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at what age will you have earned your one millionth dollar?

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Originally posted by: 91TTZ
Originally posted by: AreaCode707
Approx 31, assuming I stay in the location I'm in and the career track I'm on. I don't really want to do either of those things though, so more likely it would be longer.
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What do you do for a living, and how old are you now?
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Project manager specializing in enterprise-wide implementation of third party systems. I've always worked for companies with 20k employees and up. Started in HR, now working in legal. Currently in Seattle.

[edit] Oh, and I'm 25 right now.
 
Probably by my late 30s. The real question is how quickly will the second million come. I feel like there may be two groups here.. those who may get their first million by their early 30s, and there second won't come for another 8-12 years and then the other group who might not get their first till their late 30's/early 40's but the second may come in 4-6 years. And so on.
 
I've probably earned $30k in my life.. and that is a generous estimate. Now I'm unemployed. So probably a long time.
 
Originally posted by: TheVrolok
Probably by my late 30s. The real question is how quickly will the second million come. I feel like there may be two groups here.. those who may get their first million by their early 30s, and there second won't come for another 8-12 years and then the other group who might not get their first till their late 30's/early 40's but the second may come in 4-6 years. And so on.
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That's a good point. My husband will take longer to get there than me but would then amp up to a second much faster (small business owner). I'm more the slow and steady career track; you kind of plateau at a certain point.
 
Originally posted by: AreaCode707
Originally posted by: 91TTZ
Originally posted by: AreaCode707
Approx 31, assuming I stay in the location I'm in and the career track I'm on. I don't really want to do either of those things though, so more likely it would be longer.
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What do you do for a living, and how old are you now?
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Project manager specializing in enterprise-wide implementation of third party systems. I've always worked for companies with 20k employees and up. Started in HR, now working in legal. Currently in Seattle.

[edit] Oh, and I'm 25 right now.
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Huron Consulting?
 
Originally posted by: AreaCode707
Originally posted by: 91TTZ
Originally posted by: AreaCode707
Approx 31, assuming I stay in the location I'm in and the career track I'm on. I don't really want to do either of those things though, so more likely it would be longer.
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What do you do for a living, and how old are you now?
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Project manager specializing in enterprise-wide implementation of third party systems. I've always worked for companies with 20k employees and up. Started in HR, now working in legal. Currently in Seattle.

[edit] Oh, and I'm 25 right now.
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You started in HR, and, at 25, are now in legal? What do you do in legal?

Edit: Specifically, what do you do?
 
Originally posted by: SacrosanctFiend


You started in HR, and, at 25, are now in legal? What do you do in legal?
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She said she's a project manager doing 3rd party systems. That probably means she's a consultant with a firm that does a lot of HR and Legal information systems. PeopleSoft, SAP, Concordance, various e-discovery tools.

You can do pretty well in that industry. I'm graduating law school this year and I've seen first hand what legal consultants make on a big project. I went to school at night and my day job is in consulting doing similar work. It's mind numbing work, but it pays well.

That said, I really want to work for the Fed Govt as an attorney now.
 
Originally posted by: sjwaste
Originally posted by: SacrosanctFiend


You started in HR, and, at 25, are now in legal? What do you do in legal?
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She said she's a project manager doing 3rd party systems. That probably means she's a consultant with a firm that does a lot of HR and Legal information systems. PeopleSoft, SAP, Concordance, various e-discovery tools.

You can do pretty well in that industry. I'm graduating law school this year and I've seen first hand what legal consultants make on a big project. I went to school at night and my day job is in consulting doing similar work. It's mind numbing work, but it pays well.

That said, I really want to work for the Fed Govt as an attorney now.
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I meant specifically. Given that she's always worked for 20,000+ companies, and I would love to know what someone, at 25, is doing consulting for legal in HRIS implementations.
 
