<p>Does anyone know of any?</p>
<p>Sorry i know this is irrelevant to the sat forum but could one of you guys help me?</p>
<p>I know lots of people in that category. Most of them have 15+ years of experience, though.</p>
<p>What would you need that much money for??</p>
<p>lol… there is never too much money</p>
<p>rabbit23- Depending on where you live in the U.S, and depending upon the size of your family…100k is just not that much money (ecspecially considering how much will be taken away in taxes).</p>
<p>I live in Foster City, where the median household salary is like $120k and the average home price is like 1.2 mil. It’s possible.</p>
<p>Of course those jobs are out there, but you’re not getting them without a ton of experience. Junior programmers start out in the $40s-50ks depending on the company and region. DBAs and heavy-duty programmers with several years of database experience, and a good attitude and personality, and the ability to talk without being condescending to non-techies, do quite well. Those who are lacking in any of those areas don’t go as far. But you’re not going to start out as a $100k computer dude in any job fresh out of college.</p>
<p>unless your name is bill gates :P</p>
<p>btw he dropped out of college</p>
<p>I guarantee bill gates wouldn’t be able to hold up as a programmer right now. He just had the right idea at the right time and capitalized, and it just caught on quicker than anyone could imagine.</p>
<p>Now if you live in San Francisco or anywhere in California near a major city, a 100k is not a far off thing. But to reach 100k straight out of college, you better be top of your class at one of the top CS or Electrical Engineering schools and be in a place where the cost of living is extremely high. Generally, its very difficult to achieve this. Unless your a freaking computer master, you arent going to earn more than 50-60k straight out of college(unless you have a PHD, but even then, it would be hard). Your best bet to earning that kind of money, is starting your own business after gettings some work experience in a like 5-10 years after you graduate(minoring in business with another more “major” major where you can gain expertise just incase the business fails miserably).</p>
<p>There’s no way Bill Gates made $100k a year when he dropped out of Harvard. I’d bet a nickel he didn’t make that much in a year for the first seven or eight years Microsoft existed.</p>
<p>I know someone who graduated from Berkeley, as a CS major and got hired by Google. He makes about $80k/yr as a starting salary.</p>
<p>Given the cost of living in the valley, $80k is probably more like $60k most places. It’s still a nice starting salary, but it’s not going to happen most places for most employers.</p>