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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Op - anyone who tells you you can’t increase your salary is lying. Here’s my trajectory and I am not a troll (but am nyc):
Age 37 - $110 (media) switch job to $130 and step up. Age 39 switched to $180 in new company plus bonus. Got raised at that company the second year to $250 plus bonus. Switched age 41 to new company (also startup) and got tc $300, then switched when that company folded age 43 and got $430 plus bonuses of varying types - now at 45 am at $800 all in. But I have worked insane insane insane hours to be ‘worth’ that much and also clearly job hopped my way up. You just gotta hustle like crazy - you can do it. But you will have to find a way to pull 10 hour days - so if you want to stop work from 6-8 then you gotta jump back online once kids in bed. Good luck! [/quote]

How did you find those jobs?  I have literally applied to hundred jobs over the last couple years, many interviews and probably a dozen offers, and all paid lesss than my current contracting job!! Did you ever take a lower paying job and count on income rising fast — how do you identify that opportunity?

Did you switch fields?
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A million applications, endless networking - I didn’t exactly change fields but I added strings to my bow each time and always had steep learning curves. Startups are the key - I chose lack of job security (but did not take job cuts per se). I took some jobs that others would have considered much less reputable than the org I was at. Also looked all over the us. [/quote]

How were you networking? Do you have kids? It’s hard to go to after work events when we have family dinner — and my current job no one ever leaves so no natural network building there!

All over the US is hard — I just want a chance to have more challenging and better paying work without giving up all home life — unless the pay is high enough off the bat for DW to just quit. It’s like the Temple of Doom bag of sand for the scull![/quote]

Dw should not quit entirely if you’re taking high risk jobs [/quote]

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