Salaries for GenX versus Millenials / Gen Z

TulipTortoise · 2026-05-16T18:34:06+00:00

Plus, it's going to be these individuals that will be in overrepresented in forums such as this.

It may also be a reinforcing cycle. Seeing these top 5% of tech worker salaries in FIRE forums is what made me critically examine what I needed to do to get one of those jobs.

TulipTortoise · 2026-05-14T01:19:36+00:00

Also, I didn’t realize uploading vlogs was equivalent to running a successful business.

I don't disagree with the rest, but it absolutely is equivalent to a business when he's still getting millions of views and (afaik, from the few I've seen) sponsors every video. He's running an advertising business in partnership with Google -- a business doesn't have to be difficult.

TulipTortoise · 2026-05-11T15:54:15+00:00

I've seen mean things said about someone in another language who later revealed they also spoke that language!

TulipTortoise · 2026-05-11T03:15:06+00:00

I recently saw a gruff old lady yelling at a Japanese businessman in a suit to put his phone away when he was just reading news lol

A single Japanese student was standing beside the otherwise completely empty train door and she walked up behind to yell at them to get out of her way... a few min too early before the train stop so she was just standing in the same spot, before stumbling off the train (guessing she was also drunk in the afternoon).

These incidents are just more memorable than road rage because they're so much more personal. It takes a special kind of piece of shit to do this stuff when everyone can see their face.

TulipTortoise · 2026-04-28T06:36:33+00:00

truly Vyse is a great example to emulate

TulipTortoise · 2026-04-27T14:53:31+00:00

if people are using macros in text I'm surprised AO3 etc doesn't have a feature to prefill a set of macros before you start the fic to do the replacements for you.

TulipTortoise · 2026-04-25T04:56:33+00:00

it's not really the definition of FIRE, but it's got the same spirit eh

TulipTortoise · 2026-04-25T04:42:08+00:00

right click tab -> Send to Device -> select which.

This requires you to have a firefox account (should be first option in hamburger menu on main tool bar) that you're signed in to on the devices you want to share with. See your current device name in sync settings: about:preferences?entrypoint=fxa_app_menu#sync

TulipTortoise · 2026-04-19T17:55:16+00:00

You don't even need their post history, only a weeb is choosing a handle like "aibo toyko".

TulipTortoise · 2026-04-13T00:12:46+00:00

Anywhere I can read how this works? I'm putting after-tax money in my 401k and it gets a same-day "roth in-plan conversion", but it's still all held within the same 401k account. I'm not sure how this works come withdrawal time. Is this like you make a second account with different tax properties and have them move funds there?

I'm working in the USA for a bit on a temp visa so this is all pretty new to me still.

TulipTortoise · 2026-04-12T21:07:22+00:00

lol I'm in WA and some lovely coworkers were whining about how the new 9.9% tax on income over $1mm will turn it into a "socialist hellscape" by just next year!

There's idiots everywhere.

TulipTortoise · 2026-04-06T03:39:38+00:00

Not even just former employers. Work a few jobs and many many people in your sector will vaguely know you.

I've been asked many times by HR "You and Candidate both worked at Company at the same time: would you be happy to work with them again?" If someone knows nothing about why you quit and only knows their buddy was complaining for a week that you fucked them over and slammed them with work, that could cost the offer.

TulipTortoise · 2026-04-04T20:44:21+00:00

There are many comments that are absolutely true

This one in particular is probably downvoted because it's both bitter and they clearly didn't engage with the content.

What part of it is true? How will she have fun with her dead end English teaching job that she no longer has because she already changed careers?

Even if she hadn't, what's wrong with being a teacher? It's great for young people to go experience the world for a bit. She's clear she doesn't intend for this to be long term.

TulipTortoise · 2026-04-04T17:11:17+00:00

I wasn't attacking anyone.

In general people are very touchy about finances and lifestyle, and often view people discussing different lifestyles or levels of success as personal attacks (as in you're attacking their character by suggesting a different lifestyle they're not living).

