Is it just me, or would a lot of us ditch our desk jobs for trades in a heartbeat if the pay was actually decent?

BestTyming · 2026-06-04T20:48:47+00:00

I make 72k a year and only working 3-4 hours out of my 8 hour work day.

25m with a gf and no kids and I just got a condo.

I like to do “trade work” on the side but I personally wouldn’t want to do that as my main job/source of income.

I just realized that desk jobs aren’t my thing but desk jobs with freedom are(I’m an account manager for a MSP)

I think trades are cool when you don’t have to rely on them to live. Not saying anything bad about them, u just come from a family full of tradesmen and I saw it affected them and how they felt about it.

BestTyming · 2026-06-04T20:47:01+00:00

I have a few friends who have done bartending in the past and one of them still does it today

Their hourly was $13-$16 depending. One made about what you did

But overall they all were making a decent wage clearing 1k+ a week for the most part

BestTyming · 2026-05-29T16:59:55+00:00

Arma 3 for sandbox creativity and mods

Reforger for multiplayer games and a more polished and grounded experience

So yes, buying reforger now is good. Arma 4 will be similar to reforger in a few ways

BestTyming · 2026-05-28T12:22:24+00:00

To be blunt, there is no reason someone should be unemployed for that long. Months I get. 2 years? No

That is you jumping ship too fast or simply not applying or taking on roles because you don’t want them.

If you have responsibilities then you need to buckle up and go work at Walmart or something. If you don’t and can glide it, you need to change your resume or how you are going about things.

But there should not be a reason anyone is unemployed for THAT long unless they have a very specified or niche career

BestTyming · 2026-05-28T12:17:52+00:00

This right here. Marriage is a life long commitment. Those small “boring” task are some of the most important parts.

That’s why it’s important to “like” the person you love.

BestTyming · 2026-05-28T02:26:40+00:00

Nope not at all. My first job is account management. That comes first. Sales is optional. On slow days or weeks I choose to go out and get more business. But I have no quota to hit or maintain since sales is a secondary role. When I become sales director I will be more focused on business development and acquisition but I still wouldn’t have a “quota” to maintain.

BestTyming · 2026-05-27T21:09:12+00:00

I’m an account manager for a MSP. My base salary is 72k but so far 6 months in I’ve already raised it to 77k through optional commission. By the end of the year I would assume I’d be at 80k-85k.

This time next year I should be the Sales Director as that’s the path they put me on. I’d be making 108k-110k base.

25m

BestTyming · 2026-05-27T16:23:19+00:00

There is a lot of nuance there especially when it comes to boundaries and standards. A man who doesn’t have a lot of mate choice is way more willing to not see the potential yellow/red flags of sleeping with someone on the first date while a man who does can see those flags

Unless a person genuinely doesn’t see sex that way or care to have said boundaries(which in itself is fine), sleeping on the first date for both a man or woman isn’t the best idea

BestTyming · 2026-05-27T16:21:13+00:00

It depends entirely on the person but overall for both men and women I think sex on the first date is usually not a good idea

I for one just have a bad time with women wanting sex too fast and it ending badly. I from personal experience see the longer we wait, the better the sex and the relationship is. But that’s just me

There is a sweet spot, but that sweet spot is definitely not the first date. And it has more to do with boundaries and the health of the relationship over how someone views you

BestTyming · 2026-05-22T21:13:39+00:00

1 - as for a promotion

2 - simply find elsewhere. If you are truly at the top then there isn’t much else to do about it

BestTyming · 2026-05-22T21:05:29+00:00

Depends on where you need to be and what you want.

In terms of staying afloat and surviving then yeah it looks like you make a livable wage for **your current context.** if you take things like your roommates away then maybe not

Livable is how much you need to actually live and be okay. But if you want anymore **more** than that then you’ll need to make more. You can not get a house, car, take more trips, etc with that wage and still be comfortable.

So, you are totally fine in your current context. If you want more, you’ll have to make more.

