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Wow. Sign me up. I make around 55k-65k and live like I earn about 20k. The biggest bonus I've ever received was about 10% of my yearly income. That happened

Wow. Sign me up. I make around 55k-65k and live like I earn about 20k. The biggest bonus I've ever received was about 10% of my yearly income. That happened once. I went 8 months without work last year. I'm living a completely comfortable lifestyle. I'm not needing of anything. I want lots of things, but it takes just a tiny modicum of restraint to avoid monstrous debt snowballs. The work I've done has only ever been high stress, and very rarely fun. Is it purely a matter of experience to get to the point where you earn greater than 80k and only do fun, low stress work? I haven't seen anything like that around here. Oh, and this city is expensive too. For a base salary of 62k/year, the average home costs 9.5 years of pre-tax income.

jshen 16y ago
We're in Los Angeles and we're hiring. http://tbe.taleo.net/NA3/ats/careers/jobSearch.jsp?org=YELLOWPAGES&cws=1 http://tbe.taleo.net/NA3/ats/careers/jobSearch.jsp?org=YELLO... I should clarify "low stress" and "fun". It's a big company so I have to do a lot of silly things. Quarterly reviews which no one reads, yearly training courses that are a waste of time, the usual big company politics, etc. These are not fun, but I spend most of my day hacking on challenging problems and learning from people that are smarter than me which is my idea of fun. Yes product people unrealistically want everything to have been done yesterday, but I have no problem letting that go in one ear and out the other except when they are right ;) By low stress I mean that I don't have to work much overtime and no one calls me in the middle of the night or on the weekends to fix something. When I go home I can leave work at work unless I want to keep thinking about it. I enlisted in the army when I was 17 and spent a year deployed so my idea of low stress might be different than others.

jshen 16y ago

We're in Los Angeles and we're hiring. http://tbe.taleo.net/NA3/ats/careers/jobSearch.jsp?org=YELLOWPAGES&cws=1 http://tbe.taleo.net/NA3/ats/careers/jobSearch.jsp?org=YELLO... I should clarify "low stress" and "fun". It's a big company so I have to do a lot of silly things. Quarterly reviews which no one reads, yearly training courses that are a waste of time, the usual big company politics, etc. These are not fun, but I spend most of my day hacking on challenging problems and learning from people that are smarter than me which is my idea of fun. Yes product people unrealistically want everything to have been done yesterday, but I have no problem letting that go in one ear and out the other except when they are right ;) By low stress I mean that I don't have to work much overtime and no one calls me in the middle of the night or on the weekends to fix something. When I go home I can leave work at work unless I want to keep thinking about it. I enlisted in the army when I was 17 and spent a year deployed so my idea of low stress might be different than others.