Ok, just wondering what folk do for a living and if you think its worth it. Keep this basic, ill start Job: Prison Officer Wage: at moment £22500, max out £29,000 Is it worth it: at times its easy, but when it goes wrong no its not worth it, far from it So, if you want to take part let us know, lets see who has the worst job
Job: Community Planning Technician Wage: $21,840 per annum base, comes to $26,603 after locality adjustment. Is it worth it: Technically no. I'm being paid as a GS 3, yet it is normally a GS 11 position ($60k roughly after locality) so I'm getting paid less than half of what I should be. But, I am in college so my schedule is reduced. Not by half like my pay, but the experience I am gaining is easily worth more than money. Also, I enjoy the work.
Job: Medical Student Wage: -£3,500 for the next 6 years Max: £100,000 Is it worth it: I f***ing hope so.
Job: Data Storage Consultant/Architect/Bod (it's complicated!) Wage: No comment Is it worth it: Can be very long hours at times, travel can be a pain too. Can be pretty stressful at times, often a lot riding on making the wrong/right call - being the "expert" means that where technical decisions are concerned, the buck often stops with me. But I love it! I'm a massive geek when it comes to storage, which helps quite a bit. SAN directors and wide striping get my engine going, rowr. *ahem* Always the way though. I'm sure you'll find plenty of people here that are doing things way beyond the scope of their role. Consider yourself lucky you're getting the experience of the more senior role and keep an eye out for opportunities to advance if you're doing it anyway.
Job: Sales Assistant (selling machinery) Wage: 19,000 pa before tax etc..... Is it worth it: Not at all. I hate working in an office (especially with an old P4 computer that sounds like a jet engine, and moves like a snail) I have always worked with my hands (electrical apprenticeship i gave up in south africa.....idiot), and will never work in an office again. think i'm just in a rut at the moment.
Job: IT Engineering student Wage : -5000$ for the next 4/5 years Max: I don't know, I will start around 50K but the top can be over 100 I guess is it worth it ? : I don't know either. Not sure I'll finish tbh
The opportunities to advance are the main thing, and the major pay boost I get for staying here after finishing school. This job's with the Navy so there's literally jobs all over the world. I saw a position for my exact same job being offered in Bahrain. Up to five year tour with previous job reserved back home for when I'm done, reduced cost on base housing, increased pay because it would mean working through Sunday (cultural difference maybe? I don't know) and 15 days of additional leave each year to visit home. Already told my supervisor that when school's done I'll be trying for a European position. He keeps telling me to try Guam but we'll see
Cashier/Computer Information Systems Student Wage- about $10,000/yr before taxes (depending on hours / week) Tuition- $3000.5 this year, not including books, food on campus, or travel. $3320 next year, not counting textbooks, food on campus, or travel Job now, absolutely not worth it, lousy hours, stupid customers, and a highly irritating boss. Job in the future, I'm just hoping for something I enjoy, coupled with enough money to live comfortably.
Job: Engineering Student Salary: -6000 /year for 2.5 more years Expecting Salary: $60k+ year starting (Dual Degree Cheesecake!) Max $150k Worth it: I'm building the framework for my future and so far I love what I am doing in Uni so yes I think it is worth it.
Current job: GA in a multiplex cinema, various voluntary AV/camera jobs, casual projectionist in arthouse cinema. Future: DoP, hopefully Director. Wages: Current: Cinema ~£8,500 (since I've moved up to full time hours and passed 22), most camera jobs are free, except the one regular one which pays in pizza I get full projection pay in the arthouse (£8 something an hour) but I've only worked 12 hours in the last two months Future: sky's the limit I guess... Worth it? Multiplex - most of the time I literally get paid to stand about or watch bits of films, sometimes it's unbelievably hectic and customers are total assholes and children throw food everywhere and people poo in urinals. So...yes and no. I'm looking for a way out... Camera stuff - totally, it's all going in teh showreel. Projection - it seems to be the only place I can write atm so the more I'm in there the better. Plus its awesome, skilled-feeling work, and there's only two screens and always two projectionists. My favourite job so far. Future - will be (hopefully eventually) getting paid to do something I love, if it's enough to get by on comfortably it will be totally worth everything it takes to get there. /text upchuck
Job: Installation/repair technician Wage: $41620.8 Max: However much overtime I feel like working Is it worth it? Yes and no. The job itself is great and I get to interact with all kinds of people in their own homes (you can really tell a lot about a person from their home!) There's also a lot of stress with it being a numbers game and being constantly scrutinized on performance. If I had a consistent schedule like I did 5 months ago, I would still love my job. That being, my schedule changes weekly meaning I can never make any plans and it's starting to wear on my opinion of my company and it's products/services.
As someone who grew up with both parents being GS employees, Europe ain't happening out of college. Guam will, but it's a crap posting. Bahrain, it's quiet, nice, relatively safe. And it has the Koranic Museum, which is a must see if you are at all interested in the history of the written and printed word. Freelance Photographer, 40,000-50,000 USD although this can vary. Is it worth it? Sure, since I would be happy doing it for free. Will I get rich from it? No, but I married well.
Development manager for a major player in the global audit market. I.e. i lead a team of programmers and code myself Salary (/me converts to more better currencies) ~27K GPB a year. Is it worth it? No. Simple as that. No.
Job: Pirate Wage: Hand over the loot! Is it worth it?: YOU FIGHT LIKE A COW! Spoiler Games journalist/no comment/hellsyeah
Job: MSCDST + various minor duties Salary: £18,750 (slowly getting there) Worth it?: About 94% of the time. There's the odd nob-end now and again. I wish the one next door would stop whistling as much. It's nearly constant.. every day.
IT Technician - School £10k ish It's worth it just to live in this part of the country. Otherwise, it's depressing to see that just about everyone gets more loot than I do.
Job: Pretending to be a journalist while actually making everything up. Wage: Barely enough to live on (Bit-tech guys will back me up on this ) Worth it?: Wouldn't change careers for twice the salary.
Apparently I'm now Process Improvement, though still think I'm more a GDB, and currently trying to change my title to Statistical Logistics And Value Enhancer, just so I can have fun with business cards. Pay's about £22k to 28K is it worth it, Nah, it pays the wages but I don't do it for the fun of it. Waiting to see where the wife ends up and then looking to shift out.
Job: self emplyed it guru Wage: whatever i can scrape Worth it?: I dont have to worry about some stupid **** in a suit who drives an audi making me redundant by shipping my job over to some middle eastern ****hole of the country because he cant do his job properly so yeah its worth it