post all the jobs you had and your wage/salary in chronological order.
2012 to 2016 grocery store clerk - $8.50/hr 2017 HVAC apprentice - $15/hr 2018 Building Automation tech - $56k/year + bonuses
Almost 2 years to the day that I quit my grocery store job. I went NEET the entire summer, no friends, depressed, and almost out of money. A little bit of trade school really turned things around for me and it only costs about $2k per semester. Investing in education isn't a meme and there is more to education than just regular college.
2005-2008 ice cream store manager: $12/hr 2009-2012 R&D College Lab Tech: $10/hr 2013-2014: Process Engineer: $56k/yr 2014-2017: Product Manager: $96k/yr (started at $65k)
2018: NEET and depressed.
I need a new job, Im really lonely and everyday I feel like my life is meaningless
Lincoln Watson
did you quit or get fired?
Adam Cook
march 23th, 1999, 14:01 - internship at design company march 23th, 1999, 14:14 - decide wagecucking is fucking gay and leave the place quietly 1999 - 2018 - NEET
Ryan Young
Quit. I was up ALOT in crypto in Dec/Jan so I left, then of course the correction happened. Still at around $120k in profits, but money aside I fell into bad habits while being a NEET.
Im actively interviewing now, feel like Ive lost a lot of social skills being a NEET for 3 months
Bentley Long
TCBY - $6.50/hr under the table Grocery Sort - $8.50/hr two internships at a pharma company making mobile apps for $12 and $15/hr Software engineer, started $62k, $140k now.
Elijah Smith
I wasted a lot of money on camwhores until i pretty much had nothing left. I still feel like shit knowing i spent all that money that my family had given me throughout my childhood.
its easy to make mistakes when you dont have anyone looking out for you
Dominic Morgan
>squandered money on fucking camwhores L M A O how beta do you have to be?
Colton Lee
Income taxes are murderous so most people are being fleeced and staying at the same level just earning enough to get by. Working in in low tier pharma. A lot of responsibility and very little reward.
Currently working on Cisco Certifications for a raise and salary position of $54,000/yr
Jaxon Torres
I dropped out of college 3 times.
I realized I was wasting my time and money because I wasn't learning anything, and in most cases, smarter than my teachers and entire class.
Got no debt, drive a brand new car, maxing out my Roth 401K every year and able to afford 2 trips to Bahama's and Colorado Park City with my girlfriend
Zachary Howard
06-10 Arbys, Gas Station, unemployed - 8.50/hr 10-13 Tutor for undergrad STEM - 10-12/hr 13-17 Formulations Chemist - 57k salary+bonus 17-18 Suicidal NEET 18-now Brokerage Service Ops in Finance
Basically switching to finance cause I learned first hand what a lack of income does to a man. My old company burned me bad, but they aren't the problem, they are a symptom of a disease. I used to want to change the world, make it better and shit, but now I just want money.
Gonna take my ability to analyse chemical systems to finance, and I'm gonna game this system, and I'm gonna make bank. Fuck the rest of the world.
I'm lucky to have never had a shitty customer service job.
Robert Kelly
Do you get to pop oxy for free?
Jason Wright
I dropped out a couple times too. i dont care too much for the "well rounded" meme
Gavin Torres
>Graduate College 11-12 - $0 >Night shift stock boy 12-13 - $7.40 / hr >Unemployed 13 - 150$ a month drawing porn >IT Man 14-Present - $62k
Things took a good turn when I became the IT man.
Asher Perry
I could probably get away with it, but I'm not trying to risk losing my job. I smoke weed almost daily and do hallucinogens/MDMA at music fests though.
Sorry that I deleted the post. I thought it wasn't really that fitting for this thread. But I'm glad you made it. I hope I'm able to get there as well.
Parker Garcia
Pretty comfy
Obviously can't live very lavish but I'm not in debt and have more savings then alot of people who make triple what I do
Aiden Lopez
As a well tester i made 74k last year. But my day rate got bumped from 250 to 310 so hopefully i can clear 70k after taxes. Hopefully.
Dominic Gomez
what do you do?
Justin Gutierrez
Right now I work at a pizza place part time and use the rest of the time reading textbooks so when I take my next class I don't fail and waste money
Ayden Jenkins
2007-2009 - Drove a truck around and maintained inventory ~13/hr 2009-2010 - Tech support 16/hr 2011 - graduated college 2011 - 2015 - tech consultant 45k ended at 82k 2016 - 2017 - software eng 100k - 117k 2017 - present software eng 120k + bonus + stock, should be at 140k when promo comes through
Oliver Hill
sounds like you have a plan, and at least you aren't larping
Elijah Lopez
What are the parameters of your espp? When i was working for baker hughes they did 15% of the lowest 6 month at the beginning or end of the cycle
Or is it stock that they just give you?
