Roughly equivalent to an inflation-adjusted middle class wage in the 1980s. What would you guys do to earn $150k a year? How many hours would you work? How much bullshit would you endure? Boomers think we don't want to work. I beg to differ.
I normally get somewhere between 1-2% raise every year. It has at least kept up with inflation so that I didn't get a pay cut at all, but this year is different. With the cost of living skyrocketing, and 7.5% inflation, anything less than a 7.5% pay increase is a pay cut at a time when no one can afford it. I like my job, but if they toss out another 2% raise this year, I'm going to have to make a counter offer and possibly threaten to leave. I'm an industrial electrician. I can have a new job by Monday, but that's not the point. I shouldn't have to leave and find a new job just so my pay keeps up with inflation, but I am pretty sure I'm going to have to.
It seems like every job posting these days goes on and on about how “fast-paced and exciting” their company is. I don’t want fast-paced. I want slow-paced. I want deadlines that have enough slack for me to take time and care and have a finished product I’m proud of. I want to have 15 minute conversations with my favorite coworker at the coffee machine. I want to go take a walk on a sunny day after lunch. Slow down. Breathe. And stop bragging about your stressful office culture. /rant
I was recently offered a job that would be a significant raise, ~$20k. I was offered the job without having a second interview and they did not contact any of my references. I’m not overly qualified for the position and the general vibe of the interview was interesting to say the least. The interviewers seemed overworked and fairly miserable. That atmosphere along with what seems to me like slight desperation to get the role filled are red flags in my opinion. They also wouldn’t budge on their PTO policy, which would require me to not have a paid day off until I’ve completed a YEAR of employment. The raise alone is enough to consider jumping ship at my current job, but I guess I’m wondering if any of you think I’m making a mistake.
