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‘I’m proud of being a job hopper’: Seattle engineer’s post about company loyalty goes viral
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this post was submitted on 22 Feb 2024
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Can I ask what you do for a living? In Canada, such gains are basically impossible on income. If you were earning $70k as a low level software developer, there's no way you could, in 6 years, without skill upgrading and promotions, change that into $400k+
Software Dev/Eng. Largely Angular/Vue, C#/Go, SQL Server/Postgres, and Azure/AWS/GCP full stack development.
I'm not sure how tech pay works in Canada. I know in the UK and surrounding that tech pay is significantly lower than the US.
I am in the US and tech pay here can be criminally high (or criminally low). A lot of people chase RSUs, but I chase base pay.
My friend went from a $15/hr IT Support job to a $500k+ (TC) in 4 years hopping 4 times.
It's stupid money that I assume won't last forever so doing my best to save/donate what I can now.
Please don't extrapolate based on what you read here. The people who are saying they do this are among a very elite group of people who came out of high-end technical programs. They have the pedigree and are sought after so they can do this as much as they like. You most likely cannot get away with this.
This is also the internet. So people lie. I wouldn't be surprised if a number of people claiming they job hop and get these huge pay bumps were lying about it.
There’s also the chance that any one of us is lying. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
That is also very true.
I graduated with a 2.8 GPA. I learned everything on the job(s). My first few years were 80 hour weeks not because I had to, but because I wanted to learn [everything I didn't learn in school].
My friend never graduated and makes way more money than I do (I believe post-tax $600k but I'm only about 90% sure). Software Engineering is a booming arena right now if you have the right buzz words on your resume and soft skills for the interview. I say booming now, but Sep-Dec last year were rough. However, the market for CS job opportunities is bouncing back.
It's a game that can be played and succeeded at, regardless of pedigree, but aptitude matters. Even my favorite bartender at my local dive bar is studying it in their free time and, frankly, they're getting pretty good at it fast. I think they'll be just fine.
Data Center Engineer now. But I have an associate in electronic engineering from a community College.
2010-2013 Walmart. Started $7.65 an hour Ended $10.60 only reason I got a raise because of minimum raise increases Graduated college 2013-2016 left for a niche small electronics company (laser tag) $10 an hour. Got experience in my degree 2016-2018 left to work for Perdue chicken manufacturering plant 15.10 ended at 15.65 2018-2020 casino started at 15 ended at 15.65 2020-2022 data center for bank started at $24 ended at $26 2022-now data center different bank with a union started at $30 now at $32.30
Most the companies want to give me 3% or less every year one company kept putting off talks of raises. I kept taking more and more responsibility and no one would giving me a decent raise or pay me what I was worth.
I got $8.45 in raises from companies lots of the big chunk amounts came from minimum raise increase and work place adjustments. Every increase that they gave me for a yearly raise was 3% or less. Me leaving to another company got me $16.20 of pay increases.
111% increase from raises and 212% increase from job hopping in the last 14 years
I umm, think you could possibly get 50-70% more salary jumping companies fairly easily. $67k (base) is sorely underpaid for a skilled data center engineer. A quick search confirms my suspicion that a data center engineer makes on average ~$145k a year.
I am also not qualified to be an engineer despite having it in my title I am more like a data center technician or cable/server installer. Which is more inline with my salary
But give me a couple years with it in my title and tons of learning and a certification I can hit network engineer with 6 figures.
This dude is working at a bank. They don't pay well, but job security is decent. Banks rarely go out of business. He should go elsewhere to earn more. But yeah, that's literally nothing for his job. He could easily double it.