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Tab8715 posted:Tell me where to find these insanely high-paying Financial Positions. I'm not entirely sure I would (or even could) work that for a year to stock up cash. I might go insane or just straight up die. e: quoted for new page
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I mean I have no wife, no kids, and hardly any friends. All it means is less time for video games.
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Dec 19, 2018 17:38
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I couldn't work that much for any amount of money. No one should. It's not worth it. You only have one life on this planet, my dudes. My last job I was getting extreme with 50-55 hours/week, now that I have union-mandated 7.25 hour work days life is just wonderful. We had a prod ADFS issue last night and I had to run some tests for 20 minutes or so, instant 4h overtime at 2x hourly pay 
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You gotta find the finance people who know that they can make ridiculous money even if they don't work until midnight every day. I don't know if that's even a thing anymore (all the ones I know who are like that are my dad's age at least) but that firm I was talking about earlier, the guys in the NYSE floor post had a drawer full of pre-tied ties they only put on when the opening bell rang (the first time I saw this was like a Wayne's World "We are not worthy!" moment), and everybody in their office was gone within 10 minutes of the closing bell.
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Dec 19, 2018 17:42
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I really don't think it's as bad as some people are making it seem. If you're single, relatively young, by all means, do it for a year, make an insane amount of money, get a huge headstart on your nest egg, and then move on. It's not a job for a 36 year old father of 2, but not every job needs to be.
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Dec 19, 2018 17:47
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I am willing to try one of these jobs for a year.
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Dec 19, 2018 17:51
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yeah it is very much "get that paper for a year, get the gently caress out" kind of space. That's why turnover is so high
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Dec 19, 2018 17:52
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MC Fruit Stripe posted:I really don't think it's as bad as some people are making it seem. If you're single, relatively young, by all means, do it for a year, make an insane amount of money, get a huge headstart on your nest egg, and then move on. It's not a job for a 36 year old father of 2, but not every job needs to be. Wasting your life away at a job like that isn't automatically okay if you're young and single. Not by any means. It's not remotely worth going a year without a social life, friends, relationships, healthy activities, etc.
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CLAM DOWN posted:It's not remotely worth going a year without a social life, friends, relationships, healthy activities, etc. I've been doing this for most of my adult life and I don't even have a high-paying job as an excuse!
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Dec 19, 2018 18:11
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H110Hawk posted:Look up any high frequency trading jobs. They pay astronomical amounts of money and will cover all of your expenses, including some that do like laundry service etc. The trade off is they own you. You get time to sleep and maybe a few hours off on Sunday. Period. My buddy does python coding (maybe other stuff now) for an HFT place, they paid him 120k starting and he had no knowledge at all; my assumption is he's up to 200k or more at this point since he's been there a bit and is probably one of the senior coders.
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Dec 19, 2018 18:29
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The very existence of those places is distasteful to me on a gut level. I can't even imagine giving up my waking life to them, huge stacks of money or not, even before I had a family.
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Dec 19, 2018 18:32
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My dream is to be like the kid from the documentary Chasing Bubbles https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ibP5IQxId34
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Dec 19, 2018 18:35
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MF_James posted:Offer accepted! So much yes! Congrats!
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Dec 19, 2018 20:16
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Got an offer finally! I am moving up to the mid five figgies and bennies club! Even though I bombed that hour long interview but they said,I knew a lot but I didn't have much depth so while the job I applied for I wasn't really qualified for, they liked me enough as a person and thought I was trainable enough that they created a new position as an apprentice dude who they're gonna train up to eventually take the position. Sorry if the above doesn't make sense, I feel all rambly and giddy.
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Dec 19, 2018 20:21
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That's really great. Congrats!
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Defenestrategy posted:Got an offer finally! I am moving up to the mid five figgies and bennies club! Even though I bombed that hour long interview but they said,I knew a lot but I didn't have much depth so while the job I applied for I wasn't really qualified for, they liked me enough as a person and thought I was trainable enough that they created a new position as an apprentice dude who they're gonna train up to eventually take the position. Excited for mid 5 figures? Apprentice? Must be your first IT job, congrats.
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chin up everything sucks posted:Excited for mid 5 figures? Apprentice? Must be your first IT job, congrats. Basically, yes.
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Dec 19, 2018 20:34
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MF_James posted:Offer accepted! Defenestrategy posted:Got an offer finally! I am moving up to the mid five figgies and bennies club! Even though I bombed that hour long interview but they said,I knew a lot but I didn't have much depth so while the job I applied for I wasn't really qualified for, they liked me enough as a person and thought I was trainable enough that they created a new position as an apprentice dude who they're gonna train up to eventually take the position. Hell yeah
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chin up everything sucks posted:Excited for mid 5 figures? Apprentice? Must be your first IT job, congrats. Small shop IT kept me closer to 30,000/year, but yea first actual IT job where I'm gonna have a manager, and co-workers who are tech savvy.
