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fractallogic · 2 years ago

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just want to say that the salary range of one of the jobs I applied to today was $118-140K, which is such a laughably stupid and unfathomable amount of money that I just shut it out of my brain until I was pondering idly just now

my salary right now is $54K. my only-touch-this-money-for-research-costs stipend is another $15K (so yeah I have access to $69K per year, nice). i can't IMAGINE making basically my entire two year postdoc of pay... in a year.

like I know you get paid better out of academia but holy fuck it has NOT been sinking in

#this is like BUY A HOUSE money #and BUY A NICE NAP-ON-ABLE COUCH money #and BUY THE CHAIR THAT COSTS A MONTH'S RENT RIGHT NOW money #and MOVE TO DENVER WITHOUT NEEDING RELOCATION COSTS BECAUSE THE JOB IS REMOTE money #is this how people like. afford children???#also my god the realization i had just now that before taxes i make $26/hr is also laughable #this does feel like the appropriate minimum wage.#i live comfortably! except when i was having to pay an extra 1000-1500/mo to visit my mom!#or when it comes to having to buy my own healthcare and trying to find a therapist!#it also makes me feel better about going 'six hours? yeah that seems like a good enough work day'#anyway i'm going to go to bed. tomorrow i have no participants coming in. damn them.#but it also means that maybe i'll roll in with my now monday-ly jimmy johns for lunch??#i'll see how i feel.#it also means i'm only moderately fucked by staying up this late #sorry @ cousin asking 'do what you love or get a fat salary'#having been incredibly underpaid the last 10 years i can confirm that a fat salary >>> doing what you love #becuase here's the thing i can do what i love when i'm NOT earning a fat salary #and having a fat salary and benefits means i'm more likely to actually be able to do what i love

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