Just curious to what everyones major is and how their first job was, and how they enjoyed it as well as where they are today. see who had the killer starting pay.
Whats your major, first job ect.
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English Education. Student Teaching this spring. Looking for that "killer" paycheck of 24K a year when I graduate. 
Graduated last spring in Finance and work at IBM. I'm not making the killer pay, but compared to what I have been use to in college and high school it feels like i'm making tons.
CprE 2001... First job... the company went bankrupt, lost 2 months pay...
Everything is good now though.
Everything is good now though.
Just out of my own personal curiousity, what is the difference between starting teacher pay, and other professional pay? I know teachers start between 20K and 26K, so I'm just wondering.
I started my first job out of college at $40k. I got a comp sci major in 1997. Went to work right after school for an ISP.
Industrial Education and Technology Major with an empahsis in Occupational Safety. I graduated in the fall of 1997. I started working for a roofing company in summer of 1996 and I am still here. I am now one of the Project Managers. I make enough money to keep on buyin' supper for the table.
Can't spell "geek" without "double e".
Elec Eng, though I told the ladies I was El Ed ... went a little something like this:
x: "so whats your major?"
me: "double E"
x: "oh ... ummm... engineering huh? (begins scanning crowd)"
me: "no, El-Ed ... I love kids"
x: "oh my God! Me too!"
Elec Eng, though I told the ladies I was El Ed ... went a little something like this:
x: "so whats your major?"
me: "double E"
x: "oh ... ummm... engineering huh? (begins scanning crowd)"
me: "no, El-Ed ... I love kids"
x: "oh my God! Me too!"
Journalism and Mass Communication with minors in Economics and Psychology (minors tend to develop when you change your major 5 times and use Economics and Psychology as filler classes :wink
Good enough to land me a job as a Technical Writer for the Army (civilian), although I'm looking into getting either into Inventory Management or Logistics Management.
Started out as a GS-05 ($27,000); after year 1 GS-07 ($35,000); year 2 GS-09 ($43,000), year 3 GS-11 ($52,000). Now that I'm an -11 I'm a permanent employee. I'm hoping to get my GS-12 in April ($65,000).
Good enough to land me a job as a Technical Writer for the Army (civilian), although I'm looking into getting either into Inventory Management or Logistics Management.
Started out as a GS-05 ($27,000); after year 1 GS-07 ($35,000); year 2 GS-09 ($43,000), year 3 GS-11 ($52,000). Now that I'm an -11 I'm a permanent employee. I'm hoping to get my GS-12 in April ($65,000).
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Journalism and Mass Communication with minors in Economics and Psychology (minors tend to develop when you change your major 5 times and use Economics and Psychology as filler classes :wink
Good enough to land me a job as a Technical Writer for the Army (civilian), although I'm looking into getting either into Inventory Management or Logistics Management.
Started out as a GS-05 ($27,000); after year 1 GS-07 ($35,000); year 2 GS-09 ($43,000), year 3 GS-11 ($52,000). Now that I'm an -11 I'm a permanent employee. I'm hoping to get my GS-12 in April ($65,000).
I'm a Technical Writer, too. Got my degree in Tech Comm in May 07, and working in Austin for $42K. Not killer, but way more than the $8.50/hr I was making my last semester in a dingy basement. Plus no state income tax in Texas helps.
Biology Major, graduated in 2002. I started as a Assistant Scientist (Lab Technician) in a lab at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis at around $34k. I'm now in grad school working on the PhD and make less than that.