What is your job and salary?

[Anonymous]

Me: Fed Attorney with 3 years experience. I'm currently at $91K, but will get my 14 in a couple of months, and be at $107K I think.

DH: Auditor at non-profit makes $69K, and he has his masters.

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Anonymous wrote:Me: Fed Attorney with 3 years experience. I'm currently at $91K, but will get my 14 in a couple of months, and be at $107K I think.

DH: Auditor at non-profit makes $69K, and he has his masters.

^^^we are 28.

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Anonymous wrote:Can't believe my first post here in the forum is to disclose my salary.

DH and I both went to top journalism school. He has a BA, and I have a master's degree. When he and I graduated in 2010, he found a entry level TV producer job in Florida, work hour is 11pm-7am. Yes, the grave yard shift. And the best part? The salary--22K. To make things worse, I couldn't even find a job over there. I ended up working in another city 8 hours driving distance away and lived separately with DH for 2 years. I didn't get a job in journalism simply because the pay is too low. I found a job in an import/export company instead.

Now fast forward to 2015. DH found a job in DC. I am still working with my first employer. I got to work from home but the salary is only 40k. With an infant I only works part time so the pay is now down to less than 20k. DH's salary is much better than before (we are talking about 40k with 4 years of grave yard shifts) but it's still only 80k.

I am looking for a job right at the moment, that's how I ended up here on this post. Please, anyone tell me how to land on a job that pays as well as you do?

I feel you. Both DH and I have advanced degrees from a solid institution. I am not very happy with my salary or growth potential, but the job search isn't going well. (I'm a Fed, but I'm excepted, so I don't get priority consideration for positions.) DH has more growth potential, but I haven't seen anything come to fruition. He works 60 hours a week, travels a lot, and he makes about the same as your DH.

One advantage you have is the flexibility to stay home with your child. DH and I are don't have many babymaking years left, and I think we've given up, partly because we both have unpredictable, impossible schedules. And we can't afford a nanny. Regular daycare wouldn't suffice.

I feel like we did everything right, but we're trapped. We're not building a family, and we're not really building meaningful careers. And time is running out.

Applying for jobs is soul-sucking. You are supposed to stay confident and positive in order to market yourself, but it's hard. No matter how much you have done or how much education you have, even secretarial postings are written in such a way to make you feel unqualified. You can't just submit a resume. Every position has its own application process, complete with elaborate personality tests.

And networking... I hate feeling like I'm using people or exploiting friendships.

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Anonymous wrote:I find it so strange that people list "Fed" as their profession.

Me too! What does this mean?

I find it really disturbing how many people list "Fed" and list six-figure salaries. This is our tax dollars! OMG. No wonder our country runs a deficit...

1- go the fuck away. why shouldn't attorneys, doctors, nurses, accountants, engineers etc be paid decent wages commensurate with education and experience?

2- if you want to blame excessive spending on something, blame military spending.

3- these are. not this is.

According to the nuts like PP they should work for free.

I think there is a large distance between "free" and six figures. It seems to me in light of pension and other large costs born by taxpayers, prudent salaries are reasonable.

FTE Feds are much much cheaper to taxpayers than contractors who get no benefits and yet their contracting companies charge 3-10 times as much per employee as the employees are paid.

Also FTEs are civil servants who do their jobs for American People, so they take much lower salaries than they would have in the private sector.

+1 And good career civil servants are truly doing a service..not just just jobbing it out.

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Anonymous wrote:The way the "feds" reply on this listserv make me cringe. They sound so entitled and self righteous. They don't need to explain to anyone what they do, but making $225K is totally OK. Median household income in 2014 was $51,939. That includes double income households.

I'm not saying everyone has to make $52K or even twice that $104K, I'm saying that more than 50% of Americans are paying taxes based on salaries of $52k...

Agree. The producers of the world support these leeches. The money and power headed to dc to intrude on our lives is DISGUSTING. It will be nice to see the vast majority of their useless jobs dismantled by small govt leadership. Get real jobs, folks!!!

Please. Do you know who does basic research for the U.S.? Fed scientists at NIH, NIST, DARPA, IARPA, ARL, and many other agencies. NOAA weather forecasters protect us. Their work benefits everybody and helps spin-out private companies. It's the frickin lobbyists and lawyers with their million dollar salaries that sicken me...peddling influence to buy McMansions. Sorry, pp annoyed me.

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Anonymous wrote:The way the "feds" reply on this listserv make me cringe. They sound so entitled and self righteous. They don't need to explain to anyone what they do, but making $225K is totally OK. Median household income in 2014 was $51,939. That includes double income households.

I'm not saying everyone has to make $52K or even twice that $104K, I'm saying that more than 50% of Americans are paying taxes based on salaries of $52k...

Agree. The producers of the world support these leeches. The money and power headed to dc to intrude on our lives is DISGUSTING. It will be nice to see the vast majority of their useless jobs dismantled by small govt leadership. Get real jobs, folks!!!

Ok- I will stop intruding on your life, then. I will stop making sure defective airbags are tested appropriately and safely. I will stop making sure that cargo airplane shipments are in compliance and safe...yup, I really need to get a real job!!!

+1, sad how so many are ignorant of what government workers actually do!

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Anonymous wrote:I find it so strange that people list "Fed" as their profession.

Me too! What does this mean?

I find it really disturbing how many people list "Fed" and list six-figure salaries. This is our tax dollars! OMG. No wonder our country runs a deficit...

1- go the fuck away. why shouldn't attorneys, doctors, nurses, accountants, engineers etc be paid decent wages commensurate with education and experience?

2- if you want to blame excessive spending on something, blame military spending.

3- these are. not this is.

According to the nuts like PP they should work for free.

I think there is a large distance between "free" and six figures. It seems to me in light of pension and other large costs born by taxpayers, prudent salaries are reasonable.

FTE Feds are much much cheaper to taxpayers than contractors who get no benefits and yet their contracting companies charge 3-10 times as much per employee as the employees are paid.

Also FTEs are civil servants who do their jobs for American People, so they take much lower salaries than they would have in the private sector.

+1 And good career civil servants are truly doing a service..not just just jobbing it out.

As a taxpayer, I wish I could agree with you. As a federal contractor a vast majority of my clients are incompetent and lazy and uninterested in anything but their own career ladder and/or retirement date. They pass off a tremendous amount of work to contractors, even work that falls well within the scope of their position description. My clients often have solid degrees and resumes but they deliberately come to the federal government to coast ... these are not passionate civil servants trying to make this country a better place.