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Company or Industry: Small consulting firm
Salary: $35000 / Year
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I graduated in the summer. Just when I was sitting all alone at home, desparate for a job, my phone rang. They called me. This very small consulting company. Apparently, they search on Monster.com and dig up poor new grads like me who have little work experience and will accept pretty much any job that come their way. Sadly...they are 100% right. After a couple rounds of interviews, I got the job. Been working for a couple months now. This small firm only has one client, so I'm on site here every day working as "an analyst who can perform any sort of random tasks from data entry to excel graphing, typing meeting minutes, sorting people's names in alphabetically order, etc, etc". Here's a summary of my day: 8:15 a.m.: I come in and check my e-mail. 9:00 a.m.: I go to the cafe downstairs to get coffee. You see, since consultants are treated differently from employees, the client doesn't like it when I drink the company coffee. 10:00 p.m.: My team gives a presentation. I go sit in to learn and take meeting minutes, I can never figure out which one I should focus on more. The client is upset with our slow progress in the past few weeks. 12:00 p.m.: Eat lunch while do data analysis at my desk. "Microsoft Excel is treated as god in the real life at work", yes, I mean every word of that. 3:00 p.m.: Go to team meeting, hear people complain about how heavy their workload is. Despite the rants, this is actually one of the better meetings, at least I get an idea of what I'm suppose to focus on for a couple days. 4:30 p.m.: Update my meeting calendar, send out a few meeting invites as instructed. 5:00 p.m.: Printing some materials for tomorrow morning's meeting. (All 12 copies, front and back, in full color) 5:30 p.m.: Head home |
In your opinion, how do most people get a high paying job?
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