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I submitted applications to all restoraunts around me and never heard back. Just lies.

New Jersey seems to be the worst state in the union. Highest taxes, most corrupt politicians (no surprise, it’s a D state), residents are denied constitutional rights e.g carrying a weapon.

It will turn into another blunder just like Ministry of Truth that Bidens woke handlers proposed.

I was told that most people don’t make much more due to progressive taxes

There are A LOT of disadvantages in the U.S in comparison to Sweden, but salary is not one of them. I’m a DevOps/Site Reliability Engineer, currently working full time for a midwest manufacturing company. I found the job thanks to networking, knowing a couple of people who was working for a startup that was acuired by the company I currently work for. Market is difficult right now, but it is still possible to find a well paying job. I have a bachelor degree in Sociology, so it is totally unrelated to my current job.

A good place to stay? I was renting a 2bd apt in Stockholm for 22000 SEK while making only 60k before taxes, after tax it was something like 38k. Yeah, sure, my kids daycare was subsidized and I didn’t have to worry about my health insurance, but what I was left with after taxes and rent was barely enough for us. Tbh I even was behind 1500 SEK copay on daycare a couple of times because of how little money I had. We had to eat mostly ätsnart items from ICA, I couldn’t afford to buy a bicycle, so I had to borrow one from a neighbor and fix it up, just to save some money on commuting because of expensive fares. The bicycle got stolen eventually. After one year our landlord booted us even though I asked them in advance to renew the contract, a friend of mine told me that this is because I would be eligible for första hand rent contract after living there for 2 years, so landlords never renew 2nd hand rent contracts. We couldn’t find another place to live afterwards and had to rent an Airbnb for a while. I moved to Cleveland OH afterwards. I make 2 times more now while paying only 1,600$ for a 3bd house. Our landlord is begging us to renew the contract. We can afford a car. We live normal life now.

200% increase once I moved to the U. S from Sweden. I’m so happy to finally leave Europe

I don’t get anything for being on call, neither I receive anything for working on an accident. Sometimes I am allowed to have extra free time next work day. At the same time, we don’t have many accidents and I mostly ignore calls unless it is convenient for me to look up whats going on. There are 2 people, me and my manager.

U.S Remote

I would say it’s a library available for several languages

OpenTF is great, but in general Terraform feels like a step back for me, mostly thanks to limitations of HCL. I want open pulumi