What do you do, how much do you make, and how'd you get there?

[Anonymous]

1. professor at R-1 university
2. $175K
3. Top 5 undergrad program for my field, went into private industry post graduation for about 5 years and decided it was not my cup of tea, went back to graduate school in top 3 program in my field, entered academia. Work life balance is great post-tenure, was brutal pre-tenure.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It's notable, so many people say "hard work", "grit", "worked my @ ss off"... do you think the guys who work on your car didn't work hard to get where they are? The person with the most grit and determination is probably the cleaning lady who walked here from Venezuela...

I'm not normally one to go crazy shouting "white privilege" but these answers seem really tone deaf. I'd love to also hear about how you got lucky.

This is a pretty myopic thing to say. I posted in this thread and from the responses so far I’m probably in the upper 5%. My parents came from the projects of their home country. So while you can think you know me and my privilege from one post, lady you’re the one who’s actually tone deaf.

I was thinking the same thing. Ignore her, she's virtue signaling.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:1. director of national accounts, food sales
2. 160k plus 20% bonus
3. aa degree, started as a territory rep & worked my way up

Do you want to go into other sales, which could be more lucrative?

Why would I? I call on great accounts, love my job, my boss, team and my great money!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:1. Senior attorney at a large Silicon Valley company. Manage several legal teams.
2. About $600k per year, excluding equity which is on average $700k - 800k per year.
3. SLAC, law school, DOJ and then inhouse.

Would you say you are equally or more busy than someone who works at a big law firm?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:1. Senior attorney at a large Silicon Valley company. Manage several legal teams.
2. About $600k per year, excluding equity which is on average $700k - 800k per year.
3. SLAC, law school, DOJ and then inhouse.

Would you say you are equally or more busy than someone who works at a big law firm?

I would say less busy. I work around 50 hours per week. More if it is EOQ, travelling to HQ or leading a project with the tight deadline.

[Anonymous]

1) Tech Sales
2) $600-$900K per year
3) Started off right from college in tech sales making $65,000 a year. Worked my way up and made 100% of my quota year after year. Moved to a partner company and went 100% commission based and increased salary from $300-$500K a year to $600-$900K a year. Only way to take this gamble is because my husband is also in tech sales and makes a decent base salary ($500K a year) so if I make no money per year we are financially fine.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:1. Senior attorney at a large Silicon Valley company. Manage several legal teams.
2. About $600k per year, excluding equity which is on average $700k - 800k per year.
3. SLAC, law school, DOJ and then inhouse.

Would you say you are equally or more busy than someone who works at a big law firm?

I would say less busy. I work around 50 hours per week. More if it is EOQ, travelling to HQ or leading a project with the tight deadline.

How hard is it to land this type of job? My husband is a partner in a mid-level law firm in DC and makes less than you do (only 2nd year partner not equity). He works insane hours. We would both love if he could get a less busy job than he has now but cannot afford the pay cut.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:People have some pretty tepid jobs here.

And you're a d-bag.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:1. Senior attorney at a large Silicon Valley company. Manage several legal teams.
2. About $600k per year, excluding equity which is on average $700k - 800k per year.
3. SLAC, law school, DOJ and then inhouse.

Would you say you are equally or more busy than someone who works at a big law firm?

I would say less busy. I work around 50 hours per week. More if it is EOQ, travelling to HQ or leading a project with the tight deadline.

How hard is it to land this type of job? My husband is a partner in a mid-level law firm in DC and makes less than you do (only 2nd year partner not equity). He works insane hours. We would both love if he could get a less busy job than he has now but cannot afford the pay cut.

PP has a unicorn job. Mid-level law firm partner isn't landing that gig.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:1. Senior attorney at a large Silicon Valley company. Manage several legal teams.
2. About $600k per year, excluding equity which is on average $700k - 800k per year.
3. SLAC, law school, DOJ and then inhouse.

Would you say you are equally or more busy than someone who works at a big law firm?

I would say less busy. I work around 50 hours per week. More if it is EOQ, travelling to HQ or leading a project with the tight deadline.

