# Waddaya do and waddya earn for it?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/waddaya-do-and-waddya-earn-for-it/50809
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [January 19, 2001, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/waddaya-do-and-waddya-earn-for-it/50809 "2001-01-19T04:19:32Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@TheMoonGazer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheMoonGazer)
#### Post date: [January 19, 2001, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/waddaya-do-and-waddya-earn-for-it/50809/1 "2001-01-19T04:19:32Z")
After reading many, many posts through the board, in all categories, I’d just like to know a few things.
Like: What type of work you posters do and what is your rough yearly salary?
Me? Area supervisor of distribution and sales. (You don’t need to list your company.) $40,000 yearly.
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### Author:  [@Thrashbarg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thrashbarg)
#### Post date: [January 19, 2001, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/waddaya-do-and-waddya-earn-for-it/50809/2 "2001-01-19T04:49:59Z")
I’m the media buyer for a Native American casino.
I make roughly $30,000/yr.
GROSSLY underpaid if ya ask me, but the work’s fun. And I get to wear a tie! And deal with media reps all day! And do budget battle with management types! And…and…crap.
I was feeling good today, up til about now…
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### Author:  [@Sir\_Rhosis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_Rhosis)
#### Post date: [January 19, 2001, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/waddaya-do-and-waddya-earn-for-it/50809/3 "2001-01-19T04:56:15Z")
CNC (Computer Numeric Control) Machinist. $35,000.00/yr.
Basically just a machinist with a little more knowledge of tool programming than most.
Sir
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### Author:  [@Upham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Upham)
#### Post date: [January 19, 2001, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/waddaya-do-and-waddya-earn-for-it/50809/4 "2001-01-19T04:56:49Z")
Nothing
and
Nothing
thank you so very much for reminding me.
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### Author:  [@Silver\_Fire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silver_Fire)
#### Post date: [January 19, 2001, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/waddaya-do-and-waddya-earn-for-it/50809/5 "2001-01-19T04:59:14Z")
I’m a singer. I’m taking a break though, so I make $0.00/year right now.
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### Author:  [@Tripler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tripler)
#### Post date: [January 19, 2001, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/waddaya-do-and-waddya-earn-for-it/50809/6 "2001-01-19T05:10:37Z")
I’m a military officer, and I get $23k a year. A mere pittance, but life goes on . . .
Tripler
USAF Civil Engineer, and damn proud of it!
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### Author:  [@Survey1215](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Survey1215)
#### Post date: [January 19, 2001, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/waddaya-do-and-waddya-earn-for-it/50809/7 "2001-01-19T05:10:56Z")
Assistant Director of Undergraduate Admissions for a midsize, private university. I make about 32,000/year and all the free grad school I can take.
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### Author:  [@MikeG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MikeG)
#### Post date: [January 19, 2001, 5:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/waddaya-do-and-waddya-earn-for-it/50809/8 "2001-01-19T05:48:43Z")
Kitchen Designer
not enough to deal w/ the bullshit
33K
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### Author:  [@Bad\_Hat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bad_Hat)
#### Post date: [January 19, 2001, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/waddaya-do-and-waddya-earn-for-it/50809/9 "2001-01-19T05:49:40Z")
I am a composer/sound designer/audio consultant/engineer. (self employed currently) Its freelance work so it varies widely. I was mid $20Ks last year, my projection for this year is low $30Ks.
(Shameless plug: if anybody is in the special events or marketing or theatre or media fields in the chicago area and needs an audio guy and pays decent, drop me a line at [TophJJ@aol.com](mailto:TophJJ@aol.com)).
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### Author:  [@Flutterby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flutterby)
#### Post date: [January 19, 2001, 5:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/waddaya-do-and-waddya-earn-for-it/50809/10 "2001-01-19T05:56:25Z")
Nothing and Nothing as well.
