1st Gen Lunchtable Thread - General Discussion

If I intend to make 100k a year, regretfully I do

 

This is the only book you ever need to read

 

You've got corporate overseers, I could make that much if I quit and joined the borg that is bigger companies but that's shitty on my quality of life outlook.

 

I don't work corporate.

Family owned; owner was born and raised in the town I live and work in.

 

Well look at you, you magical unicorn you

 

100K in Cali is like 50k anywhere else though right?

 

Downfall being I work a lot of hours

 

Varies drastically.

120k in my part of CA is like 100k elsewhere.

Drive up north half an hour, 240k in CA is like 80k elsewhere.

Drive up even further, and it lessens.

Drive East, and 80k becomes 100k elsewhere.

Crazy just how half an hour in one direction or another changes a lot.

 

ftfy

Being ruled by corporate overlords isn't always so bad, as long as they like you.

Funny enough, getting married and having a kid helped me climb the ladder a few steps here. It's like all the execs now see you more like one of them. Got bumped from an hourly employee to exec payroll the week after I told them I was having my daughter a year and a half ago.

Long live the patriarchy

(don't tell my wife that)

 

The other benefit of my degree is my company will pay me good money to travel the world installing automated systems.

The guy who used to do it for us got to go all over Asia for some of our customers

 

My next job whatever it is will be more outside, at least I hope so. I can't do the indoor office thing the rest of my life.

 

I’m all about that 4-10 schedule, just pay me something comfortable

actually 7 on 7 off would be preferred, but whatever

 

That's awesome! Glad having a family has worked in your favor... I have an issue of being unable to talk "execuspeak" so all the times I could've moved up the ladder at former employers I make it to shop lead and stagnate because I'm crude and tell em shits fucked when it's fucked

 

Yeah I watched it haha. People wouldn’t stop talking about it, it’s not everyday you see a house run a red light.

 

Move your desk outside now and you'll get the best of both worlds

 

Anyone here have a marketing degree or is good at marketing and wants a job?

 

As a person who works for a large company.... mixed bag for sure. Key to happiness is a good boss, methinks.


I've worked for small companies that were dreadful too...

 

Oh I'm like that too don't get me wrong, I'll never be exec material at least not in this environment. And that's totally fine with me, I wouldn't want to be. This company has a huge turnover in the higher-up department due to all the office politics and behind the scenes money moves going on. I don't need that stress.

I just want to be here awhile longer and set some more $ aside both in savings and in my 401k before I take a leap and try something new, someplace else. In the meantime I might take some classes to get trained elsewhere, been looking at some online options lately in IT and UX classes. Not school/degree type stuff, more technical/specific trade type training I guess.

 

UI/UX is a huge up and coming field. We have three UI/UX devs on our team and it’s such a great contribution from a software development standpoint.