so /g/ what kind of job/work do you have/do that puts the food on your table and pays for your technology, gadgets, computers/computer parts and other stuff and bills?
>>54794010
i get paid $0.03 a post to shitpost on /g/ and r/technology
>>54794332
Damn, how'd you land that cushy gig?
>>54794010
System administrator
I'm interviewing for product manager for an hpc builder.
I'm a college geophysics student being paid through college by inheritance, and I'm an SEM lab assistant to pay for my tech needs. I love all the hardware I get to work with at my job, even if I only make $13 an hour.
work for my professors startup while finishing uni. pay is good.
I make 40k a year making websites/apps + live with my mother + have no debt
got a 2 year degree and a CCNA.
went crazy shortly after.
got disability.
Closest thing I have to a job is shitposting on 4chan all day.
>>54794010
Physical Therapy in the near future. Just gotta finish grad school.
>>54794819
What major?
work at a freegeek. pay is meh but it's pretty chill work.
>>54794010
I've been investing since 2011 and averaging >50% returns each year.
>>54794010
I make copycat apps of popular apps on iOS.
It pays for my divorce.
Why would I need a job? When the tendies start to run out more appear in their place.
lawyer
I help big corporations fuck society and the planet
Work in a liquor store in Australia. Pay is decent enough to live off. Almost finished a double degree in earth sciences and cs.
>>54795344
this
>tick tock
>>54794332
Damn
And here I am doing it
>for free
Geek Squad for around $14 an hour. Pretty cushy for what it is
Computer science grad student. I don't get paid much, but it's better than being a web dev cuck
>>54795600
also I live in my mom's basement
Security guard
If you hate your feet it's a excellent job
>>54794010
> job
it sec student from Germanistan, get everything paid by parents
software engineer at intel
i actually make less than my last job because of taxes, but it keeps my house lit and full of food.
i weld cars. i make 85k a year. i have ZERO STUDENT DEBT.
and i didnt have to deal with the shrieking SJW cancer of modern colleges.
Software engineer making RPA simulators. No student debt. Going back for a Master's in a year.
>>54794010
I work in the product and technology group at F5 Networks. I do pretty well.
>>54795386
That's an interesting double major. If you don't mind me asking, do you plan on doing anything specific that ties into both fields?
$50K Java developer
Hotel/apartment manager with a small loan business on the side.
Might go back to school once I have my house paid down a bit.
>>54794010
I'm a senior software engineer, currently living in London.
Lately I became a teamlead, got few mid devs and 2 juniors to manage. Actually I enjoy the fact that I am not spending whole 8 hours daily on coding. It makes me less exhausted and willing to work on my own projects after work.
>>54794010
Sysadmin
>>54795313
The greatest investors average about 15-20%
What puts you at over double their returns?
I work for a large company many of you hate, but still often use our products. I analyze data from home a few hours a day. Get to shit post and do whatever the fuck I want all day as a result. I make in the 80+K for doing this. I have 0 debt currently as well. I generally buy what I want without too much concern. I have several friends that want my job.
Oh and the kicker..highschool drop out, no college..not some computer genius either..I guess I got lucky.
>>54796815
Data scientist for Google? I'm about to graduate from college and realized my mistake was never taking stats so I'm planning to take all the udacity courses I can pertaining to that. Any ideas/guidance?
$40k python webdev
I live in South America so this is actually quite good
>>54796916
Good guess, very damn close man. I couldn't really offer much guidance unfortunately. I just somehow fell into the gig and been doing it a few yrs now. A nice thing is I can take my job anywhere I want as long as there is net access. I work from the pool during the summer. Can literally go on vacations without actually being on vacation. No stress..the data is accrued so always there so can pick the hours i want to work.
But good luck man, I hope all works out as you wish.
>>54796815
>highschool drop out
>>54796815
>Data scientist for Google
what the fuck? I thought you needed lots of knowledge about statistics to do work like that?
code-monkey/supply procurement/network admin/wirepuller/semi-slave "IT agent" in a 200 people office building. I barely make due each month and I work 12 hours a day. Please kill me.
pls
Anon, pls.
Design system layouts for AV and control systems in residential builds. Sell hifi through a shop. Tech for existing systems too.
