At 35 y/o after years of doing crap jobs and never beating 30K in a year I took a job at a major bank .. Started at 26K, doubled that by the end of year one and never looked back.
The only reason I was able to take the job was because I was debt free and had enough savings to be able to take the chance when the opportunity came along. (I bought my own shoes and coat as soon as I knew I was there for good)
Didn't really know the best place to tell the story but I thought r/frugal might be worth a shot
Edit to add back story.. and to say thanks for the comments In the 10 years after leaving college I had had only crap jobs, mostly in construction or manufacturing. The job I left for the bank was working in a factory doing Quality Assurance work for $11/hour, it involved a lot of statistics, data entry and some computer work, I really worked at learning the statistics software and ended up learning some basic (ha! no pun intended) programing at the same time. That got me an interview and eventually an entry level data analysts job at the bank. I took every single course they offered in house as well as a couple of night courses in programing. By end of year one I had moved well beyond entry level eventually to the point that I was writing code for investment analytics and trading..
Anyway .. at the time I had clothes suitable for factory work but nothing of the business casual needed to work in an office fortunately I had a couple friends in sales jobs .. they had the appropriate clothing.
January 03, 2018 at 03:05PM
