I'm assuming OP is interested in pay grade so I'll include it.
Graduated with my psych degree. A few months before grad I realized I needed a better plan. Went to school to an AT-CTI program after graduating with my BA in Psych (AT-CTI is a degree in Air Traffic Control), which at this point is obsolete; the FAA no longer holds separate hiring announcements available to grads. At the time, it was a separate path into the FAA versus off-the-street or ex-military. Now everybody just applies to the same bid. That changed right after I graduated, sons of bitches.
Anyway, after graduating from that I worked a few months at an FBO refueling private planes ($10/hr). That didn't last long before I got a job as a bookkeeper for a scaffolding/mechanical insulation company($24/hr straight time, $36/hr OT, 91 hour weeks). Shortly into that job I had applied and was rejected to the FAA, despite my 3.8 GPA in CTI, 100% on CTO exam(what employed controllers must take to work solo in a tower), and "well-qualified" result on the AT-SAT (entry) exam.
On my last project with them I had applied for and was rejected as a railroad dispatcher. I was trying to get back to transportation, and as luck would have it, I met a friend of a friend who got my foot in the door dispatching tugboats/tank barges on the intracoastal waterway and Mississippi river system (salary $45k/yr).
I was glad to get into transportation, although I took a slight pay cut from scaffolding. I enjoyed the job, but did not see a career trajectory that I liked in that company. I applied again to the railroad for a dispatching position, and this time I was accepted. The day that I got my acceptance there, I put in another application to the FAA.
Currently I work as a train dispatcher for a Class 1 railroad making just under $95k. I have also gotten my 2nd application to the FAA back and I have been accepted to begin training in 2017. I was given the en route option, which means I'll almost certainly be in a level 12 facility which is top pay grade, and if I take it I would eventually be earning more than I do now. So now I have an interesting decision to make, but I have a while to make it.
The kicker is that the FAA won't tell you where you go until you're committed. With there being 20-something en route centers nationwide, I know it would at least be near a big city. However, I like not paying state income tax, and run the risk of ending up in some shithole like LA paying out my ass if I go to the FAA.