Posted on 07/29/2014 7:46:14 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Most people believe "a happy career" and "a fat paycheck" are mutually exclusive — but online jobs community CareerBliss.com recently found that these two things sometimes do go hand in hand.
CareerBliss compiled its new list of jobs that can make you happy and rich by analyzing more than 50,000 independent company reviews from 2013 and 2014.
The reviews are from employees all over the U.S. who evaluated 10 factors that affect work happiness — one's relationship with their boss and coworkers; workplace environment; job resources; compensation; growth opportunities; company culture; company reputation; daily tasks; and job control over the work performed on a daily basis — on a five-point scale.
CareerBliss combined those numbers to find an average rating of overall happiness for each respondent, and then sorted the results by job title and salary to determine which jobs pay well and make professionals the happiest.
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All well and good if you want to be an employee...
You have to seek your own passive income if you want to REALLY do what you want and still support your life.
POTUS - Unlimited money to spend,free vacations, 2 hour workdays twice a week, hobnob with the rich and famous, and free golf. Priceless
Oracle Database Administrator? Lead QA Engineer? What a BS list.
PS - I never met a Software QA person who was taken seriously. That is not a good thing, just an observation.
I like a good QA department, but their thinking baffles me.
I’m trying to get this thing to work,
and you’re trying to break it?
Others, like "Executive Chef" and "Construction Manager" would need a good bit of time in the business to reach as well, I'd think.
Articles like this make me wonder if somewhere out there, some soon-to-be college grad will read this and say "Hmmm. Maybe I'll be a CTO when I graduate. Wonder who's hiring for that position?"
Reality is a harsh mistress. :-)
QA, along with their own testing, gets input from the customers (who aren't always reasonable...'what do you mean, this software WON'T wash my car and cure male pattern baldness? YOUR salesguy said it would!' .... and feeds it back to R&D.
R&D looks at the input. A third of the time they say "Uh.... yeah, this is software, not a 'car wash' And I dunno about this baldness thing." A third of the time they say "Yeah. That doesn't fit into the current roadmap." (translation: 'This is hard, and I don't feel like doing it.'). The final third of the time, the process works pretty well.
It's fun to watch, from a distance. I'd not want to be in either place, though. :-)
After 20 odd years in software I can say that I hate it and if not for money I would leave it. Too late in life to change and make the same money. Back in the 80’s and early 90’s it was fun. Frustration and layer upon layer of over complex crap written by people who read about it on a blog instead of following the KISS principle.
“Breaking” the system is the job of Testing. That’s actually a good thing, because the customer will minimize the number of breaks the user can accomplish.
QA is different. QA independently looks over the paperwork and makes sure all the i’s are dotted and the t’s are crossed. They make sure that procedure is followed, all development phases are done completely, and [reckless] shortcuts are avoided. They spend a lot of time reviewing software development and test folders, but are not developers. This naturally causes a lot of friction with the actual developers, who tend to look down on the QA folks.
I suppose there are some companies who have consolidated Testing and QA, but I have yet to see that.
I would never take a QA job unless I absolutely had to. It thankless and the worst of all worlds.
Compound all of the misery you mention when the customer is the U.S. Government.
Then compound it again when the the customer’s office is filled with your own cast-offs.
Oops...looks like I needed a QA guy for my response:
“Breaking” the system is the job of Testing. That’s actually a good thing, because it will minimize the number of breaks the user can accomplish.
QA is different. QA independently looks over the paperwork and makes sure all the i’s are dotted and the t’s are crossed. They make sure that procedure is followed, all development phases are done completely, and [reckless] shortcuts are avoided. They spend a lot of time reviewing software development and test folders, but are not developers. This naturally causes a lot of friction with the actual developers, who tend to look down on the QA folks.
I suppose there are some companies who have consolidated Testing and QA, but I have yet to see that.
Would never take a QA job unless I absolutely had to. It thankless and the worst of all worlds. From all appearances, it is actually high stress.
Anyway to be happy and rich without the job and Uncle Sham’s involvement? (’
Journeyman FAA Air Traffic Controllers at large facilities e.g. LAX tower, are pulling in at least $120K/yr.
RE: Journeyman FAA Air Traffic Controllers at large facilities e.g. LAX tower, are pulling in at least $120K/yr.
What about:
1) Working hours
2) Job Pressure
You and me both. 20-odd years ago I went into computers because I liked technology and loved computers.
Now I dislike them both. 'Tis a shame. I'm looking forward to retirement, so I can enjoy messing with electronics again.
Biggest difference that I've seen? When I got started, you needed to understand what you were doing. The 'Why' was always important. Now - especially since I'm teaching the next generation of engineers - 'Why' doesn't matter. They just Google a problem, and slap in the first solution that they find.
Which is fine when you're talking about someone's IPad. When you're talking about the company's multimillion dollar enterprise-level SAN, however, things need to be given consideration, and handled a little differently. I have the hardest time getting these kids to see the difference between "Jane Secretary's IPhone Candy Crush App" and "Data Storage that the entire business rests upon". Those who get it generally are OK....those who don't, don't last long.
They work a standard 40 hr week, rotating shifts. Great responsibility, obviously. They’ve got to keep those aircraft seperated.
I’m a retired FAA employee(not an ATC).
“Hmmm. Maybe I’ll be a CTO when I graduate. Wonder who’s hiring for that position?”
These people have been told throughout their educational careers that they’re “special”, and “everyone gets a trophy”.
They are in for a harsh slap in the face when it comes down to “yeah, I said you’ll start by emptying the trash”.
Exactly. So many of the younger guys can write some really abstract object oriented, overly complicated stuff that they pull off of CodeProject which after 3 months they don’t understand either. It is like they just refuse to write a simple data access layer without having to slow it down with 2-3 layers of model forming objects to “make the data more workable”, I find it has just the opposite effect. I also don’t get wanting to use all these newer interpreted languages like Python and Ruby, yeah they may make you implement faster but do you know what it is doing. After all it is still a C++ compiler (or some other older language) underneath.
I also have a great dislike for the offshore coder trend. Indians especially are the worst. Book smart, but have no real world applicable ability. Asians and a couple outfits out of Israel on the other hand, those guys can design and code. I have not been impressed by an eastern European stuff either.
I cannot wait to get out of it.
Every CTO I’ve encountered were obviously incompetent Project Managers or incompetent developers/engineers who couldn’t write a line of code or figure out an IP address but they had executive hair and looked good at being incompetent.
I’m sure most are happy and rich, they do mostly nothing positive, impose stifling rules on productivity, take the credit for what goes well and blame the implementors for failures. They generally bail out just before the operation falls apart and move on to the next “opportunity” to make more money through big talk but no workable actions.
The ones who are worth their salt are few and far between and generally have come up through the ranks by being good at what they do.
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