IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.

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a_skeleton_03 said:
We can start that right now at your firm.
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Picasso3 said:
I'm sure they'd never admit it if they did. Lawyer billing numbers are like Batemans business cards.
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The partners have to do like 800 hours of business development, on top of 1300-1400 hours billable... they aren't spending any time helping needy fucking children or whatever
 
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Cad said:
The partners have to do like 800 hours of business development, on top of 1300-1400 hours billable... they aren't spending any time helping needy fucking children or whatever
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I can't believe you know exactly how much they have to bill! Did anyone get ahead in the first quarter?
 
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Picasso3 said:
I can't believe you know exactly how much they have to bill! Did anyone get ahead in the first quarter?
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I can't see what they actually bill. I could probably find out, but it's best not to know. If they are way ahead of me, I don't want to know that.

They work a lot though. You see emails from those homos like late at night, 7am, on holidays. I don't think they have good home lives.
 
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Noodleface said:
Where I live I kind of am

Shout out to mist he know how it be around here
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Depends.

There's a lot of fucking poor people in Rhode Island, so having any decent career job without a crippling rental payment/mortgage puts you above all those people that are doing part time retail work, odd landscaping jobs, are just fucking drug addicts/bums, etc. The very concept of a 40+ hour a week job is like baffling to these people, yet somehow they survive living 3-4 people to an apartment.

There's also a lot of families with old money where you can still be rich somehow while just doing odd jobs, selling off little bits of the family land, or owning a bunch of rental properties, or a family of restaurateurs, etc. These people still mostly look and act like drug addicts and bums. Maybe this is just a south county thing.

Then there's the plumbers and carpenters and other contractors who make 200-300k a year busting ass fixing upper class/rich people's houses. This is where you want to be; I should have been an electrician. Many of the college professors do alright too, more than alright if you publish textbooks or do something else lucrative on the side, and most of them come from families with some money too.

And then there's... whatever the rich people do. I don't even fucking know where their money comes from, clearly from out of state. It's just like being super rich and super white and having 1 or 2 of your 13 houses be in Watch Hill or Bristol or Newport.
 
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The northeast is oddly full of rich people with no actual work in the area. I think there is a total of 5 jobs in Vermont, but a million rich people...

Move to the South East. I'm living like a platinum rapper out here on a 100k salary.

@a_skeleton_03 get a gov cage code and start a veteran owned business. I'll work for you and we'll consult and resell and shit.
 
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Mist said:
Depends.

There's a lot of fucking poor people in Rhode Island, so having any decent career job without a crippling rental payment/mortgage puts you above all those people that are doing part time retail work, odd landscaping jobs, are just fucking drug addicts/bums, etc. The very concept of a 40+ hour a week job is like baffling to these people, yet somehow they survive living 3-4 people to an apartment.

There's also a lot of families with old money where you can still be rich somehow while just doing odd jobs, selling off little bits of the family land, or owning a bunch of rental properties, or a family of restaurateurs, etc. These people still mostly look and act like drug addicts and bums. Maybe this is just a south county thing.

Then there's the plumbers and carpenters and other contractors who make 200-300k a year busting ass fixing upper class/rich people's houses. This is where you want to be; I should have been an electrician. Many of the college professors do alright too, more than alright if you publish textbooks or do something else lucrative on the side, and most of them come from families with some money too.

And then there's... whatever the rich people do. I don't even fucking know where their money comes from, clearly from out of state. It's just like being super rich and super white and having 1 or 2 of your 13 houses be in Watch Hill or Bristol or Newport.
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I should clarify. If I rented id be rich. Housing prices in our area are absurd.

I've said in other threads buy my 1500 sq ft house on 0.25 acres was $265k and I'm in Somerset, not even in one of the rich towns
 
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a_skeleton_03 said:
It would be a logical area to be in.
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I'm in.

Cad said:
Can I laugh at you guys while I get paid to sit in my office and write briefs and occasionally depose people?
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Keep typing on my product buddy, I need the paycheck.
Cad said:
I have literally never seen any big firm attorneys doing any pro bono
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I see it happen all the time, but it's mainly because of the company I work for; We do events with the larger firms in the area and they send volunteers. One or two of their lawyers show up and then a bunch of back office people.
 
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Noodleface said:
I should clarify. If I rented id be rich. Housing prices in our area are absurd.

I've said in other threads buy my 1500 sq ft house on 0.25 acres was $265k and I'm in Somerset, not even in one of the rich towns
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Wat. I'm looking at less land for $650k. Those house specs aren't too dissimilar to the house I sold in Ohio for 225k. I think you're living in a pretty decent housing area.
 
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Tenks said:
Wat. I'm looking at less land for $650k. Those house specs aren't too dissimilar to the house I sold in Ohio for 225k. I think you're living in a pretty decent housing area.
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But the weather is so nice out here, it's totally worth it.
 
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Noodleface said:
I should clarify. If I rented id be rich. Housing prices in our area are absurd.

I've said in other threads buy my 1500 sq ft house on 0.25 acres was $265k and I'm in Somerset, not even in one of the rich towns
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That same house out here would be 650-1.1, depending on the area. Especially the .25 acres.
This island is small though. 600 square miles total. But even the "slum" areas are still very expensive.
 
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Tenks said:
Wat. I'm looking at less land for $650k. Those house specs aren't too dissimilar to the house I sold in Ohio for 225k. I think you're living in a pretty decent housing area.
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I'm not comparing my housing market to California and Hawaii. I'm comparing it to the south. And Detroit
 
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