What do you do?
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Where do you work?
Large consulting firm
What do you do? (Title/keywords)
Consultant
What field/industry?
Financial Services, but I'll do whatever
Wages?
$130K
Bonuses/SEP?
Probably around $55k all in this year
Benefits?
All the normal stuff plus some fun stuff:
$500 to spend on sports
gym memberships / food / random expenses paid for while I travel
Miles / points / alt travel (ie just went to the cayman islands for the weekend and only paid for food)
Location?
Midwest
Age?
33
In general life is pretty awesome but you have to be OK with living in hotels. I haven't seen my apt in 1 month, but that is largely my choice as I would rather travel to interesting spots on the weekends.
Large consulting firm
What do you do? (Title/keywords)
Consultant
What field/industry?
Financial Services, but I'll do whatever
Wages?
$130K
Bonuses/SEP?
Probably around $55k all in this year
Benefits?
All the normal stuff plus some fun stuff:
$500 to spend on sports
gym memberships / food / random expenses paid for while I travel
Miles / points / alt travel (ie just went to the cayman islands for the weekend and only paid for food)
Location?
Midwest
Age?
33
In general life is pretty awesome but you have to be OK with living in hotels. I haven't seen my apt in 1 month, but that is largely my choice as I would rather travel to interesting spots on the weekends.
Borzak
Bronze Baron of the Realm
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Where do you work?- Now work at home/self employed. Have home in TX and MS. Home in TX is on family land that was an original spanish land grant, home in MS is located within driving dirstance of the chemical corridor on the Miss. river between New Orleans and Baton Rouge where 99% of my work ends up. Low cost of living in a rural area.
What do you do? (Title/keywords)- Structural steel detailer and detailer and project manager. Steel design is self explanatory, steel detailing is taking an engineers or designers drawings and "detailing" every single piece so that it can be fabricated in the shop.
What field/industry?Mostly in the petro-chemical and heavy industrial but also commercial
Wages- wildly variable. As owner of a fab shop it was a LOT more than working on a contract now. Contracts on a year basis are normally $50-$150k per year plus bonuses. For the first year you can get a per diem that is tax free and they vary - from $1000-$2500/month to cover living expenses. After the first 12 months (if you continue the contract) they are no longer tax exempt.
I have a double BS in Wildlife Management and Forest Management with a minor in biology, a MS in wildlife management. I went to college at age 24 after dropping out of school and getting a GED. Between then I worked as the same thing I do now fulltime, steel detailer and designer.
After college I went back to what I was doing before for the money. Got hired to run a fabrication shop, eventually bought out the owner and owned/ran the company for 10 years. Sold off majority stake of the company earlier this year and am semi retired but do contract/consulting work part time.
The bonus is I get to set my work schedule, work time, and split time between sitting at the computer and field trips and overseeing the shop work. Sitting at a computer full time for the rest of my life was the driving factor in learning other skills beyond design and computer work that would allow me to do other stuff than sit at the computer all day.
42 years of age.
What do you do? (Title/keywords)- Structural steel detailer and detailer and project manager. Steel design is self explanatory, steel detailing is taking an engineers or designers drawings and "detailing" every single piece so that it can be fabricated in the shop.
What field/industry?Mostly in the petro-chemical and heavy industrial but also commercial
Wages- wildly variable. As owner of a fab shop it was a LOT more than working on a contract now. Contracts on a year basis are normally $50-$150k per year plus bonuses. For the first year you can get a per diem that is tax free and they vary - from $1000-$2500/month to cover living expenses. After the first 12 months (if you continue the contract) they are no longer tax exempt.
I have a double BS in Wildlife Management and Forest Management with a minor in biology, a MS in wildlife management. I went to college at age 24 after dropping out of school and getting a GED. Between then I worked as the same thing I do now fulltime, steel detailer and designer.
After college I went back to what I was doing before for the money. Got hired to run a fabrication shop, eventually bought out the owner and owned/ran the company for 10 years. Sold off majority stake of the company earlier this year and am semi retired but do contract/consulting work part time.
The bonus is I get to set my work schedule, work time, and split time between sitting at the computer and field trips and overseeing the shop work. Sitting at a computer full time for the rest of my life was the driving factor in learning other skills beyond design and computer work that would allow me to do other stuff than sit at the computer all day.
42 years of age.
Gravel
Mr. Poopybutthole
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Where do you work?
Department of Defense (Navy)
What do you do? (Title/keywords)
Contract Specialist.
