POLL: Would you rather??????????

[midlifeguy]

THUNDERDOG - Did you work at my office? LOL. WOW, you could have! This is my place to a tee. They kept holding out the carrot so we would bust our ass harder and harder all while the people at the top got megawealthy. Also, people not as smart as me passed me by because they were less threatening to the insecure asshole of a boss who thought anyone with a degree was an idiot for ever getting one.
Meanwhile, after the company made billions, they decide to automate and downsize and all those who busted their rear and hoped for the carrot are left
with a bag of rotten apples trying to find another job
that probably resembles the piece of garbage they just came from.

Quote from Thunderdog:

Either you've been blessed with an ideal work environment or you haven't gotten out much. And let's not limit the corporate choice with only backstabbing. You also have employers who choose to focus performance evaluation on intangibles such as "potential," and being "dynamic" in order that they can play favorites with plausible deniability, irrespective of quantifiably measurable relative performance. Then there are the surprisingly extended hours for which you do not get paid (after all, you are "salaried") but which you are led to believe are an investment in your career at the company. Implied promises of promotion just over the horizon are made to the many even though such opportunities narrow considerably as you inch forward up the hierarchy of the bureaucracy. Meanwhile, your boss's pet (they have mutual acquaintances or whatever) works fewer hours, has demonstrated less performance capability and capacity, and he zings right past you up the food chain. But you take comfort and commiserate with your fellow husks who were also led to believe that their time will come eventually if they just stay at it and keep their nose to the grindstone and perform. And so, the shared fantasy continues for the majority, and they continue to put in all those extra hours...

Yeah, it all a myth.

 

[midlifeguy]

Despite the current average wage in the U.S. being something like $40,000, it is amazing that everyone on this board makes $500,000 and up....What a group of winners here.

Quote from Businessman:

B.

50K?? After tax and after living costs what are you left with?
Not much. Whats the point of having freedom when you dont have the money to enjoy it?

Now if you had said a choice between 500K or 1000K, then i would go for A.

 

[midlifeguy]

Here is the average wage in the U.S. -in 2006 the average was up to $40,259.

As you can see, many don't even make $50,000 at their job that they have to slug through...so $50,000 a year trading isn;t awful. Is it getting rich, no, but not awful. Benefits are family time, freedom, no ahole boss, autonomy, etc etc...hopefully over time, your take can be greater but 2007 has proven to be tough on just about everyone. There are only two kind of people in this market...liars and losers.

Quote from Businessman:

B.

50K?? After tax and after living costs what are you left with?
Not much. Whats the point of having freedom when you dont have the money to enjoy it?

Now if you had said a choice between 500K or 1000K, then i would go for A.