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1 day agoWould be funny if AI models are generating such wildly useless “clocks” because they ingested too many dementia screening tests in their training data
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21·2 days agoHow many $100k jobs am I going to find in Milwuakee and Detroit?
These are literally major cities with populations measured in the millions. There’s plenty of high paying jobs to be had. And the best part is, since home prices aren’t measured in the millions you can survive on a lower income.
Also I work in tech too. I’ve interviewed for jobs making $80-120k in some of the listed cities. I know people making over 100k in some of the listed cities. Median income is just that, the median. Some people are going to make more and some people are going to make less. Highly skilled workers in any major city will make high pay. Sure you might shave off 10-20% from your expected wage in your sector in a lower cost of living city but your housing costs will likely be literally be half or a third of that when compared to LA, New York City or the San Francisco Bay Area, plus with that lower cost of living comes more options if you become burnt out from your highly paid and likely high stress job, you can afford to jump ship and change careers
I meant it not in terms of pay but in terms of personality. There’s a few too many Salesforce admins with personalities like what SethTaylor@lemmy.world described
So the thing with Salesforce Admins, is its a sub-career within IT that requires minimal technical knowledge to be good at, plus by the nature of the job you end up working with vendor support, so if you’re really not good at your job you can simply pass everything to the vendor to do and just get paid to manage the projects and pass them between the business and the vendor.
I worked with a Salesforce admin who did exactly this and he collected a crazy salary for about a year while his boss tried to convince his boss’s boss to fire him for not being able to demonstrate the skills that his resume implied. I also later learned that he was also working at his brother’s Salesforce consulting firm at the same time, so extremely unprofessional and a clear conflict of interest.
Anyways, my point is, I’m not at all surprised that your sister who sounds like they’re kinda disconnected from reality works as a Salesforce admin. That’s just the aura that some Salesforce admins give off!
It’s all a numbers game really. But chances are the savings and spending you made while working a high paying job will greatly work in your favor when shifting to a much lower paying job. 5 years of 12% 401k savings (6% plus employer matching) while working at 100k will save equivalent to 10-15 years at 50k thanks to compound interest. Nice furniture, clothing and electronics you bought while working a high paying job will still be there while you work a lower paying job. Ultimately if you can downshift your spending, you can downshift your income, and cost of living is going to be a massive factor. If you can move from a HCOL area to a LCOL area you can kinda become a big fish in a small pond. I know a person who works remotely for a bay area tech company while living in rural Wisconsin. They have the biggest house in the town they live in because they make 4-6x what a local middle class household would want to make to live comfortably.
But for such a shift you have to be prepared to make changes to your spending, to how you view values of money, etc.
One side note: if you do move to a rural area, you have to plan on spending more on your vehicle. When you live in a rural area you might easily find yourself with a 40 mile daily commute, or going to a town 50 miles away for a specific store or service regularly. When you look at a rural area vs a city the age of folks’ vehicles drops dramatically because of the sheer number of miles people are putting on their vehicles
My in-laws are the country version of that. They make around 100k living in the sticks outside of a tiny town nobody outside of the area has heard of. The kind of place where you can live comfortably on a 30-40k family income with a bit of budgeting.
It all gets spent. ATVs, brand new cars, a camper, a gigantic 3k sq foot house. Heck after their very reasonable and modest house burned down they spent $3k in one go just on Christmas decorations. My mother in law is constantly getting scammed and constantly buying so much shit they don’t need nor really seem to want. My father in law will probably never be able to retire either due to the way she spends (she has been living on disability for quite a few years and now that that’s expired she’s just retired). I feel sorry for them but these are ultimately problems that they’ve made for themselves
There’s quite a few major cities in the US where houses are averaging around 300k which a 100k salary would easily cover the purchase of. Pittsburg, Detroit, Philadelphia, Milwaukee, Madison, Minneapolis, Indianapolis, St Louis for examples just off the top of my head. And if you look in rural areas between these major cities you can easily snag a 100k home so if you ever find yourself burnt out from your high paying career there’s that option too
She works in IT. Her main tool is Salesforce
Why am I not surprised that she’s a Salesforce admin?
Honestly, the white house is a living structure. Its been constantly renovated as long as its stood in order to meet the changing needs of running a country. Its what happens with most old structures, additions get made, more damaged or outdated sections get replaced, and ultimately the structure changes over time.
It also makes for some brilliant imagery of what Trump is doing to the country and he knows it. He’s both literally and figuratively tearing down and replacing the seat of power, in ways that will be technically difficult, expensive and time consuming to restore or replace. And like any structure that gets a poorly conceived modification, his changes to the country won’t be torn down and reverted to their earlier state, they’ll most likely be dressed up, the most egregious flaws will be reworked, and some of Trumps changes will remain for a long time without update. Ideally all of Trumps changes will be torn down and a completely new structure will replace them, but that’s ambitious, expensive and disruptive, plus if the wrong architect does so the entire structure can be far worse than it started.
