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[DJFuji]

HA! i have you all beat.

Job: Corporal, United States Marine Corps. (military occupational specialty [MOS]: Programmer / webmaster / ASP.NET Web App Developer)
Income: $18,276 after taxes (Yes, that's per year, smartass)
How hard you worked to get there: 3 months of 20 mile forced marches with 70lbs of gear on your back, 5 mile runs, crazy lunatics screaming at you until your nose bleeds, crappy food, 17-hour days, and close proximity living conditions (70-some people per room). THEN you go to combat training.

Side job: Web Developer
Income: $30-60/hour depending on job type and complexity
How hard you worked to get there: 4 years of designing websites and programming web applications.

 

[tokamak]

college student / $0 / not that hard

for you guys that deliver pizza, about how many miles per week do you put on your car?

 

[BaboonGuy]

up

 

[Thegonagle]

Originally posted by: tokamak
college student / $0 / not that hard

for you guys that deliver pizza, about how many miles per week do you put on your car?

Figure on about 75-125 miles per full shift (times number of shifts per week), depending on the area (more miles for the suburbs, and less for the city, where the driving can be more stressful and the roads can be bumpier).

Personally, I feel that the tips can be better in the city, as long as the delivery area has a good mix of working-class/college/artsy/commercial/business areas, and not a lot of ghetto-class housing.

I like delivering in my city, because I usually have a lot more alternate routes to choose from than I would in the suburbs. Once I know my area well, I can more easily avoid getting stuck in rush hour traffic during the evening.

Another nice thing about my city is that it also has very consistent timing on most of the traffic lights going from block to block, so once I learn how those work, I can really start getting around quickly by learning where and when to turn in order to reduce my red light time.

In the burbs, the traffic lights are often spaced far apart, and operate independently of one another, using vehicle detectors, not timers, to switch the lights, so you can never predict whether you'll "make that green" or not. In a few awful places in some suburbs, the lights are like 1/8 mile apart, yet they're not linked in any way at all, so each traffic light only "sees" what its own detector loops tell it. This results in bad traffic jams during rush hours, because of totally random red-green cycles. Another disadvantage to detector-controlled traffic lights is that a good pot-hole in the wrong place can knock out the detector loop, so you could literally wait forever at a light that will never turn green (people who ride aluminum-framed motorcycles also know what I'm talking about, because non-magnetic metals don't trip the detectors). IMHO, detector controlled traffic lights are only nice when traffic is extremely light, and they're actually working properly.

 

[rival]

unemployed
income: 20k/yr
how i got there: i got on welfare

THANKS FELLAS FOR WORKING SO I DONT HAVE TO!!

 

[cavemanmoron]

there was a thread a few weeks ago,about whats your job.

still the same.

i make almost enough,I can pay my bills,and have a tiny bit leftover.

Sucks having a mortgage,and living alone,at times.

 

[Rob9874]

I'm not afraid to share my income. When I was in college, I was dying to find out realistic income info, and was pissed that no one was comfortable sharing. I wouldn't tell co-workers, but I don't care about strangers on a web board.

I'm an industrial engineer for a large tech company. I have a business degree, and really fell into the position by luck. However, I'm making business-degree money, not engineering-degree money. Started at $42,000 in Dec '99 (right out of college), and make $49,500 now. However, bonuses were better back then. If you include bonuses, I made $48K then and $51K now. Not much of a difference.

 

[Ameesh]

Originally posted by: rival
unemployed
income: 20k/yr
how i got there: i got on welfare

THANKS FELLAS FOR WORKING SO I DONT HAVE TO!!

asshole

 

[cressida]

Work Study / $6 - hr / Easy

 

[Jadow]

support specialist / enough for a brand new house, a car, a new boat, and a ton of electronics/ I work pretty hard, but dno't usually go over 45 hours a week.

 

[CTrain]

- Store manager: McDoanlds.
- $42,000 and about to get $2500/yr + raise.
- Not hard. I used to work at McDonlads when I was a kid and made friend wih the owner's son.
Went to college and everything and had a laid back serving job at Disney but 9/11 came.
He convinced me to work for McDonalds. Hired me back as a salaried manager paying me peanuts($28,000).
Threaten to quit about 3 times while I was there to go back to serving and got a raise everytime
Asked me to run a store after 8 months. Been with McDonalds for 1yr 5 months......store manager for 7 months.

 

[Sealy]

Domestic engineer...(stay at home mom)
111.00/mo....(child tax credit)
about 45hrs. of labour

 

[BillGates]

Originally posted by: Ameesh

Originally posted by: rival
unemployed
income: 20k/yr
how i got there: i got on welfare

THANKS FELLAS FOR WORKING SO I DONT HAVE TO!!

asshole

does welfare really pay that well? wow -- why would anybody work minimum wage jobs?

 

[Chaotic42]

Network admin/Onair/Boardop/Production Worker at a radio farm
$7.50 per hour
If my job was any easier, I'd quit