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Accepted an offer of Senior Consultant position today. Seems like a great company with lots of advancement opportunity. Salary wise, I'll be closer to $200k than $100k. Not bad for someone 2 weeks shy of 3 year in IT. Too bad wife's working late tonite.

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networker050184

Congrats!

ptilsen

Nicely done!

Master Of Puppets

Congrats! Also, very impressive salary! And I thought your last one was big

JasminLandry

Congrats

wow not even 3 years.. really motivating for use beginners in IT.

coffeeluvr

Congratulations!!!

gbdavidx

Can you share w/ us your career path? I am definitely doing something wrong, been in IT 4-5 years and on the 50k side

Ivanjam

@dave330i - congrats on the new job!

Cleverclogs

Big congrats on the new job. Reading posts like this is great motivation

Mishra

Congrats. What a salary. I think I was making 35k 3 years into IT...

I'm close to 10 years and probably am not making more than what you are hinting at... I would like to note that I don't care. I feel I'm paid what I'm worth... That's a hint to those who need to learn how to value themselves.

jvrlopez

Congrats!!!!

Love hearing these stories, especially considering that I'm on the job market after the 15th.

neo9006

What path did you take do that in 3 years. Nice and congrats. Real Motivation.

snunez889

congrats on the new job

sizeon

What are your credentials? 3 years in IT and already $200,000. That is amazing.

gorebrush

Wow, that's quite some jumps!

Congrats!

I won't be long behind the big bucks once the CCIE's start rolling in (I'm thinking about multiple

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dave330i

Thanks everyone.

For those curious, before 3 years in IT I spent 14 years as a mechanical engineer. Skills such as technical writing, design methodology, project management all translate to IT.

Also, in the 3 years I've been working in IT, I've learned enough to pass 4 entry level, 6 associate level, 4 professional level and attempt 1 expert level certs.

N2IT

Nice work Dave. Good to see hard work paying off.

Essendon

I hate you.

j/k man, good to see TE'ers raking in the money. Fine example of your stars lining up right. But they didnt line up right just like that, you've put in the effort. You only get out what you put in.

Asif Dasl

Congrats on the new gig! Impressive salary.

Polynomial

dave330i wrote: »

For those curious, before 3 years in IT I spent 14 years as a mechanical engineer. Skills such as technical writing, design methodology, project management all translate to IT.

Project management really is that important, isn't it?

whatthehell

Congratz!
You on linkedin by chance?
What will your responsibilities be? Mainly virtualization consulting?
Good luck!

TheProf

Good stuff, congrats! The consulting work is going to be mainly VMware virtualization? or will Storage/Networking also be involved?

kriscamaro68

Congrats on the new job. Glad to see thing only getting better for you.

dave330i

Thanks again everyone. Work will be mainly virtualization and private cloud.

QHalo

Well played sir. Finish off that damn VCDX.

LarryDaMan

dave330i wrote: »

Too bad wife's working late tonite.

To me, that would be icing on the cake

Congrats on the new gig.

N2IT

@ Poly not as much as design methodologies. Integrations and architecture pay a lot of money. A former college mate works in the smart grid / power industry makes the kind of money Dave makes. He designs system integration with UML and provides a host of other roles/solutions.

cgrimaldo

Congrats!

Everyone

Congrats!

gadav478

Great gig! Killer salary!

Congrats and best wishes on your new job.

Snow.bros

That's impressive, congrats on the new job and wish you all the best!!! very good salary too.