I'm a psychiatrist. As a specialist doctor I have a good salary.

I'm on my third year of Finance and Accounting studies but since it became really boring I went off to find a job. Currently i'm working for the Postal Bank in Poland as a 1st degree specialist in the retail control department.

Pretty intense in terms of goals and deadlines to be kept so far, but very satisfying. I recently was appointed with creating a new bonus and provision system for the sales reps and micro division employees. As I have only been employed for just under 4 months and have had no serious work experience before, I receive a pretty basic salary of about 17 000$ a year.

Although it doesn't seem like much, the cost of living in Poland is a lot lower than in other countries and this amount would be comparable to earning about 55 000 $ in the US. I'm also set up for a revision of my contract due to ending the "probation period" that lasted these first months and if I am deemed worthy and valuable i can probably end up earning around 20 000$ per year. Here's hoping.

Not employed by corporate america.

I don't work =l

FSA??

I'm a computer programmer in Switzerland and I earn about 65k eur/year

U mad bro? Jealousy is bad my friend...

Anyway congrats to Dirty, with that salary you're going to live like a king in Germany :)

Awesome salary, I am only in my first Uni year, nowhere ready for a full time job I don't think, I am too lazy as it is, so sticking to part time for now, working as waiter part time (bout 20 hours a week) like £7.50 an hour if you factor in tips.

Could be worse, but the trainee scheme is not for me I don't think, I won't be able to work 4 days a week full time and do a degree at the same time, again, I am way too lazy.

After taxes, I bring home about a grand a week. Sometimes more. Sometime, less. Doesn't seem like much, I know. But when you consider that most people in my town don't even make $300 a week, then I'm doing okay. Best of all, my bills for an entire month (Satellite, electricity, water, internet, home, car payment, cell phone, home phone) don't even take up a full paycheck. The cost of a nice home, land, etc. is pretty low, too. You can own a house here for a fraction of the cost it would be eighty miles from here. I live almost in the mid point between Savannah Georgia and Augusta Georgia.

As for what I do for a living, I "work" at a nuclear power plant. We train constantly to defend against an outside threat. If the time comes, we'll kill the adversary with extreme prejudice. In the meantime, I spend about 80% of my time trying to keep myself busy. I won't admit it but maybe comic books, Netflix, internet browsing, PSV/3DS, and other things of that nature occupy a lot of my time. Not bad considering I've never been to college.

Why would I be jealous? I've got a degree in Theoretical Physics, another in Accelerator and Nuclear Science and am doing my Master's in Nuclear Physics. I'm also on a freeride scholarship with pocket money and get paid as a part time lecturer.

If anything, he's jealous of me. I'm from Cape Town you see, and every German that exists apparantly wants to come live here. I have no idea why, but there are Germans everywhere. (not serious here)

The above two points aside, 

I married a German lady and my experience that the majority of young people from Germany undergo tertiary education is based on that. Her entire family. All her friends. Her cousins and their friends. All the young people I met in Berlin. The THOUSANDS of Germans who constantly pour into Cape Town... etc. all

Apart from that, I congratulated him on the nice salary. I don't see how you could label me as jealous.