Unless you count being a student (High School so I don’t have to deal with huge tuitions just yet but I will very very soon)
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### Author:  [@Amazing\_Tiki\_God](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amazing_Tiki_God)
#### Post date: [January 19, 2001, 6:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/waddaya-do-and-waddya-earn-for-it/50809/11 "2001-01-19T06:11:46Z")
I’m a college student but I also have a job I work at year round. I’m a computer lab student consultant and technician. Sounds great huh? I make under 5K a year at this job. Stupid maximum working hour a week thing. Other than that I’m a driver. I drive my girlfriend around EVERYWHERE. Other than that I don’t do anything
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### Author:  [@Cumber](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cumber)
#### Post date: [January 19, 2001, 6:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/waddaya-do-and-waddya-earn-for-it/50809/12 "2001-01-19T06:33:59Z")
I’m a (very junior, only finished school in '99) software developer. If I was full time I would earn $22,000/year (that’s $AUS though, so it’s only around 11-12K in $US, I think). I go to uni part time as well. If I was just part time at work I’d be earning $13.2K/year. But I usually go full time during the uni break, so what I actually earn is more like $15-16K.
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### Author:  [@oldscratch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/oldscratch)
#### Post date: [January 19, 2001, 6:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/waddaya-do-and-waddya-earn-for-it/50809/13 "2001-01-19T06:49:03Z")
I’m almost with **Upham**
Instead I work infrequently as a bartender… and infrequently make upwards of $50 an hour. I haven’t worked for about a month though.
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### Author:  [@Upham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Upham)
#### Post date: [January 19, 2001, 7:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/waddaya-do-and-waddya-earn-for-it/50809/14 "2001-01-19T07:00:47Z")
**Oldscratch** I hear ya man, i miss the tending days. I seldom tip my self after fixin’ a screwdriver to put my moneyless arce to bed.
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### Author:  [@oldscratch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/oldscratch)
#### Post date: [January 19, 2001, 7:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/waddaya-do-and-waddya-earn-for-it/50809/15 "2001-01-19T07:06:41Z")
yeah yeah…
Damnit… if only there was some way to tip myself and make money. I’d be RICH RICH I tells ya.
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### Author:  [@Bill\_H](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bill_H)
#### Post date: [January 19, 2001, 7:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/waddaya-do-and-waddya-earn-for-it/50809/16 "2001-01-19T07:08:11Z")
For the last year, I’ve started and run a network security business. As I’m an investor, I’ve paid very heavily for the priviledge of working there.
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### Author:  [@tisiphone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tisiphone)
#### Post date: [January 19, 2001, 7:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/waddaya-do-and-waddya-earn-for-it/50809/17 "2001-01-19T07:29:25Z")
According to my job profile, I’m a Helpdesk Customer Support Technician at Cdn$58,000k a year. Which is about 75 cents American.
However, since I’m the (oogh)Micro$oft SQL 7.0 Admin, and the (yeergh)Micro$oft System Management Server Admin, and I don’t gotta answer that freakin’ phone anymore, I’ve been lobbying for a title change. The wheels of corporate time grind even slower than Robert Jordan’s books.
Tisiphone
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### Author:  [@zyzzyva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zyzzyva)
#### Post date: [January 19, 2001, 7:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/waddaya-do-and-waddya-earn-for-it/50809/18 "2001-01-19T07:30:29Z")
Web designer/ColdFusion developer for a law firm’s intranet. It just doesn’t get more exciting than that!
$64,000/year - i guess i can afford boredom.
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### Author:  [@ramesh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ramesh)
#### Post date: [January 19, 2001, 7:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/waddaya-do-and-waddya-earn-for-it/50809/19 "2001-01-19T07:35:04Z")
research assistant - 17K before taxes. If I had a life, I probably would whine. right now, Iam doing just fine…
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### Author:  [@Juniper200](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Juniper200)
#### Post date: [January 19, 2001, 8:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/waddaya-do-and-waddya-earn-for-it/50809/20 "2001-01-19T08:18:25Z")
I’m a user consultant in the university computer labs (job description: help freshmen open their Hotmail). Since I’m a full time student, I’m only at this job part-time and I take the summers off. I’ve never added things up, but if I had to take a wild guess, I’d say that I make about $3500/yr doing this. Good thing I live in the dorms, huh? 🙂
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