Ryder Cook
oil and gas? whats your job consist of?
Noah Powell
Well testers in canada are a bit different than in america of australia. We are much more diverse in what kind of operations we do. It can range from easier work like flowback and inline to milling and swabbing. Wheras from i am told each of these things i have described would be its own career in Australia for example
When i travel to countries that dont really have much oil exposure i tell them that i basically collect data to "prove" the well's profile (how much oil gas and water the well is producing).
Andrew Wood
10-12: $8.35 13-14: $1,500/mo 15-16: $17/hour 16-present: started $17/hour, now $65k a year... looking at a potential 20% raise every year with current company.
Not too bad desu, part of me wishes I had taken the comp sci route. Seems like average salary there ranges from $120-140 a year. But I also hate the idea of working with poos so..
where are you located? im also a staff pharmacist working for CVS (real shithole), but the job market's getting real saturated...
Hudson Anderson
Thats how you it user, keep up the good work.
This is exactly the life I want but I have heard its going to be saturated. FML
You are only getting older age discrimination is a whore in computer.
Oliver Morales
2014: Government attorney, 60k 2016: Private firm, secondary market, 80k 2018: Private firm, major market, 180k
Cozy
Gavin Watson
Good thread
2010-2011: Zookeeper 8 bucks an hour 2011-2017: Family hardware store (8-14 bucks/hr) 2018: Crypto NEET 300k
Samuel Evans
1. Call center bullshit, negligible pay probably $12 an hour 2. Tech support, slightly better but still shit, maybe 50K a yr 3. NOC lvl 1, 60K+ 4. NOC lvl 2, 100k+ 5. senior network engineer, 120k+
No joke I went from 50K to 100K+ in probably 2 years. And I don't work any harder than I did back when I was slumming it in a call center in my first shit job.
If you want to progress fast, it's 99% a combination of the following: - Your resume writing ability (i.e. ability to make yourself sound important and be seen) - Your interview skills (blasting past all the HR bullshit hoops) - Alpha mindset - Who you know - Persistence - Continually seeking more options - Negotiating
All of these are much more important than what you know, your education, your certifications, or your experience. I've seen guys who have mastered the art of talking shit get 100k+ jobs, despite not knowing that much.
Also seek as many options and apply to as many jobs as possible. In my field, there are companies that would offer 70K for what I do and there are others who'd offer 140K+. So you absolutely have to shop around for jobs and follow the money.
Jackson Lewis
How much law school debt were/are you crushed under?
Robert Hughes
250k. Down to 100k. New job should make short work of it, hope to be debt free within 2 years
James Campbell
Gas station attendant - $8/hr USAF - $10/hr - $15/hr Private military contractor - $80/hr ($150k yr) Blockchain Asset Manager - Negative $30k a year
>Full time employment after university graduation: Jun 2015-present: $60k+/yr
Luis Campbell
23 and neet always NEET moms basement
Gavin Stewart
Well, you gonna tell us what those jobs were?
Hell of a coincidence if three different places all had you intern for $24/hr three years in a row.
Camden Green
Id put it on my resume, least then id have something
Caleb Anderson
how many hot pockets though
Owen Thompson
Anyone know if I can become a sysadmin without a bachelors degree? Programming is boring as fuck, but I love Linux/Unix, scripting, etc.
Nicholas Jenkins
It was the same place each summer. It's a really big north american financial institution in Canada (hence the low salaries compared to USA). I did software development each summer there. They really liked me and I got into their internship program each time I applied because of contacts I made while I was there.
They offered me a job after my last internship to work there fulltime after I graduate. It's where I am now. Haven't worked anywhere else. I'm sick of software dev and might move internally into a info/cyber security role soon.
Gavin James
>tfw went through management bachelor and finance masters degree without a single internship and now looking for a job in my shithole country
Fast food chain 2010-2013: 10.25 am hour Software QA intern 2014: 16.00 an hour Software engineering intern 2016: 22.00 an hour Contract Software engineer 2017: 68,000 a year Software engineer 2018: 80,000 a year
Leo Perry
Did u get a degree
Logan Scott
Unemployed mexican rug dealer 13-present - ranges from 40k-130k a year
Jace Ward
>My neighbor is an attorney >Runs his own office >Six figure income from traffic jobs > “I’ll never be able to pay off my college debt” >Has a home equity line of credit >2 bimmers > Wants to refinance to afford a down on a new home
I never graduated high school but own 4 properties. Currently not employed, just remodel my homes and flip. With wife (retail clothing store owner; non HS grad, felon) combined we do 150k in a shit town. Live below our means. 2 kids. Drawing plans for a 1M mansion that will be paid and have taxes paid by rentals. $200 total in crypto
Sebastian Gonzalez
2014 - IT Helpdesk Scrub - $10/hr 2014-2015 - Junior Security Analyst - $16/hr up to $18/hr 2015-2016 - Network Engineer - 50k up to 55k 2016-2017 - Network Threat Analyst - 65k 2017-Present - Malware/Threat Analyst - 105k
I strongly agree with advice from and see that we had a pretty similar progression over time.
