Think more to do with your grass cutting industry job, sounds like some super low pay place. I just progress normally now 12k+ at 32 in energy industry. Maybe you should change industry?

$12000 at 32! I think you are one of the outlying high-fliers.. I'm not even expecting to reach this number in my lifetime.

About 70% of them are talking crap, or enacting some kind of bizarre fantasy life on this forum. Otherwise, this forum would be the ultimate hotspot since it would be populated by Generals, Directors, and Chairpersons.

The remaining 30% who post high salaries are genuinely trying to be helpful by pointing out lobangs. Software engineers, for example, really are riding on a high right now.

It's best to remember that salaries in certain jobs fluctuate. Cartographers, for example, could easily make 11k a month back in the early 90's, thanks to the sudden rise of competing GPS companies. Today it's plummeted to about 5k, less than half that amount.

Sometimes it's not the job itself; it's a question of being in the right profession at the right time. Network engineers in the 80's, local musicians in the late 60's, local journalists in the 70's, will all know what I'm saying.

If you really need to chase money (out of necessity and not greed), pay attention to the lobangs that some of the high earners are pointing out. That's where you want to switch your job to. Just make sure you're listening to the 30%, and check it out first.

There's a lot of talk of switching jobs, but it's way easier said than done. Before anyone will consider you for a job, you need to prove that you can do it, if not with qualifications, then with some evidence of competence. The paradox here is that if you're in a job doing something you shouldn't be doing, then where does that relevant evidence or experience come from? That's why people like me are stuck doing something totally different from their experienece or expertise and unable to break out.

That's saying nothing at all. How does anyone who is not in HR tell which post is the 70% (liars like you claim) and which is the 30% (real case)?

If they can tell, they won't need to come here and ask questions on salary already right?

On another note, I find some of the salary posted here on the high side, but definitely not "Generals, Directors, and Chairpersons" type. Most people here are 8k - 15k, this is much lower than a lot of directors and chairperson.

At 35, I am just one of those low paid losers earning a mere 5k pm, was depressed and went to the casino. Luckily I made a huge comfortable amount there ( >1.5m) or else I would have gone nuts.. This world is all about luck now and not how hardworking you are..

somehow i believe this story is true...

That's the general opinion of most people who aren't good at their jobs. :)

Why you guy getting so much age 28-29...wtf
I have been working in STengineering for 4 years and getting only 3.7k/mth or annual with bonus 63k only...

Well honestly speaking, if you look at real life, the number of people who change into a new job totally different is very rare. So most of us end up doing jobs which are bearable, but not passionate about while earning decent salary to keep us off the streets in hunger.