I work in a very specialized field and I'm just now making on the low end of adequate after fighting for a 19% raise this year (which has all gone to inflation).
I love my job, my boss, the environment, the location, etc. Literally the only big complaint I have is that the pay is low. I look at other jobs but most are offering only a few dollars more an hour. Because of the way the housing market is I can't justify moving my family for only a few thousand more a year. I feel trapped.
We just barely make ends meet. Unless I can get a salary raise by 50% or more I can't see a move happening and I don't know if I'll find that. Idk just needed to vent. I'd be happy where I am if I made 5 to 10k more a year. It would literally end most of our financial worries yet to get it I'd have to move. And if I moved I'd need to be making 20k to 30k more a year just to be ble to get a house.