Career advice

[stansd]

Negotiate, my friend…if the company is growing as rapidly as you say, they should be interested in negotiating, particularly if you play the sob story about how your fiance is in college, you can’t afford a house yet, and your fiance desperately wants to get pregnant. With a little luck you can equalize the salary plus get some options.

The whole scenario seems a bit odd to me. I can see a sales manager being bonus dependent based on performance, but for the manager to take that kind of a cut purely on the option opportunity seems to be a bit much.

Stan

[blahblahblah]

Next, if you’re making $140k now and saving only $2-$3k per month what are you doing with the other $8-$9k?

He’s paying a lot of taxes on that $140K and I assume contributing to his 401K. If he can save an additional $24K-$36K per year, he’s saving a lot. Sure he could save more by living in a trailer and eating TV dinners, but come on, he’s doing pretty good here…

[blahblahblah]

Next, if you’re making $140k now and saving only $2-$3k per month what are you doing with the other $8-$9k?

He’s paying a lot of taxes on that $140K and I assume contributing to his 401K. If he can save an additional $24K-$36K per year, he’s saving a lot. Sure he could save more by living in a trailer and eating TV dinners, but come on, he’s doing pretty good here…

[blahblahblah]

Next, if you’re making $140k now and saving only $2-$3k per month what are you doing with the other $8-$9k?

He’s paying a lot of taxes on that $140K and I assume contributing to his 401K. If he can save an additional $24K-$36K per year, he’s saving a lot. Sure he could save more by living in a trailer and eating TV dinners, but come on, he’s doing pretty good here…

[blahblahblah]

Next, if you’re making $140k now and saving only $2-$3k per month what are you doing with the other $8-$9k?

He’s paying a lot of taxes on that $140K and I assume contributing to his 401K. If he can save an additional $24K-$36K per year, he’s saving a lot. Sure he could save more by living in a trailer and eating TV dinners, but come on, he’s doing pretty good here…

[blahblahblah]

Next, if you’re making $140k now and saving only $2-$3k per month what are you doing with the other $8-$9k?

He’s paying a lot of taxes on that $140K and I assume contributing to his 401K. If he can save an additional $24K-$36K per year, he’s saving a lot. Sure he could save more by living in a trailer and eating TV dinners, but come on, he’s doing pretty good here…

[CogSciGuy]

Thanks for your input, nostradamus. There’s been talk of an IPO in a “couple years” since I started here, nearly 4 years ago. Still, with our current size and recent growth, it does seem likely that it will actually happen.

I had a frank discussion with the director of my department today. He knows exactly my situation in great detail and understands my dilemma. Most managers start at about $65K. Since my pay is relatively high at my current position, they’ll probably be able to start me at mid-$70s if I go for it. Better than $70’s isn’t happening to start, but a first review happens after 6 months, when the salary could go up another $15K or so.

With regard to your questions…hey, she still in junior college now and it’s pretty cheap. In a semster or two, she’ll go to UCSD or SDSU and will get whatever financial aid she can and I’ll pay the rest. Gotta invest in our future. I don’t want to be the only breadwinner for the rest of our lives.

My gross pay of about $6,000 twice per month gives me a net pay of only about $3500 twice per month. Damned taxes! It’s enough to make a die hard liberal like myself turn conservative! I live pretty frugally, actually.

[CogSciGuy]

Thanks for your input, nostradamus. There’s been talk of an IPO in a “couple years” since I started here, nearly 4 years ago. Still, with our current size and recent growth, it does seem likely that it will actually happen.

I had a frank discussion with the director of my department today. He knows exactly my situation in great detail and understands my dilemma. Most managers start at about $65K. Since my pay is relatively high at my current position, they’ll probably be able to start me at mid-$70s if I go for it. Better than $70’s isn’t happening to start, but a first review happens after 6 months, when the salary could go up another $15K or so.

With regard to your questions…hey, she still in junior college now and it’s pretty cheap. In a semster or two, she’ll go to UCSD or SDSU and will get whatever financial aid she can and I’ll pay the rest. Gotta invest in our future. I don’t want to be the only breadwinner for the rest of our lives.

My gross pay of about $6,000 twice per month gives me a net pay of only about $3500 twice per month. Damned taxes! It’s enough to make a die hard liberal like myself turn conservative! I live pretty frugally, actually.

