We didn't have the type of lifestyle creep where we want flashy material things as neither of us are like that but you find that as you age and earn more the one thing you can't buy more of is time. So the next best thing is to free up time by outsourcing things you don't have time for. So we have a nanny, a regular cleaner, use a pick up laundry service and we eat out a lot more. We also live in a bigger box and have a slightly newer nicer car than we used to and a few more holidays a year.
Are you a top revenue earner?
- Thread starter Stu999
- Start date
We didn't have the type of lifestyle creep where we want flashy material things as neither of us are like that but you find that as you age and earn more the one thing you can't buy more of is time. So the next best thing is to free up time by outsourcing things you don't have time for. So we have a nanny, a regular cleaner, use a pick up laundry service and we eat out a lot more. We also live in a bigger box and have a slightly newer nicer car than we used to and a few more holidays a year.
Hmmm no that’s not the point, it’s just another chance for our resident “I am considerably richer than yao” posters to come out of the woodwork!
Associate
People treat and behave differently around you when they know you earn a lot more than them. Maybe this changes after a certain level of income or not.
Soldato
The thing is this is a computing forum. Most people will have done alright on here, or at least higher than average. Some people think open salary info is gloating, but conversely that assumes those people look unfavourably on those that earn less, which is not usually the case.
20k but live in skegness?
The UK is full of jealous people that hate success because their own lives suck so much.
I jest, but seriously it's riddled with class structure and jelousy.
Soldato
How'd you guess?
Last edited:
Man of Honour
Ahhh ok. It doesn't bother me to be honest. Good luck to them. If they share how they became so successful then it's surely not a bad thing? If it's to mindlessly show off, well that's just human behaviour. No different to people posting stuff in the look what I bought thread or.sharing their cars or homes and so on.. but I guess I see it from a different perspective, I'm not an envious type generally.
It's a shame that society has enabled those behaviours to become entrenched if that is the case. My friends and family earn a spectrum above and below me, there's no judgment of issues there at all. I suppose it depends on how comfortable you are in yourself.
That wouldn't surprise me at all.
Caporegime
Not sure it will be most, I think it's just far more likely for people to post their salary if they're on a good amount. The forum will be skewed higher than average I think due to a higher likelihood of people being in STEM fields, but there will also be lots of people here on £20-40k salaries.
Soldato
- Joined
- 25 Sep 2012
- Posts
- 3,200
Or a loaf of Hovis with Gucci embedded in it.I mean, you can post your payslip if you like?
Man of Honour
I guess it depends on the sector.
I'd consider myself fairly resilient to stress. I do MMA and there's quite a strong fight or flight feeling there. Being a parent also I think makes you a little tougher to life. I'm far far away from being a flake of snow.
I think ironically I've been given more responsibility as I've become more senior and feel more pressure. I mean my team delivers above and beyond and I'm not under any worry about my role. The pressure is fine, but there are times where I'm putting more effort than is worth because I'm a bit of a perfectionist. So I guess it is self inflicted.
I also report to 3 of the board separately with slightly different hats on so I guess it makes it tough.
In previous roles when I had a bigger budget and larger team (10 FTE) it was easier as you said.
My role is a blend of strategic and delivery but with 1/3 of the resources I actually need. Yay for public sector!
Last edited:
Soldato
- Joined
- 25 Sep 2012
- Posts
- 3,200
Soldato
Brits absolutely hate to see other people do well; that's why they vote Tory. Seeing the offspring of a single mother get refused a school meal on your tax buck is worth every pothole you drive over.
Soldato
- Joined
- 25 Sep 2012
- Posts
- 3,200
Go on...what's it like when Labour are in?
Depends how you evaluate and define success, and what you admire.
Personally I admire the heck out of engineers and that kind of thing. People building mega-projects, or doing cutting edge research, or whatnot. Or even just building a road or a bridge even if it isn't necessarily the biggest or the most complicated. Software engineers, too. Lots of respect for lots of those kind of peoples.
But these guys don't normally make it "rich". The really "successful" guys tend to be doing a lot more mundane stuff, like buying and selling things. Retail empires, property empires, etc, etc. Or being the CEO du-jour of a large company, whether or not you do well you still get paid millions.
Some people have gotten spectacularly rich through fraud or other moral bankruptcy (obviously that doesn't apply to anyone here, we're all 100% on the level!)
When the argument is used (non-ironically) that people just envy success, and success is defined by money, I can't help but feel extremely sad about the world we've created. And don't even get me started about the people who had vast inherited wealth to start with. With the best possible start in life, can they really claim all that "success" is their own?
As for the UK, class structure is baked in and has been a staple in this country for thousands of years.
Soldato
I wanna say but I’m not going to. This is the UK you vulgar sods.
Last edited:
Don’t think so. Thought the last band is at £125k although between £100-125k you lose your personal allowance so the rate there is effectively 60%, then £125k+ is 45%
Edit:
It’s £150k that it goes to 45%
Last edited:
Soldato
No, it’s 150.