Every time I look around, other opportunities pay so much less and are so much riskier. Even inhouse is risky with tech and AI layoffs. Other people's lives are so much worse.
Well, except for that trust fund girl in my building who told me she's "decided to make money" in a supercilious tone befitting 1920s era industrialists. How? by putting a Ferrari her parents bought her on Turo. Said she makes $1,000 a day. My salary. "I never drive it and people love it. Weddings, special events, photoshoots."