ITT: age, job, salary. Also: do you like your job? Would you quit if you could?

ITT: age, job, salary. Also: do you like your job? Would you quit if you could?
>18
>Language teacher (English, French, Brazilian Portuguese, Macedonian)
>also in college for languages&literature major graduating in Chinese(haven't learned much yet)
>$200/month
>I like it but it's very exhausting. Not sure if I would change jobs

200/month?

Yeah it's an informal job. I get like $8 per lesson taught. It's good experience for the future, I took the job because of that.

>34
>sound editor
>13-17k/year
>no

>23
>art director
>33k/year

I start Monday. I spent the last 5 years working in retail for less money so I'm content.

>30
>US Navy Enlisted (Chief Petty Officer)
>110K a year
>Not at the current moment. Stuck at a development base near Los Angeles so I deal with civilian contractors every day and have to actually work 5 days a week.

24,cook about 350 after taxes. Going to college for digital media

There isn't a Navy Base near Los Angeles.
>US army Specialist here.

>45
>VP Sales
>300k+/year
>most days
>yep, definitely

There's a naval base in Alameda. It's where they keep the nuclear wessels.

Nuclear wessels.

19
Construction Safety Manager
$4400 Month
Get paid half of what my coworkers do. Out of state journeymen are overpaid and have less skills/knowledge than apprentices. Plus they think they're kings and everthing should be set up for them.

There's several dipshit. Seal Beach, Point Mugu, Port Hueneme. Fucking google is your best friend to avoid looking like a retard.

>70
>POTUS
>400k
>no

Do you live with your parents?

>61
>programmer for strip club
>80k/year
>love it

Why... why does a strip club need a programmer?

i think we met before...

>23
>uber driver
>anywhere from 25k - 60k. Depends how much I work. I also study and get government benefits from that.
>love it. Great fun but hours kind of suck. If a job that was better came along I would just not do it as often.

>26
>no job
>0
My grandpa left me 90k, so i'm living frugally off that for as long as possible. Feels good not working

Believe it or not, they have employees and need to track dancers and shit tonnes of money.

And as you might imagine, Microsoft excel does not meet the needs of the club.

They haven't heard of Quickbooks? I kid, I don't mean to shit on your career, just very surprised that they would need a full time programmer. I'm guessing things are a bit more specialized than I am imagining.

and you would be right.

And FYI QB is for accounting, it will not tell you which dancer is in queue for stage 3, load her playlist and start timing.

And next time you go, tip 5's not one's

>33
>CPhT
>22k/year
>Sure, if I got a better offer.

>20
>deli clerk at publix
>800/month after taxes
>want to leave the deli for produce but $11/hr aint bad

consultant
110k/yr + bonus
everything still sucks

>21
>Zamboni Operator / Maintenence
>$36,000/year
>Quit for better pay

>21
>full time meat wrapper
>850 a month
> only downside is dealing with prissy customers

>22
>apprentice
>$350/month
>i like my function (printer/excel guy), althought my boss is annoying as fuck

>25
>busser at a restaurant
>weekly average $14/hr so about $2k/month
>it's a fun throwaway job while i go back to school
>i would absolutely quit if i could to focus on school

i had a salaried position before this and, before that position, was paid upwards of $25/hr to actually use the degree i already have. it's strange to have to resort to less pay to go back to school

>36
>manager for cable company
>$55k/year
>I want to kill myself.

>24
>Software Engineer
>B.S. in Computer Science
>$200k/year
>Best job I could ask for, and feel like there's a lot of opportunity for career advancement

35
Fiber Internet Tech
~34-50/ yr
I really like my job! This is the closest thing that I have found to working for myself but without the 80+ hour weeks and I get paid vacations. The complexity and variation keeps me interested so far. I would not quit even though I could make more at a different company.

>18
>Lifeguard
>$10/Hr
>Quit as soon as I get out of college

At least you get to watch hot girls swim I hope

>implying he looks at girls

>implying there is anything interesting in a pool other than girls

>implying you're not an absolute fiend for cock

>25
>Union Carpenter
>~75k/year
>Fuck yeah! I graduated from UW-Madison, worked at a videogame company, worked for the govt, worked for nonprofits. I can NEVER go back to sitting behind a fucking desk for the rest of my life. Plus, when 2:30pm comes around, i don't think about work until I show up the next day!
>I wouldn't quit now. Maybe once my pension is nice and solid I'd cash out and start my own woodshop.

