• Cruxifux@feddit.nl
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    5 days ago

    If you keep working just doing the same thing your life won’t stay the same, it will just get worse because that’s the way things are fucking going right now.

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      Yeah. I’ve been climbing the ladder in my career as fast as I can (and that’s faster than most of my peers) and I’m still just treading water. It seems like shit gets more expensive as fast as my income increases. I don’t know how all the people that aren’t getting promotions are doing it.

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        I don’t know how all the people that aren’t getting promotions are doing it.

        Debt.

        In other words, “they’re not.”

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        5 days ago

        Yeah same here man. I make far more money than I did ten years ago but my life remains basically the same money wise.

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    I’ve been having thoughts, pretty dangerous, sometimes scary thoughts, I sometimes wonder if this is how the French revolutions started