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Let's be intellectually honest Kristina,

It's hard to take your emails with a dose of sincerity, when your 
scholarship seems random and a result of passion. Phrases like 
"Secretaries make more than this" and posting what you "feel" is the 
average income for a particular profession (without citation or 
reference), leads the reader to thinking you're angry or whiny.

If however you are sincere, I do think that there is a particular 
paragraph in Tom's reply that should be of interest:

-TOM MELENDEZ -
 >Look at what you can do to excel. How are your sales efforts
>  (speaking for myself in my experience as a consultant - I always
>  dreaded sales, but recently realized that it needs to be embraced, not
>  feared)? Professional networking? Who is your customer? Are their
>  pockets deep enough? Are you really taking advantage of your
>  expertise (are you doing graphics when you are really a DBA at heart)?
>  How can you get the work done faster? Can you invest in tools (store
>  bought or that you create) to help? Invest in services? People? Can
>  you reuse code? Are you tracking problems so that you don't make the
>  same mistake again?

This paragraph reminds me of a book my friend recommended some time ago, entitled, "What color is your parachute?". The whole concept is not looking to an outside change, when sculpting your small business growth, but looking at your inner development and maturation. And in so doing, specific areas of personal growth will be obviously and easily leveraged to grow your small business substantially. Then, hopefully, it becomes a beautiful cycle of inner growth -> application -> business growth -> inner growth





Kristina Anderson wrote:
> The salary numbers on that site (46K for an accountant?? Secretaries 
> make more than this) seem way low, and I was moreso referring to NYC 
> salaries...if my numbers are way off, I do apologize...but I do feel 
> that these professions are overall more lucrative to practitioners than 
> IT is...
>
> I love these discussions with you guys, I'm not intimidated in the 
> least, as you can see, to be a minority in a "male" IT profession (or 
> discussion board!)  :)!
>
>   
>> Kristina Anderson wrote:
>>     
>>> Tom -- 
>>>
>>> The average corporate attorney makes $200K.  The average attorney 
>>>       
> in 
>   
>>> business for themselves makes about the same. 
>>>       
>> http://www.payscale.com/research/US/Job=Corporate_Attorney/Salary
>>     
>>>  The average CPA, about 
>>> 150K.  
>>>       
>> http://www.payscale.com/research/US/Job=Accountant/Salary
>>
>> -- 
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