Did I make a mistake not jumping to a new company every few years? I always felt treated fairly and loved my managers and the work/life balance. Also didn't want to spend a bunch of time doing leet code in my off hours. The company also paid for my masters tuition.
Basically quit big tech to work for the state government. Much happier now.
Worked hard, HS grad military training. Got lucky and found my way into a good role. Construction products
Roughly $2.5M isn’t listed because it’s K1 and not part of my Medicare/SS earnings, $4.5M gross in 2025, good year.
Just about anyone can do what I do.
Very happy and grateful for my job. I still owe $110k in student loans. I live alone in a nice apartment, drive a nice SUV, saving for a house, paying off my loans. Wouldn’t change anything for the world.
Salary history as a 25 year old with a public health bachelors.Damn I hate this sub, everyone I see here is crushing it. I get kicked off my parents health insurance in a few months and I can’t even land an interview for any permanent position. I was supposed to be in a temp to perm position but got fucked hard by DOGE when they cut the federal funding and now we’re in a hiring freeze. All that just to increase our spending.
Also fuck that Com Sci 4.0 guy
This sounds like a really dumb and pretty shallow question. But honestly I’m not sure what I should set as a goal for myself now that I’m entering my salaried working years. I’m 22 and about to graduate college with a job offer signed of making ~85k. I am incredibly to be making that out of college and have the possibility to move up in the company over the next 3-8 years to be making ~250-600k. The work life balance isn’t great but not as bad as IB and it’s full time remote. When thinking ahead to my future I constantly catch myself thinking about what the peak or maximum desired salary would be. Do any of you have any sort of practice or specific goal set for yourself when you would know that you have no desire to be making more? How to I make sure lifestyle creep doesn’t fuck up salary expectations. I would love to change careers someday to something I’m more passionate about but enjoy where I’m at currently.