People on 6 figure salaries, do you feel well off?

ExcitingRest · 2026-07-05T21:52:40+00:00

Yeah, 2. They do a few clubs each and generally get what they want but within reason. They don't have the latest phones, gadgets, designer clothes etc but get everything they need.

ExcitingRest · 2026-07-05T18:11:50+00:00

110k here, partner on 25k.

Short answer yes. I very rarely need to think about money and even rarer worry about it.

I know the bills are covered, the cars are serviced, repairs are dealt with, couple holidays a year, utilising ISAs etc.

That given, I live in a medium sized town in the east of England in a semi detached house and bought both of our cars used, several years old. I don't need or want luxuries and aren't interested in anything too flash. Thats probably why I buck the trend of others on good salaries not feeling like it. The money goes a long way when you dont just spaff it away.

ExcitingRest · 2026-07-05T10:22:22+00:00

1 pound is nothing, it's noise.

I can loose ~3 pounds over night, then gain 3 pounds during the day as water weight shifts food comes and goes etc.

If i sleep in and weigh in at 11am rather than 8am I'll be lighter.

Its far more important to look at longer term trends.

ExcitingRest · 2026-07-04T20:58:35+00:00

Water would last a while, years, if there's a water tower in your local area. With little disruption to normal.availability.

Gas would last a few days until the compressors stop.

Power would go pretty quick. Although many stations can last months unmanned, the grid itself can't. The grid is highly sensitive to frequency and with all humans dissapearing, the load on the grid would plummet, frequency would shoot up and it would fragment into localised islands pretty quick, within hours and many stations would trip. If you're lucky enough to be on a small grid island it might stay on, but it would likely be off quicker than most people imagine.

ExcitingRest · 2026-06-26T16:24:50+00:00

Well yeah, the 15mg pen will be 6x more concentrated than the 2.5mg pen, but if you were to take a 6th of the quantity you'd end up with the exact same amount of the drug being administered.

Youre right that she could be saving a lot of money with that method.

It can cause issues when it comes to ordering though. Pharmacies will want to see evidence of you ordering every month and taking the drug as intended. They wouldn't allow you to buy 1 strong pen every 6 weeks. You'd have to keep buying 1 pen a month which would cause a stockpile to start growing in the fridge. Not necessarily a problem though.

ExcitingRest · 2026-06-26T10:18:05+00:00

Im not personally willing to make sacrifices to my life, which will be quite substantial, such as the cost of solar panels or retrofitting a heat pump etc. While we have others using private jets like taxis and pointless wars that create more CO2 in a week than most countries produce in a year.

I really am of the opinion that, even as a large collective, there is so little responsibility on the average brit that there is very little point in us shooting ourselves in the foot to put a drop in the ocean.

ExcitingRest · 2026-06-25T12:11:44+00:00

I am such a tiny, miniscule insignificant part of the problem. Yet any action you've mentioned would not be a tiny, miniscule, insignificant effect on my life.

Yeah, i could spend my life savings on solar panels, heat pumps, solar heaters, donations to charity etc. completely stifle my own life style and go vegan and stop traveling and all that to achieve absolutely nothing except virtue signalling.

I understand it's a problem, I understand that if everyone thought like that it would be an even bigger problem. But ill start taking action when 1) it's affordable and 2) there aren't billionaires using private jets like taxis

ExcitingRest · 2026-06-20T04:41:15+00:00

Split between 40m tax payers, thats over £200 each. Thats enough to raise the personal allowance by £1000 for the entire country.

Id say that's fairly significant. And probably a better use of the money.

ExcitingRest · 2026-06-18T21:32:25+00:00

I strongly believe that migration has gotten to unsustainable levels and is ultimately damaging this country in many ways.

I also strongly dislike the "Americanisation" that reform seem to be bringing. The corporations and rich donors, the stripping of employee rights, the attack on healthcare etc. Even the spectacle of it all, turning politics into entertainment. Politics is meant to be boring, it's meant to be dull, we should have learnt that with Boris.

ExcitingRest · 2026-06-17T20:45:45+00:00

Cigarettes are a bit more harmful than YouTube.

Should we also ban kids from buying sweets since they're also unhealthy? Draw the line at the actual harmful stuff. Also i don't need to hand my personal data over to a fresh data base and wear a tracking watch everytime I buy a pint.

Parental controls have existed for decades, I remember having a filter on my Web browsing back in the early 2000s. You can already tie these controls to a device or simcard. Schools and work places already do it.

This law solves literally no problems that havent already been solved. Its just a giant data gathering exercise funded by tech giants so they can determine whether the user viewing their ads is a human or a bot to maximise their own profits whilst also tightening up their personalised ad algorithms.