Pay is not amazing but I have no debt and my livings costs are super low (not parents basement). Get silly amounts of free/almost free gear from my suppliers. Sell plenty of it for extra cash.
I left high school early and have no further education.
£25/k year "devops" wanker (which i think is a buzzword for "developer who can provision his own servers and uses docker"). No student debt.
I work in a warehouse. Combination of data entry and manual labour. It's a boring job, but the pay is alright and the people I work with are good.
I don't think I'll ever figure out what I want to do in life.
>>54797725
Hey, where are you living? I am thinking about moving out to sub 200k city.
Metropolies suck the life out of me.
>>54794994
Portland or Vancouver?
Salesforce consultant on 22k a year in London, 20 and no debts
work on mainframes at IBM
$8k / year
you read that right
eight thousand freedom dollars a year when converted
40 hours a week
>>54798310
tantoo?
>>54798430
what the fuck is tantoo?
a planet in star wars?
>>54798514
Whoops, I could remember the curry nigger's name. I meant Tintu.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oaDtBcUmM1M
>>54794010
Java dev for big outsourcing company (although whenever I get the opportunity, I work with just about any scripting language beside ES). Pays really good.
If I have to write another controller or Spring xml config I will kill someone.
>>54798310
I guess it depends what country you work in.
$650 / month is decent where I am from.
>>54794010
NEET
>>54795313
>This meme
Everyone on 4chan is a successful investor, I get 80% returns fuck you bitch
>>54794010
900€ per month, how fucked am i? living expenses are 100-160€ per month, living alone. no debt to anywhere. i want to start a project to develop a game though, i miss a certain game so bad that im willing to spend a year or more to get that shit done.
>>54798310
>>54798675
Ay yo senpai, I'm not even pajeet but
>sysad/developer
>5000 usd/year
And most would consider this to be pretty high pay for a fresh grad.
>>54799092
So that's going on in the US ? ...
>>54794010
Security Guard working 70 hours a week
>>54797312
>12 hours a day
you suck!
>>54796539
Google GIS
>>54794010
full time job as a solutions architect, starting a new company now in bitcoin.
>>54798633
I was hired by my company for their big, shiny and new project because I knew Spring. 13k€ a year.
But they handle the project worse than the worst university student would handle his. The excuse is that Spring is a new technology and this is to be expected... So I'm doing interviews, and hopefully getting paid more.
>>54798719
>80% returns
That means that for each $100 you pay you get back $80?
>>54798273
>Salesforce
>$22K/yr
Does it pay that little?
I'm an SAP consultant in the US and I make $100K/yr.
>>54798273
>22k a year in London
Jesus christ do you live in a box?
Construction laborer. I make $33/hr barely doing anything.
>haul a few pieces of lumber
>talk with someone for 30 minutes
>signal a crane
>talk for another 20 minutes
>repeat until break
Such is union life.
>>54794883
why did u go crazy?
>>54799764
Shit, that actually sounds good.
>>54795344
NEET
>>54799092
5k Freedom Dollars a year?
To put it into perspective, teachers get paid more than you
Managers at McDonald's probably get paid more than you
A manager at a local theatre gets paid more than you
>>54797750
Manchester. It's cheap enough living out in the suburbs, and with no debt/wife/children/drug habits I end up with plenty of money left over (which I end up wasting on regular holidays). I could probably get a higher paying job, but I'm happy enough where I am and I'm working on interesting projects which matters more. I had a £28/k offer over at Media City but chose this one instead, and moving down South would no doubt increase my income by a fair bit, but I imagine it would be immediately offset by increased rent, leaving me with roughly the same amount of savings and disposable income.
It seems mental to me that people doing similar work to me can get 6 figure incomes, but I guess it all comes down to the cost of living. I want to try get on that income arbitrage bandwagon one day if I go freelance again - live in Manchester, remote work for companies in London, NY and SF.
>>54799090
How have you ended up with such low monthly outgoings, especially if you're living alone?
IT Help Desk Specialist, i basically answer the phone 8hrs a day and do a bunch of installations and network configs.
>>54799923
Parents left me their apartment, you could say i got "lucky" that day....
Anyways at winter what i paid most was 158 combined electricity,water,internet and for the landlord. I dont count my mobile phone which is another 20 per month because its a luxury not a real nessessity.
