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2015 $118,500 same consulting gig. Saving for kids college
2014 $117,000 same consulting gig. Saving for kids college
2013 $113,700 new consulting gig. Same as the other one. Same people. Same work.
2012 $110,100 same consulting gig. Saving for kids college
2011 $106,800 same consulting gig. Saving for kids college. It would be nice to have a new kitchen. (house built in 1848), but not until kids are out of college.
2010 $106,800 same consulting gig. Socking away $1500/mo for kids college. No chance of getting financial aid for college.
2009 $106,800 same consulting gig. For the first time, I actually have excess income to spend on other crap.
2008 $102,000 consulting gig. Actually getting pretty good at this. Lots of SAN/new storage work.
2007 $97,500 new consulting gig. Same as the other one. Housing Market is crashing. Bought a fixer upper rental on 5 acres for $70k. Was sold for 210K at the peak. Dang! If I had known better I would have tried to buy more.
2006 $94,200 consulting gig. New and exciting work every couple days/weeks. Lots of unix storage and platform migrations. MAX OUT 401K
2005 $90,000 consulting gig. New and exciting work every couple days/weeks. Lots of unix storage and platform migrations
2004 $87,900 consulting gig. New and exciting work every couple days/weeks. Lots of unix storage and platform migrations. PAID OFF SCHOOL LOANS from 1987. Bought a cheap waterfront shack. Soft housing market. $45K. HELOC on $150K house. Son Born.
2003 $87,000 consulting gig. New and exciting work every couple days/weeks. Lots of unix storage and platform migrations bought $150K house.
2002 $83,953 1 year at a much easier job. Mortgage boom. Mortgage company. Working 3 hours a day. Harrassing coworkers the rest of the time. Left to work consulting gig.sold 57K house for 120K.
2001 $80,400 burn out. Cashed out my 80k 401k before the crash. Probably not a bad decision.
2000 $64,199 AIX admin. I kinda know what I am doing, and willing to work 100+ hrs a week. Daughter born. Make it through Y2K. Spend much time at work. Am now responsible for storage for whatever reason.
1999 $51,956 Unix Admin(AIX) at big company. 8k raise. I have no idea what I am doing. I am indebted forever to the other admin. We work 80-100+/hrs a week. It is a meatgrinder. I learn a lot of shit.read a lot of Redbooks.
1998 $43,343 I am RICH. Fulltime at a big company. Helpdesk. 50K/yr. IT is booming. I am not house poor. I can pay my bills. I start to repay my school loans. Kinda.
1997 $27,505 fuck law school. Job pays the same as bad lawyers.I am RICH. Fulltime at a big company. Helpdesk. 36K/yr. I am not house poor. I can pay my bills. I start to repay my school loans. Kinda.
1996 $22,259 Law School. Bad law school. Another 15K loan. Working IT back office 40 hours.
1995 $18,197 Law School. Bad law school. 15K loan. Working IT back office sometimes.buy a house 57K.
1994 $3,148 7 yrs raduating. Telemarketing. BA Psychology degree. Stellar LSAT. B average. No money. Get married.move .
1993 $4,983 Telemarketing. No idea what I was doing.taking random classes. Working towards psychology degree. It made sense at the time.
1992 $7,886 Telemarketing (selling magazine subscriptions). Back in college. No idea what I was doing.
1991 $6,202 dominos pizza. Local community college. Just took classes for some reason or another.
1990 $7,553 dominos pizza. Lived at home. Lots of punk rock shows.
1989 $5,235 left somewhat prestigious university. C average. Too much time spent listening to music and going to concerts.
1988 $3,481 accepted at somewhat prestigious university. Took on 10K loan. Painted dorm rooms in the summer.
1987 $1,872 high school sr. some computer tutoring to middle school students
1986 $674 worked at the local fair. Sold fries.
1985 $299 16 worked at the local fair. Sold fries and also 2 weeks at Hardees. Realized I didn’t want to work at Hardees forever.