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

What do you do that you earn six figures?

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/737900ER pls fix Aug 13 '21

That's not accurate! Some of us have to make PowerPoints about what the software developers are doing.

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u/scorp171 Aug 13 '21

Some of them done even make presentations. Just edit JIRA tickets (Not me though) 🤣

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u/sleepymoose88 32M / 20% to FI Aug 13 '21

We techies tend to ignore our JIRA and get hounded by the TPOs and PM to do it. So we create the stories after the work is done and move it straight to complete. I don’t have the spare cycles to mess around with moving stories on a board during the day. I’m already working 55 hrs as it is.

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u/crimson117 Aug 13 '21

How do you know what needs to get implemented without having it written down somewhere?

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u/scorp171 Aug 13 '21

Agreed! And what do you test without knowing the scope.

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u/sleepymoose88 32M / 20% to FI Aug 13 '21

Our PMs are utterly useless, so our team has technical team leads doing the actual workload planning and assignment of tasks. The PMs/TPOs basically just do a very poor job of communicating outside of our team.

We track all work through a ticketing system because almost all the work we do has to be run through a change advisory board, so JIRA is basically just a copy/paste of what we do in the ticketing system and thus an utter waste of time.