Anonymous
Post 07/19/2013 16:34     Subject: Re:Women making over 200k
Anonymous wrote:I feel so piss poor when I read these posts. Geez. I just hit $100,000 in government and I'm 52 years old and felt good hitting $100,000!! Ha!!


If you are CERS you are set. Bless you. Slow and steady.
Anonymous
Post 07/19/2013 16:25     Subject: Re:Women making over 200k
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Anonymous wrote:I feel so piss poor when I read these posts. Geez. I just hit $100,000 in government and I'm 52 years old and felt good hitting $100,000!! Ha!!


You are too old to post something like this. I could understand if you were 30 and just starting to understand the realities of life, but your ship has sailed past 30, 40, and 50 so you should have picked up some insight by now.
Screw you! Who do you think you are telling some they're too old, junior? Work all our lives to send some pompous ass like you to college to earn what we could've had. To hell with you!
Damn right. My son was always asking why we didn't have a top of the line luxury car and European trips like his friends. Grand Canyon just wasn't making it. So I went over to the neighborhood public high school and registered him. I told Mr. Private School Kid that we are now able to go to Europe, and I'm going to the car dealership in the morning to get the Benz of my dream and kick my 5-year old car to the curb. After crying and begging, Mr. Private School (all his life) Kid said he'd rather stay in private school and the Alaska trip sounded great.

Fast forward 8 years later. Mr. Private School Kid gave mom a used Benz of her dreams. He never forgot the sacrifice of me staying in my government paying job so he could have more.
Footnote: Mr. Private School kid graduated with an MBA making more on graduating than it took me years to make. I like my car.
Sniff, sniff. I love you, man.
Anonymous
Post 07/19/2013 16:21     Subject: Re:Women making over 200k
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Anonymous wrote:I feel so piss poor when I read these posts. Geez. I just hit $100,000 in government and I'm 52 years old and felt good hitting $100,000!! Ha!!


You are too old to post something like this. I could understand if you were 30 and just starting to understand the realities of life, but your ship has sailed past 30, 40, and 50 so you should have picked up some insight by now.
Screw you! Who do you think you are telling some they're too old, junior? Work all our lives to send some pompous ass like you to college to earn what we could've had. To hell with you!
Damn right. My son was always asking why we didn't have a top of the line luxury car and European trips like his friends. Grand Canyon just wasn't making it. So I went over to the neighborhood public high school and registered him. I told Mr. Private School Kid that we are now able to go to Europe, and I'm going to the car dealership in the morning to get the Benz of my dream and kick my 5-year old car to the curb. After crying and begging, Mr. Private School (all his life) Kid said he'd rather stay in private school and the Alaska trip sounded great.

Fast forward 8 years later. Mr. Private School Kid gave mom a used Benz of her dreams. He never forgot the sacrifice of me staying in my government paying job so he could have more.
Footnote: Mr. Private School kid graduated with an MBA making more on graduating than it took me years to make. I like my car.
Anonymous
Post 07/19/2013 16:17     Subject: Re:Women making over 200k
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Anonymous wrote:I feel so piss poor when I read these posts. Geez. I just hit $100,000 in government and I'm 52 years old and felt good hitting $100,000!! Ha!!


You are too old to post something like this. I could understand if you were 30 and just starting to understand the realities of life, but your ship has sailed past 30, 40, and 50 so you should have picked up some insight by now.
Screw you! Who do you think you are telling some they're too old, junior? Work all our lives to send some pompous ass like you to college to earn what we could've had. To hell with you!
Damn right. My son was always asking why we didn't have a top of the line luxury car and European trips like his friends. Grand Canyon just wasn't making it. So I went over to the neighborhood public high school and registered him. I told Mr. Private School Kid that we are now able to go to Europe, and I'm going to the car dealership in the morning to get the Benz of my dream and kick my 5-year old car to the curb. After crying and begging, Mr. Private School (all his life) Kid said he'd rather stay in private school and the Alaska trip sounded great.

Fast forward 8 years later. Mr. Private School Kid gave mom a used Benz of her dreams. He never forgot the sacrifice of me staying in my government paying job so he could have more.
Anonymous
Post 07/19/2013 16:04     Subject: Re:Women making over 200k
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Anonymous wrote:I feel so piss poor when I read these posts. Geez. I just hit $100,000 in government and I'm 52 years old and felt good hitting $100,000!! Ha!!


