• Applying to six jobs a week timestamps

  • "Analyst" and "Consulting" positions

  • "How many should I be applying to??"

  • Resume is the most generic shit possible timestamp

    • "Well I can code!"

    • Dresses up Lululemon as fast-paced problem solving

    • Massive summary at the top

• "Thrifting" hobby timestamp

  • "Probably my biggest vice"

• Lots of eating out - claims

• "I'm going to Switzerland" timestamp

  • In January for a ski trip "It's cheaper to go there than Colorado"

  • "I can just save"

• Caleb admits that he is a homosexual who wears Lululemon booty shorts for male attention timestamp

• She's spent 130 on Lululemon clothes in the last month timestamp

  • A sweatshirt and sweatpants

• Caleb seethes because of her big r-slur energy timestamp

• What did I finance?? timestamp

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• She did a balance transfer and then racked up more debt timestamp

  • Was at

• Weird interaction thing but I'm not paypigging to see what happens timestamp

• More money down for the Swiss trip, probably 900ish? maybe 1200 with traveling? timestamp

• Student Loans timestamp

  • All on deferment - graduated 2019 Back, 2020 Master's

  • Income based repayment plan?

  • Paying $26 a month

Car Loan - timestamp

• Owes "About 17"

• 2019 Subaru Cross-Trek

• "It's only a hundred fifty bucks a month"

• "Do your parents know about all this?" timestamp

  • Her dad's a financial advisor

  • Her parents will sometimes just send her money timestamp

  • "Does he know about your situation?" "He knows that I'm in debt but he doesn't know the exact number" timestamp

• So I have totaled a car but that was a while ago timestamp

• 2,040 in the checking account

• Retirement Accounts timestamp

  • Roth IRA "I couldn't remember the login information"

    • Her dad did this for her - "a while ago" - has not contributed to it in "a while"

  • Vanguard thing - just started, 15% contribution?

• Dream is to get a PhD in Economics and become a professor timestamp

• Attempt at budgeting timestamp

• Audit of her linkedin applications timestamp

The follow-up dunk

Like zombies the homeless ruin everything

I don't know how he manages to do it, he's like the redditor of stock prognosticators.

Unlike some, I'm not scared to post my position tho.

OP starts with a typical cute twink post about how they need unions because some of them have been laid off. OP gets called out for being laid off, getting severance, got two job offers (one for $350k, a government job for $150k) in a month and was asking about taking both jobs to be overemployed. He then reveals he got laid off from one of them and the other one rescinded the offer (lol what?).

Some Euro starts talking about how great unions are and how he's in one. Later deletes his account out of shame most likely.

I am part of an union. And unemployment fund.

I highly, highly recommend.

Pay?

Oh lol. 50k @ 4yoe, but you cant straight up compare.

Cost structures are so different between EU and US. That 50k means very comfortable life. Not luxorious, but comfortable.

So you have a worse quality of life than someone in the US with 4 yoe and no union

... Uh, what? :D

Where did you get that "worse quality of life"? Out of your butt?

Because you said comfortable but not luxury. 4 yoe here you're making $150k most places.

QoL is much better in Europe for low wage earners though but not SWEs. It's common for european SWEs to want to move to the states.

That 50k takes you way further here than there.

As I said, you cant straight up compare.

It's just impossible to compare guys..

The average worker does absolutely not make 3x their European counterpart.

"European" is a very broad term. You have places where it's somewhat comparable, but souther down you go, the bigger the gap. From where I am, 40k€ per year is treated as very good, that's what a lot of surgeons make.

Fun fact: unions can include protections against offshoring as part of their negotiations! :D

Any examples of this working out in reality? What's to stop a business owner from shutting down an entire department and offshoring anyway, or paying a 3rd party company for their software instead of hiring devs onshore?

All the unions that have done this successfully in the past?

NBA players have a union that sets a minimum salary of $1.15M, shrug

Also some post with someone claiming to make $750k a year and wanting a union.

Better working conditions? I had ribs for lunch (free), I worked out in the middle of the day for 1.5 hrs, and I left work at 4pm. And I make almost $400,000 a year. No union would ever get me this job, that would only be reserved for the union leaders.

Just wait until the reorg happens, you're put on a team doing something you don't want to do with a manager who doesn't go to bat for you, and pushed with impossible deadlines. Oh, and half your team, many who you've worked closely with and became friends with, got laid off. It would be much better to have consistent working conditions. I make $750k (with free lunch too, whoopty shit) and this career is a fricking rollercoaster

It's cold in and power companies are jacking up prices knowing the plebs will pay up to suffer a whit of chill in the soulless housing estate riddled with pyrite (not me btw lmao I live in an area built in the 1960s surrounded by pensioners)

How do you handle the cold? I hang heavy spools of blankets from my bed like pic related and stack woolen bed covers over my duvet. Thick underclothes of merino wool and socks along with my housecoat and a plush sleeping mask keep me nigh overheated at night I'm saving hundreds of euros over these weeks. I only turn on the heating if I have guests over. I'm keeping

Vax me!