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California teens are ditching office jobs – and making $100K before they turn 21

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Re: California teens are ditching office jobs – and making $100K before they turn 21

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Post by VoidWhisperer »

hiAndrewQuinn wrote: post #24
imgabe wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm not saying an 18 year couldn't easily live on $100k / year. They certainly can, but you do have expenses besides rent and groceries you know.

I actually don't, those are the only two expenses my family has. Come to think of it those are the only two expenses I've ever had. I guess if we lived in the countryside we'd need a car, so, three expense categories total. But alright, gather all of these other miscellaneous expenses up and take out another $10k per year to cover them. You still have $30,000 left if you're paying $2k a month on rent.

I would think that there would still be other expenses in some form: - Utilities on shared apartment with roommates (unless you are lumping this into rent) - Doctors co-pays (or the money to spend out of pocket until you meet your deductible, depending on your health insurance)

If you have a car, - car insurance - gas - car maintenance costs such as 6 month services

Re: California teens are ditching office jobs – and making $100K before they turn 21

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Post by spwa4 »

idiomat9000 wrote: post #27
kubb wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They’ll way to start families, not live with roommates.

The demographics stats say no. It is not the job of the individual to engage in self destructive life plans because the previous generations have eaten the future and wrapped in nostalgia extruded plans think they can now comand them around like plantation owners cattle.

And with living conditions like that, I fully understand why they don't.

Re: California teens are ditching office jobs – and making $100K before they turn 21

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Post by globular-toast »

kubb wrote: post #11
mschild wrote: post #6

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What does the alternative look like though? Sure tech companies pay engineers well, but there's plenty of other jobs requiring a college degree that don't reach that salary level.

I didn’t say that there was an alternative. Just that 100k doesn’t make them rich.

Apple, Tesla et al tell you you're not rich, but you can be if you want to be. Learned helplessness.

Re: California teens are ditching office jobs – and making $100K before they turn 21

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Post by krater23 »

rat9988 wrote: post #28
hiAndrewQuinn wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

At 18? Who is starting a family at 18 years old in that climate? Claude Opus's Fermi estimate of the number of 18 year olds, making at least $100,000 a year, in California, with children, to be about 8 people. Not 8 thousand, not 8 hundred. Eight. Single digit. In a state of 40 million people.

Then what is this 100K good for? Paying for food and living with roommates? This is not great.

I make >100k, I own 5 appartments and 1.5 houses but I live in a flat, just because it's better than living alone.

Re: California teens are ditching office jobs – and making $100K before they turn 21

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Post by dmurray »

hiAndrewQuinn wrote: post #24
imgabe wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm not saying an 18 year couldn't easily live on $100k / year. They certainly can, but you do have expenses besides rent and groceries you know.

I actually don't, those are the only two expenses my family has. Come to think of it those are the only two expenses I've ever had. I guess if we lived in the countryside we'd need a car, so, three expense categories total. But alright, gather all of these other miscellaneous expenses up and take out another $10k per year to cover them. You still have $30,000 left if you're paying $2k a month on rent.

You don't pay for utilities, or public transport? Your family has never had to pay for clothes, or school books, or healthcare expenses (I know those aren't completely socialized in Finland)?

I agree an 18-year-old earning $100k is doing great even in the most expensive parts of California, but you don't sound like you've ever actually had to think through a household budget.

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Post by tails4e »

torium wrote: post #25
siva7 wrote: post #17

Blue collar is the only bastion safe from AI. As we office workers lose our jobs we need to retrain

Spoken like someone who's never been inside an assembly line.

It depends on the blue collar job, but electrician, plumber, roofer, all seem pretty safe from automation for a while at least.

Re: California teens are ditching office jobs – and making $100K before they turn 21

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Post by lazide »

hiAndrewQuinn wrote: post #23
kubb wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They’ll way to start families, not live with roommates.

At 18? Who is starting a family at 18 years old in that climate? Claude Opus's Fermi estimate of the number of 18 year olds, making at least $100,000 a year, in California, with children, to be about 8 people. Not 8 thousand, not 8 hundred. Eight. Single digit. In a state of 40 million people.

That’s also because it’s just making that number up.

I guarantee you there are more than that just from trust funders/people working for their parents and religious enough to start families early.

Stop pasting LLM slop here.

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