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/tommmb1 Aug 13 '21

What the hell that's insane

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u/truth_sentinell Aug 13 '21

Man I'm beginning to think these people here are just lying.

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u/Deadline_X 29d ago

I and a lot of my friends did a 3 month boot camp. I got hired on immediately after at 60k. So did two other people I graduated with. Three of my friends got hired at 70k. Three of my friends got hired on at 55k and one was raised to 60k after 8 months.

One of the friends who was hired on at 55 got let go after 7 months, was unemployed a bit during the pandemic then accepted a job for 71k that he was let go after about 4 or 5 months and then got a job making 91k.

It depends where you live. Average starting pay around here (Cincinnati) is 55-71k. But the easiest way to get a raise is to go to a new job after a year or two for what’s usually a 10-20k raise. I had another friend start as a sys admin making about 45k. He taught himself coding and took a dev ops job after a year and a half that paid 75k. After 6 months he got hired in full time and the pay was raised to 99k. Software engineering can pay well. But usually not unless you jump from company to company if you want the big bucks. And anyone making 6figures straight out of boot camp/college has to be living in a hcol area because entry level dev pays entry level dev pay. Which is usually enough to put you into upper middle class or barely into upper class for your area.

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u/truth_sentinell 29d ago

Just curious, did you have any computer background before doing the boot camp? What did you learn on it? And what were you first assignments in your job?

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u/Deadline_X 28d ago

I was a computer repair technician out of high school. And I also sold computer parts and computers retail. But coding requires a completely different skill set. My first assignments were easy tickets that my mentor walked me through if I had any snags. It was basically him finding the easiest tickets for me to work on and helping me when I needed it but mostly me figuring it out and asking help with company specific stuff.

And I could have done all of my programming specific stuff without knowing anything about computers.