>28
>Firefighter
>86k
>I love my job

33 / Systems Engineer / 140k

I love my job. As long as I stay smarter than the bottom 70% of candidates I can continue to act like a bit of a diva:

"I want to work from home today"
"I'm taking tomorrow off"
"I want to leave at 4 today"

I get more done than anyone else at my level and it would cost them 100x more to find someone better. It's true that there probably is someone better that would work for my salary but it just plain doesn't make business sense to find them.

Also, no college degree, so no college loans.

Anyways, the only bad part of the gig is that I have to keep learning. It's not like I can clock in and clock out--I have to constantly know and be able to wield every technological tool that exists.

Considerable pressure. But hell, there's no other way I'm making this kind of cash. I like driving a sick car with money leftover for a bike. I like not thinking about it when I want to go to Europe for vacation. It's 1000% worth it, and with all the nonsense hubub over "coders" my industry happily maintains it's desperation for competent employees.

Won't last forever, but so far I have 300k in a brokerage account plus my 401k and IRA/Roth, so I am not worried about it. Strike while the iron is hot bros.

holy shit, how are you already paid 200k/year with only a BS at 24 years old?

Wow really!? What's your name?

Donarrudo torampu

>33 / Systems Engineer / 140k
Also I feel it's important to add that I was a fucking waste of life until 25ish. I was a dumpster diving weirdo who fucked crazy girls off craigslist. I had ZERO going for me, but I used to "like computers" in high school.

So I just lied. I lied about everything. Experience, training, even the fact that I had a degree. Nobody gives a fuck enough to fact-check. I seem smart in person, and people seem to like me (tall white dude) so I play on that.

I dunno, this is more of a confession than a brag, I just want other anons to know it's possible to scam their way into a decent career.

that's awesome. did you feel like you were obviously not qualified to do the job when you started? did anyone/has anyone ever called you out on lying? how did you keep bluffing once you started? how much work did you have to put in once you got your foot in the door to actually make yourself worth keeping?

>20
>welder (run my own business)
>depends on contracts 140k after taxes this year im hoping
>No be your own boss or you're gonna want to kys.

>18
>teacher

wow i make that much getting ssi

Language teacher. I can't teach in regular schools yet, just language-specialized schools bc I have certificates for my levels in those languages.

The stories and information posted here are artistic works of fiction and falsehood.
Only a fool would take anything posted here as fact.

Yes, and I fucked up pretty bad on nearly my first day by being too eager to try to make waves.

Again this is going to sound braggadocios but I am being genuine: I am a person that can figure shit out pretty easily when PRESSED. I am not a scholar. I am not one of those people who will be a well of knowledge.

What I am, and what most companies apparently need, is a person who can figure shit out on the go very quickly and without a lot of hubub regarding their methods.

In short: I'm fucking great at googling shit then adapting it to my projects. Unless you are a literal computer scientist, there's a huge chance that whatever thing your company wants to do has already been done, and it's just a matter of referencing the thought processes of those smarter than you who've already done it. At that point you simply follow their lead, making sure that you GENUINELY UNDERSTAND why they are doing what they did, and present it with pride.

Even if they knew you were a pseudo-thought-thief they wouldn't give a fuck, because they have their own meaningless goalposts to reach, and if they get to go back to daddy to say "the thing is now working", everybody wins, and you get a raise.

Corporate america is made up of SO PRECIOUS FEW people who know whats going on that when a managerial type finds someone like you, someone who has half a fucking clue, they will cling to you like it's the post-titanic sea.

Use that. Use them.

> 23
> Custodian for a preschool
> $12/hr
> I like working by myself and it's an easy job to understand
> Yes, if I ever had the means to

Google hired me; I was only making 80k before then. And I got top marks on all my performance reviews so far.

SRE job?

>41
>Lawyer; also, oldfag
>$100,000 to $500,000 per year, depending on how much I work or want to fap.
>Like my job, hate the stress of dealing with other people's stupid problems all the time.
>Nope - own my own firm, assfuck lots of hoes, my secretary loves sucking cock and drinking my cum, easily bed bitches just by saying I'm a lawyer and taking them for a ride in my sweet car
>Oh, I'm also 8/10 looking, so results may vary

>28
>Lawyer
>567 000 + Varies
I run my own Law firm here in Canada. I went to UBC and got my Bachelors in Business Administration and then proceeded to go to St. Allard to get my Juris Doctor. I run a Law firm with my uncle in my local city of which we're the number one in town. I make a base 567k plus the amount I get out of settlements etc.

