Overworked and underpaid
The end of the financial year…definitely the most interesting time of the year — massive store sales going hand-in-hand with the payout of tax refunds, massive overtime pay and salary reviews based on your performance during the exhausting and nerve-wracking investment period. It’s often hard to accept the fact that there are a hell of a lot of people out there who are in the enviable position of having earned too much money and would therefore need to come up with a tax dodge strategy through investing. It’s even harder to accept the fact that there are people much younger than you earning 3 times your salary. No 26 year-old can be so brilliant to warrant that pay packet unless they’re either trust fund babies, or juniors working in daddy’s company/firm, or over-ambitious sluts sleeping their way up the corporate ladder.
Salary review has been finalised and as it is with Life’s general nature, you never get what you think you should be paid. Even though you smile through your teeth when the boss proudly presents you with your pathetic new salary package, you want to run out to the parking lot and smash the windows of his new BMW that was part of his new salary package. Oh well, at least I can take comfort in the fact that I’ll never have to worry about investing to get a tax deduction. I’ll never earn enough to need one.
