Salary Versus Stress - Jobs in US & India

NJtoHYD · Post by **NJtoHYD** » Thu May 26, 2016 1:49 pm

I am exploring jobs that pay well and have low stress or less work (USA & India)

If your comfortable - Please share your compensation and actual number of hours you work ?

Eg:
Work as IT Analyst in Financial Domain in NY - Total Compensation - $175K - Work 10-12 hours a day and high stress

GutsyGibbon · Post by **GutsyGibbon** » Sun May 29, 2016 6:45 pm

If one has worked in an engineering domain for 20years, and chooses to continue in engineering, IMHO, there is no stress. I have been working 8hours a day for the last 12 years, from the day I got my EAD/GC.
There may be a handful of days where i have stayed back for a release, or some critical debug, that is done to be part of a team, and not necessarily stressful.
The max stress I have in life is at set point in a tennis match ( mine & my kids) :)
Salaries for a senior guy in product engineering is anything from 150k to 250k. BA guys get even more.
Stay in engineering, keep up with kids in all the related skills. Spend a few months every year doing courses in local colleges/ online. Make sure you have a good product/skills, and set your own rules for work. Like, leave work at 2pm every friday. If the management likes your product, they will also play by your rules. Live a stress free life!

techynt · Post by **techynt** » Mon May 30, 2016 5:11 am

Do you mean you can get away with working less than 40 hours per week? dont they have time sheet requiring 40 hours in your company?

GutsyGibbon;631840If one has worked in an engineering domain for 20years, and chooses to continue in engineering, IMHO, there is no stress. I have been working 8hours a day for the last 12 years, from the day I got my EAD/GC.
There may be a handful of days where i have stayed back for a release, or some critical debug, that is done to be part of a team, and not necessarily stressful.
The max stress I have in life is at set point in a tennis match ( mine & my kids) :)
Salaries for a senior guy in product engineering is anything from 150k to 250k. BA guys get even more.
Stay in engineering, keep up with kids in all the related skills. Spend a few months every year doing courses in local colleges/ online. Make sure you have a good product/skills, and set your own rules for work. Like, leave work at 2pm every friday. If the management likes your product, they will also play by your rules. Live a stress free life!

techynt · Post by **techynt** » Mon May 30, 2016 5:15 am

In my experience only lucky few have the opportunity to work in a low stress high paying jobs.

But for smart folks making a well paying job low stress is not impossible. You just have to learn to relax and not take things very seriously and also not pay too much attention to other people stuff. Dont be too ambitious if the growth option is limited, just do you work for 40 hours with complete focus and go home and enjoy the rest of the time.

NJtoHYD;631701I am exploring jobs that pay well and have low stress or less work (USA & India)

If your comfortable - Please share your compensation and actual number of hours you work ?

Eg:
Work as IT Analyst in Financial Domain in NY - Total Compensation - $175K - Work 10-12 hours a day and high stress

okonomi · Post by **okonomi** » Mon May 30, 2016 5:45 am

Salary ? No... it is called "compensation" in the Human Resources language.
Suffering begets compensation. Greater suffering merits greater compensation.
That is all there is to it.

desi4ever · Post by **desi4ever** » Mon May 30, 2016 6:15 am

okonomi;631854Salary ? No... it is called "compensation" in the Human Resources language.
Suffering begets compensation. Greater suffering merits greater compensation.
That is all there is to it.

There is another saying in the corporate world called "being in the right place at the right time" and your salary err compensation is well taken care of

RRS · Post by **RRS** » Mon May 30, 2016 7:55 am

GutsyGibbon;631840If one has worked in an engineering domain for 20years, and chooses to continue in engineering, IMHO, there is no stress. I have been working 8hours a day for the last 12 years, from the day I got my EAD/GC.
There may be a handful of days where i have stayed back for a release, or some critical debug, that is done to be part of a team, and not necessarily stressful.
The max stress I have in life is at set point in a tennis match ( mine & my kids) :)
Salaries for a senior guy in product engineering is anything from 150k to 250k. BA guys get even more.
Stay in engineering, keep up with kids in all the related skills. Spend a few months every year doing courses in local colleges/ online. Make sure you have a good product/skills, and set your own rules for work. Like, leave work at 2pm every friday. If the management likes your product, they will also play by your rules. Live a stress free life!