I mean maybe I went to the effort to photoshop this, or maybe I'm telling the truth. The drop is from buying a condo btw

You sound like you're 13

trips checked:

also 32
Maintenance Technician for Cable Company
50k+OT/YR
Nope, perks + pay to great.

18
Wedding DJ
35$/hr (usually about 300 per show. One show a week.)
Best job to have during high school but very stressful.

Presuming the numbers aren't BS, how do you actually enjoy your life? Do you enjoy it? I make good money but you're pulling down 3x my salary while being half a decade younger....if you were to pretend that you made 0$ a year, and zoomed out on your life, all other things equal, what would be your thoughts?

The reason I ask is because I feel like we as men in a capitalistic society tend to value ourselves more highly or lower based on our money.

The idea of living your same life, even including your nice stuff, but without that strange justification or value judgement about us as people, is very odd to me. I can't get my head around it.

Get a job, you lazy fuck.

Put that money in a roth IRA and you'll retire a millionaire.

53
Computer System Engineer for government
99k
Love the job, hate the stress of some of the politics of the business areas.

Some parts are 24/7 even though we don't get paid to be 24/7 and there are a lot of demands to produce with not a lot of resources.

BUT...

LOVE the job, wouldn't change to another as this is too much fun and reward. There is something so satisfying about making a system work with half the resources a private company would have.

Pros are extreme flexibility of schedule around crisis and projects. and I have a work provided computer at home for working remote. That is both a boon AND a bitch... they expect miracles on weekends and nights....

Still, at the end of it all I like it and am happy. Even though I could probably make a LOT more in private industry. I have friends who tell stories about THAT as well... I'll take my underpaid, underappreciated job over the shark tank of private industry any day...

No, just SWE, working on libraries used by other applications. The nice thing is that there are no launch dates, so it's never really stressful.

>>Sushi Chef, Restaurant(s) owner
,000 yearly

Now, I am no lawyerfag, but I am still studying and will be opening more restaurants overseas too. I like cooking, and everything has been alright so far. I am in the middle of becoming a more powerful chef.

>>Would I change jobs
Probably not. I make enough to own my own classic motorcycles and hotrod when I want to, cooking is one of the more interesting jobs you can get into if you get into the worldly portion of it.

>23 as of today
>Upselling customers at a full service carwash
>I like it enough. It's tedious work but I enjoy the people I work with and the work to pay ratio is pretty good
>27-28k in 2016 working about 35 hours a week. I work on commission

I wanna work there for maybe another year or so, then parlay it into a higher paying sales job while I work on a degree.

post pics of bikes?

I ride a nightrod and am about to trade it in for a multistrada1200s because i am a pussy who wants to be comfortable, but i still love sick custom bikes.

> 19
> adult tard wrangler (64 hours/week. Min) also full time college student ( taking 15 hours this semester)
> $ 2,000-2,500 a month. Depends

32, Federal Financial Analyst, 70k/year.
Jobs all right but I'm due a promotion soon. I'd be a full-time writer and pianist instead, if I had a choice.

Hahaha
38 cable technician
60k
No. But as you see if you want to move up , you have to take a 10-15k pay cut.
The hierarchy is totally vertical.
You can not even think about questioning your boss. And it is that way until you reach the top. Bunch of Baby boomers still holding on to their jobs, everyone is afraid to kick those fucks to the curb and start the new wave technology curve to appeal to millenials.
Kodi will be the death of the cable companies. I have one simple way to fix this. But everyone is scared as hell and supervisors are trying to save their own ass so they don't have time to listen to real reason. Cable companies need to harness the internet. Give away cable 100% free. Tear down the monopoly 33% nationwide coverage. Let any cable company travel across any internet path.
Where do the cable companies make their money on the cable side of things? The more subscribers a cable company has, the more advertisers will pay to reach that target audience. So instead of 25 million customers, a cable company could have 100 million customers. It's better than the alternative
Having a bunch of baby boomers try to hide the fact that their profits will soon be fucked away by Kodi.

Quite nicely as expected.

I don't own a large house as I'm too busy trying to collect JDM cars but do own a private town house about 2500 Square Feet. (While my Uncle whos making like 700k + a year owns a 6000Sqft house up in a golf course)

In highschool I was really depressed and the only thing that kept me going was wanting to work hard enough I could live a really comfortable life style. I own my dream car (A 2001 Nissan Skyline R34 GTR V-SPEC II and a nice computer to help with my gaming needs. Which sadly I hardly get to use with my insane work weeks. But its more then I could have ever asked for.