blu posted... Are you talking about in general? I still have a top 1-2% income at an Ivy League university in a field with prestige. Its over 4x the median income for my age, which isnt middling. Youre right if you think academics and jobs shouldnt have prestige attached to them, but youre wrong if you say they dont.
It depends on the type of life you want to have. If you dont want to have much of a life, its not limiting to your life. If you do, its hard to deny something that takes up 40-50% of your waking hours between preparation and performance is not limiting how you can live life, even if you enjoy what you do.
Thats what Im doing. It was even posted about in this topic...
Ahh, I suggest you log a few and disprove them at sometime then. I really dont do this.
You are so god damn delusional and dishonest and a truly pitiful person. Stop exaggerating everything in a futile attempt to make yourself seem like someone important and successful. You are neither.
You don't work "at an Ivy League university". You are employed as a staff member at an unimportant, run of the mill, mid-sized regional community hospital that just happens to be affiliated with one. That's a big fucking difference.
You don't have anywhere near "a top 1% to 2% income". Not even close. That claim is easily disproved by a simple google search of US income percentiles and your middling claimed annual income of approximately $150k. Your are especially delusional and dishonest on this fib. Laughable, really. And you apparently on't understand what the word "middling" means, but it sure seems to have provoked your insecurity considering your response.
You don't work in a "field with prestige". You are functionally a glorified x-ray technician that measures the performance and accuracy of medical devices, or as you have put it, a "quality assurance" technician. A job that no one gives a shit about. But don't take my word for it - I think you'd agree that this description of your job is accurate considering it comes from you:
Medical physicist at a mid-sized center. Work with a talented team of physicists utilizing a wide array of clinical techniques.
Now that sounds like some super impressive pressssteeeege shit right there.
Instead of coming to a video game message board to humble brag and trying to show other people how super successful and better you are than them - all as part of some weird, vain effort to ameliorate your insecurities, unhappiness and deeply embedded inferiority complex - how about you learn to accept and be satisfied with who and what you actually are.
A guy that spent a lot of time at undistinguished, lower tier state schools to get a specific type of job that now makes middling money as an equipment calibration monkey staff member at a regional hospital in an area that's not a particularly desirable place to live.
If you don't like that reality, do something to change it. But for the love of god, stop making up bullshit and coming on this board to lie in order to make yourself feel superior to other people. Because I'm pretty sure almost everyone else here is superior to you in the way that matters: they're not so fucking insecure and miserable that they have to brag about themselves every damn day.