Not true in Bay Area. I have been in Engg. domain all along. The more senior one gets, more responsibilities on the plate. I have an important family event but product release is just around the corner, so part of the team is forced to work even on memorial weekend. I worked in MA for 12.5 years, so your observation would have held fine in MA but last 10 years in BA, the stress level is pretty high in product companies based on my personal experience in two very well known companies in BA.

GutsyGibbon · Post by **GutsyGibbon** » Tue May 31, 2016 2:46 am

RRS;631860Not true in Bay Area. I have been in Engg. domain all along. The more senior one gets, more responsibilities on the plate. I have an important family event but product release is just around the corner, so part of the team is forced to work even on memorial weekend. I worked in MA for 12.5 years, so your observation would have held fine in MA but last 10 years in BA, the stress level is pretty high in product companies based on my personal experience in two very well known companies in BA.

All companies i have worked for in So. Cal have had a team in Bay Area. If we ask people to come in and work on a long weekend, we allow them to take a day off after the release. They need to ask for it though, I always do.

Also there is stress and there is anxiety. IMO, wanting to wrap up work and go home early is anxiety, and not necessarily stress. Terminology!

GutsyGibbon · Post by **GutsyGibbon** » Tue May 31, 2016 3:18 am

techynt;631852Do you mean you can get away with working less than 40 hours per week? dont they have time sheet requiring 40 hours in your company?

No I did not mean less than 40. I am in the same rat race as every one else, i have enough work load that needs me to work 40hrs or a little more to make sure i get some bonus[emoji1]. I did not say, i have not worked, weekends. If i do, I take the Monday off.
I do see my friends and colleagues stressed out for no reason. Things can wait, and will wait, don't buckle to the pressure of status collectors. Individual situations vary, if you do the crime, do the time. If you introduced a bug, or broke the build, there would certainly be anxious moments till its wrapped up.

I have been in middle management sprinkled in the later part of the last 20+ years, perhaps adding up to a handful of years. Those are the stressful years of my life that i will never get back. The last few years, i have been a lab rat, & a code monkey. Since then, I am not nearly as stressed as many of my friends who continued in middle management.
IMO, some level of stress is healthy to keep the fire in the belly going. If its on a daily basis, it needs to be fixed. Life is short and its not worth it. [emoji2] Once inside the home, work needs to be shutoff completely from the mind.

DrJ · Post by **DrJ** » Tue May 31, 2016 7:50 am

NJtoHYD;631701I am exploring jobs that pay well and have low stress or less work (USA & India)

If your comfortable - Please share your compensation and actual number of hours you work ?

Eg:
Work as IT Analyst in Financial Domain in NY - Total Compensation - $175K - Work 10-12 hours a day and high stress

I am a tenured professor in a top-50 program in the World (Materials Science and Engineering).

My responsibilities are to teach one course in the fall semester to grad students and one course in the spring semester to seniors/rising seniors (I get to teach the same course for a five-six year cycle - this means, I prepare the material once every five to six years). These are usually a three-credit course which means three hours of work per week (I teach MWF 9-10 AM). Other than this, I am "expected" to do research and take part in some committees related to University work. Of course, I don't have to do those things. I typically take the entire summer (June to August) off. I get $140K for 9 months. If I work in the summer, I get to pay myself using research funds I raise (pro-rated pay based on my 9-month salary) but I am content with my 9-month pay and like I said, I take the summer off. In my opinion, being a professor is the best* job in the world. Let me rephrase that: being a "tenured" professor is the best* job in the world. The pay is good; there is respect from students, advisees, and colleagues; and I get summers off.

*second best actually. I think the best job for a man to have is to be a dentist. To tell a woman when to open and when to shut her mouth and to get away with it should be best job in the whole world.