So, can I survive and save some money earning 72k in California? • Hacker News Board

Re: So, can I survive and save some money earning 72k in California?

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Post by shanelja » Wed, Nov 14, 2012, 9:13 AM UTC

ayers wrote: post #20

shanelja wrote: post #18

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Unfortunately, it is around that, my maths was a little off, it's £4,100 per year.

Is it full time, as in 5 days a week?

Yeah, I work 30 hours + some overtime, 5 days a week, 6 hours a day, plus 2 hours travelling each way (on a bus pass which costs me around 850 pounds per year).

Re: So, can I survive and save some money earning 72k in California?

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Post by ayers » Wed, Nov 14, 2012, 9:22 AM UTC

shanelja wrote: post #21

ayers wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is it full time, as in 5 days a week?

Yeah, I work 30 hours + some overtime, 5 days a week, 6 hours a day, plus 2 hours travelling each way (on a bus pass which costs me around 850 pounds per year).

I have just looked at your previous posts and see you are on some sort of apprenticeship. I guess this enables your employer to pay you below minimum wage somehow.

Re: So, can I survive and save some money earning 72k in California?

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Post by shanelja » Wed, Nov 14, 2012, 9:33 AM UTC

ayers wrote: post #22

shanelja wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, I work 30 hours + some overtime, 5 days a week, 6 hours a day, plus 2 hours travelling each way (on a bus pass which costs me around 850 pounds per year).

I have just looked at your previous posts and see you are on some sort of apprenticeship. I guess this enables your employer to pay you below minimum wage somehow.

Yeah, it's a strange one though - I was already freelancing for two years when I came in to this job, but couldn't find a job elsewhere without a degree in the time scale I had (I was jobless, broke and homeless at one point in the last 9 months) so I had to find any job I could in the field (I was determined, I came back to the UK to work in tech, I was going to do it, there was no compromise) and ultimately found this apprenticeship.

It's a decent arrangement, he expected a tech illiterate teenager and instead got an experienced PHP programmer with Adwords and Analytics qualifications.