r/worldnewsvideo Plenty 🩺🧬💜 May 06 '22

Feel-Good 😊 How she begins every art class

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u/PlenitudeOpulence Plenty 🩺🧬💜 May 06 '22

It seems like she loves what she does… so it probably makes the pain of poor wages barely tolerable.

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u/hairybushy May 06 '22

As someone that lost approx. 30% of salary to do a new job, I do less money, but I am happier and I have less anxiety. Money isn't everything. Sure you need to do enough to have a decent life and eat well, but you make some sacrifice and it become natural with time

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u/Shutterstormphoto May 06 '22

Did you go from $15/hr to $10/hr or more like $100/hr to $70/hr?

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u/hairybushy May 06 '22

27 USD to 17 USD, perhaps 27 was my top salary at the moment and 17 was the first step in the salary chart. In approx 10 years I will reach the 27 USD.

In my area 27/h USD is a good salary and 17 is decent

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u/Shutterstormphoto May 07 '22

Fair enough. It sounds like quite a drop but it must’ve been pretty rough to want to trade down that much.

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u/hairybushy May 07 '22

Yeah but we made a budget and my girlfriend have a good salary, so we changed some things to help. I went back to school, so when I finished we put a year on the side to pile a cashdown. We bought a house last year, we got 2 children. We are not rich but we can live well. I am a little limited in my english so I can't explain with the right words, but we had like 4 rough years while I was back at school. I dropped more than 30% at the start but right now it's approx. 30% less. But in construction I was too anxious, I wasn't happy with all the hours. I regret nothing.

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u/Shutterstormphoto May 07 '22

Totally makes sense. Thanks for sharing :)