I am a SysAdmin and make $75K. Majored in Comp Sci. I’m 26 years and lives in NYC. Potential promotion in 2 years. Share you journey.

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No degree. Sysadmin until 25 making $75k. Hit a plateau. Stumbled into staff aug work. Turned into consulting by acquisition, $90k. Went to industry after a few years, back to $75k. Back to consulting after 1 year, $95k. Promotion after 2 years, $130k. Four years later moved to Accenture, $160k+. Now I'm over 40 working with MDs that are 35.

It's not a straight journey nor one I would recommend. Stay in school, move up early.

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Very interesting story. Keep it up buddy.

Dropped out of college at 20 making 16/hr as desktop support. Sysadmin at 23 at 65k. Then to sys engineer at 70k. Consulting at 25, 90k as a technical consultant/architect for HPC. Switch to focus on cloud at 26, new job at 130k. Now 30 and 150k+ as cloud focused solutions architect at Slalom. Still no degree.

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31, 225k

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Journey to what?
2 years of experience doing salesforce consulting. Making $116k, also 26. Kicking butt with a Promo and raise every year

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You’re underpaid big time OP

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What would you suggest?

If you know business processes, get into ERP. (Get a couple product certs) If you are personable, can speak in front of people, and communicate your ideas well — you’ll be $200k+ in 4-6 years.

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