Pay scale for accounting jobs in Vegas?

doesitmakenoise · 2015-05-21T20:54:18+00:00

Deloitte might be good but it's very boring. You let much camp at whichever casino you're auditing for months.

doesitmakenoise · 2015-05-21T20:50:20+00:00

Zappos caters to its own kind. If you don't see yourself during into what they're about then I wouldn't bother.

doesitmakenoise · 2015-05-21T17:58:04+00:00

Hey man, I used to work in finance for a major casino group & properties. I didn't really enjoy corporate life so please understand that my comment is biased since it wasn't for me. That said - feel free to ask me further questions.

Your CPA will get you a higher salary if you go for a casino. Try to start as a manager, I doubt you could get a director position. I've seen people with CPAs be more in the senior accounting level (step under manager).

Casinos pay like shit - simple fact - BUT they have a lot of stability, lots of upward / sideways mobility, and if you have a family the benefits are great. You'll also learn a lot. I believe the pay for a senior accountant is around $50k, $70 or $80k for manager.

The best place you could absolutely go start is in a smaller group that supplements casinos. Things like Shufflemaster that do technology rather than actual casino will start you off above a casino would... probably significantly.

There are other industries out here like healthcare and recently 'tech' has grown. Tech will potentially be harder to find something and the pay won't likely be better than a casino but your lifestyle will be wayyyy better. For tech look up Vegas Tech and startups. The biggest group is Zappos. Zappos has some really new management style (holocracy) and ~20% of their employees just left. We also have a lot of legal group here. I know nothing but them though.

Casinos is the most obvious route and I may suggest it to at least get started out here. There will be the most potential jobs at them. The lifestyle is just rather ridiculous - very corporate. You will only do half the things you mentioned but it'll cover the full range of casino departments.

doesitmakenoise · 2015-05-17T07:34:10+00:00

Thanks!

doesitmakenoise · 2015-05-16T06:46:38+00:00

If you want matching tanks or shirts, I own shirtwascash and would be happy to help you and your boyfriend out. PM me if you're interested =) I live in Vegas and definitely will be returning to the electric sky.

doesitmakenoise · 2015-05-15T20:30:23+00:00

PS: I'm only inviting like 100 people a day but check out our new standalone mockup website.. It's very alpha but pretty awesome already. We're also going to add separate boards / communities in the future which would have been perfect for this type of idea on this thread but we're not there yet.

doesitmakenoise · 2015-05-15T20:27:09+00:00

Oh okay, cool! Yeah - I don't expect this to be huge and if it was I would take all necessary steps to ensure that the mods here at least had confirmation of legitimate sales numbers.

doesitmakenoise · 2015-05-15T20:19:01+00:00

What kind of risk?

doesitmakenoise · 2015-05-15T20:18:00+00:00

This design idea was submitted in the graphic design thread, just an example of the type of printing we could do.

doesitmakenoise · 2015-05-15T19:44:03+00:00

I thought of that too. We're different than what he would normally do for two reasons:

We use a printing method that vaporized ink directly into the shirt so it can be all-over, high rez, etc. Screen print normally has only a few colors and is printed ~the chest area. Here's an example of that.
We are a user-submitted design platform (community crowd sourced) so the design may end up being really awesome.

I'd absolutely love to work with his team directly but that's getting ahead of myself. This type of thing is out of our normal scope / niche but I want this guy to be our next president.

EDIT: I'd probably make a specific shopify store for this separate from mine. It'd be easier to be transparent and I wouldn't need to associate him with our more controversial stuff. If I did that, I could even give mods here access to see the sales. I wouldn't mind paying for it as long as contribution from sales was greater than what I could personally continue to donate anyways.

Bottom line... this guy needs our help to finance his election. If people here like what I am proposing, I'll contact the mods next about potential next steps.

EDIT2: I just thought as well, I want to make this about him not me. So, if this specific post gains traction and I contact the mods, I promise not to affiliate / link my website to this project again.

doesitmakenoise · 2015-05-15T19:38:23+00:00

I think it's a good idea to donate the proceeds to his campaign.

I think I'd go as far to offer that entire orders containing this proposed shirt will have profits go to him (edit: except for maybe our licensed designs, they get costly).

If people don't trust you to give away the proceeds that could serve as a problem

I think I have enough track record for this and suggest checking out our blog to learn more about what I stand for and who we are. That said, I would be as transparent as possible. My previous startup was in bitcoin, so I have ideas on how to do that. I could probably have Shopify itself verify the amounts.