>>54799656
If they're still using XML configs and they're not using Spring Boot they're doing it wrong.
I'm working on a web app that's going to make me a multi-millionaire.
Right now I'm unemployed.
>>54800004
They are using classes. But it is a mess of Spring, JNDI and Maven configuration.
One of the cleanest things they do is replacing variables inside properties files with Maven, then using those properties files to replace variables with Spring. In practices having two sets of properties for one thing.
Any way, is there any article about the differences between using XML and config classes with Spring? All my personal projects are still using XML, and I don't know if I should change this or not.
>tfw you graduated with your degree in comp sci with a math minor and are now living the NEET life
Come at me faggots, I have my degree.
>>54797104
>Falling for obvious lies
>>54798273
>salesforce
>consultant
KEKEROOS MATEY
49900 CAD a year.
Communicator researcher in the Canadian armed forces.
0 debt
>>54799669
>consultant
fucking normie
Entry level position at an msp, making about 30k/yr. First job and i havent graduated yet so im pretty happy just to be gettjng experience.
>>54799379
>>54799919
Not US but a 3rd world shithole. Rent and all my bills add up to 100usd/month, that's with AC, PC on 24/7, food. You can't really complain for that kind of pay here. The only downside is when your hobby is in tech where prices stay the same no matter where you are, in fact they get huge markups here.
The amount I posted is also after taxes.
PhD student, €1300 a month or €15600 a year. But then i have to pay health insurance because Germany is backwards.
Works out to about €2.50 an hour, and i'm 29.
Don't stay in school kids.
>tfw math tutor for $20/h
>two times a week
>>54795368
Watch Michael Clayton
>>54794010
Java dev doing shitty enterprisey work that works with developers even worse than me. Any fun I had in programming has been sucked out by the industry. I'm thinking of trying to get into locksmithing or musical instrument repair when my student loans are paid off so I don't hate my life so much.
Solutions Architect
basically just a .NET web developer that takes part in the requirements/design of new features/modules every couple weeks
$70,000/year with full benefits
I'm 24, hoping to get a raise to $78,500 next year.
>>54801140
$70,000 CAD mind you, not USD.
Part time manager at McDonalds,
Pretty much the only flexible job that works for me while i'm at University,
Quite personal but YTD financial year income is currently at 19k AUD,
Looking at just over 2k back from tax in June, pretty happy
the only thing i'm a bit uneasy about is how much time work is taking from me,
thrown in the deep end with electrical engineering and I need more time to study
Analyst for Death Corp. I HATE my job, but the economy sucks and it pays better than anything. After paperwork and processing it takes be 4 hours to change a DNS setting on a computer, with a 2 week lag for notification and manager approval.
>>54799579
No! GIS is were earth science goes to die. I would suspect he wants to work in exploration/fracing. The field is still using shit from the 80 and "hunches"
I was hired by both AMD and Nvidia to be a shill on social media.
unemployed graduate student, have a BIT, in MS program for CIS
$0/yr
can't find a job, shit job market here, no internships under my belt, only have crappy dishwasher, pizza delivery/cook job from like 3 years ago that I did for a year
hate most of IT, like most of CS, like to program, but naturally no one wants an IT grad that likes a bit of both
i just want a 35-40k/yr job working with linux or doing some sort of programming
>>54797312
why did you let it happen, and why haven't you done anything about it?
>>54796951
I would take something like that in a heartbeat here. $40k/yr is fine to me.
I wipe the asses of the elderly
>>54794010
I start work at McDonald's today. Had to get a job because it costs money to get tech certifications. Also probably going to buy dragon dildos and thinkpads probably.
Financial Analyst. 63k USD. Only been working for about a year and a half.
>>54803293
what did you major in?
ITT: "I work at NASA and make 6 trillion dollars a day xD"
I sell my body.
Actually, it is less painful and humiliating than IT jobs. I'm thinking on moving to make it my full-time job.
Director of Technology for the largest department at a UC. $70k. I'm 26.
>>54794010
SALARY CIRCLEJERK IS NOT TECHNOLOGY
FUCK
OFF
>>54800773
i know that feel. going into a phd program was probably the worst choice of my life.
