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Posted on 2/17/22 at 8:45 am to fallguy_1978
Location, where is the job located. Living in Arkansas or Rhode Island?
Posted on 2/17/22 at 8:57 am to Upperdecker
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Depends what you major in
That degree in Marxist Interpretive Dance will only get you 600k if your name is Chelsea Clinton. Otherwise, a PA job at NBC is worth under 30k.
Posted on 2/17/22 at 8:59 am to lsudepression
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Have no clue what I want to do or how much I can even make.
And neither do we.
But I like this advice:
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Out of college and first 10 year salaries are very overrated. Find a field you enjoy doing every day, and then figure out how to make money doing it. There’s money out there in almost every field. Happiness is making decent money and enjoying it.
Posted on 2/17/22 at 9:54 am to Sterling Archer
Non STEM field, with 0 years experience, in the South, 45-50k is probably a good place to start.
Posted on 2/17/22 at 10:07 am to lsudepression
My experience "wisdoms" FWIW...
Think long term
Target careers, not jobs
Carefully consider what you like (not necessarily love) to do
Never ignore who you are (ie, DNA/your wiring)
Don't just think technical job skills (chemist, engineer, marketing, psychology, nurse) but all the other important parts that you may not be thinking about right now...leadership, people engagement, routine work (finance) versus non routine work (computer programming, product launches), office vs. field work, corporate vs. entrepreneurial, etc.
Once you have figured it out, don't anchor your whole career to your degree meaning if you study economics, you don't necessarily have to become an Economist (or even economics related). The world is changing fast, critical thinking is more important than a discipline of study for many careers (not all)
Get a mentor or subject matter expert who you can lean on for questions like in your post
Think long term
Target careers, not jobs
Carefully consider what you like (not necessarily love) to do
Never ignore who you are (ie, DNA/your wiring)
Don't just think technical job skills (chemist, engineer, marketing, psychology, nurse) but all the other important parts that you may not be thinking about right now...leadership, people engagement, routine work (finance) versus non routine work (computer programming, product launches), office vs. field work, corporate vs. entrepreneurial, etc.
Once you have figured it out, don't anchor your whole career to your degree meaning if you study economics, you don't necessarily have to become an Economist (or even economics related). The world is changing fast, critical thinking is more important than a discipline of study for many careers (not all)
Get a mentor or subject matter expert who you can lean on for questions like in your post
Posted on 2/17/22 at 10:37 am to Displaced
Awesome, awesomer, awesomest 
Posted on 2/17/22 at 10:48 am to lsudepression
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Huh, then what do you make in the long-term? That seems like a lot.
If you can't get close to 80K coming out of college in 2022 then you either live in a low wage market or you majored in the wrong shite
Posted on 2/17/22 at 11:04 am to Origins of Asymmetry
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If you can't get close to 80K coming out of college in 2022 then you either live in a low wage market or you majored in the wrong shite
Lol.
Posted on 2/17/22 at 11:11 am to lsudepression
In addition to major, geography plays a big role. 50K is plenty for a single person in Baton Rouge/Memphis etc. It is peasant wages in NY or SF.
Posted on 2/17/22 at 12:22 pm to lsudepression
All depends on your situation.
I made probably like just under $40k my first job out of college a decade or so ago but my living situation was paying $400/mo in rent splitting a 2 bedroom apartment with a roommate. I also only had student loan debt, no car debt, C.C. debt, other debt when I first started out and my total student debt was only like $32k or so so payments werent bad at all even on the 10-year normal payback plan.
I felt like a $40k millionaire honestly coming out of school
I made probably like just under $40k my first job out of college a decade or so ago but my living situation was paying $400/mo in rent splitting a 2 bedroom apartment with a roommate. I also only had student loan debt, no car debt, C.C. debt, other debt when I first started out and my total student debt was only like $32k or so so payments werent bad at all even on the 10-year normal payback plan.
I felt like a $40k millionaire honestly coming out of school
This post was edited on 2/17/22 at 12:23 pm
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