[BenBoobmers]

Is that your idea of a lot of money?

[Mediconlinee]

Is that your idea of a lot of money?

I live on $20K a year. If I were making $60K, I'd literally have a quarter million in the bank after a few years because I wouldn't know what to do with so much money.

[Evoryboypoto]

?

You can't buy a house on Manhattan on a 75k a year income (especially because your end of year doesn't count in loan applications until you've gotten it 3 years running)

Well she doesn't live in Manhattan She commutes from Philly to their Wilmington, DE office. She also has been working there since we graduated at the start of 2008.

[Arrectiff]

Well she doesn't live in Manhattan She commutes from Philly to their Wilmington, DE office. She also has been working there since we graduated at the start of 2008.

Then she doesn't make close to as much as I mentioned previously, and her upside is severely capped.

Commercial banking

[amotoustict]

This past week, i've logged in close to 90 hours or so. for about thirty of those hours i got paid to sleep, though.

[ebBPxIai]

Yeah, they have crazy laws there.

[kranfid]

Most clothing stores in the US will shut down by 8 or so (depending on the day). Supermarkets generally stay open later, and many pharmacies in urban areas are open 24/7

[heilyprollecyspor]

I used to think that working all those hours was the right thing to do, but you are on salary, so no set hours.

I was working 70-90 hours a week a few years back for about $40-45K. You can't do that forever, you're crazy if you think you can.

Now I'm in a different profession and have a limit of 45 hours per week (my salary is almost 3x the old one, and I do make exceptions for emergency situations).



But here is the idea to debate here.

You are on Salary.

What benefit do you get beyond 40? Likely the workplace is the benefactor. The only reason to work more hours is to move up the ladder, but if you are a "rockstar" you should not need to do that either.

I used to think more is better, but now I don't.

1) What profession are you engaged in that pays you 135k a year for a 40hr week in the Dallas area?
2) If you'd been paying attention, you would have noted that I work for a salary plus year-end comp, the latter being the most important part of my remuneration.

[objennasweene]

Target is, too, I think, if you're looking for stuff that isn't ****.

[bgsavings]

The M&Ms I buy in Target are 10x better than the M&Ms I buy in Walmart

[veizKinquiz]

Yah, the Hanes I buy in Target are 10x better than the Hanes I buy in Walmart

[YmolafBp]

Why bother trying to give albie career advice? He's obviously happy living in a **** neighborhood, not having a job/working some shitty job, pretending that he's going to complete OCS one of these days and whining that he didn't score a home run straight out of college with his mediocre degree due to racism.

[cristmiff]

Working hard isn't enough (even granting the assumption that getting through an undergrad finance degree is particularly difficult)

Working hard when you're told what the hard work to do is, and what you'll be given as a result is far different than self-motivating when nobody tells you the path to take and the rewards are uncertain.

[googlopharm]

This thread has been great. It's reassured me that America could not possibly be in decline with respect to Europe, even WITH our shitty healthcare bill.

[bely832new]

1) What profession are you engaged in that pays you 135k a year for a 40hr week in the Dallas area?
2) If you'd been paying attention, you would have noted that I work for a salary plus year-end comp, the latter being the most important part of my remuneration.

1) Salary right now is more ~$110 with bonus possibilities (which tend to follow the economy more than anything else). Job is EE
2) I did not see your compensation mentioned in this thread sorry, unless you mean the 60k+15k comment, is the 15k what you are talking about: Are you saying that you are not good enough to earn it without the extra hours (productivity issues?)

[Vomephems]

1) What profession are you engaged in that pays you 135k a year for a 40hr week in the Dallas area?
2) If you'd been paying attention, you would have noted that I work for a salary plus year-end comp, the latter being the most important part of my remuneration.

A petroleum engineer or a geologist can both make $135k working just 40 here and, I suspect, even in darkest Texas.

Heck I make slightly less then that and usually only work 40 unless there is a quarterly report or field work which needs to be done on the weekend. Not bad for a guy who couldn't be bothered to go to grad school or start his own business. It's all about finding a niche and filling it so that you become indefensible to your employer even in a downturn when other folks are getting laid off.