We do cradle to grave procurement contracts for the DoD. Basically means we solicit, award, manage, and terminate contracts all on the same team (which is apparently rare).
What field/industry?
Government contracting, Department of Defense.
Wages?
$39,000 a year.
I do get a 20% raise every year for the next 3, however. So after 1 year $48,000; 2 years $57,000; 3 years $69,000.
Bonuses/SEP?
None.
Benefits?
Tons of paid federal holidays, Federal Employee Retirement, health, dental, vision, life insurance. I'm also in a Defense Acquisition slot (shocking, I know), and so I get about a month and a half a year for the next few at DAU courses. Been living in a hotel all expenses paid in San Diego for a month.
Department of Defense (Navy)
What do you do? (Title/keywords)
Contract Specialist.
We do cradle to grave procurement contracts for the DoD. Basically means we solicit, award, manage, and terminate contracts all on the same team (which is apparently rare).
What field/industry?
Government contracting, Department of Defense.
Wages?
$39,000 a year.
I do get a 20% raise every year for the next 3, however. So after 1 year $48,000; 2 years $57,000; 3 years $69,000.
Bonuses/SEP?
None.
Benefits?
Tons of paid federal holidays, Federal Employee Retirement, health, dental, vision, life insurance. I'm also in a Defense Acquisition slot (shocking, I know), and so I get about a month and a half a year for the next few at DAU courses. Been living in a hotel all expenses paid in San Diego for a month.
Age:30
Occupation: Air traffic Controller
Job duties: prevent aircraft from flying into one another. Specifically Ill talk to aircraft climbing and descending to the south from Toronto, Buffalo, Rochester. Also Responsible for sequencing every Newark, Teterboro, and Kennedy arrivals from the west and Cleveland/Pittsburgh/Detroit arrivals from the east. Also responsible for approaches for a couple smaller regional airports in western NY/PA/OH
Salary: About 125,000, plus occasional overtime.
Benefits: a huge adrenaline rush when it gets busy, better than riding a roller coaster.
Occupation: Air traffic Controller
Job duties: prevent aircraft from flying into one another. Specifically Ill talk to aircraft climbing and descending to the south from Toronto, Buffalo, Rochester. Also Responsible for sequencing every Newark, Teterboro, and Kennedy arrivals from the west and Cleveland/Pittsburgh/Detroit arrivals from the east. Also responsible for approaches for a couple smaller regional airports in western NY/PA/OH
Salary: About 125,000, plus occasional overtime.
Benefits: a huge adrenaline rush when it gets busy, better than riding a roller coaster.
Age: 31
Where do you work?
Corporate Office - Grocery Store Chain
What do you do? (Title/keywords)
Supervisor in A/R dept
What field/industry?
Accounting/Retail
Wages?
Salaried, 53k per year, guaranteed Minimum 3%/yr increase, (Last year it was 10.6%)
Job duties: Supervise 11 people across multiple areas in A/R, Real Estate, Incoming Payments, Miscellaneous Receivables. Typical Accounting duties, prepare journal entries, general ledger reconciliations, etc.
Bonuses/SEP?
2 weeks salary X-mas bonus, ~9% Salary given to me in company stock each year through pension plan
Benefits?
Insurance
Where do you work?
Corporate Office - Grocery Store Chain
What do you do? (Title/keywords)
Supervisor in A/R dept
What field/industry?
Accounting/Retail
Wages?
Salaried, 53k per year, guaranteed Minimum 3%/yr increase, (Last year it was 10.6%)
Job duties: Supervise 11 people across multiple areas in A/R, Real Estate, Incoming Payments, Miscellaneous Receivables. Typical Accounting duties, prepare journal entries, general ledger reconciliations, etc.
Bonuses/SEP?
2 weeks salary X-mas bonus, ~9% Salary given to me in company stock each year through pension plan
Benefits?
Insurance
Vanderhoof
Trakanon Raider
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Age: 31
Where do you work: Acute Inpatient Psychiatry
What do you do? RN
Wage: I'm going to make about 46k this year. I live in Missouri and, evidently, the cost of living is very low here.
Job Duties: Nurse stuff
Bonus: $40 dollar Amazon card for Christmas, lol.
Benefits: Insurance, matched 401k.
I'm about to finish my master's in nursing and will be a psychiatric/mental health nurse practitioner. Not sure how much I'll be making yet (somewhere between $70k and $100k depending on where I end up working).
