$200 a week. Jesus. I make that in....well. Nevermind that. How the hell did you make ends meet on that?

Call centers are probably the only place I can think of that is a worse environment (mentally speaking) than a car dealer as described here. I started my IT career with no degree, and very little experience in IT so working in a tech support call center in CT for Cablevision (Altice USA now) has a serious opportunity…

Thanks for sharing man.

One nice thing about the call center I used to work at years ago, was that we often got overtime. You could just sign up for it and bam. Work it. It was awesome during Hurricane Irene. Had to work during the storm literally (call center was in CT) and we were paid overtime. Then in the weeks following the storm, our…

I’ve been fortunate to never have to wear anything more than a dress shirt to work and usually jeans. IT is often like that, especially the route that I came up (companies where getting dirty was the norm). But even my current employer (a theme park in FL run by a big mouse) is extremely lax about dress code. Jeans…

Sales classes remind me so much of the training classes that the cable tech support call center I used to work for would start you out in. Turn over in call centers is ridiculous. Because it sucks. That was one of the ways I paid my dues when I first got my start. Left that crap behind and never looked back.

Yes but at what sort of dealer, with what sort of volume?

Getting a serious job at an heavy hitting investment bank involves being smart as hell, having MBA from really good school and a basically perfect GPA, and it helps to know someone. Source... read alot of books about Wall Street.

Exactly. It goes quick when you live in an area like that.

Yeah I’m familiar with those concepts at a very low level. Interesting isn’t it?

Me too!

Business Insider has very different numbers for they earned in 2016. I assume that’s what you were quoting. Ridiculous sums regardless.

True. It’s certainly no where near fuck you money.

Err. It goes pretty far unless you don’t budget for shit or live in a high cost area (Manhattan, Cali, etc). You aren’t going to be a baller necessarily, but you’re going to live comfortably.

It’s not alot compared to those who earn above that. But it’s a massive amount compared to the median income in 2016 for a household was $56k. Last year. And the percentile depends on which site you use. This one has 250k in the top 1%.

Yeah, you can do pretty ok on 250k in Manhattan. You’re not a baller, but you can live decently. But. Compared to where I live (Orlando), 250k is like 500k in Manhattan. When did you live there?

That’s just not a life I would want to live. For any amount of money. I don’t envy someone like that even if they do live in an amazing house and have one of my dream cars.

Truth. $100k puts you in the top 8% of folks in the US. $250k in the top 2%. Fact of the matter is that most people don’t ever sniff $100k. Much less $250k.

True but most of those guys don’t clear $250k. At a exotic dealership maybe. But not at your average domestic dealer.

Very true. I get recruited all the time for gig’s in San Fran anywhere in California really. It amazes me how many of the recruiters lowball (they’ll offer much less than their client is actually willing to pay and keep the rest for themselves) the offers. They’ll want someone at my level of experience (which is…