What, no improvement!
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Youngest son, supergeek, hired by Anthropic. Salary >> my FSA pay
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In cases like this, I always acted disapointed and asked them what happened to the last 10%. But Dad! I got 100!.
Yeah, well, in this house I expect 110%.
Then I made sure they got some sort of small reward for doing well.
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Can anthropic really be that good if they need to hire people?
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“Don’t be like me. Be better than me.” - My dad’s message to me growing up, and one I preach to my kids as often as possible. Salary isn’t necessarily the metric of choice, but I do feel your post implied other points of emphasis.
I pay his wages! lol.
My oldest plays in both the regular band and one of the honors bands at their middle school, and was elected by their peers to be the student conductor for their honors band. At the concert earlier this week where they conducted one of the pieces, the band director gave them their first baton – it was such a beautiful moment.
Afterwards, I sent the band director an email thanking him for everything he has done for my child over the past 2 years, and he responded with 2 pictures of them conducting and many kind words to make sure I understand how awesome they are. Which yes, I already knew, but is nice to hear.
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My oldest kid graduates cum laude today. He did it in four years and double majored.
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IIRC, my first salary as an freshly university graduated actuarial student was about the same as my father’s final salary (he didn’t graduate HS and passed away just before I started college 4 years earlier at the age of 60). Yes, he would have been proud as @Hip_tiger is, I hope.
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I get it! Both my grandfathers dropped out of college to fight in WWII after a rural farming upbringing, parents both first-gen college students and became teachers, and I do pretty well as an actuary. Generational compounding is notable and praiseworthy. I only meant to imply the underlying emphasis is really on the opportunities the salary provides rather than the actual dollars. No criticism intended!
My father went to college because of WWII. Without the GI Bill paying for it, I am not sure what the future would have been
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It’s amazing how much can be traced back to that time. While never going back to college, paternal side used the training to hold down the Sears repair division his entire career. He’d hate to see what appliances have become.
I need to ask my dad what he would have done as to education w/o the GI Bill.
I like having new questions for him, he doesn’t share much without prompting.
He was working in a machine factory after HS, before joining the army