Although I make nominally twice what I did at my previous job doing much of the same that I do now, this former job was software development at a college, and the college provide very cheap rent-controlled housing and free lunch buffets.
- Consulting. Around 70K.
First off, at 26 years old making $250,000 per year - you are my hero.
Second, to the primary poster, I’m a 20-year old genetics major, and I’m currently making about $7 a week writing political opinion columns for my college newspaper. Not much money at all but it doesn’t matter because I would be doing it for free anyway.
I’m 32 years old. I am an economic/statistical analyst and make about $52k per year.
25, Geologist in environmental consulting, and make between 44-50k a year depending on overtime.
It might also be useful to mention which region you live in. Cost of living and salaries will vary between, say, New York City and Cody, Wyoming. I live in the suburbs of Philadelphia.
Infantryman - 30-35K
I’m 52, a former software developer, now my title is “systems coordinator.” Been in IT for 30 years, and make just over $90k per year. I never dreamed I’d be making as much as I am, but it doesn’t go too far as the only income with my dear wife and five children at home.
26, manufacturing wire assemblies for the naval military indu comp. its a 7-3 or so job, i make about 11-14K yr, weekly pay. I save as much as possible, closing in on a whole year of savings worth of pay (playing my hand for the next gov panic).
Since i have learned as much as i could about AE i have found my self trapped between my knowledge of ‘what is’ and what i would like to do. Now making a choice seems harder than ever.
But perhaps choosing to do nothing and waiting; acting on what i believe to be an potential entrepreneurial moment in the future.
Making “that choice” will get easier later. Right now, you are making a choice by continuing with what you are doing.
Praxeologically, waiting is doing something. Waiting is what you are doing. And there is nothing wrong with that.
Sometimes being confronted with a clear view of society and a sharpened capacity for perceiving ethical/rational behavior can be overwhelming. But it does get easier, if you can avoid becoming an ideological fanatic.
Just curious - we see a fair number of people who know a lot about AE on this thread talking about what sounds like “everyone should start their own business.” Why is this? AE is perfectly capable of describing a world with division of labor and a large workforce. If everyone who likes AE should start their own business, isn’t that limiting the number of people who could end up liking AE? We’re not against big business persay, or am I wrong?
@JAlanKatz The problem is that wage labor in today’s system is a form of soft serfdom. After reflecting on all the incentives government grants business owners that employ (while penalizing the self-employed), I realized that business owners who employ others are effectively tax farmers (tax enforcement really begins with the employer’s compliance with the rules for withholding taxes - which is just garnishment - from your bi-weekly paycheck). No matter what, there’s no way to earn a truly honest living unless you’re in a non-criminal black market (prostitution, pimping, drugs, illegal immigrant house- and child-care… pretty much any of Block’s “undefendable” occupations).
While being a tax farmer is not a much better prospect than being a serf, the only other option is to be in constant danger of prison. I’m stuck in this damn system because of the bizarre desire of my fellow serfs to be enslaved to a Leviathan, so I’d rather be a tax farmer than a serf. It’s really their own damn fault.
Clayton -
In Canada you have to garnish employee wages only if you fit the legal definition of “employer”, which IIRC is basically someone who collects pension “contributions” (CPP) for a SIN account. In other words, working/employing under the table is not an offense. It’s essentially the same in every British system and more or less the U.S. (supposedly there are differences there, but I don’t know what). If anything being an employer is where you want to be because you don’t have the problem of trying to find someone not brainwashed to pay you privately. So, just don’t hire government employees and you are good.
Take a look at this if you are Canadian. I can’t find the American version anymore, sadly. I didn’t see the whole thing either when I did have it.
23 (almost), 11$ an hour in health care and I still manage to save more than half of it. I think I may expatriate to Australia and work part time and on days off learn Chinese then move to Hong Kong, Singapore, or Taiwan. There will be far more money and security in that part of the world very soon. Maybe do engineering eventually.
“A geeky note: strictly speaking, management is labor.”
self-exploitation.
anyhow, I’m 25. I have an absolutely worthless college degree and am unemployed. I’ve been unemployed ever since I graduated (a year ago). most of this is due to the fact that I recently immigrated to Canada and it’s illegal for me to work until I get my landed immigrant status. well…I could work if I could get a job offer/work visa, but no one really wants to spend the extra few months wait on a kid with a degree and no work experience when they have hundreds of resumes to fill up their entry level positions. right now I’m just looking to do as much volunteer bs as I can to pad out my horrid resume.
anyone out there work at a VC firm and need a coffee boy? I’ll work for much less than minimum wage if I can eavesdrop, get some experience, and eventually get a job.
What is your degree in? How bad do you want to make it?
SOMEONE GET ME A JOB!!!
20, and a student, but I manage to make a little over 1k a month working on the side, which allows me to save a little every month.
SOMEONE GET ME A JOB!!!
We were actually talking about trying to somebody to do coloring and/or lettering for our comic. Cant pay much though…
“What is your degree in? How bad do you want to make it?”
I went from orchestral percussion to English and finally landed at psychology/english. so I’ve got a degree that can be used to say I know how to research and communicate that research.
I’m apllying to any and all volunteer positions that would hopefully give me some more experience and make me a more valuable prospect to future employers:
http://www.govolunteer.ca/cgi-bin/page.cgi?_id=29&posting=16479
http://www.govolunteer.ca/cgi-bin/page.cgi?_id=29&posting=21875
http://www.govolunteer.ca/cgi-bin/page.cgi?_id=29&posting=20450
http://www.govolunteer.ca/cgi-bin/page.cgi?_id=29&posting=12150
http://www.govolunteer.ca/cgi-bin/page.cgi?_id=29&posting=14142
http://www.govolunteer.ca/cgi-bin/page.cgi?_id=29&posting=17410
http://www.govolunteer.ca/cgi-bin/page.cgi?_id=29&posting=17405
http://www.govolunteer.ca/cgi-bin/page.cgi?_id=29&posting=17699
http://www.govolunteer.ca/cgi-bin/page.cgi?_id=29&posting=17411
http://www.govolunteer.ca/cgi-bin/page.cgi?_id=29&posting=17406
following the any of these links should show that I’m willing to scrape the absolute bottom of the barrel of mind numbing tasks for the chance to potentially make myself more of an asset to a company - that’s how much I want to make it.
Check your private conversations, I sent you a message.