Where do you work: Acute Inpatient Psychiatry
What do you do? RN
Wage: I'm going to make about 46k this year. I live in Missouri and, evidently, the cost of living is very low here.
Job Duties: Nurse stuff
Bonus: $40 dollar Amazon card for Christmas, lol.
Benefits: Insurance, matched 401k.
I'm about to finish my master's in nursing and will be a psychiatric/mental health nurse practitioner. Not sure how much I'll be making yet (somewhere between $70k and $100k depending on where I end up working).
Where do you work?
Self employed.
What do you do?
Consultant (main jerb), landlord (side jerb).
What field/industry?
Tech.
Wages?
90kish from main jerb.
Bonuses/SEP?
Nada
Benefits?
No set hours, no crappy bosses.
Location
Left Upper Midwest. Laughably low COL.
Age
38ish
I'm looking to move on from this field of work and in to something new; became a landlord early this year on a small stack of cheap properties and it's working out well. Not serious $ mind you, but a decent padding to my current monthly take, and that's all I want out of it; not looking into this avenue of work other than supplemental income. I can't really expand the take from my main line of work without hiring people and I'm not willing to take that route since I want to move on to something else (and I might be a PHB). GF and I have been doing quite a bit of legwork
on starting a business together and we've started poking around the actual partnership aspect of it; nice to see that we are on the same page that this will be a business relationship first to last (famous last words).
Self employed.
What do you do?
Consultant (main jerb), landlord (side jerb).
What field/industry?
Tech.
Wages?
90kish from main jerb.
Bonuses/SEP?
Nada
Benefits?
No set hours, no crappy bosses.
Location
Left Upper Midwest. Laughably low COL.
Age
38ish
I'm looking to move on from this field of work and in to something new; became a landlord early this year on a small stack of cheap properties and it's working out well. Not serious $ mind you, but a decent padding to my current monthly take, and that's all I want out of it; not looking into this avenue of work other than supplemental income. I can't really expand the take from my main line of work without hiring people and I'm not willing to take that route since I want to move on to something else (and I might be a PHB). GF and I have been doing quite a bit of legwork
Springbok
Karen
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Where do you work?
Own a small Minerals and Royalty Acquisitions company in Oklahoma City
What do you do? (Title/keywords)
Travel around looking for oil plays, and then go in and buy mineral owners interests up before the big boys get there. Then flip the minerals for a profit (while hopefully retaining some of the interest). Sidebar - if anyone lives in West Virginia (Northern) and/or North Dakota and owns land, pm me!
What field/industry?
Oil and Gas
Wages?
Made practically nothing for almost 2 years, but cleared 1.27 million last year. Hired some employees this summer so I've started giving myself a salary. Not set in stone, I take money when I need it. Think I've spent less than $65k this calender year though all in.
Bonuses/SEP?
None. Can't afford any yet. Want to at least double our value first. I did buy a new laptop last month though in the company's name.
Benefits?
Working for yourself is really great, setting my own hours, not having anyone around telling me what to do etc. I suppose being the boss isn't as fun as I thought it'd be though. Can also work from home if I'm having a crappy day or I'm hungover
Age?
Almost 30 now. Schlepped around making under $50k for most of my 20's before going out on my own. Living in a place that has a very low cost of living helped a ton as well. I had worked for large oil and gas companies before, and even spent time in a call center - hard to imagine working for someone now.
Own a small Minerals and Royalty Acquisitions company in Oklahoma City
What do you do? (Title/keywords)
Travel around looking for oil plays, and then go in and buy mineral owners interests up before the big boys get there. Then flip the minerals for a profit (while hopefully retaining some of the interest). Sidebar - if anyone lives in West Virginia (Northern) and/or North Dakota and owns land, pm me!
What field/industry?
Oil and Gas
Wages?
Made practically nothing for almost 2 years, but cleared 1.27 million last year. Hired some employees this summer so I've started giving myself a salary. Not set in stone, I take money when I need it. Think I've spent less than $65k this calender year though all in.
Bonuses/SEP?
None. Can't afford any yet. Want to at least double our value first. I did buy a new laptop last month though in the company's name.
Benefits?
Working for yourself is really great, setting my own hours, not having anyone around telling me what to do etc. I suppose being the boss isn't as fun as I thought it'd be though. Can also work from home if I'm having a crappy day or I'm hungover
Age?
