u/RuminatingFish123

I had a first interview with a company in the Midwest today (job would be in Omaha or Des Moines) and I was told the payscale was $82,000-$97,000 when that stuff came up (I didn’t give a number when they asked “the question” but I countered by asking if they had a payscale for the position).

Job requires 6-8 years of experience, has senior in the title, I’m a pretty good fit based on my background, just not sure I wanna move across the country for $90,000 at this stage of my life. Yes these areas have a reputation for being cheap, but looking at apartments, they’re not really THAT cheap.

Anyone familiar with the area know if this sounds fair? When I asked this question generally I saw tons of guys on here with my YOE reporting $130,000+, I sort of have to think those guys are huge outliers and in aerospace or O&G hubs. But I also see kids saying they’re getting 75-80k right out of school in the Midwest, so 7 years later and they’re only making 90k? Something seems off, Glassdoor data is literally all over the place so I’m turning to reddit.

I’ve been playing a ton of Black Ops 7 (multiplayer, not Warzone) and recently tried to get back on Apex. I was very surprised at how clunky the game feels when moving around by comparison, BO7 movement feels super smooth and intuitive.

In Apex I was trying to look one direction while rotating and sprint in another to make sure no one had an angle on our team, I kept coming out of sprint because I’d forget I didn’t have omnimovement. I genuinely believe(d) Apex the best movement of all available FPS games but after grinding BO7 it almost feels like it needs an upgrade. It’s hard to believe the game is over 7 years old already, it definitely felt like the industry leader at the time but I’m not feeling it anymore.

I’m at 7 YOE, $80,000 salary as a design engineer, 10 days PTO. Still living at home feeling like an absolute loser but I help take care of my mom nowadays. Located in the US.

I’ve tried to branch out and find better jobs but my design experience doesn’t translate to other industries so I get offers for more or less what I currently make (at least it’s positive that I get offers, right?).

Curious what other people are at, I feel like this is the age where people really start to separate from the pack career wise, I know a guy that’s already a manager and probably makes twice what I do.

I can’t lie, I literally only played 10v10, it was genuinely so much fun for me, I just haven’t had as much fun playing since it was removed. I really want one big team offering on regular maps (not skirmish), I absolutely loved 10v10 on stuff like Hijacked.

Can it at least come back as a limited time mode?

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I tried asking on the salary subreddit but they don’t seem to be understanding me and think I’m attacking doctors.

For example, I’m a white collar worker (engineer) and my company has sliding payscales based on local COL for each of its satellite sites.

Blue collar workers also make less in rural areas.

Even other high barrier to entry fields like pharmacy and law pay less in rural areas.

What’s the difference for physicians that they end up having to be bribed to live in LCOL, rural areas?

People sort of gloss over this point that doctors can make like 50-100% more working in a rural area or in a “flyover” state as if that makes perfect sense because “nobody wants to live there”.

Yet every other profession works the other way, jobs pay the most in HCOL areas and the least in rural, LCOL areas. BLS data confirms this too.

Is it just because we have such a deep, manufactured shortage of doctors that they can pick exactly where they want to work and never have any trouble finding a job?

I’m just as strong as I was at 23 yet I look substantially worse because my body just stores so much fat in my chest and waist now. It sucks so bad, I’m intermediate level strength, 22 BMI, and look skinny fat.

The only guys I see on here without that fat pattern are on TRT.

It’s 10:45 PM and I’m scrambling to finish a project that I got dumped on me because we “really need the business”. I’m 7 years into my career making $81,000. We didn’t get a bonus this year because business slowed down so much.

Does it ever actually get better? Does the hard work ever pay off? Sometimes I go on Zillow and just feel numb because I know I’m never going to own a home.

Not to come off like too much of a whiner but this is really depressing.

Everything MW2019 onward. What’s the comp consensus?

When it inevitably pops, how much money am I going to lose?

Anyone have any reassuring numbers? I want to buy a house in the next few years, I can’t handle a 50% drawdown. My understanding is that most companies indexed to VTI are actually priced reasonably/lower than average, it’s just one sector that is a massive bubble.

Might try and get a weekend/weeknight gig like umpiring little league baseball or stocking shelves (places nearby I could ride my bike to), gas is getting super expensive and grocery prices just keep going up, I need some extra income.

What do you guys do?