Originally Posted by DeltaboundRedux

Jesus wept.

If you can't find enough to save enough to suck it up for a year and swap your $110k/yr for a much easier $250k+ year job, don't bother going to a major.

You'll just spend the extra cash on stupid crap and wind up in a bigger hole when the music stops (because it will, it always does, and ALWAYS at the worst possible time) than if you never left.

How can you make $100k and not have a 6-12 mo emergency savings fund in this business? You’re one medical, one violation, one furlough, or one carrier failure away from unemployment every single day.

(Credit checks used to be par for the course for high salary jobs, because they demonstrated things like time preference, financial discipline, long term planning etc. Very high predictors of absenteeism, as well. Alas and alack.)