How do all of you make these $200k salaries???

[Anonymous]

Info Sec and cloud are good skills.

Best way to make 350k from 150k is have your wife quit. She is holding you back. You need to 100 percent focus career 7-7 every day with a few late nights.

350k is not what it used to be. I made that in 2011 and felt rich in 2021 is middle class.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:H is in pharma sales and I'm a 15 equivalent at a fed agency on a different pay scale. Some of my friends are lawyers and doctors. I bet we pay our IT contractors over 200K/year. Do you have your PMP?

SEC? CFPB? Sweet gigs for both of you

My H's job is super high stress and risky. Mine is sweet, I agree, but I had to get 10 million degrees and certifications to get here. Nothing is easy, unless one is born into serious $$$$.

[Anonymous]

Dozens of jobs? I literally applied close to 1,000 jobs in last job hunt. I would do 5-8 a day.

I now apply jobs anywhere in world. Last anywhere in US. Focus only DC is limiting

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Info Sec and cloud are good skills.

Best way to make 350k from 150k is have your wife quit. She is holding you back. You need to 100 percent focus career 7-7 every day with a few late nights.

350k is not what it used to be. I made that in 2011 and felt rich in 2021 is middle class.

So basically spin up some slices on Azure or AWS, maybe work through some AWS certifications and apply for cloud dev jobs at like Fortune 500 companies?

I mean, that would be great to focus more time rather than the working parent juggle, but she will be all "show me the money" before I quit, so I need a clear plan.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Dozens of jobs? I literally applied close to 1,000 jobs in last job hunt. I would do 5-8 a day.

I now apply jobs anywhere in world. Last anywhere in US. Focus only DC is limiting

Well, I currently have a job, so 5-8 a day would be ridiculous assuming you actually customize something for it.

I apply for DC and California and Colorado (family is in all 3 places). But honestly needs to be DC b/c DW won't quit job until my new gig is steady (she grew up poor b/c her dad was unemployed in his 40s and never found another job).

[Anonymous]

we didn't break $200,000 until mid 40s. Comfortable now at $350,000. It just takes time and lots of effort

[Anonymous]

You simply can't become rich working for someone else. Even if you do make a lot of money, it will wear you off. Wealth is determined by your assets. NOT salary.

Get to know local real estate brokers in DC. Get to know bank managers for fast loans processing. Ask brokers for regular updates on all 2-3 units investment real estate townhouses in good areas. Buy something at a mm, invest 200K, and rent it out. With balloon mortgage loan it will pay off in 10 years. At your 300K salary you can buy 2 projects like that and become asset rich in 10 years, adding net rental income to your salaries

[Anonymous]

DW ($500K+) is in biglaw, and I ($230K) have an MBA and work in marketing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DW ($500K+) is in biglaw, and I ($230K) have an MBA and work in marketing.

A friend of mine makes 250K as marketing vise president. She has no MBA and started at her firm as a temp at $35/hr 4 years ago.

[Anonymous]

There was one guy who put $50k into Gamestop and turned it into $22M+. Risk vs reward principle.

Sounds like you are a conservative guy in a conservative job. Own it. Like a previous poster said. Your leverage is time. You have to wait your turn.

Or, and I'm not saying you have to gamble like the Gamestop guy did but you have to increase your personality risk profile. Look at what you said about your wife - she won't quit her job until I do this X and Y. Both of your are so conservative. Learn to be uncomfortable and take on some career risk. You won't find a $300k job in your next job but your next job could position you for a $300k job.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Work as a govt project manager for a technical agency (NIST), making about $150k.

Everything is so expensive, from housing, to saving for college, to daycare. DW is in a good paying job that she loathes and I can tell she dies each day dropping off kids at daycare every morning.

I have applied to dozens of jobs, had 2 dozen interviews, and receive probably a dozen offers, and NONE of them pay anymore than I make now.

How do people make the leap to a bigger salary; for DW to quit I need to make at least $250k, but I can't even break $200k?

I'm mid-career, late 30s with some programming skills, project management, and domain knowledge in our contract specialty at NIST (so it's pretty niche). Do I need to get an advanced degree? Get an MBA?

I would love to get a sales engineer job, I think I would be a good fit as someone who is technically proficient and personable, but no bites and all the postings look for existing sales engineer experience. Am I wrong in thinking that could pay more than $200k (at like Salesforce or Google or something?).

I know many people must be making these numbers, as we see people buying crazy expensive houses and the wives SAH or have part time yoga gigs. But what I am doing wrong?

Why is this the goal? I live in DC, where most families make good money because they're highly educated and dual-income.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Dozens of jobs? I literally applied close to 1,000 jobs in last job hunt. I would do 5-8 a day.

I now apply jobs anywhere in world. Last anywhere in US. Focus only DC is limiting

What do you do?

The most I have ever applied for in a job seeking cycle is maybe 15. I usually have interview rates of 50-90%.

I am CPA, run an accounting team at a tech company. Make 200k with bonus.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Info Sec and cloud are good skills.

Best way to make 350k from 150k is have your wife quit. She is holding you back. You need to 100 percent focus career 7-7 every day with a few late nights.

350k is not what it used to be. I made that in 2011 and felt rich in 2021 is middle class.

You are doong something wrong if you consider 350 middle class. In fact it’s an insult to call that middle class!!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Info Sec and cloud are good skills.

Best way to make 350k from 150k is have your wife quit. She is holding you back. You need to 100 percent focus career 7-7 every day with a few late nights.

350k is not what it used to be. I made that in 2011 and felt rich in 2021 is middle class.

You are doong something wrong if you consider 350 middle class. In fact it’s an insult to call that middle class!!!

Wishing I was also in this middle class!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Info Sec and cloud are good skills.

Best way to make 350k from 150k is have your wife quit. She is holding you back. You need to 100 percent focus career 7-7 every day with a few late nights.

350k is not what it used to be. I made that in 2011 and felt rich in 2021 is middle class.

So basically spin up some slices on Azure or AWS, maybe work through some AWS certifications and apply for cloud dev jobs at like Fortune 500 companies?

I mean, that would be great to focus more time rather than the working parent juggle, but she will be all "show me the money" before I quit, so I need a clear plan.

🤣 ROFL.