Age: 31

Job: Technology Director at a public K-12 school district (though I find my real passion in coaching and fantasy baseball lolz)

Married: 5.5 years

Kids: 2 girls (3 years old and 1.5 years old...COVID babies!)

Dog: 1

Just moved into our 2nd home. In 5.5 years we have now lived in an apartment, our first home, and now the "new" home. Never. moving. again.

Finished reading the old stuff. Who was giving all the Neg reps?  I can’t see from my phone. 

posted by BRF

Finished reading the old stuff. Who was giving all the Neg reps?  I can’t see from my phone. 

Monty Buttswick.

posted by justincredible

Monty Buttswick.

This is a personal attack. Please delete.

Also regarding the negs:

posted by jmog

At about 6 to all those numbers.

Only 2 things have changed really, I make over 2x the money I did in 2017 and my first grandchild is due in August as my oldest got married last year.

Technically my title is Principle Application Engineer, Chemical Engineer is just my degree.

Sometimes I can’t believe how well my new company has done for me.

I left old one not that long after this post (about a year). 

25% bump when I left. 

5 typical COL increases averaging about 3.5%.

3 raises as my bonus plan changed from 10% to 20% over 3 years.

3 “promotion” raises, in quotes because same actual job, different title/responsibilities (think engineer 1, 2, 3, etc). About to get another one of these in a couple months, just going through the international committee approval.

Even not counting the original 25% as a “raise” that’s still 11 raises in 4.5 years.

I am CERTAIN that frequency will die soon as the bonus plan won’t change unless I get a “real” promotion managing engineers, and the “same job” promotions are basically out (possibly one more).

But it has been good to see my salary double in 4.5 years from old job to current. 

TL;DR

posted by queencitybuckeye

Age 60

Software developer/designer

Married 27 years

1 stepson (42)

Now 66, married 32 years, and stepson is 47.

Major changes are my retirement this past July and working on getting our NC property on the market and going back to Ohio full time.

52 years old

Married 26 years

16 year old daughter

New job as of May 1

Oh, and my dog hates me.

48 years old (49 soon)….28 years of marriage

Finishing my 25th year of teaching and 19th year as XC coach.

My kids are 27 (pharmacy manager at CVS)….son is 19 and wrapped up his freshman year of engineering at Pitt, while loving life in the Pitt Band

Still driving the same damn car that was 12 years old when this thread was first began.

posted by Ironman92

48 years old (49 soon)….28 years of marriage

Finishing my 25th year of teaching and 19th year as XC coach.

My kids are 27 (pharmacy manager at CVS)….son is 19 and wrapped up his freshman year of engineering at Pitt, while loving life in the Pitt Band

Still driving the same damn car that was 12 years old when this thread was first began.

What flavor of engineering is he studying?

posted by jmog

What flavor of engineering is he studying?

Environmental 

posted by Ironman92

Envi

Environmental usually “specializes” in civil or chemical. Civil more about ground contamination and some water. Chemical more air contamination and some water.

I work with a lot of environmental engineers on the air pollution side.

Tell him if he wants to make money stay away from the EPA (obvious job for environmental engineering) and do EHS work for industry. More money  

Just my 2 cents, and good luck  

Wasn't salto thavoice, or was it another CCRunner name?

I thought salto was his own person but he had a couple names he cycled between.

posted by jmog

Environmental usually “specializes” in civil or chemical. Civil more about ground contamination and some water. Chemical more air contamination and some water.

I work with a lot of environmental engineers on the air pollution side.

Tell him if he wants to make money stay away from the EPA (obvious job for environmental engineering) and do EHS work for industry. More money  

Just my 2 cents, and good luck  

He doesn’t care much about money….but thanks for the advice

posted by ernest_t_bass

Wasn't salto thavoice, or was it another CCRunner name?

Wasn’t there a user named said_aouita that kind of turned into a troll and then started using salto? 

posted by birddog23

Age: 31

Job: Technology Director

that seems pretty young for an IT director (unless it's a small district and you do practically everything by yourself)

posted by friendfromlowry

Wasn’t there a user named said_aouita that kind of turned into a troll and then started using salto? 

Yeah that sounds right. 

posted by friendfromlowry

Wasn’t there a user named said_aouita that kind of turned into a troll and then started using salto? 

Gosh a ruddies.

posted by MontyBrunswick

that seems pretty young for an IT director (unless it's a small district and you do practically everything by yourself)

1200 students roughly. We have a Tech Integration person and a computer "technician".