Earning Big Money

Senna · 31-01-2016 08:38PM

barneystinson wrote: »

So am I, what's your point...!?

Who said accounts have no sense of humour.

markpb · 31-01-2016 10:52PM

Some of the posts here are laughable. 80k is not an enormous salary that requires niche skills, contacting, being on the road all the time or working 24/7.

From my experience in IT in mid-sized companies, developers with 8+ years experience can expect to earn at least e65k. Project managers with the same level of experience will earn at least e75k. Architects, development managers, IT operations managers will all earn at least e80k and usually quite a bit more. Those numbers are base salary - bonus, pension and healthcare would be on top of that and are almost always offered to permanent employees.

Those salaries are relatively easily achieved by people in their 30s who get a good degree and work hard.

It's true that people in those jobs don't work exactly 40 hours a week but it's not far more than that and usually there's an amount of flexibility around working hours that can reduce it below 40 from time to time.

Eric Cartman · 31-01-2016 11:02PM

markpb wrote: »

Some of the posts here are laughable. 80k is not an enormous salary that requires niche skills, contacting, being on the road all the time or working 24/7.

From my experience in IT in mid-sized companies, developers with 8+ years experience can expect to earn at least e65k. Project managers with the same level of experience will earn at least e75k. Architects, development managers, IT operations managers will all earn at least e80k and usually quite a bit more. Those numbers are base salary - bonus, pension and healthcare would be on top of that and are almost always offered to permanent employees.

Those salaries are relatively easily achieved by people in their 30s who get a good degree and work hard.

It's true that people in those jobs don't work exactly 40 hours a week but it's not far more than that and usually there's an amount of flexibility around working hours that can reduce it below 40 from time to time.

and when there are projects due, delays or issues those people will easily work well beyond 40 hours. theres a serious amount of money in not going home at 5pm , even in an "occasional" or "just in case" scenario.

and those positions usually require almost a decade of experience, which also pays.

the OP is looking for something high money with no experience out of college and a confined work week.

Experience + flexibility + education + hard work is the formula to earn big. OP has no. 3 , lacks 1 and doesn't want to engage in 2 or 4.

Boskowski · 01-02-2016 08:35AM

markpb wrote: »

Some of the posts here are laughable. 80k is not an enormous salary that requires niche skills, contacting, being on the road all the time or working 24/7.

From my experience in IT in mid-sized companies, developers with 8+ years experience can expect to earn at least e65k. Project managers with the same level of experience will earn at least e75k. Architects, development managers, IT operations managers will all earn at least e80k and usually quite a bit more. Those numbers are base salary - bonus, pension and healthcare would be on top of that and are almost always offered to permanent employees.

Those salaries are relatively easily achieved by people in their 30s who get a good degree and work hard.

It's true that people in those jobs don't work exactly 40 hours a week but it's not far more than that and usually there's an amount of flexibility around working hours that can reduce it below 40 from time to time.

It depends I'd say, in Dublin thats true, up the country its little harder to make that money. But agreed, while it's a pretty good salary, its not an outlandish salary and its very do-able if you're decent at your job. But its not going to be offered to someone just rolling out of college paired with a cushy number.

I was talking about niche skills but in a different context?

Permabear · 01-02-2016 01:07PM

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seamus · 01-02-2016 02:00PM

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Friend of my wife's actually managed to land an 80k job in a big law firm, effectively straight out of college. She had pursued law and so ended up in college for about 8 years, went off international for a couple of years and then came back to finish off her exams (bar exam, etc). Whatever way it happened, she got hired into this firm on condition that she pass all her exams in the next six months and found herself sitting in her own office with a leather chair, a secretary and an 80k salary.
Aside from her boss being a bit of a dick, she had difficulty reconciling the whole thing (imposter syndrome) and grew to really dislike it. Being single and still living with her parents she basically pocketed a load of cash, passed her exams and then quit and set up on her own. Earning a lot less now and working twice as hard, but much happier.

Zascar · 01-02-2016 04:40PM

You get paid based on the value you bring to your employer. If you want to make bing money - you have to be bring a huge amount of value to the company in terms of revenue - it can be 5-10x your salary. If you working a revenue generating function, you are more likely to make more money. It was mentioned briefly already but if you really want to make big money and you don't have a string of degrees, IT Sales is where you want to look. 100k is very achievable after a few years - if you are good - as said already. Its not for everyone and its not an easy job, but if you do what your told and you give it everything, it can be extremely rewarding. There are also oodles of IT Sales jobs in Dublin right now. My company cannot hire enough good people - the competition in the market for candidates is huge.

Have a read of this article on how to make 100k in 3 years out of college - lots of people are doing it. Its' going to be hard work but the rewards are there.

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