Friends was fucking wild. So so musician, waitress, and idk what the fuck half of em did, but they all had sick condos and apartments and had time to meet up for breakfast in the morning
Of the ones you couldn’t name: one of them was an archeologist and professor, one of them was a successful working actor, one of them was a private chef with a catering business. So all doing pretty well for themselves, by all accounts
Either way, I am thoroughly jealous of their TV portrayal of financial status and friend proximity. Honestly if I could have breakfast with friends on the daily and hang at a coffee shop in the evenings most days I’d be pretty happy.
at the time i remember an article that estimated they’d need $150k wage to live like that. That was decades ago, so not sure what the equivalent would be now?
With that last one they actually went out of their way to explain how she could afford that apartment and it was basically the old “pretending my grandma isn’t dead to keep the fixed rental rate” game.
I think that’s the real issue here. If you’re wealthy, this is perfectly doable.
From what I see it’s an paradox, where the jobs that don’t make much money (artists/teachers) tend to attract wealthy people and the high paying jobs (engineers/scientists) tend to be lower class people who need high paying jobs
It is hard as an artist seeing your friends who started out in the same circles as you, doing effortlessly well with the parental support that they have. You can’t resent them for it because why would you, if your parents were able, they’d do the same.
But you thought you were equals, starving as martyrs for your respective passions… but, they had a parachute and you didn’t.
Yeah, every “artist” I know has most of there money coming from some other source (investments, rental properties, etc).
On the reverse side, at my university chemical engineering used to be joked about as being for the poor kids. It’s very complex but at the time had the highest salaries. Rich people don’t need salaries, they have investments
wealthy you can afford to not work, thats why alot of them are YOUTUBERS. an example is taylor swift his parents were well off, but they made sure she went to all these classes, recording studios, while not have to worry about bills.
to give her an air of legitimacy they moved her to tennessee? to look more relatable to poor country folks. SHe was always conservative for that reason, and you see cracks of her maga showing in the last few years, shes careful to not be overtly supporting of right wing though.
Apartment in the city that a an “ok musician” can afford? Now that’s a funny joke.
Maybe if they have rich parents.
Perfectly doable if that apartment also has 12 other people in it and only one bathroom.
Or if you have a time machine and can go back to 1974
Friends was fucking wild. So so musician, waitress, and idk what the fuck half of em did, but they all had sick condos and apartments and had time to meet up for breakfast in the morning
Of the ones you couldn’t name: one of them was an archeologist and professor, one of them was a successful working actor, one of them was a private chef with a catering business. So all doing pretty well for themselves, by all accounts
Either way, I am thoroughly jealous of their TV portrayal of financial status and friend proximity. Honestly if I could have breakfast with friends on the daily and hang at a coffee shop in the evenings most days I’d be pretty happy.
at the time i remember an article that estimated they’d need $150k wage to live like that. That was decades ago, so not sure what the equivalent would be now?
The last one might be able to rent an apartment some 10km of that area…
With that last one they actually went out of their way to explain how she could afford that apartment and it was basically the old “pretending my grandma isn’t dead to keep the fixed rental rate” game.
i was going to say, if you have taylor swifts parents, or well off.
I think that’s the real issue here. If you’re wealthy, this is perfectly doable.
From what I see it’s an paradox, where the jobs that don’t make much money (artists/teachers) tend to attract wealthy people and the high paying jobs (engineers/scientists) tend to be lower class people who need high paying jobs
It is hard as an artist seeing your friends who started out in the same circles as you, doing effortlessly well with the parental support that they have. You can’t resent them for it because why would you, if your parents were able, they’d do the same.
But you thought you were equals, starving as martyrs for your respective passions… but, they had a parachute and you didn’t.
Yeah, every “artist” I know has most of there money coming from some other source (investments, rental properties, etc).
On the reverse side, at my university chemical engineering used to be joked about as being for the poor kids. It’s very complex but at the time had the highest salaries. Rich people don’t need salaries, they have investments
wealthy you can afford to not work, thats why alot of them are YOUTUBERS. an example is taylor swift his parents were well off, but they made sure she went to all these classes, recording studios, while not have to worry about bills.
to give her an air of legitimacy they moved her to tennessee? to look more relatable to poor country folks. SHe was always conservative for that reason, and you see cracks of her maga showing in the last few years, shes careful to not be overtly supporting of right wing though.
She endorsed Kamala in 2024.
You can get a job in the military as a musician right out of high school and make a livable wage with a pension. You don’t have to be great at it.
If your personal ethics allow it of course.