Only exception was that for my third position I ended up taking a job that wasn't within my exact field, but it was similar enough that I could succeed at it and knew I needed the pay increase that came with it. Because 18/hr under my second job as a security analyst was grossly underpaid. As that user mentioned the salary ranges for almost identical jobs in some fields can be surprisingly wide.
Scope and difficulty of work I did at my forth job wasn't all that different from the fifth one, yet I earned 40k less. Granted this was a shift from public sector to private sector, so that certainly affected things. Public sector for certain departments looks fantastic on a resume though, so I know that alone helped bump me up to current position.
>I strongly agree with advice from and see that we had a pretty similar progression over time. ill be the 3rd to agree
>Good thread buy chainlink :)
Nicholas Hill
Good on you. So much useless bs I 'learned' in high school and college, yet don't know the first thing of handy work that would allow me to do something like that. Probably buy my own home and learn by doing sometime soonish, that way I don't have to worry about tentants bitching since it's just myself.
Nolan Turner
That's good on you fren. Your neighbor sounds like an idiot. I live in a small apartment and don't buy anything, and will continue to live this way until I have fat stacks in hard assets
Levi Jones
Also me lifeguard: $8.76 /hr dishwasher: $9/hr help desk: $9/hr web admin assistant: $15/hr QA engineer security focused, plus taking care of all the stuff boomers can't figure out: $65k/year +1 year: $75k +1 year: $85k
I better get another raise this year too. Kind of unsure if I should job hop and try to break through 100k or just take it easy at my current job and bank on likely diminishing raises, but a mostly stable and relaxed environment. I have no loyalty but I've got the same salary increase one could expect from job hopping so it seems pointless, but I think right now I could really leverage myself and get a huge increase if I really sold myself.
Gavin Rodriguez
if you have no loyalty you should look to job hop. it never hurts to at least interview. At the same time if you are comfortable at your current job, you can negotiate for a ridiculously high salary during the interviews without worrying about being turned down.
Tyler Mitchell
>2009: Life guard ($7.50/hr) >2009 - 2011: Busboy ($3.25/hr+tips [usually about $9/hr]) >2012: Pub runner ($8.50/hr+tips [usually about $12 - 13/hr]) >2013:Research aide ($11.25/hr) >2014 - 2017: Research assistant ($15.02/hr) >2017: Psychiatric care technician ($12.05/hr + free tuition for grad school [~20k/yr]) >2018: Psychiatirc nurse ($24.28/hr) for 20 hrs a week + contingent PRN hours at a different hospital I can pick up whenever I want for $36/hr ($45/hr after 3pm and on weekends, time and a half on holidays)
Next step is psychiatric nurse practitioner. Minimimum of 85k but six figures is by no means out of the question, especially if I do telepsych and work in private practice.
Adrian Morris
16-20 Gas station, $10 an hour 21-27/today Pizza Delivery, $15 an hour 27/today trading some stocks make some money off it but not nearly enough in savings to make a difference yet, just barely got 5 figures
not sure I will make it...
Owen Bennett
all in AUD: 09-11: cinema worker $15/h 11-12: cinema manager $21/h 10: intern software dev >for free 12: intern software dev 30k 14-17: crappy software dev 65k 17-18: less crappy dev 85k
aiming for 6 figures by 2020
Ayden Diaz
2016 - welding, 500k/yr
Daniel Barnes
wtf wags only gets me $60
Adrian Cook
2015 - 2016: Software intern at Engineering company: $22/hr 2016 - Present: IT PM at Insurance company: $88,000 (Started 73k, will be 100k by next year)
I still feel poor.
Sebastian Gray
2012-2013 pizza hut ~400 week 2013-2015 min wage 2015-2016 10/hr 2016-current min wage. I fucking hate this city
Bentley Morgan
ya GSUs, 35 for the first year, I hope to get it upped from the promo
Noah Baker
>you can negotiate for a ridiculously high salary during the interviews without worrying about being turned down. Good point. To be honest I'm afraid of leaving behind a good thing and potentially ending up in a worse situation. Of course I don't expect all the reward for none of the risk.
