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    Advice: Job Offer - Net pay is approximately 50% of Cost to Company, but opportunity is good.

    Update time: So, after 2 whole days of painful silence, they came back with a new offer with a higher basic salary! (from 25k to 27k) My worries are no more and I can sleep easy at night… now, I need to start packing and planning my relocation. Thanks to everyone for the suggestions and...
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    Advice: Job Offer - Net pay is approximately 50% of Cost to Company, but opportunity is good.

    Hey, Sorry... I didn't see this reply for some reason. I responded to almost everyone else but missed this lol. To answer your question, yes. I completed a BTech Mechanical Engineering. I'm 100% taking this job because of the fact that it gives me a better career direction and experience as...
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    Advice: Job Offer - Net pay is approximately 50% of Cost to Company, but opportunity is good.

    Thank you, and agreed. Not disregarding his points or advice, I just get extremely infuriated at the accusation that it is ME not WILLING to make sacrifices. If there was enough room for it, I would gladly do so. But in this case, the margins are so close that it makes me uncomfortable... hence...
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    Advice: Job Offer - Net pay is approximately 50% of Cost to Company, but opportunity is good.

    Hi, not yet. The HR manager said he received my mail and is waiting for feedback from the directors. I hope I did not scare them away or make a bad impression.
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    Advice: Job Offer - Net pay is approximately 50% of Cost to Company, but opportunity is good.

    Hello, thank you for the advice. Yes, I was thinking to ask for more, but wasn’t sure if that might come off the wrong way. You all have assured me that is is okay and reasonable to state my case for a slightly higher basic, which makes me feel better. So, that is exactly what I have done. I...
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    Advice: Job Offer - Net pay is approximately 50% of Cost to Company, but opportunity is good.

    You're* Lol, getting arrogant and passive aggressive, are we? All I am saying is stop acting like the root of the problem is ME not willing to make a sacrifice. That clearly isn't true given my lifestyle. The root of the problem is that we don't have the margins to make MORE sacrifices since...
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    Advice: Job Offer - Net pay is approximately 50% of Cost to Company, but opportunity is good.

    Correct, they didn't get there overnight. But they never had to sacrifice essentials to get there nor were they called entitled for expecting their pre-70k salaries to afford essentials. That's why I keep mentioning boomers... they could afford a lot more than the basics while working unskilled...
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    Advice: Job Offer - Net pay is approximately 50% of Cost to Company, but opportunity is good.

    I think we're on the same page about making the sacrifice, but you're missing the important point about sacrifices entirely. That point being that not all sacrifices are the same, nor are they possible. Making sacrifices requires privilege to begin with. Let me explain in simple terms: See...
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    Advice: Job Offer - Net pay is approximately 50% of Cost to Company, but opportunity is good.

    Well that’s fair. I know exactly the type you are referring to, majority have good careers that will see them right though… like lawyers, chartered accountants etc. I didn’t make any assumption of your age, just said that we are dismissive of boomer advice, which you are repeating. In my...
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    Advice: Job Offer - Net pay is approximately 50% of Cost to Company, but opportunity is good.

    You weren’t trying to help, you were gaslighting and calling me stupid for worrying about how I’m going to survive month-to-month. Others were helping by acknowledging it is tough and unfair, but may be worth it. You decided that I was being unreasonable and entitled. Then you bragged about...
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    Advice: Job Offer - Net pay is approximately 50% of Cost to Company, but opportunity is good.

    Look, do you ever notice how everyone thinks they’re middle class? This is because everyone knows people who are both much richer than them and much poorer than them. Of course, everyone is not middle class. You think you grew up poor and unprivileged. But the fact that you insist on bragging...
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    Advice: Job Offer - Net pay is approximately 50% of Cost to Company, but opportunity is good.

    You don’t have the picture. You have privilege. If you think paying for shelter or food is something I should sacrifice, you clearly don’t get the picture.
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    Advice: Job Offer - Net pay is approximately 50% of Cost to Company, but opportunity is good.

    Employers owe you a living. Thats literally the entire incentive to work and make them a profit. If you can’t understand the basic premise of capitalism, you don’t get to lecture us, sorry. BTW, I can’t afford to buy what I need… that’s exactly the problem . How do I make this more clear?
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    Advice: Job Offer - Net pay is approximately 50% of Cost to Company, but opportunity is good.

    I think it’s because I have 10 years of experience in various industries, but only graduated with degree in 2021. It’s post graduate experience that gives you the opportunity for high level work and experience. I only have a BTech degree in mechanical engineering and have worked various...
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    Advice: Job Offer - Net pay is approximately 50% of Cost to Company, but opportunity is good.

    Oh I know he wasn’t being offensive, I wasn’t being snarky either. I was just giving the other side to his claim and why it may seem to him as if we’re being “shortsighted”. If I could afford necessities and had left over money, I would certainly put away for pension. But we shouldn’t be made...
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