I'm not saying it's right, but this article really makes you understand why purges follow coups. These people really, truly believe they are entitled to six figures of your money and it's a tragedy that they've lost access to your wallet. You can't rehabilitate a 60 year old who has lived that way for 25 years.
Entitled is the correct word. If they are properly skilled in their field then they could easily hop to a job with a similar pay grade. But these kinds of jobs apparently were fake to begin with.
Even a fake job can have real skillsets that are useful. If you regularly do public speaking as part of your fake job... That's a marketable skill. If you navigate endless government forms to get your sweet USAID stipends, there's a huge market for people able to parse and read government documents and translate it to laypeople, join a business that helps start-up businesses and help them file their articles of incorporation or something.
But the fact these people were paid so much, and yet reduced to so little, tells me they were truly incompetent. 20 years at 6 figures, I'm not applying for a new job, I'm not even attempting to stay at my current one: I'm retiring!
Yeah but muh brand new car every three years, latest iPhone, gotta get a bigger house because nobody would belive we earn what we do living HERE, etc
Lifestyle creep is why many people can't retire even at 65 no matter how much they hate their jobs. It's sad as shit. I live far below my means at this point in my career with minimal debt and loads going to retirement/investments. Fuck working until I die
I'm not saying it's right, but this article really makes you understand why purges follow coups. These people really, truly believe they are entitled to six figures of your money and it's a tragedy that they've lost access to your wallet. You can't rehabilitate a 60 year old who has lived that way for 25 years.
Entitled is the correct word. If they are properly skilled in their field then they could easily hop to a job with a similar pay grade. But these kinds of jobs apparently were fake to begin with.
Even a fake job can have real skillsets that are useful. If you regularly do public speaking as part of your fake job... That's a marketable skill. If you navigate endless government forms to get your sweet USAID stipends, there's a huge market for people able to parse and read government documents and translate it to laypeople, join a business that helps start-up businesses and help them file their articles of incorporation or something.
But the fact these people were paid so much, and yet reduced to so little, tells me they were truly incompetent. 20 years at 6 figures, I'm not applying for a new job, I'm not even attempting to stay at my current one: I'm retiring!
Yeah but muh brand new car every three years, latest iPhone, gotta get a bigger house because nobody would belive we earn what we do living HERE, etc
Lifestyle creep is why many people can't retire even at 65 no matter how much they hate their jobs. It's sad as shit. I live far below my means at this point in my career with minimal debt and loads going to retirement/investments. Fuck working until I die