My mom has terminal cancer and I have very mixed feelings about this. One is selfish, which is that she hold out as long as possible so I still get to talk to her, and the other is whatever is easiest for her; which is ultimately more important to me.

I feel like this is something easy for someone to come up with an inaccurate moral judgement if they haven't experienced these circumstances for themselves.

What an incredibly brave woman.

The sad thing is that a lot of other industries are making money hand over fist and simply don't pay. I work for a corporate entity that (comically) isn't bad in regards to executive comp vs employee comp, and our CEO still makes 134 times the median salary. I think the US national average in that stat was that CEOs make 399 times the salary of the median employee. That's fucked up.

I started in IT and moved into our RnD dept. I'm a cloud infrastructure engineer/devops engineer.

EDIT - looks like OP and I are in similar-ish fields and they have a similar experience. It does kind of suck, but it is what it is.

May be positional changes. I took a job on a help desk to get into the company I currently work for. First positional change netted me an extra 40k, last one was another 80k. The best way to get a 'raise' is usually to move your way up or change employers. At least in the US.

Told ya