Well Paid Jobs with Work Life Balance

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Rehabilitative therapies--PT, OT, ST.

My physical therapist told me work life balance was one reason she chose her profession.

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Anonymous wrote:Nonprofit mktg director. I make about $140k. Not rich by many of your standards, but I have tons of leave and can leave at 4 or 4:30 every day. Long hours are extremely rare and travel is known years in advance.

Whom do you work for?
I've worked for a number of nonprofits but what I have always found is that the higher you go, especially, (and I'm assuming at 140K you are pretty high in a NP) the hours are just as long as private.

Not saying where. It's largish. And yes, I'm senior staff. I've had two other similar jobs and hours have always been about the same.

Awww... I really wish you would. But if you won't, do you know of other places like yours?

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Ultrasound technologist. A relative makes about $45/hour - $70/ hour picking up random day, evening and weekend hours at a few different hospitals as her time allows.

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Anonymous wrote:Lawyers can never make really huge money and they will always have to work for it, because they charge by the hour.

Entrepreneurship is the key to work-life balance. I started my first company at 28, and I will never go back to working for someone else.

But you're a risk taker. I'm not.

This. I went to law school because I am not a risk taker. My dad has his own business and there are upsides but I saw the downsides too. I crave stability more than money.

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Anonymous wrote:Graphic Designer, Motion Graphics, Character Development for Video Games and Movies. Work while kids at school but, its really play. Average about $200.

Do you change employers often? I have several friends in this industry and it seems like they are laid off regularly as development phases end.

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Non-Profit Fundraising. I make ~$140K. 9-5, can't regularly telework but very flexible otherwise.

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Anonymous wrote:Rehabilitative therapies--PT, OT, ST.

My physical therapist told me work life balance was one reason she chose her profession.

When I had to go for my knee in my mid-20s my PT told me I should go into it (I was saying how I hated my job) and how he encouraged his daughter to do it, etc since he makes good money and never works more than 35 hours- I WISH I had listened since I like talking to people and like the idea of sports medicine.

BUT I have serious squeemish issues with bones and things, so I may have had a barrier to deal with

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IT exec. Great compensation. Great flexibility. Long hours but not a 9-5 culture. Works for me. Only downside is being on call for IT emergencies 24/7 even on vacation.

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Anonymous wrote:$210k.

Wfh 3 to 4 days a week.

I do analytics (excel monkey).

Interesting job. What industry?

Big financial services firm in Tysons Corner. Its an exceptional place to work on a lot of levels. Wicked smart people, good pay, good hours, etc.

cap one?

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Anonymous wrote:$210k.

Wfh 3 to 4 days a week.

I do analytics (excel monkey).

Interesting job. What industry?

Big financial services firm in Tysons Corner. Its an exceptional place to work on a lot of levels. Wicked smart people, good pay, good hours, etc.

cap one?

That was my guess as well!

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Anonymous wrote:So we all know the route to serious income is Big Law firms with their partner track

If you believe this you haven't lived in NY, CA or any money center throughout the world. I know a lot of sales people and even realtors who make more than big law partners.

Top tier professional incomes:

Biglaw partners: $5 million
Investment bankers: $50 million +
Tech and hedge fund executives: $100 million +

And biglaw partners are always bitching about the gap because they work every bit as hard, but they're essentially the hired help. For a smart and educated cohort, you would think that they would update their business model from charging $1k/hr for legal advice. That model is dying.

Divide these numbers by 5, and it is more representative. Point remains though.

The numbers are for the top of the profession rather than a representative figure. It seems that if you made a faustian bargain to trade your youth, life, health, relationships with loved ones in exchange for money, the legal profession would not be even close to the best place where it would pay off to do this. I don't know how many biglaw folks servicing a-hole clients (i was one of these clients) for 80-100 hrs a week do it for the love of the law.

Seems like the IB/PE/Tech crowd wants to work hard to cash out and retire early while the lawyers match their lifestyle to their income and stay on the treadmill forever. Few amass enough to be able to stop working and continue to live as they've become accustomed to. Lawyers also tend to get trapped by the trappings of their profession.

Very astute observation. I think issue is that most in big law are strivers but not risk takers or smart enough to be entrepreneurs.

Investment bankers aren't really risk takers either, they play with other peoples money.

Ha, ha, ha.

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Anonymous wrote:$210k.

Wfh 3 to 4 days a week.

I do analytics (excel monkey).

Interesting job. What industry?

Big financial services firm in Tysons Corner. Its an exceptional place to work on a lot of levels. Wicked smart people, good pay, good hours, etc.

COF?

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Some of the dentists we know work 4 days a week and make 300k+

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Anonymous wrote:Some of the dentists we know work 4 days a week and make 300k+

Except they have the 2nd highest suicide rates after physicians.
http://www.newhealthguide.org/Highest-Suicide-Rate-By-Profession.html

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Anonymous wrote:It project manager $125..

Work at home 2 days a week, commute 20 minutes, every day is casual day since my work is international and everything is a conference call, flex time

Thats because project managers don't actually do anything, they just call meetings and track task lists.

Sort of glorified admin, but PRAISED in large corporate environments, which need lots of project managers to track the real work. We have project managers tracking the project managers. The curse of Sarbanes-Oxley Act. Never had that many PMs before that act was implemented.

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