Ignoramus8716 wrote:

On 2010-06-24, Ed Huntress wrote:
I'm in Texas now, I used to be in the frozen northeast (CT). I used to
work for a college system, left there and am making 3X as much with
equally good benefits, better work environment and in a lower cost of
living state doing the same work. I also get the respect that was sorely
lacking in the college, and have significantly fewer egos to deal with.

'Sounds like you're pretty bitter about the old job. I only know one person
who worked in that environment, and he loved it. After a few years he
started his own machine shop business (I bought in) and we continued to make
parts for Princeton's research departments. That was the machine shop I
worked in, first in Pennington, later moved to Princeton Junction.

Good for you making all that money. Most people aren't making three times as
much as the Princeton job pays.


In Texas, 120k lets you live like a king.

Yes and no, that depends on what part of Texas. Certainly in the major
metro areas it doesn't, though it lets you live decently. If you can
live far out from those metro areas you can indeed live like a king.
Texas is a rather large state after all...