Your Career and Education Level.

Cole train said:
Thats why i drool when i hear americans making 100k a year

In my country average is 30k a year if you are "rich" then 50k
Click to expand...

Yup.. it's fucking amazing.. and "no" taxes..

Even the lower level qualified jobs seem to pay really well.. i heard 50k is the medium income or some shit.. how is that even possible with so many incredicly poor people?

My entry level salary would be like 70k a year.. i'd probably make like 90k or something by now and no 50% taxes..

But then again.. i'm getting free education, free medical etc.. but still idk..
 
My 'career' outside of the military had me earning 150-200k a year (and I barely graduated in Northern Ireland at 16). I stopped that work to goto college (in USA) now that I'm older. I've finished 2 years so far, and all A grades.

My father was the same way: he spent 30 years in the Army/Navy/Police/Private Contractor and then did his Bachelors to Phd and published a few books. We were in Iraq at the same time not far from each other a few times.

This lifestyle choice is 'backwards', but the way I always saw it was...you can do the energetic physical crazy stuff when you are young, and when your knees and back and everything else start going downhill you will still have your brain. If you don't have your brain well, you're fucked regardless.
 
Bachelors in computer science, Web services programmer.

Unfortunately for me, my parents were too "wealthy" for the government to help me out financially. But also too poor for them to help me out.

So after having been spoon-fed "you HAVE to go to college or you'll be a loser" from K - 12, I took on a shit-load of debt.

Oh well... the bills get paid, my kids get fed, and I get to stretch out a new girl here and there.

Thems the breaks, I suppose.
 
I have some college, but no degree. I’m a painter by trade.
 
Career: Manufacturing planning.

Education: BA in general studies. I did my associates in early childhood education but my plans for BA in education fell through due to time commitments at the last minute..

All paid for and then some by my GI bill.
 
11th grade....business owner for 32 years...
 
I'm a Personal and Professional Development Advisor (basically a Transition/Guidance Counselor for the military)
Have a BA History, Undergrad cert in Finance, MBA, and MS in Organizational Leadership

I regret my Bachelors field as i planned on Law School originally until i realized how much Loans i'd have. Served in the military, got an Ok job, used my GI Bill to get two Master's, got promoted twice, and now (relative to my Hills Have Eyes area) killing the game
 
TeTe said:
Well I'm a technical writer for one of the top 5 largest IT companies in the world and I went to school for journalism, so it sure had it's benefits.

However, if I were to do it over, I would have never gone to the expensive private college that I did. I would have gone to a cheaper state school to avoid the $37,000 in debt that I managed to accrue.
Click to expand...

I fucks with the writing

I'm pretty depressed about it though

Everywhere I read just tells me how worthless writers are
 
TheRuthlessOne said:
I fucks with the writing

I'm pretty depressed about it though

Everywhere I read just tells me how worthless writers are
Click to expand...
It's a tough racket, that's for sure... especially with everything being digital these days.

I can tell you that after working five different writing jobs throughout college and within the year after college, it's tough to find steady decent paying work as a journalist. Even after doing all of those internships, freelance and part-time jobs.. I could only get two interviews for full time writing gigs and those were for trade publications in an entire year. They both paid like dog shit too.

Mind you I finished J school in 2009 right at the beginning of the recession and everyone was being laid off it seemed. Plus I wasn't really willing to relocate from Chicago at the time to move to some podunk town in the middle of nowhere to get my start working for a daily newspaper. If I wasn't 29 at the time and I was living at home not paying bills I may have not cared about working for $13 bucks and hour.

But when you're older and have student debt to pay back on top of your rent and other bills, continuing to look for shitty paying jobs wasn't appealing. Fortunately I had a bit of a technical background going into journalism school that got me into a company working in quality control, R and D and did some tech writing along the way.

I know people that I went to school with that are doing okay but it took them quite a few years to be in a good position with a good publication or news station, making decent money.
 
Delivery network engineer for an IT consultanting company. Graduated with a degree.in business and marketing with zero student loan debt
 
TheRuthlessOne said:
I fucks with the writing

I'm pretty depressed about it though

Everywhere I read just tells me how worthless writers are
Click to expand...
I should address what you said about writers being worthless. While it might be tough to make it as a creative writer or journalist... writers are by no means worthless.

I can tell you that people with good writing skills are hard to come by in the business world today. Especially in tech. There are so many non-native English speakers in tech companies around the country. Many are brilliant engineers and scientists but cant convey information worth a shit, because they think too scientific and their English isn't that great.

