I’m lucky that I can say yes. That said, I still wouldnt do it for free. What about you, how do you feel about your job/career/field in general?

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    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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        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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          USD? Thats around what I’ve made for the last decade (power plant engineering). Its absolutely enough to be happy and secure. If a woman tells you that on a date shes the wrong one brother. Making that much btw, I wouldn’t bring it up on the first date, if asked, I’d just say “I do alright”

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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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              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.