POLL: What was your salary right out of college?P.

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zlooop

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Well..

I am debating a job right now and I was curious how much you guys got when you just got out of college!

Post what type of job you are working too... .How long did you guys stay at those jobs?



Happy polling!



P.S. This is for undergraduate degrees.
 
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randal

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I dropped out of college after two semesters and got a $19.2k/yr job at a local small-ISP doing support. I eventually worked my way up to network admin and quite making a hair over $30k. New job is a little over $40k. I'm 22, no degree (but I do have a ton of certs) and I'm a network admin/operations guy at a datacenter.

Update - Oh, and I'm self employed on the side as well - I own a cybercafe. I don't take a paycheck from there, though I could take home ~$1k/mo without hurting business.
 
BurnItDwn

BurnItDwn

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When I first dropped out of college .... I went back to my job that I had in HS (low 20s). I applied for and got a better job (same company) about a year after that (pay was then mid 20s). (that was the summer of 2001). Since then I've gotten yet another better job (same company) and my pay is currently at the low 40s.
Hopefully I'll be in the 50s within two years. (I guess it depends on if I get a promotion sooner than I think I may.)
 
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getbush

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I'm 21 and in my first year of pharmacy school. When I graduate in 3.5 years I will make about 90k/yr., 100 is possible.



edit: typo :)
 
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T2T III

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Originally posted by: getbush
I'm 21 and in my first year of pharmacy school. When I graduate in 3.5 years I will make about 90k/yr., 100 is possible.



edit: typo :)
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That's 3.5 years away - how can you even speculate? By then, hopefully most prescriptions will be filled by mail order - saving the consumer more $$.

 
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Trygve

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Nothing. I first got together a small group of people to start a company making computer-aided engineering systems and, over the next several months, that company stagnated and died, because one of the partners had decided that he didn't want to do it, but he couldn't bear the thought of hurting my feelings by telling me, so he managed to keep the initial tasks from getting done until the company died.

I reworked the business plan and started it up again with one investor and all other responsibilities assigned to myself, and built the business again. I was 19 at the time and hoped to hit the one million mark by 21...which, amazingly enough, didn't happen. I wasn't even taking a salary myself at all even by then.

So, no salary, no signing bonus, and no salary increases during those years.
 
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nageov3t

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20K. right after graduation, I went back to work at the company that I previously worked at as my summer job. I stayed there just to have an income while I looked for a real job.
 
iamwiz82

iamwiz82

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$40k-$50k

EDIT: Your poll should really specify Bachelors, Masters, of PhD.

EDIT 2: I just noticed your edit.
 
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Orsorum

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I'm graduating this spring with a degree in Accounting and a degree in Economics; I'll tell you in June.
 
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getbush

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Originally posted by: Tiles2Tech
Originally posted by: getbush
I'm 21 and in my first year of pharmacy school. When I graduate in 3.5 years I will make about 90k/yr., 100 is possible.



edit: typo :)
Click to expand...

That's 3.5 years away - how can you even speculate? By then, hopefully most prescriptions will be filled by mail order - saving the consumer more $$.
Click to expand...


Unless you inform me otherwise I think I am in a better position to be knowledgeable on the near future of pharmacy practice.

1. There are more options than pumping drugs out of a chain retail store all day long taht you may not have considered. These include hospital practice, managed care pharmacists, and nursing home consulting etc.

2. Mail order is increasing but it isn't an end all answer. By then, most prescriptions will not be filled by mail order.

3. As an example, Walgreens operates close to 4700 stores at this moment. For more than the last five years the have averaged roughly 450 new store openings each year, more than one every day. They are planning on having 7,000 stores in operation by 2010. That is only one retailer.

Farther off into the future simple dispensing out of a chain store will probably decline, but this will only allow pharmacists more time to transition into more clinical positions where they will get to put more of their knowledge to use to the benefit of patient outcomes.

So that's part of why I can speculate.

 
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