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$40,000 pay cut?

June 7th, 2008 at 06:27 pm

I heard back from the job I had interviewed for a week ago. This is the one that is 20 miles from home. I currently make $95,000 and they want to pay me $55,000. Hah! Like we could do that.

Of course, I do spend ~$20,000 driving to work and living down there during the week. But, when we sell the house down there and I stay with my co-worker for those days (she is going to charge me $100 per month), we'll be saving about $900 per month. That leaves the gas, at about $500 per month now. But that is only $6000 a year. A huge difference between $6000 and $40,000.

The other thing to think about, though, is that I would be home every night. I think that maybe if this opportunity came in a few years after we have the farm bringing in some money, that might work. But right now, I'm supporting both us AND operating expenses for the farm, so we couldn't do the things we want to do in the next few years if I took this job.

4 Responses to “$40,000 pay cut?”

  1. koppur Says:
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    Wow, that would be a huge paycut. I can see cutting expsenses down for a few grand, but how are you going to cut $40,000 of expenses out, and do a start up on the farm??

  2. boomeyers Says:
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    We took a $40000 pay cut and now we are in $50000 worth of debt!!!

  3. cptacek Says:
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    Yeah, there is not way we could do this and try to keep expanding like we are. I can't take it, even if it was across the street from me.

  4. Dave T Says:
    1212961323

    I have not had a pay raise since 2005 and got laid off last Friday.

    This economy is great! Sigh.

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