>>54794010
Aviation mechanic for helicopter medivac
NEET, trying to get a job as webdev. even then, I'm a fucking disaster.
>>54803442
>Buttmad loser
>>54803932
oh, and I'm a college dropout, and I'm like 20k or more in debt
>>54803277
McD is god-tier resume fodder. Good reference from the worst job in the world will open doors for anyone.
Plus bullshit business skills like following process, dealing with unfair bullshit, people skills (cause if you can deal with an asshole who didn't get a large fries, dealing with 200 people calling in about a server downage is pretty easy) and I can show up to work on-time or communicate that I can't
Dentist.
Code monkey.
It's alright, I live with me mum and grandparents in a big house because fuck going into debt for 30 years with a mortgage.
>>54801789
I know your feel, im in a similar position, working towards my BIT, it has lots of focus on CS.
Im extremely lucky that my job allows for some traditional IT and i also get to develop software for our managed clients. Its nice to code all day for a couple days, and spend others out in the field with clients actually working with my hands, keeps shit interesting.
Just keep looking, especially at smaller places which naturally force you to wear mutliple hats. A 100+ person company will have rigid roles for IT and for Software dev, and its difficult to find an overlap. Pay will likely be less competitive at a smaller place, too -- this is the tradeoff youd be taking up front. Im getting good experience instead and i havent even graduated yet.
>>54804303
thanks but the only available things here are shit web dev jobs that I have no interest in or shitty windows IT jobs at some local gov't crap which I hate
i know i'll have to move but i have no idea where and i doubt anyone would want to pay for me to work for them, let alone pay to help me relocate
>>54804405
Well heres the straight truth... These jobs, especially at smaller places, dont always make it to indeed and monster online. There was no public job posting for the position i got hired for. Its connections, and luck. Try to leverage that information to your advantage. Show the poeple around you that you have a genuine interest, dont tell people you hate what your going to school for. Have good work ethic and a good attitiude everywhere you go, and eventually people will recommend you. Just focus on being of value, job offers come crawling after that.
Sr systems engineer at one of the big software companies. Mostly do do devops stuff. Puppet, Jenkins, Python scripting/automation. About to dig into docker.
>>54804405
>>54804557
Also im not in a tech city either, im in the midwest. There are jobs that you will like, you just need to look in other ways. The ones youre finding online are the jobs they cant even give away, and the good ones have already been basically filled ahead of time, with the jobs posted online shortly after just for legal reasons (equal opp. Bs).
You'll have to network and talk to people you know and work with. Someone, eventually, is bound to have an uncle who owns a tech business who needs some extra help..so on so forth. Theyre out there, just dont give up.
>>54804557
>Try to leverage that information to your advantage ...
to be honest, I've tried that, a good lot of my friends have jobs, internships so on and i of course keep this to myself, unfortunately though the times where I thought I'd have an 'in' it didn't work out
one of the for sure times I just applied late unfortunately, maybe in a year i might have a shot if i am even in the CIS program still
and this last convention that my uni has it of course is the first year after the guy that manages it left for another job, so there's barely any businesses there and the few that are are advertising and boring web dev stuff, and the one company that my friend works for unfortunately never called me back despite having a good chit chat
had plenty of somewhat presentable shit but of course no one is interested in that, they just want web dev stuff, i hate this place
>>54804623
>You'll have to network and talk to people you know and work with. Someone, eventually, is bound to have an uncle who owns a tech business who needs some extra help..so on so forth. Theyre out there, just dont give up.
they're definitely out here, not denying that, just not here
if i lived in california this might be a different story, but the only family i have that I know out there live up a mountain, a full hour and a half until you get to sea level
>>54804696
And sometimes you really do just need to get up and move away if you can. Sounds like youre doing the right things, the only thing you can really do is focus on yourself and your studies until something comes up or you need to move away.
PhD in math
300k/yr
iOS software dev. Pays great, I get to write with real programming languages, and the API and tools are awesome. My only real qualm is that it's somewhat low-impact in the grand scheme of things (most mobile apps aren't going to dramatically change anybody's lives) but eh, you can't have everything.