You are too old to post something like this. I could understand if you were 30 and just starting to understand the realities of life, but your ship has sailed past 30, 40, and 50 so you should have picked up some insight by now.
Screw you! Who do you think you are telling some they're too old, junior? Work all our lives to send some pompous ass like you to college to earn what we could've had. To hell with you!
Anonymous
Post 07/19/2013 15:14     Subject: Re:Women making over 200k
14:41. You have no sense of humor. Get a life. You're a loser.
Anonymous
Post 07/19/2013 14:54     Subject: Women making over 200k
oh, me again. I don't want to out myself but I feel really good about the work I do. I design and push for policies that I truly believe will make all of our lives better.
Anonymous
Post 07/19/2013 14:52     Subject: Women making over 200k
I"m posted earlier and am the lobbyist who works for a nonprofit.

I trained to be a college professor but as a postdoc at NIH I realized that it's a lot of hard work with not a lot of pay-off (grant getting).

So, I started doing policy. I feel like I get back what I put in in terms of reward for effort on the job (not the cash). The cash is amazing and I always assume it will go away b/c I do think I"m overpaid yet I"m underpaid compared to some others who do what I do or similar.

Anyway, life is about choices and I"m very lucky I found out about this choice in this city when I was 30.
Anonymous
Post 07/19/2013 14:41     Subject: Re:Women making over 200k
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Anonymous wrote:I feel so piss poor when I read these posts. Geez. I just hit $100,000 in government and I'm 52 years old and felt good hitting $100,000!! Ha!!


You are too old to post something like this. I could understand if you were 30 and just starting to understand the realities of life, but your ship has sailed past 30, 40, and 50 so you should have picked up some insight by now.


I think she is probably being sarcastic and light about the whole thing you idiot.


No granny, she is not.

But that is a nice excuse to use when someone calls out your immaturity.

Grow up.
Anonymous
Post 07/19/2013 14:38     Subject: Re:Women making over 200k
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My DH is a surgeon. I'm fairly certain the device rep makes the same amount as the surgeon.


And that's pretty sad...


Not really, device reps can make anywhere from 100k - 300k . At the end of the day sales is what makes or breaks a company.
Anonymous
Post 07/19/2013 14:26     Subject: Re:Women making over 200k

My DH is a surgeon. I'm fairly certain the device rep makes the same amount as the surgeon.


And that's pretty sad...
Anonymous
Post 07/19/2013 14:22     Subject: Re:Women making over 200k
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Anonymous wrote:I feel so piss poor when I read these posts. Geez. I just hit $100,000 in government and I'm 52 years old and felt good hitting $100,000!! Ha!!


You are too old to post something like this. I could understand if you were 30 and just starting to understand the realities of life, but your ship has sailed past 30, 40, and 50 so you should have picked up some insight by now.


I think she is probably being sarcastic and light about the whole thing you idiot.
Anonymous
Post 07/19/2013 13:47     Subject: Re:Women making over 200k
Anonymous wrote:I feel so piss poor when I read these posts. Geez. I just hit $100,000 in government and I'm 52 years old and felt good hitting $100,000!! Ha!!


You are too old to post something like this. I could understand if you were 30 and just starting to understand the realities of life, but your ship has sailed past 30, 40, and 50 so you should have picked up some insight by now.
Anonymous
Post 07/19/2013 13:17     Subject: Women making over 200k
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Anonymous wrote:Key Account Manager (sales). 100k base, 150k bonus. I'm 33. I've been making 200k+ since I was 29.


What kind of sales?


Corporate advisory services (consulting)


Overpriced nonsense


couldn't agree more. I also go weeks only working 20 hour weeks. Work from home 2-3 days a week. Days I go into the office I leave every day at 4 to be home by 5 to relieve the nanny, and never asked anyone permission to do so. But as long as I hit my goals, no one cares where I am or how I do it.


I like you. I'm in sales too and have a similar schedule. I do NOT make nearly as much.

Can you tell me more about your sales job?


Same here sales, 36yo, have Kellogg MBA. Sell medical devices and have to be on-call when one goes in, gets taken out,etc for liability reasons and if a replacement is needed ASAP.

SAP and other high tech sales to CTOs also pay well, tho sales cycle is 6-18 mos.


My DH is a surgeon. I'm fairly certain the device rep makes the same amount as the surgeon.
Anonymous
Post 07/19/2013 12:46     Subject: Re:Women making over 200k
Anonymous wrote:I feel so piss poor when I read these posts. Geez. I just hit $100,000 in government and I'm 52 years old and felt good hitting $100,000!! Ha!!


I read these posts and try to remind myself that part of my "compensation" is the feeling that my work really matters. (Not that highly paid work can't be important, just that for the type of work *I* do, the "greater good" work tends to be lower paid.)

However, as the kids' college costs loom, it becomes harder and harder to ignore the siren call of cold, hard cash.