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Sheryl Crow says goodbye to her Tesla and donates to NPR: 'You have to decide who you are willing to align with'
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this post was submitted on 15 Feb 2025
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What "normal people" can't afford to sell their Tesla?
I have never in my life made enough money to be able to afford a Tesla. Guess I don't hit the income threshold for "normal."
Used teslas are about to be worth less than scrap, and you need a replacement vehicle when you sell, is what I'm getting at. Not to mention most teslas are leased or hardly paid off.
Also a model 3 is like average priced car no?
You do know the average priced car is priced above what the average American can afford to pay for it, right?
Plenty of people get their cars on payments or on a lease.
Someone who has a payment or a lease on theirs might now be underwater on it and have to pay back more money than they'd get from the sale. Not really an affordable situation for a lot of people.
I don't make the "normal" income threshold to lease a Tesla either.
Clearly I'm just too poor to be normal.
Or you just haven't sold your soul out to a well-paying corporation yet. I don't know your story and I can't judge you. I technically make enough to lease a Tesla, but I was feeling iffy about them 7 or 8 years ago because of the quality they had then, now it's a full-on nope for me, unless Musk is somehow relieved of his stake and employment in Tesla.
Maybe if you spent less time on lemmy haha
Today is Sunday. I woke up at 4:45 in the morning, It is now 20:44. I have spent the vast, vast majority of that time as I have done every day for the past three weeks since I got to Britain sending out resumes. At this point to every job recruitment agency in the UK that might use my skills.
Which is why I haven't posted a thing in six hours.
Do you know when I get to take a day off? When I get employed.
What did you do today that made you "normal" enough to lease a Tesla?
You're a bit out of luck right now in that the best paying industry for people with no specific training is currently experiencing (hopefully but unlikely the tail end of) a large downturn. Otherwise I'd suggest getting into software engineering, but as of late 2023 or so, it's been hell getting a job in the industry unless you already have experience. I was lucky enough to have a bit over 4 years of experience when I got canned, but it still took me 3 months to find a new job. Of course, I was a lot lazier and pickier in my job search than you probably are. To make matters worse, you're in the UK. I can't say for sure, but I believe UK is actually not particularly attractive in terms of the salary vs cost of living tradeoff. But as I've seen from your other comments, you're in the UK because that's where you could get a citizenship, as opposed to something like an EU country where you wouldn't be a citizen AND would ideally have to learn a new language.
The other reply mentioned the sysadmin career path. It's pretty laid-back most of the time, honestly. Well paid too. You won't compete with really sweaty Google/Meta/Tesla/whatever software engineers on salary, not even close, but you'll have time for your family. I think that's more important. You'd likely have to learn many of the relevant skills before even interviewing, but there's no need for any sort of a degree. If you're lucky enough to find a job at a company where there's a whole team of sysadmins, or at least like one senior sysadmin besides you, you can easily learn on the job too. Hiring for IT related positions is usually based more on team fit and your overall cleverness than anything else. If you can hold a conversation, be witty, and understand what is being said even if you have no specific experience in what you're talking about, that's more important than a degree or even experience. I've won several jobs just by... talking. Helps if you have a ridiculously wide sphere of interests. I've bonded with interviewers over opinions on cars, programming languages and Linux Distros.
Can't really recommend any other careers, I lack experience with most of them.
I'm a Linux sysadmin, I put in like 25 hours a week and get 6 figures but I only drive old cheap cars that are easy to fix haha
EVs in general are a scam and so is leasing or even financing a car imo, that's why Americans are poor, they buy stupid shit
I'm not a talented person by any means so if you're having a hard time finding work I'd consider this as a career. No post secondary needed in my experience, I just have high school