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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I didn't even attend Ivies (former UVA grad) and I am making 275K/yr working for the Federal government as a SME in Cybersecurity at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).  I am in my 30's and most of my former classmates are making a lot more in the private sector.[/quote]

Why do all these 30 year olds keep posting? You had a rich repository of information about COL and career paths on the internet to guide you. [/quote]

And it’s been pointed out for the older Ivy graduates you always had excellent career centers and recruiting opportunities. [/quote]

[b]None of which ever discussed salaries, which is the point of OP. [/b]Career center was all about passion and interest and how to help the world. Recruitment might have alluded to starting salary and “growth” but never talked about hard numbers unless maybe at the final offer stage. [/quote]

If you could not figure this out on your own, you did not and still don’t have the skills to navigate the big jobs with the big salaries. High paying jobs are extremely competitive, no one will tell you how to get them.[/quote]

Figure out salaries on your own? Talking about salaries was very gauche in the 90s — so basically if you weren’t already in the inner circle of UMC professionals you were screwed either way?[/quote]

Exactly. I can’t believe the posters who are saying everyone was discussing salaries and $$ requirements for a UMC life. It would have been considered so tacky back then. No one who actually was UMC or above ever talked about these things. [/quote]

If a UMC GF dated a LMC BF, would she clue him in? Or vice versa?  Though inter class dating is fairly rare to be serious. [/quote]

Yes!  My family is UUMC and never discussed salary or job strategies or anything and just encouraged me to pursue whatever I wanted to do, so I feel like I could have made better choices $$ wise.  [b]And I wasn't pushed to work hard, just have fun. [/b] I think this is one of the reasons why WASPs are where they are now.  [/quote]

This strategy really only worked for UMC white boomers. Those times are loonnngg gone. Time to put in the work and think about ROI like every minority family has encouraged for decades. [/quote]

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