Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Move to project management in tech. FAANG companies.

I have applied nonstop to the FAANG, the only one I hear back from (and keep hearing from) is Amazon, but they have a $180k salary cap, and you are really dependent on the stock rising. And of course the 4 year cliff; should I get one of those "how to apply to google" books, which I am so skeptical of but I'm desperate. I mean, I have an Ivy league degree, but have been such an rube engineer from the sticks I've just never had my career take off.

I'm the 22:53 PP. Will the Amazon job give you the experience to get to a 200+K one? Your Ivy should have people working at Google, mine does. Work those connections.

Yeah, I know plenty of people there as friends, but they haven't worked with me in any meaningful way except college over a decade ago. Do people really network that way? They really have no idea about my work career?

Anonymous wrote:I work in tech. I'm 34.

So are you a full stack engineer at a FAANG, or IT specialist at a local tech company? Any recommendations on how to get there from where I am? I've thought of getting a Github profile, brushing up on some node.js and python and making a small portfolio of simple projects. Or is that a waste of time?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Move to project management in tech. FAANG companies.

I have applied nonstop to the FAANG, the only one I hear back from (and keep hearing from) is Amazon, but they have a $180k salary cap, and you are really dependent on the stock rising. And of course the 4 year cliff; should I get one of those "how to apply to google" books, which I am so skeptical of but I'm desperate. I mean, I have an Ivy league degree, but have been such an rube engineer from the sticks I've just never had my career take off.

I'm the 22:53 PP. Will the Amazon job give you the experience to get to a 200+K one? Your Ivy should have people working at Google, mine does. Work those connections.

I work in tech. I'm 34.

Anonymous wrote:Move to project management in tech. FAANG companies.

I have applied nonstop to the FAANG, the only one I hear back from (and keep hearing from) is Amazon, but they have a $180k salary cap, and you are really dependent on the stock rising. And of course the 4 year cliff; should I get one of those "how to apply to google" books, which I am so skeptical of but I'm desperate. I mean, I have an Ivy league degree, but have been such an rube engineer from the sticks I've just never had my career take off.

Move to project management in tech. FAANG companies.

Anonymous wrote:We don’t work for the govt and gave advanced degrees.

In case it as unclear, I am applying for jobs well outside of the govt, I only ended up in DC bc of DW's grad degree.

Anonymous wrote:We don’t work for the govt and gave advanced degrees.

I have a Masters in Engineering, are you talking about professional degrees like MBA, Law, MD?

We don’t work for the govt and gave advanced degrees.

Anonymous wrote:H is in pharma sales and I'm a 15 equivalent at a fed agency on a different pay scale. Some of my friends are lawyers and doctors. I bet we pay our IT contractors over 200K/year. Do you have your PMP?

SEC? CFPB? Sweet gigs for both of you

Anonymous wrote:H is in pharma sales and I'm a 15 equivalent at a fed agency on a different pay scale. Some of my friends are lawyers and doctors. I bet we pay our IT contractors over 200K/year. Do you have your PMP?

No, but I will get a PMP happily. I've done some coursework, it seems like a diploma mill cert to some degree. Would it really help?

H is in pharma sales and I'm a 15 equivalent at a fed agency on a different pay scale. Some of my friends are lawyers and doctors. I bet we pay our IT contractors over 200K/year. Do you have your PMP?

My ex husband stole from his company together with mistress, opened dozens of off-shore accounts and companies on her name, directing her consulting projects. Avoided disclosure by settling with me, giving away a business project we jointly owned. Everyone got rich as a result of the divorce. His off shore company is worth $40mm

bump! What do you all do? How old are you? How can I follow your path

Work as a govt project manager for a technical agency (NIST), making about $150k.

Everything is so expensive, from housing, to saving for college, to daycare. DW is in a good paying job that she loathes and I can tell she dies each day dropping off kids at daycare every morning.

I have applied to dozens of jobs, had 2 dozen interviews, and receive probably a dozen offers, and NONE of them pay anymore than I make now.

How do people make the leap to a bigger salary; for DW to quit I need to make at least $250k, but I can't even break $200k?

I'm mid-career, late 30s with some programming skills, project management, and domain knowledge in our contract specialty at NIST (so it's pretty niche). Do I need to get an advanced degree? Get an MBA?

I would love to get a sales engineer job, I think I would be a good fit as someone who is technically proficient and personable, but no bites and all the postings look for existing sales engineer experience. Am I wrong in thinking that could pay more than $200k (at like Salesforce or Google or something?).

I know many people must be making these numbers, as we see people buying crazy expensive houses and the wives SAH or have part time yoga gigs. But what I am doing wrong?