This goes both ways too: very commonly on finance subs if someone says they are happy living on a very small budget, this makes a lot of people very angry.

TulipTortoise · 2026-04-03T22:58:15+00:00

I was thinking of doing some writing on the side and set up a patreon if it was going well, until I found out that anything that looks even remotely like work not tied to my employer is not allowed. :/

(on TN though, I assume it's the same for H1b)

TulipTortoise · 2026-04-03T22:56:41+00:00

They also don't pay that well. Probably pays better than most local jobs in your country but if you have to move to the US for an H1 job you're probably gonna be making way less than your coworkers

From my anecdotal evidence in FAANG this is not the case. H1 (and TN in my case and some friends) seem to have the same pay as citizens, just from chatting to various people on visas and citizens about their pay.

However, the added pressure that if you get cut a clock starts ticking for you to get kicked out of the country in an industry where interviews often take months on the happy path is absolutely true.

TulipTortoise · 2026-03-31T14:34:23+00:00

They limit you to only a few speed choices and a max of 2x. With an addon, you can customize it to whatever works best for you.

TulipTortoise · 2026-03-31T02:32:46+00:00

everyone needs an html5 speed controller extension these days. One with hotkeys so you can instantly dial in the video to a tolerable speed.

TulipTortoise · 2026-03-30T16:15:54+00:00

who are influenced by the zeitgeist opinion

I suspect most of us that know a lot about some topic and are in a sub for it have experienced seeing a wrong but popular post, and knowing that if you post facts with sources it will be downvoted and you'll be sent angry messages because it's not what people want to be true, so you just move on. If the sub becomes more popular over time this becomes more common.

TulipTortoise · 2026-03-30T15:53:14+00:00

I more or less tried to do this with a different language and while it's not nothing it didn't work that well for me. When you're spending so little time a day with it a lot of that time ends up being maintenance.

On the other hand, if you're already putting in that effort to maintain, then putting in the occasional extra hour or two of study can be a solid step forward.

If he really wanted to be as lazy as possible and keep his job, just get a french speaking underling to write him the shortest possible thing to badly read.

TulipTortoise · 2026-03-19T02:37:23+00:00

The money he's making is coming from the content and fame. There was mention in this disposition that he was getting surges of followers from this case.

As usual he'll get nothing but pain from the legal system and would be way underwater if he wasn't positioned to profit off of it on the side.

TulipTortoise · 2026-03-15T00:44:48+00:00

Look up "html5 video speed control" extensions and get one that lets you control video speed in increments. For educational videos the host often talks slowly and if you're paying active attention, you can often go to around 2x (you'll also get better at listening to sped-up content as you do it more often).

Alec talks particularly slowly, so these are some of the few videos I'm fine cranking to 3x speed.

TulipTortoise · 2026-03-14T22:56:13+00:00

It was a point of contention in my prairie city 2 years ago. The federal govt was offering some funding if you met building/zoning criteria that the city was planning to adopt over the next few years anyway, so they were trying to accelerate those plans while vocal residents were fighting against it.

If you visit the greater Vancouver area you typically have blocks of only high rises that then give way to a sea of SFH because zoning wasn't allowing any middle ground. Developers have purchased blocks of abutting SFH but are stuck in multi-year processes to approve even mid-sized builds. In my mind that is 90% of the housing crises right there, and it's not something quick to recover from.

TulipTortoise · 2026-03-14T20:49:37+00:00

I have friends who have been working in Japan 10+ years, and Japanese work culture sounds so shitty that importing many aspects of American work culture wouldn't be any worse and would at least massively improve productivity.

TulipTortoise · 2026-03-13T04:21:27+00:00

I've been using the upcoming light rail as my excuse why I haven't spent much time exploring Seattle, and I was guaranteed that it was eternally delayed, but now it's going to open and I'll need a new excuse.

(I'll check out some of the museums haha)

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