money is all relative depending on who you know/socialise with etc
i would say that at least half of my friends in london earn more than i do.

and in this particular office (or "mental world" as you call it), surrounded by partners and senior lawyers, my salary IS at the bottom end because i am much more junior!
( rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 25 Jan 2011, 14:39, 1 reply, 15 years ago)

So when you say "everyone in the office" you mean "everyone I have to acknowledge the existance of"
When you say "everyone in the city" you mean "people I compete with"

How can you not realise how disgusting that is?
(PsychoChomp, Tue 25 Jan 2011, 14:42, Reply)

nope
that's not even remotely what i mean. firstly, when i said "everyone in the office", i meant everyone in THIS office. the people who aren't lawyers are on a different floor and therefore not in "the office" as per my post. secondly, i don't compete. i just do a good job. i work/ed my arse off for it though, firstly to get fucking good academics, and now at my job. what is so disgusting about that?

besides, like you would turn down a salary rise if you were ever offered one. might stop you moaning that you couldn't afford cigarettes for a start.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 25 Jan 2011, 14:48, Reply)

It's not a matter of what you meant
it's a matter that you said "everyone" referning to the well paid. Basically forgetting about anyone with a low or medium income. even in your office I bet support staff out number lawyers, not to mention IT, telephony, security, cleaners, site managers etc etc. Now spread that to "the city" you've got millions of people who don't earn £25k even within the square mile. and you forgot they existed.
(PsychoChomp, Tue 25 Jan 2011, 14:54, Reply)

my original point was about the people with whom you socialise
it just so happens that i don't know a lot of people in those roles because i don't meet them, so therefore i don't socialise with them. how many bankers/surgeons/supermodels do you hang out with on a regular basis? does it make you an inverse-snob if the answer is "very few"?

besides if you took an average of wages across the whole of the city, i'd still be towards the bottom bearing in mind the number of people who earn telephone number salaries. partners in a law/accountancy firm can trouser anything from £500k-£1,000,000 a year, for example.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 25 Jan 2011, 15:01, Reply)