Assuming I want to own a home and have kids in this VHCOL region, I will need to work about 20-30 years to achieve this goal. I’m into personal finance, so here’s my projection. I would love to move and work remote, but my partner has a career that’s in tech, but much less remote friendly. I make a pretty obscene salary that falls within your definition of “needing to care”.īut I live in a VHCOL city. I agree there’s a point which that moral inflection point occurs, but I think the number is complex to come up to. But it’s irrelevant - I was commenting on the comment calling people in general soulless for maximizing compensation. I didn’t try to assume anything about the blog post author. I’ve tried my best not to pass judgment onto you, but ask yourself - what kind of privilege affords you to think that the twenty year old second generation immigrants of today with no family wealth or financial lifeboat should give up their chance of securing generational (not even multigenerational) wealth in the richest country in the world just to achieve the same impact but feel better about themselves? The choice is even easier if you factor in the level of privilege it takes to turn down generational money for someone else’s moral compass. So when faced with the choice of doing nothing on something you believe in for very little versus doing nothing on something you don’t for a lot, the choice is extremely easy.
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In the case of my volunteerism, pay equates to the pay of my full time colleagues that worked for those organizations. Nothing of meaning ever gets done, and the pay is pennies to boot. I’ve worked at startups that align closely with my moral views. I’ve volunteered for non profits as a developer. At big corp, you are a small cog in the big machine. Long gone are the days where you believed an individual could make a difference. It’s called being disillusioned with your impact on the world, a feeling that more and more people are feeling. I'll be sad to leave them.Reading judgmental comments like this also upsets me. Number of housemates: Paris: 0, London: 2 friends. Paycheque amount: Between €8,500 (£7,405) and €10,500 (£9,147) depending on the month and the number of holidays taken. All I gained was debt, a torn glute muscle and knees that sound like crisp packets." I have a 0% interest credit card which I'm now frantically trying to pay off as my 'controlled spending' went a bit bonkers after I drunkenly signed up to two marathons. I'm the first to admit that I've historically been frivolous with money as I rarely manage to say no to little impulse buys or holiday suggestions.
Now it's a balance between the money I will lose and the fun I will have. I no longer get paid holiday or sick days, which has changed the way I view holidays. I'm paying rent on a flat in Paris and London but have handed in my notice on the London flat as, although it seems high-flying to live in two capital cities, I need to feed myself. The move to Paris has been very expensive and required pulling money out of savings to pay for rental fees and all the costs that come from setting up my own company. I'd lived in London for many years during and after uni and was itching to move somewhere new after realising that no hobby or club I joined could fill this need for something different. This week: "I am an engineer and recently left a permanent staff job to become a contractor for an engineering company in Paris.
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