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cj1976
Joined: 26 Oct 2005
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| Is it ever ok to brag about your income? Seems to be just another form of dick-waving contest. |
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atwood
Joined: 26 Dec 2009
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| Posted: Sun Dec 14, 2014 1:36 am Post subject: |
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| cj1976 wrote: |
| Is it ever ok to brag about your income? Seems to be just another form of dick-waving contest. |
Post of the day! |
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candy bar
Joined: 03 Dec 2012
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| Posted: Sun Dec 14, 2014 1:55 am Post subject: |
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| basic69isokay wrote: |
Do.ppl really brag about 2.9?
I wouldn't even brag about 3.9. What is that, 45,000 $/YR?
Puts you barely in the average of what a..... plumber or bus driver or construction worker makes back home.. If that |
I make 2.3 and I can save more on it than I could on $50,000 in the southeastern USA. 3.9 would probably be like $80,000. |
As an aside, props to EZE for not exaggerating his wage. Usually on Dave's it seems that every poster on the Gen Discussion forum ends up claiming that they are either raking in 100k or driving BMWs or giving briefings to Obama or whatever.
I think this is the first time in a long while I have seen someone not hesitate to say they make the standard rate.
Props to EZE. |
Uuhuu. Or Bragging about flying air missions or something. |
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Shimokitazawa
Joined: 14 Dec 2007
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Sun Dec 14, 2014 2:15 am Post subject: |
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| american garbage men are the real winners. some cities pay 50 grand a year pension after only working 20 years. graduate high school at 18. pick up trash till you are 38. then collect 50 grand a year for the rest of your life while sipping tropical drinks in SE Asia! |
I regard them as being essentially millionaires, simply because that's what you would need to have invested and if you earned 5% in annual returns. You'd end up with $50,000. Pretty sweet, especially if you start at 20. Retired by 40 - 45.
Municipal employees, cops, firemen, garbagemen, etc. are all on this deal if they can stick with it for 25 years.
In fact, the guys who stay longer, and some do, are losing money for the amount of time they work vs retiring when they are eligible. |
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GENO123
Joined: 28 Jan 2010
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| Posted: Sun Dec 14, 2014 7:21 am Post subject: |
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| More than a few posters exaggerate or use a very questionable method for calculating what they earn. |
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Shimokitazawa
Joined: 14 Dec 2007
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Sun Dec 14, 2014 8:13 am Post subject: |
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| GENO123 wrote: |
| More than a few posters exaggerate or use a very questionable method for calculating what they earn. |
True, but I know personally from family that were employed by government in some of the occupations listed above, and they are indeed receiving $40,000 - $50,000 a year in pension. |
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World Traveler
Joined: 29 May 2009
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| Posted: Sun Dec 14, 2014 8:16 am Post subject: |
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| Teachers can easily get 50,000 a year or more for the rest of their life once they retire. Some even 60,000 or more. That's retiring in one's mid fifties. All that money over decades adds up to more than a million dollars. |
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misher
Joined: 14 Oct 2008
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| Posted: Sun Dec 14, 2014 1:35 pm Post subject: |
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TEFL abroad or ESL at home was never an occupation where one would make the big bucks. However, you COULD achieve a comfortable middle class lifestyle and squirrel enough away to retire in your 50s. Those days are over.
And getting a PhD/lecturing in English/TESOL in a uni isn't worth it anymore for the newcomers. When you factor in postdoc, publications, administrative duties etc, your monthly salary + paid vacations would probably work out to about 25-30$ an hour for every hour worked. 10 years of education for that?
No thanks unless you're a kid with money already and are just looking to be a full time student for the rest of your life. Met plenty of those. |
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Steelrails
Joined: 12 Mar 2009
Location: Earth, Solar System
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| Posted: Sun Dec 14, 2014 3:30 pm Post subject: |
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| candy bar wrote: |
| Steelrails wrote: |
| EZE wrote: |
| basic69isokay wrote: |
Do.ppl really brag about 2.9?
I wouldn't even brag about 3.9. What is that, 45,000 $/YR?
Puts you barely in the average of what a..... plumber or bus driver or construction worker makes back home.. If that |
I make 2.3 and I can save more on it than I could on $50,000 in the southeastern USA. 3.9 would probably be like $80,000. |
As an aside, props to EZE for not exaggerating his wage. Usually on Dave's it seems that every poster on the Gen Discussion forum ends up claiming that they are either raking in 100k or driving BMWs or giving briefings to Obama or whatever.
I think this is the first time in a long while I have seen someone not hesitate to say they make the standard rate.
Props to EZE. |
Uuhuu. Or Bragging about flying air missions or something. |
Don't confuse your lack of reading comprehension for me making things up.
I never claimed that or anything like it. Go and find the quote where I claimed that. |
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Died By Bear
Joined: 13 Jul 2010
Location: On the big lake they call Gitche Gumee
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| You guys may hate steelheart, but I think he's smart enough to pilot a fighter jet, drop a JDAM on the norks, and parachute into the safety of his loving wife's arms if he wanted to. I may not agree with him, but I respect his ability to tango. |
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GENO123
Joined: 28 Jan 2010
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| Posted: Sun Dec 14, 2014 4:01 pm Post subject: |
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| Shimokitazawa wrote: |
| GENO123 wrote: |
| More than a few posters exaggerate or use a very questionable method for calculating what they earn. |
True, but I know personally from family that were employed by government in some of the occupations listed above, and they are indeed receiving $40,000 - $50,000 a year in pension. |
What I meant was in reference to what they say they earn from teaching EFL in Korea.
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Steelrails
Joined: 12 Mar 2009
Location: Earth, Solar System
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| Posted: Sun Dec 14, 2014 4:26 pm Post subject: |
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| Died By Bear wrote: |
| You guys may hate steelheart, but I think he's smart enough to pilot a fighter jet, drop a JDAM on the norks, and parachute into the safety of his loving wife's arms if he wanted to. I may not agree with him, but I respect his ability to tango. |
If I was smart it would be loving girlfriend and not wife. Anyways, all the smarts in the world can't make up for playing your cards right.
No, it would be piloting a C-130, delivering laundry to Michael Dukakis AFB (Alaska), and crash land into the divorce and alimony paper serving arms of my wife. |
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