Is your job on this list?

Intellivision said:
Yeah? Good stuff.

My role is basically a hybrid of #42 and #46 according to the job descriptions they say.
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I'm actually two:

#1 is my career and I do #9 on the side as well as more #1 on the side.
 
#1

Although #9 is Web Developer and #30 is Computer Programmer.

I think my job title is changing to Software Developer; it was Web Applications Developer and before that Applications Developer.
 
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#62 Insurance Agent. Nice to see I'm in the top 10% earners but I've been doing it for a couple decades now. Great flexibility, work my own hours but there were definitely some lean years in the beginning. Not many make it early on but if you stick with it your renewals have you set for life.
 
#40 High School Teacher. It's not a bad life and every day is different. You just have to ignore your co-workers and gossip and instead focus on the kids.
 
Didn't even realize there were salary details. Hmm, what's a guy got to do to bump into the Mean Salary for Software Developer!? My guess is work more than 1.5 years.
 
#2 :)

Yeah, they have 83,800 as the average. I'm at 75k.....time to ask for a raise.
 
both my occupations didn't make the list.
I'm a part time fortune cookie writer and full-time chicken sexer.
 
Anderson said:
Man, that's a sobering list. There is some overlap between the two (e.g., pharmacists, lawyers, physicians, dentists).
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Guess it's somewhat true what they say about money not buying happiness.
 
Z A C K said:
Guess it's somewhat true what they say about money not buying happiness.
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Yup. Most research shows that above a modest income, money and happiness have very little correlation. "Modest income" meaning about 50K/yr, iirc (for an individual, I believe). You see the biggest correlations when you compare people living in poverty to those who are just above that level (that's where money really does buy happiness). You get diminishing returns (in terms of increased happiness) as you move closer to 50K and very little increase beyond that level.

Those are all based on statistical averages, of course. In other words, ymmv.
 
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Software dev no.1? Seems there's always studios shutting or trimming numbers i wouldn't wanna work in a volatile environment like that, pretty biased list imo i would take my job working outside using my hands over most if not all desk jobs.
 
bullzeye said:
Software dev no.1? Seems there's always studios shutting or trimming numbers i wouldn't wanna work in a volatile environment like that, pretty biased list imo i would take my job working outside using my hands over most if not all desk jobs.
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They may shut down jobs a lot, but the amount of jobs available severely trumps that.
 
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