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Originally Posted by GordonBlue
one last note about unions and public sector jobs.
once you get to the top step on your pay scale, you're done. you're at the top of your grade, so unless you can learn some new skills and change positions to one with a higher grade, you'll be living off that salary for the rest of your career.
there often isn't cost of living increases, (especially in this economic climate.) there isn't bonuses. your spending power just slowly becomes less and less as taxes and bills and prices go up.
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Very true. However it depends on the environment you're in.
Take teachers for example, they go from the bottom of their pay scale to the top in 10 years.
Sure, you're stuck there, but you're stuck at the top making the most available. How many careers can boast that? That you hit the top of the pay scale (a not inconsiderable sum) and stay there for however long you choose to?
The horror......the horror....