[CogSciGuy]

Thanks for your input, nostradamus. There’s been talk of an IPO in a “couple years” since I started here, nearly 4 years ago. Still, with our current size and recent growth, it does seem likely that it will actually happen.

I had a frank discussion with the director of my department today. He knows exactly my situation in great detail and understands my dilemma. Most managers start at about $65K. Since my pay is relatively high at my current position, they’ll probably be able to start me at mid-$70s if I go for it. Better than $70’s isn’t happening to start, but a first review happens after 6 months, when the salary could go up another $15K or so.

With regard to your questions…hey, she still in junior college now and it’s pretty cheap. In a semster or two, she’ll go to UCSD or SDSU and will get whatever financial aid she can and I’ll pay the rest. Gotta invest in our future. I don’t want to be the only breadwinner for the rest of our lives.

My gross pay of about $6,000 twice per month gives me a net pay of only about $3500 twice per month. Damned taxes! It’s enough to make a die hard liberal like myself turn conservative! I live pretty frugally, actually.

[CogSciGuy]

Thanks for your input, nostradamus. There’s been talk of an IPO in a “couple years” since I started here, nearly 4 years ago. Still, with our current size and recent growth, it does seem likely that it will actually happen.

I had a frank discussion with the director of my department today. He knows exactly my situation in great detail and understands my dilemma. Most managers start at about $65K. Since my pay is relatively high at my current position, they’ll probably be able to start me at mid-$70s if I go for it. Better than $70’s isn’t happening to start, but a first review happens after 6 months, when the salary could go up another $15K or so.

With regard to your questions…hey, she still in junior college now and it’s pretty cheap. In a semster or two, she’ll go to UCSD or SDSU and will get whatever financial aid she can and I’ll pay the rest. Gotta invest in our future. I don’t want to be the only breadwinner for the rest of our lives.

My gross pay of about $6,000 twice per month gives me a net pay of only about $3500 twice per month. Damned taxes! It’s enough to make a die hard liberal like myself turn conservative! I live pretty frugally, actually.

[CogSciGuy]

Thanks for your input, nostradamus. There’s been talk of an IPO in a “couple years” since I started here, nearly 4 years ago. Still, with our current size and recent growth, it does seem likely that it will actually happen.

I had a frank discussion with the director of my department today. He knows exactly my situation in great detail and understands my dilemma. Most managers start at about $65K. Since my pay is relatively high at my current position, they’ll probably be able to start me at mid-$70s if I go for it. Better than $70’s isn’t happening to start, but a first review happens after 6 months, when the salary could go up another $15K or so.

With regard to your questions…hey, she still in junior college now and it’s pretty cheap. In a semster or two, she’ll go to UCSD or SDSU and will get whatever financial aid she can and I’ll pay the rest. Gotta invest in our future. I don’t want to be the only breadwinner for the rest of our lives.

My gross pay of about $6,000 twice per month gives me a net pay of only about $3500 twice per month. Damned taxes! It’s enough to make a die hard liberal like myself turn conservative! I live pretty frugally, actually.

[WaitingToExhale]

In my experience don’t take a lower paying job on the promise of an IPO. If you don’t like sales, or for another reason want the other job (like you have a kid and want to be home more often w/o the overtime, etc), then that might mitigate things. But if you like what you are doing, you’d be giving up $130K over the next two years alone for a lottery ticket.

[WaitingToExhale]

In my experience don’t take a lower paying job on the promise of an IPO. If you don’t like sales, or for another reason want the other job (like you have a kid and want to be home more often w/o the overtime, etc), then that might mitigate things. But if you like what you are doing, you’d be giving up $130K over the next two years alone for a lottery ticket.

[WaitingToExhale]

In my experience don’t take a lower paying job on the promise of an IPO. If you don’t like sales, or for another reason want the other job (like you have a kid and want to be home more often w/o the overtime, etc), then that might mitigate things. But if you like what you are doing, you’d be giving up $130K over the next two years alone for a lottery ticket.

[WaitingToExhale]

In my experience don’t take a lower paying job on the promise of an IPO. If you don’t like sales, or for another reason want the other job (like you have a kid and want to be home more often w/o the overtime, etc), then that might mitigate things. But if you like what you are doing, you’d be giving up $130K over the next two years alone for a lottery ticket.

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