I work for union pacific, and earn 65,000 dollars a year. Could I have made more if I had finished college? Sure.
This is all arbitrary. (I don’t spell well. )
All in all, the SAT’s and ACT’s are a crock of shit. I test well but lack the motivation to do much else.
Ok, 65K and whatever I make setting marble tile on the weekends is fine with me. Honestly, I could make more putting in $14 dollar a sq. foot marble in your house. I should but I am lazy.
Test scores mean nothing, ( I have ALWAYS come out 98% on Iowa test of basic skills.) I work at a railroad, set tile on the side, had a 1440 S.A.T., and will still retire by 50. I know plenty of people that didn’t go to college and make more than the educated ones.
Spent a total of 5 years with a legal publisher, 2 years FT then 3 years PT while I worked on my second B.A. (Hey jeevmon - got any Matthew Bender books on your shelf? ) Grad student for 7 years, post-doc for 3 years, now finishing up first year as a FT geologist with a small consulting company.
B.A. (communications), Fordham University
B.A. (geology), Hunter College, CUNY
Ph.D. (geology), Columbia University
SAT scores: I don’t know my individual scores, so I had to divide by 2, then adjust, then add back together. That’s an estimate, folks!
Ratio: On that scale, I’m at about $75 per.
College + experience: I dropped out of college to go on the rock & roll road, then went back to get my degree, then quit to do music again, then went back into business. Total computer geek experience, about 12 years, total R&R experience about 12 years, too. My major before I dropped out was Math/Physics. My degree is a BS in Business.
~$48.28 per point, depending on how my bonuses come out this year, using the adjusted numbers. (I’ve never actually seen the chart before - I would have had an 800 verbal if I had been born a few years later?!? No fair!)
Graduated from Alfred University in 1998 with a BS in Management (MIS concentration), Comp Sci minor. Five+ years as… a pretty straightforward job that’s hard to sum up into a nice little title. You could probably call me a combination programmer / benefits analyst / client team tech manager for a major HR outsourcing company.
$3.55 per point. I’m not salaried but per hour, so I figured that the past three weeks will be more average than the first four weeks were, when I was just starting to get hours. Plus I test extremely well for being apathetic (1350, so you can figure out my projected yearly if you’re bored).
When I get into grade school teaching, I should be “charging” about $22 per point. Meantime, anyone who wants to make donations to the iampunha scholarship and general well-being fund is more than welcome:D
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) Grad student for 7 years, post-doc for 3 years, now finishing up first year as a FT geologist with a small consulting company.
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