Cavalier golf and yacht club and age 14 (f you don't count mowing lawns starting at age 12). When I got my first paycheck for ~$100 (at $3.35 per hour), I thought I'd died and gone to heaven. I'm just glad there were no busybodies trying to "help" me by make that job pay a living wage job or I would have never been hired. side note, I also worked at Steiny's which I assume you're familiar with as a fellow Thalia guy.

My first job out of college I sort of settled for because I graduated in '91 and the job market sucked. I wanted to go into finance, but the IT jobs were where the offers were. So I took a less than perfect job which turned out to be great experience for me. I was able to transfer into a finance role with this company after a few years and then went back to b-school. I've worked for 4 companies post college, and I never left a company because I felt I was underpaid, although I could have advanced my career further by making some jumps in the last 10 years of my career. But by that time I was enjoying the work life balance that my job afforded me (I had built enough of a reputation where I didn't need to prove myself to anyone) and that was worth more to me than a bigger title and more money

Anyway, we've veered way off topic. But I generally think the concept of people being undervalued is BS. If someone feels they are undervalued, they should test that theory by looking elsewhere. If they can make more somewhere else great. If not, maybe they were fairly valued after all.
[Post edited by BocaHoo91 at 03/24/2024 9:48PM]