What’s your work life balance like in your country?

they do
they are filthy rich

Pretty common for a lawyer, doctor, or an engineer

Average US salary is $60k and that's including boomer sociopaths and pajeet coder who skew it upwards, vast majority of Americans including whites literally have negative money when taking credit card debt, student loans, car loans, and mortgages into account

A 16 year old high school kid flipping burgers at McDonalds on weekends makes that much in USA, Americans are extremely rich compared to the rest of the world.

what about a finance guy

Homeless people in the US make more than the average wage here

60k is median for full time workers, no one can really skew it since its median.

would you rather make 10k annually but be able to afford everything in your country or make 200k in the usa and be unable to afford anything

Fucking hell, the funny thing is they make that much yet still get practically no time off, but at that salary you could just quit after a year and relax.

Dunno about US but in Canada, doctors work about 14 days straight and get 3 weeks off

Neet since always. Never worked, never will. Alcoholic.

This is actually one of the main reasons our health care system is too expensive.

All the blame goes to insurance and pharma companies, and to some extent that is true, but more excess spending is doctor and nurse salary. We don't graduate enough people from medical school and we don't have enough residences to put them in. Bloated admin staff is another culprit, but the solution to that is more complicated and relates to regulations (why do hospitals need so much admin staff in USA).

you invest the time in your twenties and thirties onwards is amazing.

Is it?
Thats true for some people, and being a doctor maybe it'll be true for you.
But far more people end up getting scammed than "making it".

In America, the economic engine is making promises you never intend to keep. I think UK works same way?

work at a bank

Get access to profiles of clients where you can see their incomes

Located in upper middle class area

29 year old dentist walks in, makes 190k a year

Wmaf couple. The guy is white and 32 years old and makes 300k a year, the girl is 28 and makes 185k a year

Random street shitter ""international student " making 130k a year in her early 30s

Guys who are barley 25 making 70-90k a year

40+ crowd is insane. board o director members with incomes close to a million dollars a year.

People in private banking with 5+ million dollars in assets, multiple mortgages, line of credits with over half a million on them

Meanwhile I'm in my late 20s, making poverty wage. I finished uni and then proceeded to do nothing with my life afterwards because of autism

My friend has a PHD from stanford, works at a household name company for 300k.

For most engineers, closer to 180k is good salary.

I am an engineer a few years out of university earning the equivalent of the low 40s in USD. Suifuel threads.

Also I've unironcally seen lots of people who have incomes that are 300k + but they are all either one of the following

On the board of directors for a company, executives/directors etc

Have their own businesses that turned successful

Are over the age of 40

yeah that literally only works if you’re a doctor
it’s the only worthwhile degree nowadays

I'd argue against it actually, they're about to experience massive stagnation in the UK anyway and gradual replacement in the future, which is about time. Medical careers and arr' NHS have been propped up for too long. Anyone studying medicine at this point is falling for the memes a little and really hasn't considered QoL in later life entirely at all or knows many who are working as actual doctors or consultants.

get a job in military development. Growth industry.

in my country the median doctor clears 3-4 times the average wage every month, the next best paying job is a type of lawyer which pays 1.5x , however the number of medical students almost doubled in recent years so we’ll see if that affects the wages

I'm glad I don't have access to this sort of information, otherwise I would kms myself. I'm 34 and I've never made more than £28,000 per year.

I have actually started working for a defence company for the first couple of years as a software engineer, the salary prospects were not great at all, and a lot of the seniors advised me against staying so I've ended up in a more general simulation and mechanical engineering role which also isn't great at all but it beats developing rockets or jet engines for zog. I think it's generally total shit in most engineering sectors unless you get lucky with a role or get into a technical lead or project management role. I'd like to believe that military development was a significant growth industry here, but I don't see it happening.

I work as much as possible in order not to think of her. Then I go home and think of her

You read stats like this and then you have to listen to Trump and his base yap for months about how they've been ripped off by evil Europeans and how everyone owes them reparations for their suffering.

Imagine having the entire global financial system rigged in your favour and then still have the gall to complain that you're not getting a big enough slice of the pie.

maybe of an african doctor who came to europe on boat

what a fucking loser

Even if I rip my ass off, I won't start earing $300k/year. I will never have enough money to cover my retirement or own my own place.
So I choose alcoholism.

grim
Not paying their military well doesnt go well for countries future.
In general, what we strive for is to make ourself valuable. You put yourself in a situation where they need to pay you, cause if they dont they go downhill. The fact that you did that & still didnt get paid is grim.

Yeah but Sweden tech startups are 90% scams, staffed by absolute incompetents .

They're either grifting for some grants money, or using protection from rich boomer CEOs to buy their companies products, so they can pretend their products have an actual market.

And by incompetents, I mean people who are there to make money, and have zero subject matter expertise, with 1-2 (out of a staff of maybe 10) engineers trying to keep the scam seem legit.

I have firsthand experience with some Swedish 'AI' startups lol.

I imagine you saying it out loud in your disusting accent like "uat a fakin lusèrrr"

First is literally me, but I just finished working 65/week for the last two months and this weekend is my first full weekend off in months.

Tell me more about this "her"

If a job feels exploitative—like being treated as inferior or disposable—it’s better to walk away than endure disrespect. After leaving, I might struggle to find work again in this environment. Maybe starting fresh in a new region or country could offer better opportunities. It’s tragic when people feel their lives lack meaning because they never had children, but this isn’t universal. Many Europeans, even those without wealth or bureaucratic power, find fulfillment in other ways: through community, creativity, or personal growth. Stereotyping entire groups (like ‘rich kids’ or ‘euro poors’) ignores the complexity of individual lives."

poogpt

there really is not much to it, Cob. My only ever meaninful relationship, I didn't need anybody else in my life, I was content and I thought she was too. All of a sudden the distance was too much after 3 years, and she didn't love me enough to move in with me abroad. Or she didn't love me anymore, as she said. She really made me believe she was the one until the day.

Was this an LDR from the beginning?

Yuros lack ambition and drive. They don't deserve riches.

Most people are not making anywhere near that. Our averages are skewed because we have guys like Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg here. Average person here is actually making $40-50k.

kind of. I was already studying abroad at the time, but I would come home where she also lives relatively frequently for holidays, during the summer, while I was looking for jobs etc, for long periods sometimes, so it was a bit of a hybrid thing. I had known her for years before. Right when the time was perfect to bridge the gap (she just graduated after leaving me), she just refused to even try to commit. I really tried anything, was open to all sorts of compromises, anything but losing the job I had worked towards for 5+ years. I could have also gone back once the contract (4 years) was over, I would have waited for her. Thank you for reading my blog.

the american fetish to INSIST that they're actually secretly poor despite being the richest nation on the entire planet with the highest wages on the planet will never stop being hilarious

when you talk about these numbers, do you mean gross or net?

Median individual income for full-time workers in 62k

USA

If I grind for 50 years maybe I can afford to own a broken down shack in the middle of nowhere