How many of you hold a real job?

74k software developer.

Underpaid for what I do but cant search for new job until after I move and covid is over. No debt. 401k, 3k in gambling stocks 4k in the banks

I make 100k and hold BSV

I have a 100k job user. What's up.

I work 3 jobs.

1. IT admin for hospice company full time (essential worker)

2. Rural Carrier Mailman part time (essential worker)

3. Phlebotomist Per Diem at a hospital (essential worker)

Paying off credit cards and buying shit for my future baby on the way due July 5th. In july I should be debt free and going to be dumping 2k into the stock market every month.

Sorry bro Jose and Jorge took that job.

The mexibros are more than accommodating to a gringo who works and doesn't mouth off

I'm self employed and make around $230-250k/year. I write speeches for executives and occasionally celebrities.

It certainly feels like a "real job," I work a lot, but I also have control of my time and can go trap shooting or kayaking in the middle of a Tuesday if I want. Or go to Yurp on a whim. (Or at least I could before the rona).

I am very fortunate.

Fuck I'm hungry

sounds very jewish. does your rabbi support your endeavors?

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Interesting. How did you end up in that line of work? Used to do some speech writing for politicians. Then I passed the bar and moved on to other things.

I make some money ~3k/yr from independent software stuff, but my uncle recently got me a job in the gumbment so now I actually have a real job that pays 75k/yr. Its honestly hard for me to believe the money coming in is real. I’ve basically saved all of it for an early retirement. My only real investment is bitcoin I allocate 20% of my money into it the rest is cash. Feels pretty good.

I have a degree in mathematics and I work at a bank using the newest technologies and deepest insights from the geniuses of our pasts to device new strategies, optimize operations and better understand the portion of the bank's loans that are currently at risk of default.

I.e. an analyst in collections. Is this a real job? In theory, if you owed me money but you were struggling to pay and I never put any pressure on you to pay me then logically you would decide to just avoid paying me eternally. So my job is really to find the "smart" way to put pressure on you so that I walk the thin line between putting enough pressure for you to have an incentive to pay the bank but also not go overboard and risk damaging the bank's public image. I.e. imagine a new story about how Bank of America called a grandma 20 times a day for a month because she owed them 500 dollars.

How the fuck does one even end up with a speechwriting job?
I am a columnist at well known weekly magazine, writing on innovation. But the pay is pathetically low.

Nice, I’m a full time city letter carrier. Really wanna do something else though

I'm an engineering supervisor in a fortune 50 company with a lot of free time on my hands and an eye for patterns

Now that I've got a good enough 401k nest egg, I'm playing with stocks and soon options

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I think of it more like being a craftsman, like a carpenter building chairs. Some are gorgeous, some are just OK, but it's good work for good pay.

I have always been a really strong writer & public speaker. I was previously in strategy consulting, but I was always getting called on to write decks, talking points etc. for senior clients (even things unrelated to our current project — like "shape this story for me" type work).

I had a chance to work on a corporate event and they needed scripting for some executives. I enjoyed the work, and it wasn't hard for me at all, yet it impressed the clients and sounded great onstage. So I went full-time into corporate comms. (It's not all speechwriting, I also write and direct a lot of videos, draft emails, stuff like that).

I worked for a state political campaign. After working my way from field agent, field director, then communications. Writing all sorts of shit I helped out with some local candidate speeches and then didn't want to move to DC after being successful in 2016. Got a in-house job at a big local corporation. Smart contracts will replace me some day, but if they do I I have invested enough that I won't need my job anymore.

exploration geologist chad reporting in

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i make $2 above minimum wage

I just want a big pepperoni pizza is that too much to ask?

I can only speak for executive speechwriting (not political), but I broke in by creating relationships with people who source speechwriters.

Some execs have full-time speechwriters who write for them all the time. But a majority just get freelancer writers for big events. Someone on their staff (or their agency) finds and hires these people. If you are known by those people, and have a good rep, you start getting jobs.

It's actually hard for pro journalists to break into exec speechwriting, because the writing is not complex (in fact, the POINT is to dumb it down). The real value you provide is getting into the exec's brain and teasing out the story, coaching them on positioning and points, etc.. So it's more like psychology, understanding both the client mindset and the audience mindset, mixed with a business background.

this. real jobs won't get you rich in anyway

Are you me? Just different industry than finance.

Thanks for sharing user. Political speech writing isn't for smaller candidates is pretty easy. Get a feel for their platform, lightly plagiarise similar candidates in the same area. Use any tags or slogans from the campaign, lean on big national campaign talking points.