Q for professionals: how late do you work, how old are you, and what do you earn?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:38

9-6pm

$990K

Aritificial intelligence. Hot area.

Do you want to get over that hump? What is artificial intelligence? Military background?

PhD in CS. Non military background or work, although obviously also a hot area for them.

Artificial intelligence is a bit of a misnomer for machine learning: given a series of training data, can you teach a computer to draw inferences from that data? For instance, you feed a computer images of biopsy slides from patients with and without cancer, then you feed it a test - something you know has/does not have cancer present and ask the computer if it does. It's gotten to the point where the computers (on some tasks) are better (and obviously) faster than humans. The applications are numerous - from the fun (teaching a computer to play video games), to the more practical (voice recognition, speech recognition, etc).

To the PP with a PhD in CS - where do you work? Spouse has a similar background but making a fraction of this salary working as a fed.

[Anonymous]

Editor, done at 5, $78K.

[Anonymous]

mid-40s, in house lawyer, 8-5:30 are "normal" hours but frequently have calls in different time zones outside these hours, and some work on most weekends, $400K base

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:38

9-6pm

$990K

Aritificial intelligence. Hot area.

Do you want to get over that hump? What is artificial intelligence? Military background?

PhD in CS. Non military background or work, although obviously also a hot area for them.

Artificial intelligence is a bit of a misnomer for machine learning: given a series of training data, can you teach a computer to draw inferences from that data? For instance, you feed a computer images of biopsy slides from patients with and without cancer, then you feed it a test - something you know has/does not have cancer present and ask the computer if it does. It's gotten to the point where the computers (on some tasks) are better (and obviously) faster than humans. The applications are numerous - from the fun (teaching a computer to play video games), to the more practical (voice recognition, speech recognition, etc).

How much of that salary is base vs. profit sharing/bonus vs. stock options/stock? Are you a 1099 contractor or a W-2?

990 K is huge for someone technical. Even at the CTO level.

[Anonymous]

42
60 hours/week, but must work 7 days/week (a few hours on weekends)
$800k-1mln/year
software business (owner)

[Anonymous]

46, M, broadly I work 9-5 (eat lunch my the office), but often with some early morning/late evening video conferences/calls, 265K.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:42
15-18 hour a week but I am always on call and have to arrange a back up if I go on vacation.
$140K
Property Manager

1. Do you have to fix things yourself or just call people to do it for you?
2. What do you do with all your spare time?

PP here.

1.) I fix a lot of things myself but have a plumber and electrician I can call and they will come right away. I run quite a few units.
2.) I have three kids under five, so I don’t have any problem keeping myself busy.

I’m female and a former white collar professional (academic with a PhD). I fell into this kind of by accident and I stay at it because nothing else would give me the flexibility for the money. It’s definitely not my dream job (except for the money).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:mid-40s, in house lawyer, 8-5:30 are "normal" hours but frequently have calls in different time zones outside these hours, and some work on most weekends, $400K base

Wow, are you a manager? I always assumed in-house made a little more than gov't attorneys. Perhaps I need to pay a little more attention when the recruiters come calling!

[Anonymous]

47, fed employee, 12 hour days, take 1 weekend per bi-week, GS13 around 95K

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:38

9-6pm

$990K

Aritificial intelligence. Hot area.

Do you want to get over that hump? What is artificial intelligence? Military background?

PhD in CS. Non military background or work, although obviously also a hot area for them.

Artificial intelligence is a bit of a misnomer for machine learning: given a series of training data, can you teach a computer to draw inferences from that data? For instance, you feed a computer images of biopsy slides from patients with and without cancer, then you feed it a test - something you know has/does not have cancer present and ask the computer if it does. It's gotten to the point where the computers (on some tasks) are better (and obviously) faster than humans. The applications are numerous - from the fun (teaching a computer to play video games), to the more practical (voice recognition, speech recognition, etc).

To the PP with a PhD in CS - where do you work? Spouse has a similar background but making a fraction of this salary working as a fed.

Think tech firms. All of big ones. Amazon. Google. FB. Etc. For the right candidate they will consider remote arrangements with some travel.

[Anonymous]

30, fed contractor, 95k. I work about 9 to 5:45 or so. Very rarely weekends or overtime.

[Anonymous]

Accounting.

8:00 to 4:00 135k, no evenings or weekends ever.

[Anonymous]

Early thirties, nonprofit communications coordinator in the sticks, make 45k. To an extent, I am always "on" (answering calls and, to a larger extent, emails) but generally don't do serious work after six or so unless I have there's a deadline.

[Anonymous]

45
fed
$285K (non GS scale)
in office 9-5:30 plus 2 hours a night at home. Generally no weekend work, some travel (one night away about every other week)

[Anonymous]

38
non- profit arts org
40 hrs a week, some from home
67,000