I’m in finance/tech and earn 70k at 28 but with the hours I work sometimes, my hourly rate is probably abysmal haha. Totally acknowledge how unfair it is for some industries to get paid more than others - also in my profession they tend to only hire from certain universities, which in itself is driven by so many factors like your childhood environment, family economic circumstances, access to information about universities etc. Can go on and on about the gap and acknowledge my own privilege but yeah, even as someone earning a relatively high salary, I am so annoyed watching people like Anna and Lily (who can’t even spell or proofread their 50 word Instagram captions) buy houses in their 20s, something I won’t be able to do for a while as a single woman who lives in London.
It also BLOWS my mind that their idea of a long hard day at work is “Check emails. Workout. Make lunch. Finish at 4pm”. I’m not saying they should walk away from this obviously easy money, but I think about all the things I would do if I had all that spare time - learn a language (maybe Lily could converse with her foreign Uber pool pals then!), READ all the books, do a part-time degree, etc. I’m already trying to do some of that in a 50-60 hour work week so I know it can be done when you “work” ~5 hours a day. Rant over, thank you for coming to my Ted talk! Btw I’ve had a really stressful week and these forums have made me laugh while scrolling at night trying to get to sleep so thank you for that haha.
It's a bit...jarring....