How hard is it to land this type of job? My husband is a partner in a mid-level law firm in DC and makes less than you do (only 2nd year partner not equity). He works insane hours. We would both love if he could get a less busy job than he has now but cannot afford the pay cut.

PP has a unicorn job. Mid-level law firm partner isn't landing that gig.

+1. PP may not be a unicorn job, because i think top lawfirm'ers could land it. But midlevel law firm partner isn't going to.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's notable, so many people say "hard work", "grit", "worked my @ ss off"... do you think the guys who work on your car didn't work hard to get where they are? The person with the most grit and determination is probably the cleaning lady who walked here from Venezuela...

I'm not normally one to go crazy shouting "white privilege" but these answers seem really tone deaf. I'd love to also hear about how you got lucky.

What's tone deaf is you thinking that people who earn less are the only ones "working their asses off." I'm sure the cleaning lady, the construction worker, the fast food person all work really really hard. But I'll be damned if your virtue signaling is going to take away from the hard work I had to put in.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's notable, so many people say "hard work", "grit", "worked my @ ss off"... do you think the guys who work on your car didn't work hard to get where they are? The person with the most grit and determination is probably the cleaning lady who walked here from Venezuela...

I'm not normally one to go crazy shouting "white privilege" but these answers seem really tone deaf. I'd love to also hear about how you got lucky.

I can't speak to whether i worked harder than the lady who walked here from venezuela...

But i definitely worked a lot harder (and smarter) than large swaths of my peers from high school, undergrad and law school. Not sure the controversy here. You don't end up making the salaries that some people are listing in this thread (including some of the lower salaries, but where they only had an AA degree) without hardwork. There are other elements too. But hard work by definition is a part of it.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:1. Senior attorney at a large Silicon Valley company. Manage several legal teams.
2. About $600k per year, excluding equity which is on average $700k - 800k per year.
3. SLAC, law school, DOJ and then inhouse.

Would you say you are equally or more busy than someone who works at a big law firm?

I would say less busy. I work around 50 hours per week. More if it is EOQ, travelling to HQ or leading a project with the tight deadline.

How hard is it to land this type of job? My husband is a partner in a mid-level law firm in DC and makes less than you do (only 2nd year partner not equity). He works insane hours. We would both love if he could get a less busy job than he has now but cannot afford the pay cut.

PP has a unicorn job. Mid-level law firm partner isn't landing that gig.

+1. PP may not be a unicorn job, because i think top lawfirm'ers could land it. But midlevel law firm partner isn't going to.

Pp here - I actually have no idea if his firm is mid or top level. It’s top 100 firm in the country I think. But not top 10.

[Anonymous]

1. ED at a medium sized nonprofit
2. $120k - although I think I"m underpaid for our budget size based on recent research
3. BA in Business, Masters of Nonprofit Management. Worked at a lot of small businesses where I was never shy about speaking up and sharing my opinion to improve issues in the company. Currently working on an MBA to transition to larger organizations and/or back to for-profit

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Anonymous wrote:1. Senior attorney at a large Silicon Valley company. Manage several legal teams.
2. About $600k per year, excluding equity which is on average $700k - 800k per year.
3. SLAC, law school, DOJ and then inhouse.

Would you say you are equally or more busy than someone who works at a big law firm?

I would say less busy. I work around 50 hours per week. More if it is EOQ, travelling to HQ or leading a project with the tight deadline.

How hard is it to land this type of job? My husband is a partner in a mid-level law firm in DC and makes less than you do (only 2nd year partner not equity). He works insane hours. We would both love if he could get a less busy job than he has now but cannot afford the pay cut.

PP has a unicorn job. Mid-level law firm partner isn't landing that gig.

NP. I think what they are trying to say is that you probably have to be in a big law law firm (appearing to be a "get" for the company) to land that job and make that money. The steady, reliable person doesn't get that job. Though I would say that the steady, reliable person could get a job working for the PP. But there is also so little job security there.

+1. PP may not be a unicorn job, because i think top lawfirm'ers could land it. But midlevel law firm partner isn't going to.

Pp here - I actually have no idea if his firm is mid or top level. It’s top 100 firm in the country I think. But not top 10.