The good news is that since my field of work isn't far-removed from more fundamental programming (I use plain C pretty regularly and C++ every now and then), I could feasibly make the jump to a higher-impact field pretty easily. I'm not effectively stuck like a front-end web dev would be.
>>54804862
Oh yeah, and I make $125k. Will probably get bumped up to $135-$150k with my next job hop.
>>54803550
Are you still here anon?
I was thinking of making a website for PhD students to rate their PIs. Perhaps also some sort of oppertunity to anonymously whilstblow if they discover malpractice. But i dont know if it would get used and i only think it's good because my PI sucks.
>>54806505
not that anon, but I dropped out of my masters cause my mentor was garbage. I wish I was more social in school so i knew enough to switch or something. I just assumed it was normal.
Also, I think it exists. http://www.ratemyprofessors.com/ although bullshit it only serves the amerifats
>>54796111
..........and you have not a remnant of class.
>>54806662
>http://www.ratemyprofessors.com/
Ah, yeah, that looks fairly similar to what I had in mind, however I was specifically going to target PhD/Masters internships (not teaching professors per se) and do two specific things:
1) You have to somehow validate that you work(ed) in that lab, so other profs don't slander you
2) Since PIs can move from lab to lab, country to country, tying them to a school doesn't make sense. It has to be somehow linked to their name or a paper they published under their name if their Joe Smith. Something like that.
You see, after using and abusing a couple of PhDs here in Germany, my PI won't/can't get any more to work for him because his rep is so bad -- so he's moving to America to start the circus up again. This is totally unacceptable. Making a career out of other people's misery might be a pretty good tactic up until now, but since we have the internet, we might as well use it.
Professional gambling
>>54807083
fully behind the idea, but you aren't going to get the traffic you need to make it a reliable source.
>>54799656
13k eur? Did you mean to write 130? I'm 23 and I landed a pretty good job for 65k a year as a Java dev
>>54797312
Fire your employer.
Biomolecular engineer.
99.99% boring as fuck, 0.01% superexciting Eureka moments.
I'm a doorman, currently owning 250 usd to my aunt and 100 to her husband. Aunt help me move to her city by paying the plane ticket and her husband sold me a Moto G 3ed recently; used, but still on warranty, which is great. I think I have like 9 or 8 months still left.
I'm a dropout. I got enrolled in CE for a while, until things started to fall apart because of my laziness. Still managed to get out before the system kick me out.
I live in Brazil, so the economy is not helping. I'm using an old EEEPC to type this. Actually, using a keyboard attached to the netbook since many keys aren't working on it. And it's not mine, but actually borrowed from another aunt.
I'm planning to get a Thinkpad soon so I can finally start to code again and hopefully gain some money to complement my budget.
>>54808209
Dude you should just move out.
Of Brazil.
>>54804077
Just got home from it, Wasn't too bad, I only messed up one order.
>>54794010
i sell 3d penises on second life
Professional camel slicer.
>>54809865
what does that entail?
>>54796111
How do I get into welding? I love tech but, I think cars are more of my passion and would want to peruse that.
>>54809871
Laminating basketballs.
animate porn and youtube stuff
>>54794010
I'm heading to college (SMU) to study computer science in the fall
>>54809897
Not him but I would assume you take a course, get certified and then try to find a welding job.
Eventually you might get a job in a garage.
>>54798310
>>54799092
>>54799919
sheeit and i thought i had it bad with 7k a year.
>>54808209
you can easily program in an eeepc
I am a "software" developer but most of my job consists of configuring software with a very small amount of programming here and there.
I hope to get out in a year and transition to a job that actually has me developing software, web applications, or anything that programming more.
>>54795896
Unless you moved thats not how taxes anywhere work.
Hospital Janitor >_<
I have some certifications, but finding a tech job is hard.
As a CEO I've just delegated away all my responsibilities and get paid for literally sitting on my ass doing nothing.
Freedom. Not for my minions, but for me.
>>54794010
I detail rich faggots' cars. But I don't buy technology because I'm a cold blooded Jew, which is why I still run a fucking 8800GT.
>>54799664
It means you get a liquid 180$ as the stock price went from 100$ to 180$
Senior RF engineer
100k USD and some change
I live in the BAWA region though so it's not as much as it sounds.
Also I do far more project managing than actual engineering these days.
