What do you do that you earn six figures?

r/financialindependence • u/fidgit86 • Aug 13 '21

It seems like a lot of people make a lot of money and it seems like I’m missing out on something. So those of you that do, whats your occupation that pays so well?

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u/FatFiredProgrammer Aug 13 '21

Software development. We're all software developers here. True story.

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u/jetf [30% to 5MM] 30yo Aug 13 '21

some of us are product managers, ok

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u/pn_dubya Aug 13 '21

Hey PM don’t you have 200 emails to answer? Get off Reddit sheesh

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u/machonm Aug 13 '21

PM here also but I've been on vacation for the last two weeks. Your comment made me curious about my unread email count. I am anal about a clean inbox so when I left, there were only three unread emails I left as a reminder for something I wanted to take care of. As of now I am sitting at 2,347 unread mails. Figure I'll be around 2,600-2,700 by the time I decide to do actual work on Monday which is of course the obligatory 6-10hrs of meetings.

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u/GhettoGopher Aug 13 '21

Turn off your JIRA email notifications. Godspeed.

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u/Powerlevel-9000 Aug 13 '21

We use Jira and confluence which both send emails. The first thing I did was send all confluence emails to junk mail and all JIRA emails to a JIRA folder where I can quickly see if I need to follow up on anything.

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u/machonm Aug 13 '21

Well said friend, well said

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u/allybearound Aug 13 '21

I sort them into a special folder called “trash”

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u/buzzsawddog Aug 13 '21

But I need to know when someone rejects works for me...

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u/IanCal Aug 13 '21

If you ignore enough of them gmail starts counting them as spam.

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u/NotChristina 32F | 6k total NW with debt and a dream Aug 13 '21

I turned off my Jira emails ages ago but I also rarely check it so I just message our PMs asking the status of various tickets. 😂

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u/AssaultLemming Aug 13 '21

I have a folder and an Outlook rule for jira and I never, ever, look in it.

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u/mikasjoman Aug 13 '21

Jira? He's using excel for EVERYTHING -, such a power tool! No, the emails are requests to change password and join meetings about prepping for other meetings.

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u/dabbadabbadone Aug 13 '21

Ha! My company makes me update JIRA and Excel for everything just because. Definitely not confusing maintaining backlogs on different programs.

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u/burnfaith 29d ago

Lmao. Truth.