Almost 30 now. Schlepped around making under $50k for most of my 20's before going out on my own. Living in a place that has a very low cost of living helped a ton as well. I had worked for large oil and gas companies before, and even spent time in a call center - hard to imagine working for someone now.
BrutulTM
Good, bad, I'm the guy with the gun.
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Nice! That makes at least 3 people on this board working in agriculture. What sort of feed to you make?
I just graduated two years ago as an RN and last year did post grad cert in mental health and addictions. New grad wage was $45k, second year $50k as a post grad. But thats in New Zealand dollars. That and I made about $60k in my new grad year with overtime. Moving to canada now, see what the wage difference and work environment is like there as an RN.
kitsune
Golden Knight of the Realm
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Where do you work?
IT Consulting firm. French-owned company with divisions in several countries, including mine.
What do you do? (Title/keywords)
Business Intelligence Consultant. Mainly developping with BI tools such as MicroStrategy, Microsoft SSRS, Qlikview etc. So far mostly front-end
What field/industry?
Various contractors, currently at a large retail firm in Sweden that deals with food
Wages?
Had to look it up, converted it's about 60k USD/Year. It's upperish middle-class wage here in Sweden
Bonuses/SEP?
Only bonus I get is based on overtime I put in and some form of christmas bonus
Benefits?
A pot that goes towards gym membership or so. Healthcare is free in Sweden, but there's a lot of oddities like the company will sponsor artificial insamination and you get your fifthiet birthday of etc. Only thing I've really capitalised on (I'm only 26, single) is the exercising bonus which I used to buy a membership at a bouldering hall.
IT Consulting firm. French-owned company with divisions in several countries, including mine.
What do you do? (Title/keywords)
Business Intelligence Consultant. Mainly developping with BI tools such as MicroStrategy, Microsoft SSRS, Qlikview etc. So far mostly front-end
What field/industry?
Various contractors, currently at a large retail firm in Sweden that deals with food
Wages?
Had to look it up, converted it's about 60k USD/Year. It's upperish middle-class wage here in Sweden
Bonuses/SEP?
Only bonus I get is based on overtime I put in and some form of christmas bonus
Benefits?
A pot that goes towards gym membership or so. Healthcare is free in Sweden, but there's a lot of oddities like the company will sponsor artificial insamination and you get your fifthiet birthday of etc. Only thing I've really capitalised on (I'm only 26, single) is the exercising bonus which I used to buy a membership at a bouldering hall.
lindz
#DDs
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Where do you work?stay at home mom of 3 girls
What do you do?change diapers, non stop driving to activities and school, clean, endless laundry, cook, entertain kiddos
Wages?none!
Benefits?the love (and sometimes hate) of my kids
Age?28
Screw your 9-5 jobs, 5 days a week. I am on call 24/7, 365 days a year and haven't slept through the night in probably 6 years! You wouldn't want to do it I bet!
What do you do?change diapers, non stop driving to activities and school, clean, endless laundry, cook, entertain kiddos
Wages?none!
Benefits?the love (and sometimes hate) of my kids
Age?28
Screw your 9-5 jobs, 5 days a week. I am on call 24/7, 365 days a year and haven't slept through the night in probably 6 years! You wouldn't want to do it I bet!
kitsune
Golden Knight of the Realm
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What about a parent that works an 8 hour job and takes care of the kids? I'm not buying that being a stay-at home mom is the hardest thing in the world. Seriously, what do you do when your kids go to school?Where do you work?stay at home mom of 3 girls
What do you do?change diapers, non stop driving to activities and school, clean, endless laundry, cook, entertain kiddos
Wages?none!
Benefits?the love (and sometimes hate) of my kids
Age?28
Screw your 9-5 jobs, 5 days a week. I am on call 24/7, 365 days a year and haven't slept through the night in probably 6 years! You wouldn't want to do it I bet!
Sir Funk
Lord Nagafen Raider
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lindz
#DDs
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It isn't the hardest thing in the world, nor will I ever claim that it is. It is actually a great job and I love it. You kind of want to pull out your hair sometimes, but every parents does.
As far as what do I do when they are in school. I have one kid in full time, one kid in part time and a baby that obviously isn't in school. I do get about an hour a day of doing whatever the hell I please which is awesome, that is a huge benefit. The rest of the time I am shuttle service, doing chores around the house or running errands. When they are ALL in school I'm sure things will be VERY different. Probably go back to school or work part time then. Three kids 5 and under right now though is a busy house.
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