My job offer in Austin is 45k/yr while my NYC job offer is 65k/yr. You’d think the clear choice is NYC but given the extra set of taxes (Texas has no state tax), the take-home difference is only $7800 per year more in NYC. 7800! That’s from a nominal different of 20k! I’d lose more [...]
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I was offered a job in NYC today. It is a consulting starting doing marketing consulting work for, mostly, CPG companies. CPG. That’s the industry I was working in since I started working. I hate that industry. We sell things that aren’t necessary to people who don’t need them. It’s not a lie per se, [...]
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It’s been a while since I last wrote what turned out to be a drunken tired/lovenote. Since then, strange things have happened.
I was offered a job in the Bay Area working for a startup. The salary would have been decent and I would have gotten stock options. But I turned it down because I thought [...]
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I spend nearly two hours commuting to my temp job each way. Two hours in the morning. Two hours at night. I spend the time in between doing some glorified data entry for a financial institution.
In a former life, I had two master’s degrees from a top-rated public university and a consulting gig at a [...]
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