• 3abas@lemmy.world
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    7 hours ago

    Is that what you do between jobs? Woodworking and starting a successful YouTube career?

    Most people burn through savings and turn to credit cards to survive between jobs, but I’m glad it’s working out for you buddy.

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      2 hours ago
      1. Not a high skilled worker
      2. Don’t live in America any longer

      No, if I’m between real jobs, I do whatever other sorts of work needed to pay my bills. I have worked with plenty of high skilled people who did just as I described though, immigrants, Americans, etc. they earn twice a European salary for two years, then get laid off in a downturn or quit and spend a year doing dumb shit and net out ahead anyway.

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      5 hours ago

      I guess life is different for high skilled workers living the real American way.

      • funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works
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        4 hours ago

        By the time you’re making $~400k, which is what you’d need to be doing what you describe, you’re not doing skilled work any more, you’re in executive management.