How much do you make and whats your job title and age?
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Anonymous
OP Here - you being at the right place at the right time with the right skills was definitely key, i am in finance too but somewhat always end up in a dead end job! |
Anonymous
OP- Looks like that is the only way to make money these days |
Anonymous
OP- Will send you an email. |
Anonymous
Yeh i know there will always be some who make less and others who make more. i guess, what i wanted was for people to share their experiences on how they got to make more at their age if they did so those who make less can learn from them |
Anonymous
OP Here- Is this public Accounting? |
Anonymous
How did you do it? |
Anonymous
Can't afford it right now |
Anonymous
| 44 300K media. Bachelor's Degree. |
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Anonymous
| 38, $110k. Senior consultant for a mgt consulting company in the federal sector |
Anonymous
I pretty much run ad sales. Magazine publishing....print. Should be out of the sales part but thats where the money is. Sadly, our editor s are way underpaid |
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$200K Vice President (lawyer, but position is more policy/strategy than legal) LOVE my job. |
Anonymous
| 30, social worker with a masters, $44K |
Anonymous
Most honest answers are probably a combination of shit dumb luck - being in the right place at the right time and/or a top tier qualification (MBA or JD) from a prestigious highly ranked university. Toss in a little hard work and you've got a formula. In my experience successful people like to discount the luck factor and instead focus on their hard work, but usually luck played a non trivial part. Indeed, for me, I'm on the cusp of promotion which will give me perhaps another $50K, and its almost entirely because I took a role with a fucked up business line and fixed it. That was part skill, part luck - people had quit and the opportunity to take on more responsibility just fell into my lap. Right place, right time.... Also, I think the inflection points in one career require different skills - being a top performer as an "individual contributor" requires perhaps technical skills and attention to detail. A top performer in a "manager" role involves influencing others and learning to leverage your team effectively. A top performer in entry level mgmt means mastering influence, elevating out of the details with staff you trust, and creating strategies and growth opportunities outside your immediate sphere of influence. I've found that the step functions at each of these steps is the hardest moment. If you feel like you've peaked - ask yourself if you are doing the things the next level up would be. As a financial analyst is expect your manager demands quality analysis and work, but perhaps not that you set your own agenda or proactively identify gaps and needs in your org. As a manager, you'd probably be expected to do that. Most analysts who I see get stuck can't make that leap: they are excellent technically, churning out quality work - but they never quite master the art of identifying needs before they are asked. Some people call this "leaning in" (ugh) or "forward lean" or just "dealing with white space" or whatever, but the premise is the same. Ask yourself: are you at one of these inflection points? Some food for thought / advice. |
Anonymous
| 38 musician, teacher, 175-200K |