Whats your major, first job ect.

clones26

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Work for ISU. 24 days of vacation a year and 18 days of sick leave a year. Sick leave never maxes out and vacation maxes somewhere around 384 hours. If you get enough sick leave you can convert it to vacation at 4/1.

yeah, but do you get paid for all this leave? If so, then I might have to find a job there, financial aid advisor or something? Not sure where else I could go.
 

kmcbrid

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yeah, but do you get paid for all this leave? If so, then I might have to find a job there, financial aid advisor or something? Not sure where else I could go.

Yep, you take the leave you get paid for it. The way it works you accumulate 2 days of vacation a month and 1.5 days of sick leave a month. So, if you wanted to you could take 2 days of vacation and a day and a half of sick leave in your first month of work. I wouldn't recomend it, might not look to good. :)

One thing though, pay is not as good as the private sector, but if you factor things in benefits and retirement make up for it.

Also, if you leave the university you get paid for the vacation you did not take.
 

BenEClone

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Philosophy '70 - didn't occur to me at the time that nobody hires philosphers - was thinking about grad school in theology - went to Creighton law instead - been practicing law ever since. Started at 12k in private practice and am now in government. Adjusted for inflation, I'm not certain I'm making much more now or not.
 

Wx4Cy

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Comp Sci/Math. Started as a C++ developer writing commercial software @ 19,500. Now I'm an architect and let's just say I'm doing much better now.
 

Broodwich

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I was a history / journalism major at ISU. I switched to just history in my last semester to graduate on time. My first job was on the IT staff with an insurance company in West Des Moines.
 

ericlambi

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Wow, not to be a downer, but I thought engineers would be doing better these days. I graduated with an ME from Iowa in '01 . . . accepted an offer for $60k at a consulting company in Chicago, but was laid off before I started. Ended up at a software company in IC for $52k. I have an MBA from the Univ of Chicago now and in the investment management industry living in Boston. Pay scale is quite different.
 

jtd9046

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The reason why it is such a major deal for the automotive companies is that they were some of the, if not the, largest employers after World War II. Now both better technology and reduced volume have reduced the required manpower.

The unions have not helped either IMO.
 

jtd9046

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not many business guys in here huh

Marketing '05. Got into industrial sales right out of college making well above what most graduates are posting.

If you are in the business school and would like to know the actual number PM me, I'd be happy to help you out.
 

MrsWx4Cy

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Graduated from ISU in 96, BS in Meteorology. First job was a broadcast meteorologist @ WOI. Don't remember what my contract was for.
 

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Not to threadjack but:

Many of the problems out of Detroit is a "perception" issue. Ford, GM, and Chrysler's quality may be on par with the Japanese brands but it is hard to get over the perception that the American brands have poor quality. At one time, the Japanese brands had the same issue. They sold econo-boxes with no substance. They had to make a paradox shift and they were able to do it successfully. The same needs to now happen with the US brands. How do they do that? I'm not sure.

True. If you look at the JD ratings, along with objective data, the quality across brands is pretty even, especially if you look across a timespan of 3-5 years. Some years GM or Ford is on or near top while Toyota or Honda is a bit lower. The next year the opposite may be true.
 

CyGal

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Accounting in '03. I was working 3/4 time at a credit union all through college making 7.85 an hour with no benefits. A few months after graduation I started in a non-related field that doubled my salary. Forced out a few months later and got my first accounting job for about the same pay, but with great benefits. Have since quit there and went to a different company where everything but the PTO was better, especially the salary.
 

jamesfnb

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Finance - 1999

Started out at a small town bank as a loan officer making $26K. Moved to $31K within a year or two though but then took at job at Deere making $36K and much better benefits. Now, 9 years later still at Deere making $80 - $90K depending on the annual bonus (performance of the company).

I found your grades only matter for your first job out of college. After that, it's all about how good you are on the job. I found that switching companies is typically a good thing. You're always worth more to the company that doesn't have you than to the one that you are currently working for.
 

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Communication Arts at Wartburg with an emphasis in Electronic Media, history minor. People told me all along you don't get into broadcasting for the money. And I did love it until looking for a job and realizing I was getting married right out of school. I applied at many small-to-medium Iowa town radio stations. Had no fewer than 6 offers with the lowest being 13,500, the highest being 19,000 with sales included that could bump my pay to 24,000. SOunds exciting huh?
I got on with Qwest in inside sales and was on pace to make just shy of 90k my first year when I left to get on with an insurance agent. Expanded into financial advising shortly after that and absolutely love self-employment and the financial services industry.
broker/dealer or RIA?
 

1100011CS

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CompSci - graduated in 99, started my first (and current) job at $42K with $7500 signing bonus. I had offers for more so the bonus was their way of recruiting me. Although I had no inclination of taking the other offers as they were all out of state. Plus, they needed the bonus to get me to Iowa City:eek: I hate talking about current pay but I have been very happy with my raises, plus I like the company. And I work from home:yes: