Looking back, the highest quality of life I ever enjoyed was when I was working my first software development job out of university in the 90s. $45K/year comp and I bought a condo for $45K. Imagine: being able to buy an actual house for a mere 1X your yearly salary. Unheard of now. It's been all downhill from there in terms of the cost-of-living:compensation ratio. And that's for software development, one of the more financially lucrative careers out there. It's been even steeper downhill for non-techies.
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Looking back, the highest quality of life I ever enjoyed was when I was working my first software development job out of university in the 90s. $45K/year comp and I bought a condo for $45K. Imagine: being able to buy an actual house for a mere 1X your yearly salary. Unheard of now. It's been all downhill from there in terms of the cost-of-living:compensation ratio. And that's for software development, one of the more financially lucrative careers out there. It's been even steeper downhill for non-techies.