What do you do?

Where do you work?
Investments Firm

What do you do? (Title/keywords)
Director of IT

What field/industry?
Financial Services

Wages?
160K/year, 50 hour work week

Bonuses/SEP?
50-75K/ year + profit sharing (usually 20K or so)

Benefits?
Medical/dental, catered lunch, free soft drinks/coffee, 401K match up to 4k/year, 19 vaca/sick days.

How long have you been there?
9 years

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Where do you work? IHOP

What do you do? (Title/keywords) Waitress

What field/industry? Food service

Wages? 18k/year (give or take)

Bonuses/SEP? Nope

Benefits? None

How long have you been there? 12 years in November ​

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Are you joking or do you just have no ambition?

I didn't realize free soda & coffee was a benefit. I change my answer. Benefits: free soda AND free coffee. I can have as much as I want and they don't garnish my wages

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I didn't realize free soda & coffee was a benefit. I change my answer. Benefits: free soda AND free coffee. I can have as much as I want and they don't garnish my wages

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When your only option nearby is Starbucks, free (good) coffee is huge. Starbucks can easily run you $150/month in wasted money.

Forget to answer the questions.

Where do you work? Either contracted with or at a steel fabricator.

How long. Since middle school but full time since 18.

Industry, petro chemical tho I do power plant work now and some commercial if I have to.

Wages, it varies. Depends if I am contracting or working there. I just stepped down last year as vice president of engineering and back to contracting. I get paid lump sum per job and each job is different.

Bonuses. In the past I worked at home for 20 years. Last job bonus included half day off on Friday along with the normal stuff like healthcare and profit sharing. Job before that we got bonuses that started at around 20% of gross salary each summer. Lot of freedom to come and go and not punch a clock. After a heavy turnaround season in the spring we might take a month off in the summer and such. A big one to me is you can see anything on your mind, there's no PC at all. It's pretty sink or swim as well which gets rid of dead weight.

I get paid to clean up after Marx.

Where do you work? Contracted to Boeing

What do you do? (Title/keywords) Network Technician

What field/industry? IT / Networking

Wages? Underpaid at $20/hour but first job in the IT field...

Bonuses/SEP? As a Contractor, I get nothing

Benefits? None

How long have you been there? 6 months

Dell was running the contract for Boeing's IT, but Boeing just re-negotiated the contract, and the new company is expected to pay a lot more. We'll see what happens, but I'm thinking positive thoughts to get boosted to $30+ / hour within the next couple months.

I work in publishing - science fiction, fantasy and young adult novels. Shit money, no benefits. Been doing this just over a year and a half now. I absolutely adore my job though and wouldn't trade it for anything in the world.

I'm a literary agent.

And yeah, he is a writer; his first book comes out next year. I don't represent him though. I couldn't be couldn't be as objective as I'd need to be.

Edit: As for what a literary agent is... Editors don't take unagented manuscripts so writers query agents first. We sort through hundreds of queries in a week, find manuscripts that look interesting. If something is promising enough (and it is very rare), I sign them, then edit their manuscript until it is in a state I can submit it to editors. If it gets picked up, I do the contract negotiations, and act as their representative for the business side (or anything they don't want to deal with).

Yeah, we make a % of everything the writer makes. So you can hit it big and sign someone like Marie Lu (who just sold a 7 figure deal a few months ago...) or it can be pretty average. Publishing is a passion industry though. Everyone make crap money (avg editor makes 60k a year) but it is an insanely passionate group of people.

Plus is is freaking awesome to talk scifi and fantasy books for lunch meetings.

Where do you work? Specialty grocery store

What do you do? (Title/keywords) Team Lead

What field/industry? Retail

Wages? 60k

Bonuses/SEP? I get a bonus for referrals but I don't think I've ever cashed that one in

Benefits? a system where a percentage of the left over labor budget for a period is redistributed to employees, discounts, PTO, stock options, matching 401k

How long have you been there? 5 years 4 months


I honestly do love the company I work for and what I do. I think i'm doing OK for being 30 and floating on that stupid liberal arts degree. Plus once you reach the regional level that's when you start making bank.

Where do you work? One of the major freight companies.

What do you do? Senior Capacity Buyer

What field/industry? Procurement

Wages? 48000

Bonuses/SEP? Averaging $1400 a month so far, third quarter will be the best quarter.

Benefits? Medical, dental, 401k, $3000 every 6 months toward a graduate degree.

How long have you been there? 13 months.

I basically spend all day on the phone/email negotiating freight transportation rates. I find it easy and it's very dynamic due to the market constantly fluctuating. I like the job because there's a very clear scoreboard by which you can evaluate yourself vs your contemporaries. This makes negotiating for a promotion or a raise extremely simple. I started at 36k with a lower bonus structure and I've already been able to get a promotion and another raise since I started. I'd eventually like to be in charge of procurement for a moderately sized manufacturing company, but I do find it kind of limiting because like I said this job is easy to me and the earning potential makes changing jobs kind of dumb from a short term perspective.

Where do you work? MSP/hosting

What do you do? (Title/keywords) Senior system administrator

What field/industry? IT

Wages? 70k

Bonuses/SEP? 401k but no matches, free gym membership I guess? We have unlimited beer in the office and weed available upon request.

Benefits? PPO health plan/dental/unlimited PTO

How long have you been there? ~1 year in current position, ~2 years in the DC for the same company before

Weed available upon request? What?