>>54809497
I have something like that in mind, but for now I need to get my shit straight. It might not be necessary thought, but it's a interesting option, nonetheless.
>>54810031
It is slow as fuck, not counting the small screen. VMs are a no-go here. I'm also using a prepay plan on my phone so I'm limited to 500MB per week.
Constraints were supposed to drive me further, but I'm getting fucked.
I think I will hack my neighbor's Wi-Fi. He beats his dog. He deserves.
>>54794010
Got a job at Goodwill over the summer. Gonna try to get an internship for every summer before school's done to to build up the resume.
>>54810113
Until they start to drive your company down the road because you gave them too much liberty. Or maybe this is just a reflection of your incompetence and the company can actually increase its profit now.
I don't know if that makes you a better or a worse leader.
>>54810224
I already have enough personal wealth to live in luxury for the rest of my life. For anything else there are bankruptcy laws, so it's all smooth sailing for me.
>>54810113
so basically this company is just a trust you probably inherited. calling yourself CEO is just ego at that point.
Senior Software Systems Engineer
120K
and I don't live/work in the BAWA so my 120K goes a long way. =D
Full time retail worker
$20/hour
Pension, union, benefits.
its not a glamorous job, but its not nearly as shit as people might think it to be
I'm a commercial diver. 83k USD for about 12 weeks of work.
>>54810378
$20/hour for retail work is a lot.
>>54810004
Then you die at 40.
Great job!
I'm 30 and do landscaping at 12/hr.
Basically was a concrete laborer at 19 and then at 22 had a mental break down from all of the stress that the job and school put on me. Took me 8 years to even maintain a job past 1 month. Probably will die in my 40's since I had panic/anxiety attacks for about 6 years straight every day. Im working just so I can build a monster rig hopefully before I have another emotional/mental breakdown from all the stress of this shitty job and the fact that I do so much for such little shit pay.
>>54811437
Have you try doing postal work before? They pay more than $12/hr.
If you have a degree in computer science, I don't understand why you don't spend your time making apps while you search for a job. Who knows you might even make the next meme game like flappy bird.
And then you can write app developer on your resume
>>54810082
i live right on the border in a state with no income tax. i now work in the other state.
the state i now work in happens to have the highest personal income tax rate in the country, so despite a ~15% raise compared to my old job i am in fact making less.
>>54811897
You want him to die next month? I deal with a lot of the big postal storage sites, they all want to kill themselves and their all fucking insane
Sr. Ball-Of-Mud Engineer. Pure C++.
110k in SoCal.
Its like making 12k in Wyoming while living in a tool shed.
>>54812096
My cousin has done postal work for over a year. It couldn't be that bad. Maybe you're just unlucky to have worked at bad locations.
Avionics systems technician. Fancy way of saying IT guy for military air craft.
I had a phone interview recently and it went about twenty minutes long
I read that if it lasted a long time then it's good
is 20 minutes considered "a long time"? what is the average phone interview time anyways?
I just interviewed for a junior systems admin job and most of the stuff, I didnt know what it was
Implying I get the job, as a junior, I will get a rundown of how this shit works yeah?
>>54799582
Prepare to get cucked by Ethereum.
UK civil servant. Earn about $55k but getting absolutely ruined by house prices, travel costs and student loans.
>>54810173
Just get Kali or Pentoo and use Wifite. If you have Android phone AndroDumper can do the trick too. Boa sorte anon-kun
Any guys in Sydney who know what either of the Networking Administration route is? Studying CCNA at the moment
I get paid in curry discounts and 7 euros hour. Android dev.
Meteorologist in the Air Force.
currently I have no expenses besides Internet and phone since my car is paid off. It's pretty nice. I live in the base dorms so I never turn my computer off and want to find some old cheap servers that no one wants since they're power hogs since I don't pay for electric.
SWE at Google in Sydney.
>>54794010
SWE at facebook, I also spam the pajeet meme here.
I get paid 2 cents per post
by the way the galaxy s7 really looks great
>>54794010
nothing just now, 317 britbongbucks a month for being unemployed and maybe 10-20 selling stuff on redbubble
>>54794010
Full stack dev, making 90k atm
Accounting student. Parents make decent money so no student debt. Work in a warehouse for disposable income.
