Don't let density fool you, Belgium's network might be extensive but it's still miserable, especially TEC's (bus company operating the southern part of the country)

The title says Europe. Which is a continent.

There are several countries missing from this list.

The title should instead read "select European countries"

Is the position you ended up taking in management or is it engineering?

How about against average house prices?

And can we see this same graph for the United States? Or even State by state?

Thanks for sharing!

Thanks and yes, they’ll have to pry this mortgage out of our cold dead hands, but does make moving for whatever reason more difficult, I suppose.

As experienced by my boyfriend who is a PhD student in a science field: do they give the women in your department the heebiejeebies? How do they talk to women and interact with them? If anything seems amiss about respect or boundaries: dump them. His department had a sexual harasser in the past and they were taking the “twice shy” approach after that.

Everything costs 30% more, buts all good If I get a 15% raise 🙏

It's frequency 100%. Also the Netherlands cycles a whole lot more

I know of at least three that do not have third rounds. They also sometime skip the first round screen. It’s basically just one partial day of interviewing then done.

That must have been infuriating.

I had one one for a product manager job 2 years ago that had roughly 8-10 interviews and took ~15 hrs if you count my travel time to go interview with someone who was 1.5hrs each way. They just kept saying "hey, 1 more person would like to speak to you". This included being asked to meet with the V.P. which was a 2 min. meeting with 60 min of driving time.

I eventually was told I was the selected for the job but before I got their official offer, Covid shut everything down and they didn't fill the position.

Where is the part with the CEO getting his bonus?

Haha it's funny probably could've landed a gig in Wisconsin if I really tried

dear god 8 interviews for british salaries shoot me now

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Rich on the coasts. Inland? I'm from Alabama and drove through some parts of the Inland Empire where I thought I was cruising through Wilcox County.

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Since you asked for help, some ideas:

• I suggest you talk to a tax professional to see if they can reduce your taxes or, at least, funnel some of that money elsewhere rather than taxes.
• odd question: how are you contributing to a Roth IRA when the highest income limits is $228k for this year
• I'm assuming that you have a good mortgage since you can't really refinance right now. Still, $98.5k/year mortgage seems pretty high. Is that a $2m mortgage? That can't be right or, at least, you definitely can't consider yourself even upper middle class even in CA.
• you have to consider that renovations/furniture is a one-time cost. You won't have the $43k/year in expenses, right?
• $4k/year for Internet and cable? I know it's not a lot of money compared to other expenses but try cutting the cord and just having high speed internet? $333/mo seems obscene even for CA.
• note that you're spending quite a bit on restaurants vs. buying actual groceries. Since you're spending ~$165/week on average, try not going for an entire week. Or if you're going out every other week then that's $327. That's some expensive wine. If you stop doing this once a month then you'll save $2k/year just on that.
• what's the difference between Internet/cable vs. entertainment which is almost another $300/mo. You're paying over $600 on these. Are you getting $21 worth of fun every single day? Maybe cut something there.
• how much money is left on the family loan repay?
• you could contribute more to the 529 plan. Based on your family's level, I think you'll have those higher needs.
• what's the $11.5k household? That's almost $1k/mo - what's that for?
• am I assuming that you moved $40k to a brokerage plus saved $33.5k in cash? Why not:
• move some more cash to the 529 plan
• repay that family loan so it's not hanging over your heads
• think about getting a better car where you're not wasting $2.5k/year on maintenance
• move more money to the brokerage to get a higher investment return
• also you're contributing only $31k to a 401k?
• once again, max contribution limits apply here and you might be filing taxes separately. That still doesn't explain the Roth where you hit limits. Again I'd check with a tax advisor or maybe get a different opinion.
• I'd definitely contribute more to the 401k

Basically you have the following general problems of which you're already aware:

• your tax situation isn't optimal and could be better both from how much taxes you're paying and how little you're contributing to retirement and educational funds
• your spending is a bit much, even for California. You can do better, especially when it comes to entertainment: both restaurants and entertainment
• considering how much income you're getting and the size/interest on that family loan, I'd pay that off
• halt the bleed of the stupid expenses like upgrading to a more reliable car where you don't have maintenance costs (perhaps even a lease would be cheaper).

I technically never even got an interview, and it's been 25 years for me :) My college professor hired me (part-time at first) while still in school, so I guess the interview was the classes I had taken with him.

Yeah, the recruiters

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Much better results than those with MAGA experience I’ve heard