IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.

nazon said:

Sorry Mist. No offense to you.

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Eh. I make a lot of money now. I got a 9% raise at the start of the year, then helped get my whole team a 15% raise on top of that, and now I just got a 30% raise on top of all of that. I'm also still hourly, and the least I have worked in the past year is is 55 hours, so I'm now taking home just shy of 2 grand a week, which is just stupid money.

After 2 weeks of them trying to keep me under 50 hours they're now begging me to work 60+ again, at my new rate.

Welp.

I sailed past burnout like 8 months ago.

Eh. Let's do some math.

Even at my shitty rate the first 8 months of the year, I'll end this year having made around 95-100k. Had to work 70 hours a week from January-August to do it, but a lot of people have salaried positions where they work similar hours and come out with less money.

Over the next year I'll likely make ~125k working 60 hours a week at my new rate.

The year after that, I'll likely be on a higher tier team working full-time remote making even more money.

Doesn't seem worth it to throw that away.

Noodleface said:

But you complain about it near incessantly. You can only complain so much until there's really no help that can be provided.

It was sort of like that with big W.

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Also, the experience is just amazing here. You pretty much have to teach yourself everything, but there's not too many other jobs where you're learning Voice, Data, Contact Center applications, Exchange UM, Skype for Business Server (including lots and lots of Avaya <-> Microsoft SIP and messaging integrations) managing cloud migrations, managing big upgrade projects/big DR test scenarios, rescuing failed projects/bad cut-overs, along with just a fucking shitload of legacy voice hardware support.

Really my only complaints left about this place is that it's super poorly managed and, oh yeah, the fact that the NOC I work in smells like pee and there's literally mice crawling around under our cubes.

a c i d.f l y said:

Skype and Avaya? So you're basically an overpaid call center manager? I kid, I kid.

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Yes. We monitor+manage the infrastructure that runs 1000s of call centers and other corporate/government/911 phone systems.

a_skeleton_06 said:

Jesus, is this thread going to turn into Mist's livejournal about her shitty life like every other thread she's in?

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I'm not really complaining, except about the pee smell + mice.

Going from untrained clueless call taker to Telecoms/Contact Center Engineer in the span of 2 years and tripling my income isn't really something to complain about.