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i am an animal care assistant in a veterinary hospital..when im not taking care of Foulcault

75k is very good money.

coco

I have had sooooo many different ways of supporting my eccentric inner life...

I currently work in development for a medium sized healthcare management software company. This job at this point in my life (54 ) is fine. Pays well for Vermont (50k+) and gives great benefits. I feel like I have a mom and dad again...as long as I keep my room clean and get good grades.

I photograph toys and do voiceovers for anime.

I finally got a job this week I'm paid a decent amount of money to tell some company whether the thing they make works correctly or not, then I have to pay almost all this money as taxes.

(but I really really wish I were Sam Barros)

In some parts of CA, 75k is good (and it IS good, I don't mean to take the wind out of your sails) but here in San Francisco, 75k doesn't get you much, if anything. You could get a studio condo - maybe a 1bd. Other parts of the state get you much more for your dollar, but you have to live in those areas - it's a trade off for sure.

It can be, depending on where you live.

Then who the hell lives in SF??? George Soros?? And why would you want to for that price....it must be a ripoff scam...

Not a ripoff scam.. just high demand with low, low supply. SF is a very desirable city to live in, but due to outdated city planning restrictions, and overall bay area growth pressures, the prices for a condo/home in SF are sky-high.

Edited to add example:

1bd, 1.5 ba loft in SOMA - $599,000 (plus $300/mo. in HOA dues)

Eh...no thanks, I'll stay here in Virginia.

Housing in SF - and in much of California - is WOOOOAAAAAHHHHHH MERCY!

coco

I was a writer in a previous life, working for Lloyd's Register of Shipping. The Classification Society, not the insurance people. I got the job originally because I was so convinced I didn't have a hope in hell of getting it that I relaxed and let things take their course. At the time, I was working for EMI electronics as an editorial assistant, which involved proof reading deadly dull manuals for stuff and supervising a typing pool full of women old enough to be my mother...or grandmother.

Lloyd's Register has a single application form which runs to many pages, which they use for both technical and administrative jobs. As I dropped out of teacher training college after a couple of terms (because of a bad experience on teaching practice in an all-girl's convent) I didn't have a degree, or any specific qualifications in journalism. I filled in the form, but I had to leave whole swathes of it blank. Degrees and higher education, membership of professional bodies, postgraduate studies etc. I was tempted to leave and forego the humiliation of the interviewing process, but I decided that it was good experience for the future and stuck around.

Against all the odds, the managing editor had also not been to University and was less disposed to employ graduates because of his experience with them. So I got the job.

I started out as an editorial assistant on a pittance which was only four times the cost of getting into work on the underground, and left on a VERY good salary 15 years ago, to have my family. In that time I had climbed the ladder, edited the staff magazine for a couple of years (involved trips to Europe clambering around industrial plant and shipyards), assisted with the technical magazine and Annual Reports (which involved not getting drunk at the Press Conference and trying not to spell clients' names or the names of their ships wrong), and eventually moved into management (where I worked hard to stop my juniors being paid an absolute pittance).

I am good at management, but I missed the creative stuff terribly, so I wasn't desperately sad to leave the job, Metropolitan Line and London Underground behind me.

I have done a lot of freelance stuff since then...I have started a staff magazine for a local company, worked as newsletter editor for a local charity, worked as an administrator for the local law society. I must admit I had thought that I would be back in full-time work by now, but the decision to withdraw my children from school and home educate them caused a bit of a revision in my plans. I have started to contribute articles on alternative education to a few magazines. If I could find some regular freelance work, that would be perfect .

My huge problem in RL as in SL is that I am a bit good at a lot of things, and not terribly good at anything, except writing. I am interested in almost everything. So it makes it hard to choose. I have done my family history and would enjoy being a full-time genealogist...I love making jewellery, painting, drawing and would love to do that full time...I write music and sing folk and would love to do that...I have been writing blogs since I first got online in 1998, when mine was one of only five UK blogs...I love to write anything - poetry, factual articles, fiction.

I may have to return to work in whatever I can get, in which case I shall probably work in administration or publications, I expect. In the meantime I am a home educator/writer/SL builder.
Cali

Virginia or SF. For me, not even a consideration - I'll pay the premium, thanks.

I should state, I moved here from New Jersey. (Although, that may tip me more towards the bad end of the scale than the good...) So I'm not a "true southerner" (or even close, really). (Other than the fact that I think they were tough cookies fighting in the Civil War.)

Heh. I pay more for my 1bd apartment in ghetto LA than my mom pays monthly for her victorian-ish house she had built on her plot of land in the country in Texas (featuring a separate 2-story garage with upper level deck and spiral staircase). v_v

I do data entry and live check to check. Have a B.A. from USC film school. Did film for a while before 9-11, industry slowed after; I got out of the loop and never got back in. Don't think I really want to at this point. Got fucked over a lot in the year following college, so I'm not too fond of LA people. Decided to keep humiliating (yet consistent) job to make ends meet while I write music and read books.

I argue against people who wish to unjustly use the judicial process as a means of stealing large sums of money from my clients.

How much do you steal, err, I mean charge for those services?

$140usd/hr

And I don't steal from my clients, I keep people from stealing from my clients.

Just to clarify in the off chance someone might actually take my 'how much do you steal, errr charge' question seriously:

I was joking with the 'steal' comment, it was a play on the largely negative view the common man has of those in the legal profession. No harm or malice intended and it was not a suggestion that Jake actually steals anything from anyone at anytime. I'm sure that Jake is a more than upstanding citizen.

To recap: Jake does not steal. He keeps people from stealing from his clients.

Thanks for sharing! Lots of interesting professions.

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