- bay area is indeed nice
- no action and no bay billiards so bit boring maybe (there are always options as Tombo knows)
- bay area has 2 ex-gf's to avoid uggg
- but bay area is so snooty.. i hate that part its so rich and elite. thats what keeps housing hot but also depressing for rest of us losers.
- sis doesn't live in bay area.. no family around
But ultimately the bay has jobs! if i can get one still... i just read an article on how Google pays families for 10 years 50% of a workers salary if they die as extra benefit on top of life insurance. Omg man are you nuts. That is like 5x salary payout which is way more than any other company w/ their builtin life insurance policies.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/
Compare to my job.. no future.. no benefits. Can't even get money to take a class or few $k for training some poor lacky.
The other problem is pay differential.. i heard SV folks can now make $150k salaries. I have no idea if thats true but wow... back in 2005 when I last looked, $120k was top pay I could ever find. I dont think it was just a poor search because as I have stated many times i have searched for more jobs than people dream about.
So back in 2005 it was Financial boomtime.. maybe SV jobs paid $120k + benefits / stock, but Financial firms paid $150k base + $50k bonuses so it was an obvious cash cow. Turn the clock forward, if tech pays $150k + death benefits, and banks are stuck at $150k base + almost 0 bonuses.. you tell me whats going to happen... ? Well nobody is going to join the banking tech groups anymore.
The red herring (for me) is that banks dont lower pay for old timers because its too demoralizing. Guys who joined earlier will still make their $200k but its been made clear they are overpaid and its not going up. New joiners are also stuck at where they were on pay baselines. So what you have are old guys sitting on nice 'legacy' pay packages (many at $300k+) with nowhere to go without a huge pay cut.. and no incentive to bust chops and earn any more. We are screwed. So they (we) sit and wait.. try to get a few more paychecks in.. before the end...
But you don't want to be the last to jump off the sinking ship do you? Timing is the perennial question. When is the bottom or is there one?
This is my issue.. i feel i may want to take what cash i have, buy a house and life the easy life... hmmm
maybe i should see if i can still code or not
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