Most of my 26 year old friends are software engineers and are making more than $200k all in. They also have very little student debt if any when they got their job fresh out of undergrad (most went to state schools or schools in their home country where school costs little).JohnnieSockran wrote:jbagelboy wrote:
None of my other 26 year old friends are making $200k all in, and I can tell you that i-banking hours are WAY worse than biglaw hours, so I feel like law school was worth it. I had a bad week where I got crushed and billed just over 100 hours, but that was only 1 week, even the people I work with were shocked and said how abnormal that was, and my next busiest week outside of that has been about 70 billed hours. But, a friend of mine in banking is consistently spending 80-90+ hours in the office.
They work about 40 hours a week. Sometimes they're on call, but that just means they have to watch their phones for a weekend once a month, and this really annoys them. 1 doesn't answer if it's past 9pm and nothing has happened to him yet.
Some of them are actually closer to or over $300k at this point per their work titles, all in. Will be over $500,000 at this rate before they hit 30 if they keep progressing up their dev title ladder or move into management.