Aaron Price
Located in Southeast US. The market is definitely saturated everywhere but there's a shortage on pharmacists that can properly manage busy stores with barebone tech hours. Floaters and staff pharmacists should be most worried. I heard Kroger recently started limiting their non-managers to like 32 hours a week.
Kayden Fisher
2014: webdev intern: $17/h 2015: software engineer intern: $22/h 2016: software engineer intern: $28-30/h 2017: software engineer intern: $32-35/h 2018: last year compsci degree, stopped working and will need to find a job soon
Jaxon Green
Yea man sounds like it's definitely the city, not remotely your own doing
Adrian Miller
Paper boy - 7 dollars for the route Supermarket slave - 7 dollars an hour Temp worker (industry, industry cleaning, clearing building lots etc) - between 16 and 25 dollars an hour Apprentice - started at 7 dollars, ended at 17 Proces operator - base pay 27 dollars, add about 7 more on average when including shifts + loads of overtime
Chase Walker
2011-2013: Cashier $8.50/hr 2014: Internships $15/hr >Graduated college 2015-2016: FP&A Analyst $52,000/yr 2017-2018: Data Analyst $64,000/yr
Caleb Ramirez
2007-2009 - min wage work at mcdonalds - get degree 2010 - 2013 - 30k year, wark as paper girl - almost get second degree 2014-now - get very bad sickness probably never work out side sucky sucky and daytrading in life
waiting for merciful day of client rape murder me XD
30k a year from paper girl was a contract glitch, GAS was priced in for $4.5 a gallon based Obama knocked down $1.5 gallon after contract signed XD
Noah Long
why do people brag about living on welfare? do you guys have no self respect? if you guys are able, you can work(hope you know). this is like parasite behavior
Joshua Jones
Addendum to this, was NEET for 4 months between Graduation and the FP&A job. Then unemployed for a month and a half between FP&A and my current gig since I quit my job before having a new one lined up since I had saved a years worth of expenses and a toxic work environment was having a terribly negative effect on my mental health.
Daniel Anderson
2010-2012: went to community college for engineering and made money off gaming videos on youtube (approx $10k a year) with plans of going to a 4 year 2013-2014: graduated and went full blown NEET, best years of my life 2014-2015: youtube dried up for me and i was a poor NEET, but was too used to the lifestyle and lived in depression and squalor 2015-now working min wage + tips as a valet.the moneys decent, ends up being around $20/hr. i have a couple grand in ethereum and a stinky stack of LINK.
i know i have to get a career but i have no clue what to pursue. i didnt like my engineering courses, and im terrified of going back to school and going into debt for something i dont like again. anyone have any suggestions? if im being honest id consider my strengths math and technology, and my weaknesses include beta tendencies, not liking to help people, and low ambition. even suggestions of how to get some motivation would be appreciated
Asher Reed
I thought education would give me a day job or respect and I got nothing to show for it I know two languages yet people stupider than me are getting more money because my country is shit and you have to be an asshole to go forward I just want to die in a hole biz
Lincoln Peterson
Jobs are obsolete. AI will eliminate all jobs by the year 2040.
Angel Adams
Are you a whore?
Eli Rogers
'not liking to help people' is a bit suspicious, does your personality just suck?
look up actuary, programming, trading stocks
Nicholas Carter
>I have a huge hole in my resume. Just write you have been working abroad (e.g. the Emirates) and write the certification yourself in English and Arabic with google translate
Eli Perez
finish uni all per year amount 70K first job 3 months left got 80K 3 months fired I hated boss 170K 7 months contract end of contract 150K 3 month contract finishes contract 50K 3 months fired job I hated and was not qualified for also crap pay 150K for 5 months left job for something else but still did some work 220K 4 months contract 220K 3 months left for 320K job 320K job fired after 3 months, "boss" was takeing bribes and i stupidly made it too hard for him. 140K in investment profit.
this my total employment over 20 years so mainly unemployed
I generally hate working for the money I want to make my own money.
see a pattern...I can get a job but can hold it
I cannot into being a cuck
guess what happened.
... ... ...
came across bitcoin 2013.
I can make my own money. FINALLY
Julian Smith
it might for all i know, but i have a decent group of friends. i mostly included that to rule out jobs like being a nurse or some shit, pretty pointless to add come to think of it since i know most people on here arent in fields where helping other humans is involved
James Gray
programming and trading were actually 2 of the fields ive been looking into. ill look into statistics too, thanks user
Nolan Sullivan
2009 - min wage grocery store job, want to suicide, so went to school 2013 - min wage retail job, still wanting to suicide 2014 - 46k software dev internship 2016 - 62.5k fulltime software dev 2017 - 70k same ^ 2018 - 90k same ^ but diff company
