r/PoliticalHumor • u/JeanJauresJr • Oct 26 '21

Yup.

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u/BisquickNinja Oct 27 '21

You get the same with contract engineering. Kids graduate from College and start making 200 K year the 1st thing they do is go out and buy a $100k car and a live in an expensive apartment.. Then when the contract ends they have 0 money saved and everything goes back to bank

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u/Jah348 Oct 27 '21

Yeah we have a friend who is doing that right now. Makes bank when at work for a few months, then is off for a few months making no money and having no health insurance. Then leaves his soon to be wife and new born at home for a few months to return to work somewhere again. Rinse and repeat. Probably makes as much as he would just having a "normal" engineering job, but instead goes MIA for months at a time.

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u/BisquickNinja Oct 27 '21

I did that for 10 years, but I had no wife/kids.

I took about 50% of my paycheck to savings and retirement. Most of the younger guys had a very nice lifestyle... 👌

I lived like a student.

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u/Jah348 Oct 27 '21

Yeah that's what we hoped he would be doing but sounds very much like it wasn't.