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Anonymous wrote:45 yr old SAHM yearly salary $0

benefits of seeing my kids grow up and being with them when they need and not worry about deadlines at work = priceless

downside of my job my 8 yr old telling "if you get a job Mom, we would have more money" = it's time to polish the resume.

My husband stays at home with the kids. Our 2.5 year old believes that "daddies don't go to work".

How sad. He will probably marry a fat girl who will work two jobs to support him. If your child is female then she will be the fat girl.

Not nearly as sad as an adult who attempts to boost his/her self esteem by insulting the children of strangers on the Internet.

I did not insult her children, I insulted her husband, stay at hone dads, and fat girls with black and trailer trash boyfriends. Get it right.

You are an ignorant racist low human being

Anonymous wrote:Lol. Get your panties out of a bunch. Just because someone insults you, it doesn't mean they are hateful. There is no need to call Jesse Jackson or Anderson Cooper.

SAHDs are not cute. It is disgraceful unless the man is disabled or retired after having a career. Otherwise, a man needs a job or he needs to be looking for one.

I will say it online and I will say it to your face - deal with it. Get a job, write a book, start a business or do something so that you are not completely effeminate. Passing undesireable traits onto your kids is not cute.

Being a parent is a job.

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Anonymous wrote:Lol. Get your panties out of a bunch. Just because someone insults you, it doesn't mean they are hateful. There is no need to call Jesse Jackson or Anderson Cooper.

SAHDs are not cute. It is disgraceful unless the man is disabled or retired after having a career. Otherwise, a man needs a job or he needs to be looking for one.

I will say it online and I will say it to your face - deal with it. Get a job, write a book, start a business or do something so that you are not completely effeminate. Passing undesireable traits onto your kids is not cute.

You're a bitch and I'd say that to your face too. My husband works (as I said) and also takes care of the kids full time. If you were to meet him effeminate is the last word you'd use to describe him. I guess he doesn't need to prove himself.

Yes, you are hateful. Do you also think that all women need to have a job? For us it was more important to have one of us spend time with our children rather than pay a stranger to take care of them. In our family it made much more sense (sadly, because I'd love to do it) for it to be my husband and he's worked his schedule around that. This isn't unusual in this city.

+1+!

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Anonymous wrote:32, journalist, $40K. FML.

I feel you. 41, journalist, $73K. I feel stretched at my salary so I know it's worse for you. Ever dream of going to the "dark side?"

I'm curious, what's the dark side for a journalist? Fox?

lol!

Anonymous wrote:Lol. Get your panties out of a bunch. Just because someone insults you, it doesn't mean they are hateful. There is no need to call Jesse Jackson or Anderson Cooper.

SAHDs are not cute. It is disgraceful unless the man is disabled or retired after having a career. Otherwise, a man needs a job or he needs to be looking for one.

I will say it online and I will say it to your face - deal with it. Get a job, write a book, start a business or do something so that you are not completely effeminate. Passing undesireable traits onto your kids is not cute.

You're a bitch and I'd say that to your face too. My husband works (as I said) and also takes care of the kids full time. If you were to meet him effeminate is the last word you'd use to describe him. I guess he doesn't need to prove himself.

Yes, you are hateful. Do you also think that all women need to have a job? For us it was more important to have one of us spend time with our children rather than pay a stranger to take care of them. In our family it made much more sense (sadly, because I'd love to do it) for it to be my husband and he's worked his schedule around that. This isn't unusual in this city.

Journalists are more ethical than doctors and lawyers? Tell me another one.

You misread my point, which was that I don't think doctors and lawyers (or folks in other professions, for that matter) worry about being too "principled" when it comes to moving to perfectly reasonable jobs that can make them more money. There's nothing wrong with fully maximizing your skill set, whether you're a journalist by training, a doctor, a lawyer, or anything else.

But feel free to continue on the reporter-bashing, we're used to it!

