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[–] 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (16 children)

My job is super important. I am proud. I work in security for medical records.

However, most people shit all over me for it. It sucks. It's 'not a real job'. I regularly get lectured by people about my job when I meet them. A lot of my first dates end pretty quickly after my job comes up.

I will never understand why. I make a great salary and great benefits too. But people seem to assume I must be some dumbass loser weirdo.

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  • [+] [S] 5 points 7 months ago* (15 children)
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    150K. People tell me it is not enough to be happy or secure, esp women on dates. They say I have 'no future' or 'you are not successful in life'.

    I feel pretty happy and secure and successful.

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  • [+] [S] 6 points 7 months ago* (13 children)
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    Yes, USD. There are no people I meet anymore who think it's a good salary. They think it's poverty.

    I was at a party two nights ago and people asked me what I did, and they immediately excused themselves once they found out my job.

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  • [–] 8 points 7 months ago (5 children)

    The median US full time salary is 62k, you're earning 2 and a half times that. Anyone who tells you that's poverty is either full of shit or deliberately trying to bring you down.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago* (4 children)

    No, they are just people who make 200K-300K and think they are in poverty and struggling, so they think anyone who makes slightly less must also be living on the streets.

    They don't acknowledge that people who make 62K are people. They are NPCs to them. And I am too.

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  • [–] 5 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    i agree with you and everyone else here. you are finding the wrong people in the wrong places.

    that said.. sorry, but 'everyone' isnt making 2-300k everywhere. you are causing your own bias somehow, somewhere in your selection process. there is no other rational explanation using, ya know, math.

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  • [+] [S] 4 points 7 months ago (5 children)
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    there are no other people to be around. everyone where i live is like that.

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  • [–] -2 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    Cool. I'd rather shoot myself than commute.

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  • [+] [S] 1 point 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 child)
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    Nah. I'm happy.

    They are just miserable people. doesn't matter if they make 50 or 500K, they just whine about how their lives are unhappy.

    What would make me unhappy is giving up everything I have built for 15 years for the sake of drinking beers with people occasionally.

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