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I make 50k+ a year more than my peers coding in the EU ๐คทโโ๏ธ
๐คฃ sure let's compress a highly multidimensional issue into your income without comparing anything else. You guys don't even have sidewalks in most areas ๐คฃ
You're right, they have "pavements"
It's amazing that you can say all that without realizing it directly applies to the tweet ๐คฃ.
I also make a much higher salary than my SWE friends in the EU. But:
I could really go on. That great, yuuuuge, beautiful salary difference is deeply undercut to the point of collapse by everything all of the other costs (not just financial) that are co-requisite to working in the US.
Yeah the actual numbers don't mean anything.
If you make $10k/month and have a hard time while somebody makes โฌ2.5k/month and has a comfortable life, who is the richest?
You put it way more succinctly than I!
I'm curious: how many hours do you work per week, and how much vacation do you have/year?
30-35 real hours, 12 federal and 25 sick/PTO.
Sick days and paid time off are the same thing? That's horrifying.
My PTO with my holidays time is slightly less than the average EU total with separate sick. I'm more than happy for the flexibility and additional time.
The notion of it being one pool is insane to me. I'm a bit too tired to get into it so "tremendously exploitative and problematic" will have to suffice.
What do you mean "real"? Regardless, that's a lot better than I suspected!
Personal projects when I should be coding, talking to co workers, general lost time to estimates in time tracking.