I make about $3,000 a month. Give or take a few hundred after taxes.
Today I took the day off, but still took some calls and thus still got paid. It’s awesome how that works.
That looks a lot like my day, only I eat breakfast at work and read more comics. I also post here a shitload when i’m “working”. woo ha.
I make a bit more and do less. Also in I.T (obviously)
Heh. $3000 seems to be the magic number for us IT folk. I make a bit more (at my main job) and have killer benefits but I work for it. I work for a large company, (HINT: IT company famous for their superbowl commercials) and it seems as if everything is on fire or it is dead slow.
8:30am: Still sleeping.
9:00am: I wake up.
9:30am: I go to work.
10:30am: At work, usually eating breakfast.
12:00am: Fast forward to now, I work.
2:00pm: Lunch.
4:00pm: Still working.
5:00pm: See above.
6:00pm: Get off work.
You would throw up if I told you how much they paid me to do this everyday.
i make 1,200 a month and I work overtime in a place that is 40 minutes away from my house.
1/4 of my pay goes to gas.
1/4 to the girlfriend.
1/4 training and eating
1/4 bills
I’m still a “Junior Tech” as I’ve not the same kind of experience as the other guys. But I choose to do most of the legwork so I can get more knowledge and experience in.
So you’re saying you’re a gofer.
Don’t be that guy forever though, as (especially with small companies) it is easy to get stuck at that level, when you have say a year 18 months of doing the hands on- go somewhere else for more money/promotion, or wait around forever with the company your in so they stop seing your the junior guy.
That is the way with big firms, it moves around teams, on fire team get all the shit and then there is the legacy support guys waiting for the end of support contract and the opp to be moved on (like me) and in dollers its more like $4500 before tax and bonus.
We get dental, because as the stereotypes go, we all have crooked teeth.
It could be worse; you could be an artist.
Fucking start work at 5 am and finish at 2. Show fat men and other’s hot desperate housewives how to work out
Nah, I won’t be. Since the company I currently work for is very very very very network heavy over anything else (which sucks, because I can do everything else incredibly well except network :() such as desktop support, hardware, software, etc. I’m learning the ins and outs of how they like things done and whenever I get around to getting my CCNA, I won’t be on “that level” anymore.
Don’t kid yourself. A CCNA, and even a CCNP without work experience behind it, is still “that level”.
CCIE, now that’s your other level.
I make people happy.:toothy4:
I charge between $50-65 per hour depending on the intricacy of the work.
The only way to make a living these days is to become self-employed.
I’m still working on it. I’ve only been doing this for like 3 years now and have worked from a low-level phone grunt, to actually working in the field. I just make a bunch of silly n00b mistakes now. With enough time, I can usually figure out 95% of the problems that occur. I’ve got a bit of a way to go, but thanks for the words of wisdom.
Also, at my age and what I pay for (almost nothing) $3,000/month is pretty much golden. I can do pretty much whatever I want whenever I want and not have to worry too much about finances.
intricacy of what work?
I myself do all phases of remodeling and construction however a friend of mine does freelance
computer system tech work and his income is comparable.
Work for yourself and you can set your own price; work for someone else and you pay for their kid’s braces.