just quit my job

[Not_Kazowi]

Lol an average Russian wage for a 24 year old is like $2.50 an hour

[Eslade]

people can live off of $10 an hour? wow.

[Fame]

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Naw, it's fuckin great up here man. Everyone I know who moved here from other states say they have no regrets other than not moving sooner. There is life beyond the rat race brew.

[SamwiseRed]

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people can live off of $10 an hour? wow.

not hard honestly. when i moved out on my own before i joined the army, i had a place and a car making less than 10 dollars and hour.

[SamwiseRed]

given it was a shitty car and an alright place haha but its doable.

[Yumyums Inmahtumtums]

Alaska looks so nice. Would have to settle in Yukon though because Canadian

10 dollars an hour though? Cost if living is so much there. Not sure how I would survive on 10/hr unless you lived in an urban center. I always thought working in a northern diamond mine would be cool and those guys are 40+/hr

[JPMorgan]

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Naw, it's fuckin great up here man. Everyone I know who moved here from other states say they have no regrets other than not moving sooner. There is life beyond the rat race brew.

Two words, pal:

Tundra Wookies.

You know what I'm talkin' about.

[Fame]

I live on the coast haha, no idea about anything tundra. And yeah people make it work on that 10 spot. They do a lot of subsistence though. I'd say on average most of the people I know up here harvest 1000 or more lbs of food per year. Oh and 10 is just the starter jobs for rookies, people make more if they try. It's not uncommon to make 70-100k over the summer and then relax for the winter or work a job or do more fishing.

[karsten]

doesn't the gov't pay everyone a certain amount per month in alaska?

i started out trolling you about 10$/h but now i'm actually curious to learn more about the lifestyle

[Fame]

lol

Nah, not per month, it's per year, around Fall season, roughly $1100 on average, think we're getting 1350+ this year, not sure.

It's like anywhere else, wide ranges of style, we have a few urban areas that function much like small american cities but we also have rural extremes without running water ect.

I live in a small coastal village, running water, power, tv, ect. Everything. But we did just get cell phones maybe two years ago haha. I didn't even get a cell phone till I was maybe 24-25. The internet sucks but we do get some awesome stuff to do outside. Since I can remember, I've been harvesting fish/berries/seaweed and other wild game during the summer. This isn't our only or primary food source. Nig had pop tarts growin up too.

We preserve most of it through drying or smoking. We do freezing and canning also. It kind of depends on what ya feel like eating. I do most of my salmon in canned smoke strips that we can eat throughout the winter. But I also use a lot of King Salmon for drying because it has lots of oil.

There is also the community thing that goes a long way. It's def different than most urban areas haha. We help each other and still practice the native traditional potlatch. Biggest difference I usually find with people from the city is the perspective on death. Life seems to mean more here. Probably because there are less of us. I've had multiple friends drown/die from the elements. I've always liked how we did death here, it's bigger than just your family. Growing up I have probably been to 300+ funerals at least and dug more graves than I can remember. There is something about shoveling dirt onto a casket while the family weeps that just puts the importance we have to one another center stage.

Yeah it's weird but I wouldn't have it any other way.

It's nothing like the tv shows all about Alaska on discovery channel.

Oh and I should probably stay something about the 10 spot. That's not my wage, just the common one growing up. I own and operate a oyster farm on the gulf coast so my wage is pretty much nothing haha #farmlife