Author: Olivia

And there's no info about it as usual. What on earth is going on here now?

Both my wife and I work. Pretty good paying jobs. She is a school psychologist and I am shop manager. But we will now be totally fucked. Rent is $2700 a month and child care is 4k. Just those 2 things is going to bankrupt me. I am trapped. Can't quit to stay home almost not worth it to stay. I want to have them in a good daycare instead of having some rando watch my baby and toddler and that is just the going rate around here. I already have picked myself up by the bootstraps and the system has crushed me.

I got to quit a job I have a brutal love/hate relationship with. Lots of ups and downs with my time at this company in my almost 8 years there. I’ll miss a lot of the great people I work with but life moves on. During my time at this place I’ve been passed over for a Director position twice, only to have the newest hire make 5 people leave in the last 9 months. He acted like a child when I gave him my notice! Hahaha only worried about what he was going to do. This man has failed to learn anyones position on the team and is in way over his head. The CEO acted like a normal human, wished me good luck and was understanding of the situation. He did look a bit worried. It felt so good to resign for better pay and a shorter commute.

So, living in Queensland I've been looking at some of the stories here with digust. The conditions Americans live under should be considered cruel and unusual punishment. I was inspired though, and wondered what I could get for myself. I'm currently paid AUD80k/yr as a system administrator. We're a small team and I'm a jack-of-all-trades, so I also do helpdesk, printer tech, developer, DBA and devops engineer stuff, and some QA when a developer insists that “there's nothing wrong with the code, it must be the infrastructure”. For my job title, my pay is probably about average, but I can find positions up to $120k. A 50% pay bump would be nice, and I might be an outside chance to convince the big boss to pay me that much. Then I went looking for DevOps Engineer. The further I scrolled, the more shocked I was. State Government for $112k, private…

I recently graduated college and have seen a common pattern among my friends who are salaried. They think that because they're salaried, they're not hourly workers which means: if their job requires them to work more than the 9-5/6, then that's fine because they're getting paid a salary. I really hate this way of thinking since if you look at your pay (salaried or not), they pay you some hourly rate. Whenever I try to challenge them on this they tell me that I'm being an ungrateful brat (in a joking way but still haha) because I'm a software developer and that means I shouldn't complain. Fair enough, I don't have the same struggles as them. But it's still common in my field to work extra hours and not expect to be paid overtime. The other problem is these people who don't take any PTO. They're paid days off and…