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Dec 19, 2018 20:52
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Congrats on the new jobs, goons  
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Dec 19, 2018 20:59
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Straw poll: should I go home and drink heavily this evening? I know it's only Wednesday.
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Vargatron posted:Straw poll: should I go home and drink heavily this evening? I know it's only Wednesday. I'm in.
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Dec 19, 2018 21:35
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No, you should go home and drink heavily right now.
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Dec 19, 2018 21:36
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Vargatron posted:Straw poll: should I go home and drink heavily this evening? I know it's only Wednesday. you hosed up by coming in
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Dec 19, 2018 21:39
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Compromise and drink heavily at work
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Dec 19, 2018 21:39
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Bonuses came out today! Half of a percent of salary. Doesn't speak well to the health of the company, to be honest. Also doesn't speak well to my motivation to go above and beyond in the next few months. Maybe I'm just being grumpy.
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Dec 19, 2018 22:42
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Judge Schnoopy posted:Bonuses came out today! You get bonuses in IT???
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Dec 19, 2018 23:00
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I got my bonus last week, at 8% of salary. Can't complain too much about that.
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Dec 19, 2018 23:02
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It's always a fun exercise, to see how my company is going to not pay me my bonus every year. I'm reasonably sure my VP was smoking a cigar in a hot tub while wearing a monocle last year while he explained that money was just too tight.
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Dec 19, 2018 23:04
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I am curious what my FTE counterparts bonus are this year. According to the CEO this was the most profitable year in company 80+ history
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Dec 19, 2018 23:05
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Pretty sure my company had their worst year in a while but I don't give a poo poo give me my money I did my part!!
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Dec 19, 2018 23:22
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I got a bonus three times larger from the MSP 4 years ago, when I was making 1/4 the salary.
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I have extra reason to turn up tonight: I got accepted into the computer science program at the college I work for. And it's free!
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Dec 19, 2018 23:43
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Vargatron posted:Straw poll: should I go home and drink heavily this evening? I know it's only Wednesday. Yes. Though I'm just headed home from a concert, so... Might be biased!
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I fully believe that 100% of humanity takes for granted the feeling of not being sick. Trying to work from home as I succumb to a head cold and I’m just a massive miserable grump who just wants to die.
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George H.W. oval office posted:I fully believe that 100% of humanity takes for granted the feeling of not being sick. Trying to work from home as I succumb to a head cold and I’m just a massive miserable grump who just wants to die. Not those of us with young kids. I’ve simply forgotten what it feels like to be healthy or well rested at all!
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George H.W. oval office posted:I fully believe that 100% of humanity takes for granted the feeling of not being sick. Trying to work from home as I succumb to a head cold and I’m just a massive miserable grump who just wants to die. Take the day off sick, you dummy. That's what sick leave is for.
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Tab8715 posted:What did an actual day look like? What kind projects, tickets and what else came at you? I had several things daily: 1) Reports to the various markets. NYSE, Nasdaq, CME, Liffe, Brut, Inet, they all had various things we had to do/file/send in by very strict times every day, so making sure those were done and filed and accepted. This was mostly on my DBA team. 2) Support the traders. whatever they needed, didn't matter, just get it done faster and better. 3) Normal IT poo poo. Figuring out when to do maintenance, email, desktop poo poo, that stays the same no matter what. 4) Keeping the lovely in house application happy and running. Java on Linux in 2002 wasn't awesome. Running a global real time distributed trading platform across 4 countries on Java on Linux was less awesome. CLAM DOWN posted:You get bonuses in IT??? We got 7.3% of salary last year. 8% the year before. We should get around that this year. MC Fruit Stripe posted:I really don't think it's as bad as some people are making it seem. If you're single, relatively young, by all means, do it for a year, make an insane amount of money, get a huge headstart on your nest egg, and then move on. It's not a job for a 36 year old father of 2, but not every job needs to be. Having lived it, I disagree. I walked away from a base salary of 250k and I've never looked back. The stress, hours and everything could have actually killed me. No amount of paper is worth that.
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I won't get my bonus until march. But I did just get my leave loading paid out, which was a nice $500 surprise.
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CLAM DOWN posted:You get bonuses in IT??? Nearly hit 20% last year. Plus maybe a few other awards.
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