if you feel comfortable posting that information. I'm mostly curious since theres a stereotype about libertarians as the rich looking out for their own interests(no I dont think its true...)
Anywho I'm 24, I work at furniture store and write comics when I'm off. I make about $27,000 a year from my 'regular' job and another $2,000-$3,000 from comic sales(although that figure continues to grow).
26, I spy on homeowner's for the banks. It's a horrible depressing job I accidentally fell into before I fully understood what was going on. And none of my over 20 applications and 5 resumes I have sent out have hit yet.
In States a fresh law is looked upon as a remedy for evil. Instead of themselves altering what is bad, people begin by demanding a law to alter it. ... In short, a law everywhere and for everything!
~Peter Kropotkin
I'm 29, PhD student, making grad student pay (sigh....). To get a better idea:
http://www.phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=1086
I'm 26 and a physical therapist, own and operate a private practice with an associate. I gross around 250k, but don't let that fool you...
19 and starting school in September.
20 (almost 21), college student and about to become a realtor.
Freedom has always been the only route to progress.
I'm 30 and I'm a computer engineer. I'm looking for a way to break out of the statistical average. I know I'm much smarter than all but one or two of my peers but on paper I'm just a bachelor's + 5 years experience. Within the company, the only way to break out of the bell curve is to kiss ass and go into management. But that's a losing game, too, in the long run.
Clayton -
I'm 27 in my last year of college as a finance major. My wife makes all the money
21, I work at Disneyland at the bottom of the ladder. Want discounted tickets? Haha.
This is apparently a Man Talk Forum: No Women Allowed!
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Telpeurion: 21, I work at Disneyland at the bottom of the ladder. Want discounted tickets? Haha.
To paraphrase Marc Faber: We're all doomed, but that doesn't mean that we can't make money in the process. Rabbi Lapin: "Let's make bricks!" Stephan Kinsella: "Say you and I both want to make a German chocolate cake."
People are usually so enthusiastic until I tell them that I'll need their credit card number to buy the voucher. Oops.
Teleperurion! I am friends with this girl Ruth who works at The Tower in Disneyland. We went to the same college at one time.
I got a BS in Mech Eng back in March. I'm 24 I think... Underemployed at this chemical manufacturing plant as an operator for ~ $13/hr.
1st year Mechanical engineering student, might end up going either co-op or MS/BS, have to wait till second semester to decide..
I highly recommend the co-op. But I don't know what MS/BS refers to :)
Wibee, I don't think I know her. There are 30,000, give or take, cast members and I know less than 30.
I'm 23 and a Financial Economics major, International Economics minor. I work for UPS part-time and I make $14/hour (although I'm trying to find a different job).
MS/BS is Masters and Bachelors of Science, but I'd have to stay and extra year, its a "Fast Track" program for engineering majors- so I'd walk out of school a little less than 5 years from know with only what experience I could get in the summers, but have both a Masters and Bachelors of Mechanical Engineering. I don't think I'd go this path as some of my scholarships will run out after 4...
but the co-op is a "3 in 4" where its 3 semseter co-op in 4 yrs of school.. something I know will be nice... help pay down some of these loans now, not later at 12 points above market...
@Wibee: You are definitely underpaid. A close friend of mine received an offer from Exxon just out of school (BS Mech Eng from Oregon State University) for $68K. Granted, this was before the market went down in flames in 08/09. I recommend you start sending your resume to companies in the petroleum industry.
I'm 30 and I'm a computer engineer. I'm looking for a way to break out of the statistical average. I know I'm much smarter than all but one or two of my peers but on paper I'm just a bachelor's + 5 years experience. Within the company, the only way to break out of the bell curve is to kiss ass and go into management. But that's a losing game, too, in the long run. Clayton -
That makes two of us only I have just two years experience. What field are you in?
Twenty-three and unemployed. Well, I've been doing freelance videography and have at least one ongoing project for the rest of the year, but I'm still looking for stable, conventional employment.
Until then, I deserve free money!
I'm still looking for stable, conventional employment.
I understand the desire to have the comfort of that bi-monthly paycheck but I think, on the whole, it's an illusion. Maybe you're in the wrong industry, but working for an employer won't make your life any more secure in real terms. Since you're already outside the system, I recommend you work on finding a way to grow your income (and thereby increase its stability) without having to give in to the system. The system is pure evil, stay out if you can.
Where do you live? I live in Fullerton, a few miles north of Disneyland.
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Riverside and Orange.
Telpeurion: Riverside and Orange.
Awesome.
24, electro-mechanical technician, around 30-35,000 take home.
29, Adjunct Math Professor & Mental Health Counselor--->Between55-65k
Read until you have something to write...Write until you have nothing to write...when you have nothing to write, read...read until you have something to write...Jeremiah
Heh, yea I agree...I'm actually working on making enough from comic sales to be able to quit my 'regular' job.
24, Software engineer, $55-65K.
To you fellow Orange County people. I live in Tustin and work in Irvine. We might want to start up an Orange County Mises meetup group...might be fun.
29, Corporate Security 39,000-45,000/ year. (depends on bonuses)
Criminals, there ought to be a law.
Criminals there ought to be a whole lot more. Bon Scott.
23, attempting to start up a video game company with my old roommates. I just got my BS in software engineering, and my roommates got theirs in Graphic Design and Game Design. Current income, about 5200 a year.
Almost 22, unemployed, trying to get started on programming.
24 yeard old and from England. I left school at 16 and went straight into work. I took many entry level and temporary office jobs, but either quit or got fired from all of them. I am living in Alabama at the moment, and have returned to college. For financial reasons, I decided to do my first two years at a community college. I am a sophomore and attempting to finish my "core classes", or whatever they're called. I have been earning money in the mean time labouring and working at a local gas station.
30 years old
BS. Computer Science
Master of Information Systems
Working as a software engineer at a real estate asset management company -> $75k per year.
Jeez, 6 of us are coders. Is there something about creating code that makes you libertarian?
^ IT is the most unregulated market at the moment IMO
19, College Student (Economics and Political Science double major), plan is to stagger onward to law school; currently employed at a theme park seasonally while school is out. Spending money (I am a saving machine) goes toward an ever growing collection of liberty reading material.
Gabriel, sure. Send me a PM.
Lol I almost went into software coding. I was going to go to a school specifically for programming but at the last 3 months of my high school career decided to go to a regular college for English.
Another one, here. Currently doing my MSc. in computer and information science. I need to get into the work world soon enough. I think it'll be much more worth my time.