Originally posted by: sjwaste
Originally posted by: SacrosanctFiend


You started in HR, and, at 25, are now in legal? What do you do in legal?
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She said she's a project manager doing 3rd party systems. That probably means she's a consultant with a firm that does a lot of HR and Legal information systems. PeopleSoft, SAP, Concordance, various e-discovery tools.

You can do pretty well in that industry. I'm graduating law school this year and I've seen first hand what legal consultants make on a big project. I went to school at night and my day job is in consulting doing similar work. It's mind numbing work, but it pays well.

That said, I really want to work for the Fed Govt as an attorney now.
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I'm not a consultant, I'm on the corporate side. Impressed that Huron got called out in this thread but no, I don't work for them. (One of their consultants screwed over a project timeline of mine by about four months last year though.)

I don't think I'd want to be on the sell side of my projects. It's a difficult life.
 
Originally posted by: AreaCode707

I'm not a consultant, I'm on the corporate side. Impressed that Huron got called out in this thread but no, I don't work for them. (One of their consultants screwed over a project timeline of mine by about four months last year though.)

I don't think I'd want to be on the sell side of my projects. It's a difficult life.
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Huron's a sweat shop. I know a few people there, nobody's happy. I'm at a big 5 though, and can't say we're much happier. I'm lucky enough to be in the federal side of our practice, which has better hours but the same general pay scale. Plus, I don't travel.

I used to work in a corporate legal dept. I enjoyed it as far as the work went, but corporate legal in general was just too slow for me. That was more as a law clerk than IT, though.

What sort of IT support for legal do you do? I have a buddy at Steptoe & Johnson on their lit support side, while he finishes law school at least, who enjoys the work.
 
Originally posted by: SacrosanctFiend
Originally posted by: sjwaste
Originally posted by: SacrosanctFiend


You started in HR, and, at 25, are now in legal? What do you do in legal?
Click to expand...

She said she's a project manager doing 3rd party systems. That probably means she's a consultant with a firm that does a lot of HR and Legal information systems. PeopleSoft, SAP, Concordance, various e-discovery tools.

You can do pretty well in that industry. I'm graduating law school this year and I've seen first hand what legal consultants make on a big project. I went to school at night and my day job is in consulting doing similar work. It's mind numbing work, but it pays well.

That said, I really want to work for the Fed Govt as an attorney now.
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I meant specifically. Given that she's always worked for 20,000+ companies, and I would love to know what someone, at 25, is doing consulting for legal in HRIS implementations.
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I started in HR systems, now doing legal systems. Attorneys are calmer than HR profesionals and thus better customers. 😛

I was 19 when I started in corporate, kind of fell into deploying and managing an applicant tracking system, and branched out from there. I now specialize in workflow tools and I'm pretty good at it, but I want to move back to rural NorCal and nobody there needs my skill set. 🙁
 
Originally posted by: sjwaste
Originally posted by: AreaCode707

I'm not a consultant, I'm on the corporate side. Impressed that Huron got called out in this thread but no, I don't work for them. (One of their consultants screwed over a project timeline of mine by about four months last year though.)

I don't think I'd want to be on the sell side of my projects. It's a difficult life.
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Huron's a sweat shop. I know a few people there, nobody's happy. I'm at a big 5 though, and can't say we're much happier. I'm lucky enough to be in the federal side of our practice, which has better hours but the same general pay scale. Plus, I don't travel.

I used to work in a corporate legal dept. I enjoyed it as far as the work went, but corporate legal in general was just too slow for me. That was more as a law clerk than IT, though.

What sort of IT support for legal do you do? I have a buddy at Steptoe & Johnson on their lit support side, while he finishes law school at least, who enjoys the work.
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Driving home, will post when I can get off the bb and back on a laptop.
 
I'm still in school right now, but I know how much I will be making once I leave so I would say sometime around my late 30s.
 
Wow. Can't believe how many people here are close to being millionaires. I don't think I'll ever make that much in my lifetime.
 
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