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Captain Ned wrote:Must do things different in Tejas (doh!).
grantmeaname wrote:I think everyone responding to this has been continually misinterpreting each other. He's not saying paul's rolling in dough, he's saying the moron troll who called it a third world salary is wrong. Demonstrably wrong, in fact, based on how much money $28k is in India.
Captain Ned wrote:Airmantharp wrote:Being listed as 'ineligible for rehire' would make me not want to put that work experience down on a resume/job application; balancing how much you want to use your current employment as a reference.
In my experience the only thing previous employers will confirm is start and end dates. To go any further brings Legal into play and no one wants to play with Legal.
grantmeaname wrote:ludi wrote:Jigar wrote:Stop your miss guided crap, $28000 per year is consider super salary in India and you can only make it if you are at management executive level.
You do not seem to understand "cost of living." The median income in the United States for 2012, per the US Census Bureau, is around $45,000/year. In most average-size cities (including Denver, Colorado, the area where I live) that will permit you to live comfortably as a single person in a decent 1-bedroom apartment, and have one car and one or two expensive hobbies. A family of three or four can live adequately on that amount of income but they'll need to budget carefully in order to survive emergencies such as unexpected car repairs or hospital expenses.
Someone working at paulwtamu's level of age and experience could easily be making $40k+ in middle-management or a skilled trade profession.
I think everyone responding to this has been continually misinterpreting each other. He's not saying paul's rolling in dough, he's saying the moron troll who called it a third world salary is wrong. Demonstrably wrong, in fact, based on how much money $28k is in India.
paulWTAMU wrote:I got what you mean Jigar. I'v enever been overseas but most of my friends have and I've heard enough stories about the third world that hey, I'll pass on living there.
Thebolt wrote:Not to derail things too much - the euro zone is very interesting. Salaries are not that much higher on average than the US while cost of living is astronomical. Gas, taxes, rent, food.. the culture is very different. Young people have different priorities and give up some luxuries that we (Americans) take for granted.
superjawes wrote:I did not know or forgot that Texas has no income tax. Makes cost of living there pretty nice, then, especially considering your home prices are much lower that they are around here (Chicagoland).
TurtlePerson2 wrote:superjawes wrote:I did not know or forgot that Texas has no income tax. Makes cost of living there pretty nice, then, especially considering your home prices are much lower that they are around here (Chicagoland).
Cost of living in Texas is very low. I've been down there for two summer internships and I'm moving down full-time in January. Everything there was cheaper, even things like food which seems like it should be more expensive than in the Midwest. Also, the real estate was much cheaper than where I live now (Michigan). You can buy a house twenty miles from Dallas for cheaper than you can get it in the middle-of-nowhere Michigan.