Don't be afraid to apply for public relations, communications or content writer positions for companies.
 
Last edited:
Vergilius said:
Grew up in Scandinavia, so didn't take any student loans because that isn't neccessary here if you are willing to work and live frugally (which I was, I still remember my mom paying off the final instalment of her debts at 50 and celebrating like crazy, while my dad will never be out of debt).

I stupidly got a degree in English and Philosophy, though.

I teach highschool/college and am part of the national commission that designs the study plans and exams for the subject I teach. I'm consequently in the upper half of the solid middle class, partly because my wife brought something like 320.000 dollars into the marriage (my mom spends all her money on herself and my dad is always broke - but her parents are good, generous people who want to help). We have three kids, though, and have always had to be careful with money until the last year or so. Our only debt is in the house.

My wife will be able to go down to 80% of full time after the summer to spend more time taking care of the kids and home while they are still young. Feels damn good, to be honest.

We had kids young which gave us a tough decade, but I guess it's finally paying off.
Click to expand...
just be glad she, your wife, didn't have to suck dick for money.
 
TeTe said:
It's a tough racket, that's for sure... especially with everything being digital these days.

I can tell you that after working five different writing jobs throughout college and within the year after college, it's tough to find steady decent paying work as a journalist. Even after doing all of those internships, freelance and part-time jobs.. I could only get two interviews for full time writing gigs and those were for trade publications in an entire year. They both paid like dog shit too.

Mind you I finished J school in 2009 right at the beginning of the recession and everyone was being laid off it seemed. Plus I wasn't really willing to relocate from Chicago at the time to move to some podunk town in the middle of nowhere to get my start working for a daily newspaper. If I wasn't 29 at the time and I was living at home not paying bills I may have not cared about working for $13 bucks and hour.

But when you're older and have student debt to pay back on top of your rent and other bills, continuing to look for shitty paying jobs wasn't appealing. Fortunately I had a bit of a technical background going into journalism school that got me into a company working in quality control, R and D and did some tech writing along the way.

I know people that I went to school with that are doing okay but it took them quite a few years to be in a good position with a good publication or news station, making decent money.
Click to expand...
What's really crazy is I know like three people that have Journalism degrees, one is doing good the other two not so much

The person I know who actually is doing 'the most' in a related field? My boy from the Army, went to film school on the GI Bill after getting out, and now is the Tech Guy/Editor for the We Are The Mighty a pretty substantial Military/Vet version of i guess like Buzzfeed? Been picked up on Business Insider and a few other sites also
 
Electrical Engineer with a Masters in Construction Management. Working for a commercial general contractor in New Orleans. Love it.
 
I left high school before graduating because I was obsessed with my boxing career & couldn't stand how boring school had become to me. But, as soon as I turned 18 I walked in & aced the GED test so I could begin college.
I continued to fight throughout college & was able to carry a 4.0 GPA until my third year when my ADD & bipolar disorder reared their ugly heads to a whole new level which caused me to almost walk away from school mid-semester. But, my advisor-psych professor convinced me not to. He thought it was a total waste for an individual with a 144 IQ score to be boxing but I refused to quit. I compromised with him though & agreed to finish the semester once I got my head straight. Which I did but I didn't go back for year four. I decided that I had to give boxing 110% so I left school & didn't return until 2012 when I finally went back & finished my final three semesters almost thirty years after the fact.
Sure, I'd make some different decisions if I could but we can't go back so I'm content with how things worked out.
 
Master of business (accounting and finance)
Diploma business management.
Advanced diploma financial planning.

Job paraplanner.

Student debt $7,000 at very very low interest rate, so more efficient to save and just repay the minimum.
 
PG29 red0 Jr said:
He who can does; he who cannot, teaches.
Click to expand...

Ultimately this is true. There have been those who taught and did do as a means to further spread their ideology and for power. But if you have enough power there is no need to teach you just do. And they follow or you are in essence teaching without trying.
 
My degree is combined Politics & History, graduated ten years ago.

Career is construction project management for the government.

Bought my apartment new 4 years ago in an upcoming area and its gone up over 60k in value, gonna trade it for a house in the next two years.
 
Manager at Publix Supermarkets....high school degree
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

Similar threads

Fedorgasm
How I'd fix the college system
3 4 5
Replies
98
Views
2K
Bballfan123
B

Latest posts

Forum statistics

Threads
1,280,708
Messages
58,312,789
Members
175,997
Latest member
Fitboy485

Share this page

Back
Top