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Re:So, can I survive and save some money earning 72k in Cali... by shanelja on Tuesday November 13, 2012 @05:53AM (#4777352)
Unfortunately, it is around that, my maths was a little off, it's £4,100 per year.
Re:So, can I survive and save some money earning 72k in Cali... by ayers on Wednesday November 14, 2012 @04:11AM (#4782612)
Is it full time, as in 5 days a week?
Re:So, can I survive and save some money earning 72k in Cali... by shanelja on Wednesday November 14, 2012 @04:13AM (#4782617)
Yeah, I work 30 hours + some overtime, 5 days a week, 6 hours a day, plus 2 hours travelling each way (on a bus pass which costs me around 850 pounds per year).
Re:So, can I survive and save some money earning 72k in Cali... by ayers on Wednesday November 14, 2012 @04:22AM (#4782637)
I have just looked at your previous posts and see you are on some sort of apprenticeship. I guess this enables your employer to pay you below minimum wage somehow.
Re:So, can I survive and save some money earning 72k in Cali... by shanelja on Wednesday November 14, 2012 @04:33AM (#4782668)
Yeah, it's a strange one though - I was already freelancing for two years when I came in to this job, but couldn't find a job elsewhere without a degree in the time scale I had (I was jobless, broke and homeless at one point in the last 9 months) so I had to find any job I could in the field (I was determined, I came back to the UK to work in tech, I was going to do it, there was no compromise) and ultimately found this apprenticeship.

It's a decent arrangement, he expected a tech illiterate teenager and instead got an experienced PHP programmer with Adwords and Analytics qualifications.