Marketing manager for a mid-sized engineering firm that focuses on environmental projects such as water treatment. Travel once or twice a month, but they are day trips or one night, and they're usually to smaller towns in MD, WV, and VA (so while they're not really interesting destinations, they're not taking me too far from home for too long). Work from home most Fridays. At the office from 8-4:30 usually. Flexible enough that I can almost always duck out if I need to get a kid to a doctor's appt or there's an early soccer game or something.

I guess it depends how you define pays well, but I make about $100k. Made the change from corporate America and took a pay cut, but I'm loving life so much more now.

Business Analyst. I make the low end of my field but OK (for me- not nearly 6 figures though so probably considered low for this area). Work for a small company so I can work from home/ have a flexible schedule when I need it.

It is time to put the brakes on the attorneys at the Federal Financial REgulatory Agencies. Just a joke. Completely overpaid.

No Sh*t. I worked in one of those agencies and still do, but not as an attorney. The attorneys where I worked were given very generous raises and bonuses yearly..much more than the other rank and file. I mean obscene - $5,000, $6,000, $7,000 bonuses. No one is worth that is those places. It was very demoralizing.

Anonymous wrote:The past five years due to the crisis and new laws have involved much longer hours than in the past for many but not all attorneys at financial regulators.

Right, most put in their required 8.5 and then leave; some do not even do that (and my experience is post 2008). A very very few may put in more hours.

The past five years due to the crisis and new laws have involved much longer hours than in the past for many but not all attorneys at financial regulators.

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Anonymous wrote:Attorney with independent and not taxpayer funded agency in a highly specialized and technical area. Make around $200K (10+ years out of law school). AWS (when work demands allow), can usually take vacation when I want. Sometimes work long hours, but usually have substantial control over how and when I get out of business hours work done.

Banking regulator counsel! How's it going?

Please, worked in that area too, it's never long hours.

About 180K working as attorney for a financial regulator. I currently work from 7:30 to 4 pm so i get home most days by 4:30 to spend time w/ DC before she goes to bed at 8 pm. Also, I plan on teleworking 2x/wk (very convenient for pumping) once i return from maternity leave w/ DC#2. (I am also seriously contemplating moving my hours forward to 6:30 to 3 pm. This will allow me to spend more time with the new baby as he will most likely be going to be by 6:30/7 until he's about 18 months.)

Occasionally i have to stay later for certain meetings; however, if I am not required to then I have the flexibility to work after DC is sleeping. I should stress this is not how most of the colleagues in my office work. A number of working parents in my office work 9 to 5:30 or 9:30 to 6 and have their kids in day care. DH and I have staggered our schedules to keep our nanny for 8 hrs a day.

Management consulting. Big firm. Work from home 2-3x per week when not meeting with clients. Great benefits. 45 hours a week is typical. Minimal travel - most of my clients are in DC area. Work with great people, interesting work (largely strategy / org development). ~$150k.

Seems like my DH does. Self employed attorney. Works, interesting travels for work, makes good money, part time.

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Anonymous wrote:high level admin in federal agency - work 32 hours a week, 100k, very flexible telework policy, great co-workers. The day to day can be tedious, but i wouldn't trade it.

This is criminal. I DO NOT understand how an admin working less than full time can make 100k. This is one of the main problems the govt should fix on the road to financial recovery.

That's nothing. Just look at the contractors we give "hazard pay" to work in some base far from the front lines in other countries. $300 or $400k a year for a junior systems admin is totally within reason.

+1,000

It's crazy. I have friends making $500k as a technology engineer, while living in an air conditioned private base hundreds of miles from anything remotely resembling danger.

+1000

Anonymous wrote:Attorney with independent and not taxpayer funded agency in a highly specialized and technical area. Make around $200K (10+ years out of law school). AWS (when work demands allow), can usually take vacation when I want. Sometimes work long hours, but usually have substantial control over how and when I get out of business hours work done.

Banking regulator counsel! How's it going?

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Anonymous wrote:high level admin in federal agency - work 32 hours a week, 100k, very flexible telework policy, great co-workers. The day to day can be tedious, but i wouldn't trade it.

This is criminal. I DO NOT understand how an admin working less than full time can make 100k. This is one of the main problems the govt should fix on the road to financial recovery.

That's nothing. Just look at the contractors we give "hazard pay" to work in some base far from the front lines in other countries. $300 or $400k a year for a junior systems admin is totally within reason.

+1,000

It's crazy. I have friends making $500k as a technology engineer, while living in an air conditioned private base hundreds of miles from anything remotely resembling danger.

Attorney with independent and not taxpayer funded agency in a highly specialized and technical area. Make around $200K (10+ years out of law school). AWS (when work demands allow), can usually take vacation when I want. Sometimes work long hours, but usually have substantial control over how and when I get out of business hours work done.

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Anonymous wrote:high level admin in federal agency - work 32 hours a week, 100k, very flexible telework policy, great co-workers. The day to day can be tedious, but i wouldn't trade it.

This is criminal. I DO NOT understand how an admin working less than full time can make 100k. This is one of the main problems the govt should fix on the road to financial recovery.

That's nothing. Just look at the contractors we give "hazard pay" to work in some base far from the front lines in other countries. $300 or $400k a year for a junior systems admin is totally within reason.