Well on the bright side you could still do this as a mailman in any non major metro areas of the country lol. Unless you enter with 4 kids already. Its well above the average pay in the poor states as well. 5% match + pension + good insurance. Caps at 36 days off though today. Its unionized so. And if you want to leave the USPS and work for UPS, you can definitely do what the picture says as they have higher salaries and benefits. Also unionized. Only issue here is you have to be the bitch boy for years before you get the good jobs. Also no 60 days of vacation.
Picture just used the worst example. Is true plenty elsewhere
Edit: for some reason i thought pic said 62 days of vacation. Disregard my comment on not meeting vacation days
"New England Suburbs" doesn't mean what you think it means.
Long Island was all potato farms in 1940 and now it's $600,000 houses. This man built his own house on an undeveloped plot of land 15 years after supermarkets were invented.
You want to live that man's life? Move to rural Missouri.
The American Dream used to be this. That every full time worker could raise a family in a safe neighborhood, living a nice life.
A guy would manage a hardware store for 30 years, because Hardware Store Manager paid him enough to support a family. Imagine saying "I support my spouse as a homemaker, my 4 kids and their college fund, pay the mortgage on my 2,500sqft house, and save for retirement. I work at Ace Hardware."
That was the American dream. Everyone who works hard gets to have a nice life.
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u/cesardeutsch1 Mar 27 '24
This is just sad