Google Cuts Jobs in Engineering and Other Divisions

Re:Google Cuts Jobs in Engineering and Other Divisions by JohnFen on Thursday January 11, 2024 @11:50AM (#38954790)

One of the pieces of career advice I've given my kids is: when your pay goes up, be very cautious about changing your lifestyle to match it. Going up that ladder is easy -- going back down is painful.

Ideally, your standard of living should cost you a fraction of what your income is.

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Re:Google Cuts Jobs in Engineering and Other Divisions by scarface_74 on Thursday January 11, 2024 @02:27PM (#38957503)

I was making $x in 2020 as a CRUD developer in Georgia.

I got a job at Amazon and was making $x+$100K

I was Amazoned last year from a remote position. By then, I had paid off debt, downsized from my big house in the burbs to a condo one third the size in state tax free Florida and could easily live off of $x- $30K even though I’m making around $50K more than I was making 3 years ago.

Guess how much I stressed when Amazon started Amazoning?

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