Month: March 2022

$25 dollars per hour is just slightly over 50k annual before taxes here in 2022. After Taxes it's 44,000 After Insurance it's 38,000 After Rent/Mortgage it's closer to 20,000 That's 54 dollars per day left over for 3 meals, utilities for a dwelling, a car, gas, parking, car insurance, car maintenance, copays, overdraft fees, late fees, you're not rich enough fees. Not to mention netflix, date night, beers with the boys, vacations, CELL PHONE, 3 other streaming services, maybe a dessert/soda/treat once in a while, clothing and shoes, hygiene items, dog food, vet bills. God forbid someone would want to turn on the AC for too long or drink anything but water for these 365 days we have each year to divide and decide how to use our income best so that we can maintain basic human necessities.

Years 1-18 spend half your day memorizing shit you’ll forget later Years 18-22 hopefully do the same except pay large sums of money you don’t have 22-death slave away doing something probably completely unrelated to what you spend good money you didn’t have to maybe pay it off eventually. Maybe bring another person into the suffering. Maybe you’ll get a few hours to your fucking self at the end of the day to sit around and watch YouTube videos about places you’ll never go because half your fucking money goes to rent paying some parasite half your check. All for what? To aquire more shit you hope makes you happy? We’re living on one planet in one solar system 1 galaxy out of billions of galaxies. You can’t tell me I can’t find something fucking better to do than sit around and enter some numbers on a computer for 8…

Work in consulting. Asked for a raise a while ago and was denied. Comp is VERY low – way under market. Just saw that they’re charging clients almost $200/hr of my time while they pay me under $25/hour. I’m literally suffering because of inflation while the execs come into the office in their brand new cars and go on their $20k+ vacations… Edit: i also saw the rate including overhead cost (so how much I cost to the business) and it’s around $75/hr