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amother
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 Tue, Jan 07 2025, 11:37 pm
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Looking for a good profession, what hours and what do you do?
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amother
Seafoam
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Yesterday at 12:42 am
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Software engineer 9-5 on average
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amother
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Yesterday at 11:41 am
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Accountant, generally 9-5
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amother
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Yesterday at 11:57 am
Attorney working for a corporation.
Hours aren't excessive and no one cares if I am "gone" from the office so long as my work gets done and I am available for meetings in person as necessary.
Occasionally there are huge projects with an emergency time line but that is rare.
I also am very good at what I do and very efficient so people don't realize that my workload is very easy for me to produce and often I have plenty of spare time. I don't shirk anything and get great reviews because I provide everything on time or earlier and volunteer for things so my boss doesn't think I am a shirker. I am just very good and always have had less work than I could do except when I had billable hours since you can't ethically bill clients for time you aren't working - which is why I hated billable hours when I worked at a firm.
And of course I can do quite a lot not in the office even though I officially don't work from home.
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amother
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Yesterday at 11:59 am
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In-house counsel for a large corporation. I work regular business hours M-F, plus evenings and motzi Shabbos/Sunday when needed. I work remotely 2 days per week, have to come in the other 3 days. Sometimes have to travel, but not too much. Maybe 4-8 times per year, 2-5 days at a time.
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amother
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Yesterday at 12:06 pm
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Like the two posters above, lawyer in-house for a bank. Great career, lots of flexibility, and now after Covid my department only comes in to the office twice a week.
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simcha12plus
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Yesterday at 12:07 pm
$200000 is not a starting salary in any position or field.
It is a salary of someone who started much lower and with time and experience moved up on responsibilities and pay
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amother
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Yesterday at 12:13 pm
| amother Indigo wrote: | | Like the two posters above, lawyer in-house for a bank. Great career, lots of flexibility, and now after Covid my department only comes in to the office twice a week. |
What schooling did you need to get to where you are now?
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amother
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Yesterday at 12:17 pm
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I went to law school (midrange type) and did well enough. I also like finance and it’s intuitive to me. Lastly, people in my field are usually smart and introverted, and I am smart and introverted. For many years I was upset that I am not changing the world and so on. But now I’m just happy to have a job and a paycheck. I really like Banking. It’s just not really a “calling” in any sense. (For example, if someone likes nursing, that is more of a chessed oriented career).
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amother
Amber
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Yesterday at 2:18 pm
There's no "profession" that you can just start at 200k without significant education or prior experience. For example, if I tell you that a new doctor or lawyer can start at that wage it's misleading, because the lawyer first did 3 years of law school and the doctor did many years more.
The closest thing that comes to mind is computer programming or cybersecurity with a much shorter boot camp, but the field is extremely saturated right now and odds are you will have to start for much less to first get some experience.
Short of winning Powerball, there are no overnight shortcuts to wealth.
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amother
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Yesterday at 2:35 pm
| amother Amber wrote: | There's no "profession" that you can just start at 200k without significant education or prior experience. For example, if I tell you that a new doctor or lawyer can start at that wage it's misleading, because the lawyer first did 3 years of law school and the doctor did many years more.
The closest thing that comes to mind is computer programming or cybersecurity with a much shorter boot camp, but the field is extremely saturated right now and odds are you will have to start for much less to first get some experience.
Short of winning Powerball, there are no overnight shortcuts to wealth. |
100% I just graduated with my BA and dont know what I want to continue doing. Just trying to get some ideas.
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amother
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Yesterday at 2:43 pm
| amother Amber wrote: | There's no "profession" that you can just start at 200k without significant education or prior experience. For example, if I tell you that a new doctor or lawyer can start at that wage it's misleading, because the lawyer first did 3 years of law school and the doctor did many years more.
The closest thing that comes to mind is computer programming or cybersecurity with a much shorter boot camp, but the field is extremely saturated right now and odds are you will have to start for much less to first get some experience.
Short of winning Powerball, there are no overnight shortcuts to wealth. |
In fairness I was responding to this post in which it was claimed that no profession offered a start8ng salary of more than $200,000
$200000 is not a starting salary in any position or field.
It is a salary of someone who started much lower and with time and experience moved up on responsibilities and pay
Obviously you need to bring value to your employer and it was assumed that the person asking was prepared to do what was necessary in order to earn the salary.
Also the OP didn’t ask whether anyone had made that salary as soon as they started working so the fair conclusion was that OP was asking what professions one could train in that have a reasonable expectation of earning a high salary.
It is not reasonable to expect to ever make that salary as as an OT or secretary or teacher or nurse
It is reasonable to expect at least that salary as a doctor, lawyer, CPA or MBA. I am sure there are others but I am just enumerating the most obvious in which the average salary is at least that amount but could well go higher depending on specialty and ambition. 🤷♀️
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amother
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Yesterday at 3:49 pm
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Attorney here. I make well over that figure but own my firm. My firm specializes in our field, so other firms hire us to help them and clients also hire directly.
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amother
Oleander
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Yesterday at 4:22 pm
| amother Diamond wrote: | In fairness I was responding to this post in which it was claimed that no profession offered a start8ng salary of more than $200,000
$200000 is not a starting salary in any position or field.
It is a salary of someone who started much lower and with time and experience moved up on responsibilities and pay
Obviously you need to bring value to your employer and it was assumed that the person asking was prepared to do what was necessary in order to earn the salary.
Also the OP didn’t ask whether anyone had made that salary as soon as they started working so the fair conclusion was that OP was asking what professions one could train in that have a reasonable expectation of earning a high salary.
It is not reasonable to expect to ever make that salary as as an OT or secretary or teacher or nurse
It is reasonable to expect at least that salary as a doctor, lawyer, CPA or MBA. I am sure there are others but I am just enumerating the most obvious in which the average salary is at least that amount but could well go higher depending on specialty and ambition. 🤷♀️ |
An OT can definitely make 200 k if they own their own practice.
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amother
Green
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Yesterday at 4:24 pm
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I don’t make 200k but just wanted to hop in here and say WOW 🤩 amazing job ladies 👏
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amother
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Yesterday at 4:25 pm
| amother Oleander wrote: | | An OT can definitely make 200 k if they own their own practice. |
Do you mean if she owns her agency and gets a cut of the people who work for her?
A cleaning lady can make $200,000 if they own their own cleaning company but I think a reasonable assumption is that OP was asking about jobs rather than people who own lucrative businesses.
The road to making a high salary is much more certain if one is a lawyer, doctor, CPA etc than if one is an Occupational Therapist.
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amother
Tomato
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Yesterday at 4:32 pm
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I'm an OT making way less than that. And I work hard.
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cupcake123
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Yesterday at 4:49 pm
| amother Diamond wrote: | Do you mean if she owns her agency and gets a cut of the people who work for her?
A cleaning lady can make $200,000 if they own their own cleaning company but I think a reasonable assumption is that OP was asking about jobs rather than people who own lucrative businesses.
The road to making a high salary is much more certain if one is a lawyer, doctor, CPA etc than if one is an Occupational Therapist. |
A private pay OT that charges 200 an hour can make over 200k easy
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amother
Sage
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Yesterday at 5:06 pm
| cupcake123 wrote: | | A private pay OT that charges 200 an hour can make over 200k easy |
But this would not be a set salary this would be someone self employed and then no guarantee of salary.
Looks like law is the way to go 
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