Back to the PR subthread. As a journalist (50 yo, $83k), I have so many PR flacks calling me every day to pitch me on stories, to see if I got their emails, etc. I just don't know if I want to/can do that. I feel like the job is basically sales for many of them. I can see doing PR for a nonprofit perhaps, but I still think you're judged on how many people pick up the story you're trying to sell them.

Yeah, you have a point there. I think I get, oh, 20-40 emails a day. Maybe more, I've stopped counting and jus hit delete. However, some flaks are really good at what they do; it's the ones who just shoot off press releases to every reporter, regardless of what that person covers, who grind my gears. The good ones know how to pitch a real story, not just a "hey write a story about my client's product please please please please"

37 fed lawyer $92K

39, mid-management in one of those previously mentioned big local corporation. $96k + ~15% annual bonus. I'm hoping to crack the $100k base threshold soon. If I were to get the next level of promotion, more like $110 base + 20% bonus.

I feel underpaid, relative to the amount of work I do and compared to some colleagues....

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PR. My journalist husband makes about $20k as a freelance journalist and PR is really the only viable option to make decent money and still use his journalism skills. He's too principled to do it.

See, that's just silly (41 yo journo again, procrastinating on a story.) It's not like working in PR is akin to working for Kitten Killers of America or something; there's plenty of decent or at worst, completely neutral firms who need someone to promote their goods or services. There's no shame in it.

Is it only journalists who go through these mental contortions about "principles" when it comes to simply trying to earn a decent wage? I have a feeling doctors and lawyers don't get twisted up in all this...

Journalists are more ethical than doctors and lawyers? Tell me another one.

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Anonymous wrote:Which are the big corporates in this area besides Capital One and Marriott?

There's a surprising number actually. AOL, Hilton, Ritz, SAIC, CSC Corp, Etrade has an office in Arlington I think. Corporate Executive Board and the sister company whatever its called. Blackboard and Google too. Rosetta Stone. AES. Comscore. GEICO. Verizon i think has an office in VA. Volkswagen has something somewhere too - cause they keep calling me about some job. General Dynamics and Danaher pop to mind. There's also a lot of corporates that do a lot of government business (Lockheed)... if you count those I imagine its another 10 or 20.

VW's headquarters.

Lol. Get your panties out of a bunch. Just because someone insults you, it doesn't mean they are hateful. There is no need to call Jesse Jackson or Anderson Cooper.

SAHDs are not cute. It is disgraceful unless the man is disabled or retired after having a career. Otherwise, a man needs a job or he needs to be looking for one.

I will say it online and I will say it to your face - deal with it. Get a job, write a book, start a business or do something so that you are not completely effeminate. Passing undesireable traits onto your kids is not cute.

Back to the PR subthread. As a journalist (50 yo, $83k), I have so many PR flacks calling me every day to pitch me on stories, to see if I got their emails, etc. I just don't know if I want to/can do that. I feel like the job is basically sales for many of them. I can see doing PR for a nonprofit perhaps, but I still think you're judged on how many people pick up the story yourre trying to sell them.

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Anonymous wrote:45 yr old SAHM yearly salary $0

benefits of seeing my kids grow up and being with them when they need and not worry about deadlines at work = priceless

downside of my job my 8 yr old telling "if you get a job Mom, we would have more money" = it's time to polish the resume.

My husband stays at home with the kids. Our 2.5 year old believes that "daddies don't go to work".

How sad. He will probably marry a fat girl who will work two jobs to support him. If your child is female then she will be the fat girl.

What a nasty, bitchy comment. How cowardly to make such a mean spirited jibe. He or she likely have a very well balanced view of male and female roles and go far in life. How great to spend so much time with his father. Much better than being taken care of by daycare workers and never seeing his parents.

Anonymous wrote:This thread sort of depresses me. I don't make much. But if so many other people make the salaries listed here, no wonder DC is so expensive.

Yup they do. And so do their spouses.

Lawyer with a company

$212K base, $32K bonus (mostly stock)

I'm 45, just moved up from director level to officer level