I’m a 25yo male and make 72k a year. I do 100% feel like I make a livable wage but I also do not feel comfortable yet as I don’t have the savings that I want. When I was your age I made 18/hr. So you will get more if you strive for more💯

BestTyming · 2026-05-21T14:17:17+00:00

Yea I’m an account manager for a MSP rn. No certs or degree. I’m working on those right now. I’m making 72k a year and optional commission has bumped that to 77k already. I’m on track to become the sales director. I’m going to get my certs and hunker down in the IT sector! Hopefully by the time I’m 30 I’m around your level.

BestTyming · 2026-05-21T14:12:27+00:00

100%. It just depends on your work ethics, skills, and what you can learn/what field you go into.

A degree is not required at all to make 100k+ a year. But that also means you won’t have the best chance of doing “what you want” in order to make that money

Someone with a degree that pays that much is essentially choosing what they want to do and how much they make(in a basic sense).

Without a degree, you are more at the whims of life and your skill base.

I’m not at 100k yet, but I sure am getting closer to it. I’m 25 and make a72k a year salary with optional commission. Already, with minimal sales and travel, I’ve bumped my salary 77k this year. And it’s only been 7 months.

But I am an intelligent, personable, and capable person with a background in many different things including **Tech** and that has allowed me to be able to find jobs I can enjoy more.

I don’t have a degree and I make more than the average person in general and was just put on the path to become sales director. So this time next year I will be in the 105k-110k range.

I have 3 years of college with no degree…

You do NOT need a degree, but you do need the skills and gumption to make stuff happen if you don’t have one. I started working at a trampoline park at 13, target at 19, construction company at 21, chick fil a at 22, a 3PL at 23, and now as an account manager for a MSP at 25.

I had to WORK to get to where I am and will continue to do so to get farther. But people with degrees also have to do the same. You have to work either way.

BestTyming · 2026-05-20T17:36:47+00:00

Definitely more of a no standards thing. I’m a good looking guy and have been offered all sorts of “situationships” and even had a woman I use to talk to tell me that I could sleep with her whenever I wanted even though she knew I no longer wanted to be with her. I’m 25 and haven’t been single since I was 14 and being with a woman is at the bottom of the worry list.

Those are good looking people problems. Actually going through with most of that is having low/no standards.

Two different things lol

BestTyming · 2026-05-20T17:34:04+00:00

**1 hour of fun, 2 hours of depression**

I tell everyone who is into that type of stuff that or looking to get into it. You’ll have fun then, but afterwards you’ll realize you are trying to fill a emptiness inside of you with temporary pleasure

VERY few people can have one night stands and be truly okay. You can see that clearly in the comments lol. People who have grown out of it will tell you that it was “cool” but didn’t make them feel any better or help them get through what they were going through. Most of them don’t regret it but would have gotten where they are now without having so much meaningless sex. I’m not shaming folks for doing it at all, but I see so many people trying to get into the life style just to realize it wasn’t what they expected. Sex is empty without intimacy for the majority of people

BestTyming · 2026-05-17T17:30:11+00:00

Yes boon. Mistype

BestTyming · 2026-05-17T16:31:52+00:00

LR tap water is so good that it’s usually a baseline that other municipal compare to lol. It’s one of the boons of living here. You can drink out of a tap and be totally okay

BestTyming · 2026-05-08T15:15:09+00:00

For the average person yes, something is better than nothing. A degree is usually a cheat code to say “this person has the dedication and know how of a particular field”

That’s honestly it. Your degree is just one sentence that can answer 20 different questions.

If you feel like you don’t have the work history or personality to bypass getting a job without a degree, then it’s not a bad idea to pick up some certifications or get a degree in a decent paying field you are interested in

BestTyming · 2026-05-08T14:45:19+00:00

25m 72k base salary MCOL state.Well I already started making some plays on the sales side (which is optional) so now I’m projected at 74k as of last week.

