If you could quit your job tomorrow and be financially okay, would you?

[mongers]

The reality is somewhat different:

What would you do if tomorrow your job quit you?

[The Brain]

The reality is somewhat different:

What would you do if tomorrow your job quit you?

Pout.

[Liep]

Yes, the slacker life me.

[Admiral Yi]

What would you do if tomorrow your job quit you?

Look for another.

[Ideologue]

Get a two-income household though and blast that to $100k?  That's aristo livin'.

Where you are maybe.

I was gonna say 8X the poverty line in NYC, but...

I looked it up--do they really not calculate poverty line by geographical location?  That's the stupidest fucking thing I've ever heard of.  What's the point?

Actually apparently New York City has its own calculation. Still low though as it is 2 parent, 2 children on 31k is poor. NYT article then listed fed government says 22 for same family.

That's more-or-less homeless in NYC, right?

[merithyn]

That's more-or-less homeless in NYC, right?

There are places for ~$1000 a month (I found them when we were looking), which fits that budget, but it would be tight and the places would be shit.

[crazy canuck]

The reality is somewhat different:

What would you do if tomorrow your job quit you?

Sometimes I think it wouldnt be such a bad thing.  Then I remember what it is like to be poor and I pick up the next file 

[The Larch]

When I say "financially okay", I don't mean that you've won the lottery or that you get a full-pay retirement package. I mean that you would be pulling in about 4 times the poverty line and would stay at that rate until you died.

Would you leave your job?

Poverty here is defined as having less than 60% of the average net income, which for a single is about 950 Euro. Living off 240% of the average net income, i.e. 3800 Euro/month net is very comfortable here. That would actually put you among the top 10% or so of the population. So the only reasons not to take this would be the chance to earn even more (i.e. be among the top 5% or so) or boredom without a job.

Here poverty is established at 7.300 € per year following the same criteria (might be EU wide definitions), so for poll purposes it'd mean living with slightly less than 30k € per year, which would be a pretty sweet deal.

[mongers]

The reality is somewhat different:

What would you do if tomorrow your job quit you?

Sometimes I think it wouldnt be such a bad thing.  Then I remember what it is like to be poor and I pick up the next file 

 

[The Brain]

When I say "financially okay", I don't mean that you've won the lottery or that you get a full-pay retirement package. I mean that you would be pulling in about 4 times the poverty line and would stay at that rate until you died.

Would you leave your job?

Poverty here is defined as having less than 60% of the average net income, which for a single is about 950 Euro. Living off 240% of the average net income, i.e. 3800 Euro/month net is very comfortable here. That would actually put you among the top 10% or so of the population. So the only reasons not to take this would be the chance to earn even more (i.e. be among the top 5% or so) or boredom without a job.

Here poverty is established at 7.300 € per year following the same criteria (might be EU wide definitions), so for poll purposes it'd mean living with slightly less than 30k € per year, which would be a pretty sweet deal.

Too little to live on, too much to die from.

[Malthus]

Whenever median family income reports come out for this area I wonder who the heck can live on that.

This.

[Malthus]

The reality is somewhat different:

What would you do if tomorrow your job quit you?

Sometimes I think it wouldnt be such a bad thing.  Then I remember what it is like to be poor and I pick up the next file 

Just to annoy you, I'll say "me, too". 

[Ideologue]

God, I admire your ability to edit your own memories.

[Grey Fox]

Quebec's 2010 1 person household poverty line was 21 772$

Yes, I am willing to quit my job for 80k/year or as they say over 2 times my current salary.

[Ideologue]

Man, I would even work for $80k a year.