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What they don't tell you is that the real American way for high skilled workers is to work a couple years, then get laid off or quit to take 6-8 months off doing woodworking or van life or some shit. Maybe found a company if you are too bored with what you are doing or start a YouTube channel. Americans take the time it's just that they do it between jobs not during
I've never read more bullshit concentrated on a single post.
Is that what you do between jobs? Woodworking and starting a successful YouTube career?
Most people burn through savings and turn to credit cards to survive between jobs, but I'm glad it's working out for you buddy.
No, if I'm between real jobs, I do whatever other sorts of work needed to pay my bills. I have worked with plenty of high skilled people who did just as I described though, immigrants, Americans, etc. they earn twice a European salary for two years, then get laid off in a downturn or quit and spend a year doing dumb shit and net out ahead anyway.
What are you talking about.
What industry are you in that an American salary is competitive with a European equivalent? Not only is the cost of living in Europe lower than it is in the United States the renumerations are also consistently higher.
Tech workers in the US can actually come out ahead. It's very far from being the case in most fields though.
The average mid level salary is roughly twice that of the EU, with the discrepancy getting more extreme with experience. The system is grossly unfair, so the best compensated jobs also tend to have the lowest health care costs and best vacation packages.
Probably healthcare, doctors, nurses, PA's, techs etc. make a lot less in Europe than in the US. But they also don't have nearly the associated debt.
The only American salaries consistently lower than European salaries are service worker salaries, who are not high skilled workers.
And what does that extra money get you in the long run?
Obesity, a global logistics machine which spreads instability and advances America's interest throughout the world, sometimes blowback from #2, and finally the ability to take a long time off between high paying jobs since you won't get vacation time and you will probably get laid off or burnt out in a couple of years.
By the time you're making $~400k, which is what you'd need to be doing what you describe, you're not doing skilled work any more, you're in executive management.
You can do it with $200k if your family has money
Oh yes, I forgot about step one. Be rich to begin with.
Frankly it's everybody else's fault if they're not taking this sage advice.
How is it advice? You may all be very upset about it but the truth is that there are a lot of high paid workers in the US doing just this. Some have family money, some live frugally to do it.
You seem to want to shit on the US, which is fine but a lot of people aren't struggling and do take time off between high paying jobs. I'm not defending it, I live in Europe because I don't agree with many things about the way of life but it is untrue to assume everyone in the US is poor and struggling.
You don't get it, you absolutely don't get it. No one is saying it's not possible to do this in the US. Been rich already isn't a solution to the problem, the fact that you have to be rich already to make this work is the problem, regardless of what nation you're talking about.
I'll humor your dismissive and empathy-void phrasing, let's agree that life of different for the "high skilled workers", what percentage of society do they make?
Are you suggesting (as your tone implies) that everyone working a non high skilled job isn't living the American way and shouldn't deserve a life with job protections and without crushing debt, as the comment you directly replied to so callously was claiming?
Put a dollar amount on your real American way and tell me what percentage of society deserves to live the real American way.
"highly skilled workers" because saying enjoying life is a privilege felt too convoluted?
Didn't say it was fair, but that is what high earners are doing.