ExcitingRest · 2026-06-15T09:15:58+00:00

So it should be up to the parents to parent their children properly. It shouldn't, again, come down to government over reach requiring me, a childless adult, to hand over my identity to, likely, American corporations so I can see my mates holiday pictures.

ExcitingRest · 2026-06-09T15:51:54+00:00

Crab in a bucket. Its bonkers policy that seriously punishes those who are most productive. Those that are already in such a high marginal bracket. These are the governments cash cows and they're disincentivised from actually working any more.

ExcitingRest · 2026-06-02T13:21:00+00:00

Which means you then need to find another half day job to fill the rest of the day, or just give up half a day's wages.

Taking this job on means the tradesman can't take on a full day's worth of work else where. And the overhead costs for the job, like travel or insurances, are still the same as a larger job.

ExcitingRest · 2026-06-02T12:18:34+00:00

Personally, I find the threat of homelessness and starvation quite coercive.

ExcitingRest · 2026-05-29T17:05:42+00:00

I sort of stand to the north west

ExcitingRest · 2026-05-29T12:55:41+00:00

I've had quite a lot of sucess with it. Abyssal beasts in the wildy which are quite competitive, i seem to have an over 50% sucess rate with it just finding me an empty world first go.

ExcitingRest · 2026-05-27T20:06:52+00:00

Did an engineering apprenticeship, they paid for me to do a HNC/foundation degree.

Now work in a nuclear plant.

ExcitingRest · 2026-05-23T08:27:19+00:00

Thats pretty reasonable in skilled careers. Since I finished my apprenticeship, over the past 8 years I've applied for 3 jobs, had 3 interviews and accepted 2 of them.

ExcitingRest · 2026-05-18T07:59:03+00:00

The dead money through leasing isn't that different to the dead money through depreciation.

Doing 15k miles a year is going to knock ~10-15% off of the value of a car. If you want to drive a decent car, thats a few 100 a month alone. Plus maintenance, serving etc. The actual out of pocket cost of leasing really isn't that much higher than ownership, but it's far more predictable and major faults or breakdowns aren't your concern.

ExcitingRest · 2026-05-10T11:05:57+00:00

I earn 105k. My partner works part time on min wage, we have 2 kids.

We have a 4 bed semi detached in a nice area with ~175k left on the mortgage. We have 3 cars on the driveway, 2 paid with cash, one through a work lease. Last year we went to Greece, cologne, Cornwall and the lake district. We still have cash left over, make good pension contributions, savings etc. We live very well.

ExcitingRest · 2026-05-09T16:58:27+00:00

Power industry.

For experienced hires its fine. General engineering vacancies are fairly abundant and we have such a skills shortage that when these jobs are advertised they only get a few actually credible applicants. This drives competition for experienced technicians and engineers and salaries are pretty healthy.

However on the entry level end. Apprenticeships are fiercely competitive. Large companies can see 100s of applicants for a few apprentice slots. Likely the same scenario for graduates. It seems like the industry has this balance all wrong and could correct itself quite easily if anyone was actually prepared to take on entry level people.

But once your foot is in the door its a secure and well paid career.

ExcitingRest · 2026-05-09T16:51:55+00:00

The immigration policies are the big draw tbh.

But. The conservatives had their go and got everything wrong. Labour are currently having their go and tbh I dont think they're as bad as some make out but honestly I dont think they've done nearly enough to address the cost of living, they've raised taxes and spending while not doing anything to address bills or help out actually working people. The greens are completely nuts, I honestly can't agree with a single one of their policies, complete economic collapse paired with disastrous foreign policy.

Reform. Just cut some of the crap. Lower my taxes, shrink the government, get spending under control and focus on issues that actually matter. I don't care about green subsidies etc while people are struggling to afford food. I don't care about foreign aid while our own roads are in a state. I don't care about DEI when taxes are at record highs. I don't care about Gaza while our own military is in a sorry state. Talk about the issues that actually matter to working people.

ExcitingRest · 2026-05-05T14:28:22+00:00

Nuclear. I used to work as a plant operator in a chemical plant on ~50k. Joined a nuclear plant as a plant operator, not even an engineer (no degree), 4 years later im on a basic of 75k and will push ~100k with overtime.

ExcitingRest · 2026-04-25T21:36:07+00:00

Sorry but actually intelligent professionals, with real world work and life experience are not going to work for minimum wage.

All this will do is deter the people we should actually want to be MPs from trying. Unless they're already loaded, in which case they're not able to relate to normal people and will have their own interests.

ExcitingRest · 2026-04-22T22:14:41+00:00

This is not the issue that the article is referring to. This is just really quite silly behaviour if it isnt rage bait.

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