how much do you make?
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- exador10
Title - Art Director
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comfortable.will i say how much though?
no..
i have before in threads like this, but i kinda think its a bit tacky now to brag, or to compare...years ago, when i started with this firm, i was all excited with my new paycheck, and how wonderful it was, ...
i went out for drinks with 2 of the senior developers one night (we're not a design firm, but a consulting firm..kinda like Anderson Consulting)
anyhow...we got talking about money and salaries...and they asked what i was making ..and i told them..
after which they declined to tell me how much they were making..
not because they were being jerks...but because they were making FAR FAR more than i was...
i think at the time, i was making about 45k or something like that, and they were probably at or surpassing 100k...now..that was years ago, and things have evened up a tad, and hard work and raises put me in a decent slot...but i learned something....
if you go around talking smack about how much you got, and how much you're banking..
you'll either look foolish to those that make more...or you'll look like a braggart and a boor to those that make less...another guy i know that hangs out in my crowd ( a mixed crowd it is..half teachers, engineers a few designers and a professor or 3...)
anyhow, this guy is a principle of a school....and is always going on about 'hey...i'm a mover and shaker..i make 75k a year..i'm all that and a bag of chips...)we all find it pretty tasteless to be honest...and have ragged on him a bit for it..
but for his sake, no one has mentioned the fact that the rest of us (for the most part) make the same, if not more...the one guy in the group of friends i have the most respect for is a guy named joe..
joe's a senior VP at a huge multi-national here in toronto, and i know he's pulling down around 150 to 200k..
but you'll NEVER here him talk about it..
ever..
matter of fact, he's usually the clown of the group and on first impressions, you'd probably think he's just making ends meet..
never brags..never goes on and on about new cars and shit like that..
now THAT is class...