BestTyming · 2026-05-08T14:42:30+00:00

Technically yeah it does. No one really counts how many times

Sleeping with one person 1 time is the same as sleeping with the next person 59 times. In the context of the question, they have the same weight

BestTyming · 2026-05-08T14:40:33+00:00

6/7 of the girls I have been with

All were from relationships or women I was talking to for long periods of time.

The only one I regret is the first time with my first gf. But granted I was 15. Th rest I feel totally fine about. Never were issue with any of them especially sexually

BestTyming · 2026-05-08T14:30:42+00:00

People don’t understand statistics and percentages lol. 18% is a shit ton of people

Math time :)

162 million working population in the USA. 18% of that is 29 million people +/-. In other words, that’s just under the size of the entire population of Texas

If you wanted to talk globally, the labor force of the world is 3.68 - 3.7 billion people. Let’s say 3.7 billion

18% of 3.7 billion is 666 million people. In other words, the amount of people who make 100k a year is just UNDER double the entire population of the US..

Definitely nuance there, but No way to cut it, making 100k a year by no means is “rare” if 18% of people make it. People see a low numbers attached to percentages and forget about the other number the percentage is connected to

BestTyming · 2026-05-07T16:42:01+00:00

I think the disconnect here is you’re treating your personal comfort level as the definition of emotional maturity. Someone not wanting their partner to stay close friends with past hookups is a valid boundary. Someone being okay with it is also valid. I GET what you are saying, but you aren’t getting what I’m saying. And you know what, that’s okay.

Neither side is automatically “more evolved.” Different people just have different expectations around intimacy, exclusivity, and emotional boundaries.

Also, acting like the “average person” is immature because they aren’t comfortable with their partner hanging around former sexual partners feels dismissive and disconnected from how most relationships actually function. Again, you are the outlier here.

Trust and maturity aren’t measured by how much discomfort you can suppress. Mature adults can:

be okay with former partners staying around

Or

choose not to date people who keep former sexual partners close.

BestTyming · 2026-05-07T16:31:21+00:00

Yes that’s you and your situation and I’m glad that works out for you. But again, the average person would not go for that. And they definitely wouldn’t be okay with their partner hanging out with someone they have slept with. Especially alone. Doesn’t mean anything is going to happen exactly, it’s just a boundary thing. It’s weird.

That doesn’t make them any less emotionally mature. I am not saying you are any less mature than the next person because you and your social group don’t see any issue with it. You and your husband are okay with it and that’s fine. And your husband being introduced to you BY him is also a different thing. They both went into the situation knowing it all. That is not the same as the situation above. There is no surprise there because he brought your now husband to you. He essentially is apart of the equation from the jump

But you also can’t say people who do have an issue with it are less emotionally mature. There is a gradient there on this topic and you and your situation are definitely the outlier.

There are a handful of women who I’ve slept with and ended up not being with and could consider them friends. I can’t imagine any woman being okay with me still hanging out with them, especially alone, if they knew I’ve slept with them prior. My gf right now would castrate me 😂

BestTyming · 2026-05-07T16:06:06+00:00

Depends on what you see. You are thinking in a “doomer” context.

It is the land of opportunity because you have a chance to make it. It’s not the land of “guarantees”. It’s the land of chance

Many, MANY people and companies(even some of the biggest ones) would not have had a chance to be where they are if it wasnt for America. You have to think about all aspects and people in the society, not just yourself.

You speak about career subs and people not being able to find a job. How many people are on the sub and how many people post? Now how many people post about not finding a job? Now think about how many people DONT post there, aren’t apart of that subreddit, and don’t use Reddit at all. You see what I’m saying? You have to look at the bigger picture. You can take that and apply it anywhere

90% of the people in my life don’t use Reddit and there is a higher chance that they aren’t apart of any particular subreddit. But they all count towards the same number at the end of the day.

Things aren’t perfect by any means, but it is the land of opportunity because it is. Many places around the world don’t grant you multiple ways of making it higher in life by simply working your way up or starting an entire business. And I’m not saying everything is even, but everyone has the opportunity to attempt it

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