1·6 days agoI might as well just go ahead and replace the PSU too, so the rating is up to date
A good PSU will have an 8-10 year or longer warranty so that’ll should a couple of refresh cycles or more usually. Especially if you’re upgrading every 3 years (I’m on a 5-10 year cycle, or more accurately a “whenever a key component dies or is truly no longer up to the task at hand” cycle)
I freaking love wearing a wristwatch, but it’s most useful for stuff when you’re running around grabbing stuff trying to get kids out the door, or carrying a ton of stuff while setting up/tearing down a display for an event, basically situations not condusive to most smart watches where you have to do a gesture of some kind to wake the screen, you just want to quickly glance and continue
Also having been getting heavy into fitness (biking specifically but also some running and hiking), I get how cool having heart data and whatnot is, but ehhhh. Kinda not really necessary. I get handy GPS data from my phone and that’s sufficient. I can’t do anything meaningful with the heart data, but I can make very useful decisions with distance/time metrics! Or when lifting just knowing the weight I’m working with, how many sets & reps is more than enough
Except it has gotten that bad and worse I’ve seen other articles detailing similar ransoms and physical beatings to steal folks cryptocurrencies
In context that makes a ton of sense for why you don’t want to go to concerts anymore! Burnout is a bitch! But there’s something beautiful about once you’re past the burnout and try the thing again, where it’s been long enough it’s like trying it again for the first time except with the knowledge of what to expect and how to best enjoy it already there.
Rock on and enjoy yourself! 🤘
The worst part is those single use batteries usually contain a rechargable batter but no circuitry to recharge it. Shit needs to be regulated out of existence!
I try to avoid the keyboard mash sellers on Amazon but for some products it’s pretty much impossible to find anything else.
Oddly enough the keyboard mash sellers can be great value depending on the item you’re ordering. Basically any kind of components or anything that would realistically be purchased by another factory in China has a pretty decent chance of being good enough quality. Hand tools or individual components for making stuff for example are pretty safe bets
At that point you’re already putting in more work than a standard drop coffee maker would take! You literally put a filter in, pour grounds in and hit brew.
Optionally you can get a reusable filter and rinse it after each pot of coffee
Honestly even at the current going rates of $50-100 a ticket going to some good concerts is still a blast and still worth it. Also usually there’s going to be at least one opener and depending on the show they might have 2-3 bands performing. Personally I’m happy if I get to do 1-3 big concerts a year, and that’s really not that much to budget for even at $100/ticket, and some bands are freaking incredible to see live.
Also worth poking around to see if there’s any free/cheap music events near you or comparing with the cost of tickets to a music festival if you really want to be cheap/picky. There’s a couple of free music events I try to go to every year at nearish cities to me and it’s literally free entry and they’ll have a full lineup of bands for the full weekend. I’ve seen Bobaflex, Powerman5000, The Haunt, Black Stone Cherry, Taproot, Red Jumpsuit Apperatus, Fastball, Fozzy etc. all at these free music festivals
Yup many manufactures stopped making anything other than trucks and SUVs in the US, and if that doesn’t make it enough of a challenge, many buyers (especially locally to me) prefer larger vehicles so I have fewer used options to choose from (and I’m too cheap to buy a new car)
P*rn premium subscriptions
If you can afford to pay for the content you consume it’s generally better to pay for it, especially with regards to the porn industry which takes every scummy practice of traditional media and is 10x worse because it’s not really happening in the open
any printed magazine
For some hobbies printed magazines are still the Pinnacle of media related to the hobby, so as long as the media company behind the magazine hasn’t changed hands and significantly degraded quality (looking at you Kalmbach publishing!) paying for a magazine so you get something fun to look at in the mail each month/quarter/whatever can be quite enjoyable
Okay lets dig into some BLS data then!
Since you brought up Pittsburgh, one of the largest cities in Pennsylvania let’s look at the Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics for Pennsylvania in 2024
Is that too tech heavy?
And because I listed the two largest cities in Wisconsin lets look at Wisconsin quickly as well:
Too tech heavy?
And lets just for the heck of it look at Montana!
So my point still stands, looking at states with much lower cost of living and highly skilled professions are still highly compensated, many folks well above 100k/year
Oh and before you bring up the median salary for all occupations in these states being 60k (an amount firmly in the middle class that you can live comfortably off of in these states) the median salary in New York and California, states with famously unaffordable housing in their cities, the median salaries are only $80k and good luck getting a house in these cities at that salary!