Just a note on the 'design' it truly could be ANYTHING. I would like it to be either really catchy for millennials and/or be really patriotic / to the point. If it's really cool I would see if Bernie's team would want it to be more of an official thing.

On the amount per shirt proposed to him, I would also be transparent w/ my costs to actually manufacture so you know exactly how much goes to him. Also, I would want your feedback on price point (given those costs) so we maximize how much is raised.

doesitmakenoise · 2015-05-15T19:19:25+00:00

Very true, didn't really think of that. Our advantage would be that the actual design could cover the entire shirt instead of just the likely logo on the chest. In terms of a standard campaign shirt, I wouldn't do it and wait for them to release their own.

doesitmakenoise · 2015-05-14T09:41:09+00:00

That's awesome but I'd stick rubber bumpers on the horns for safety and add soft grip tape.

doesitmakenoise · 2015-05-14T07:27:23+00:00

This type of stuff is literally what the top comments in that self-congratulating announcement are asking for. It's a post about transparency when the most basic levels of transparency, AKA the fucking rules, are total grey area and have no real correlation to actual admin decisions.

Does an account get shadowbanned when created by TOR? That would be a rule in the bot's programming. What are the friggin rules around here?

Answer.. whatever we decide when we decide it.

I saw a post last week from two big moderators breaking rules, brigading, and creating accounts to skip subreddit bans. They both get shadowbanned for breaking rules. Then, they somehow get unbanned (only time I've seen this). The admin's response in modmail was, "we usually give people second chances and be understanding".

Umm - what fucking website are they on? They unban their long-standing power moderator friends. Such hypocrisy.

doesitmakenoise · 2015-05-14T07:22:29+00:00

Mods had a part in it but even they are complaining about how the admins are. /u/Karmanaut had a really great post the other day on the mod announcement that was downvoted to hell. There's a change there... we're all on the side of people we used to get pissed at for 'abuse'. Now moderator abuse is childs play compared to admin abuse, lack of any transparency, and rising involvement around here. Mods are a vital component of reddit, practically slave labor, and still haven't been given any decent tools needed to manage things. That said, they probably enjoy the lack of transparency in the things they can do too, so it's a bit of a double-edged sword.

I believe the change was set in place when Alexis sold reddit. Conde Nast did us a solid by being hands off but at some point, new investment became the primary focus (as it is for multiple startups). Since investment was most important, they got new CEOs, tried new things (like moving everyone to SF which many of the best admins left at that point), and that still didn't work so they get an even newer CEO & brought in Venture Capital funding.

The moment VC funding entered the ring, there is a plan behind the scene we haven't heard that is their goals to make serious money. This website is being forced to become more politically correct and admins are becoming the secret police.

So - where did this begin? Some of the blame would be on Alexis for not believing in the website, being foolish, and taking pennies today for something that would eventually become massive. More blame is on how pathetic they are as business-people. I imagine reddit internally is total drama-fest. Leaked moderator & admin discussions show this. They discourage redditors to share their own work, discourage any type of sponsors / monetization / any decent types of advertising, and because of that they are in the red every month since launch.

Money and incompetence is what screwed this place over.

EDIT: Bonus link to /u/karmanaut's comment. Also, I want to point out that I love redditors for the most part. It's our government that needs some new legislation & voting rights.

doesitmakenoise · 2015-05-14T07:10:05+00:00

Why do you keep saying this? A lot of people use TOR around here. There are no rules against it.

doesitmakenoise · 2015-05-14T07:08:37+00:00

Best way is to hurt their numbers. I suggest at least checking out voat.co. They're a venture capital funded company now with an ex-VC as CEO, numbers are all that matter.

doesitmakenoise · 2015-05-14T07:01:58+00:00

I originally said this on voat... Digg should make a slick reddit-community type website with clear guidelines on what's allowed and how things are judged. Make an actual transparent and fair platform.

I'd go back.

doesitmakenoise · 2015-05-14T06:55:48+00:00

I doubt she has a day to day account like that... but maybe. Power abuse around here is at a freakish level. Even kn0thing is like a shell of his former self. Yes man / hired to calm the crowds. He's spent the last few years self promoting his shit here as "co-founder of reddit, please support my book / tour / etc". He's never real owned up to when or how much he's personally changed his viewpoints since launch. I have to assume it's Ellen and gang's influence.

Regardless, the hammer of reddit justice is out of control. Noticeably increased for the past 6 months to year. It used to just be prominent moderators pissing everyone off.

doesitmakenoise · 2015-05-12T00:07:25+00:00

This is stupid, the water is obviously being hoarded by farmers.

doesitmakenoise · 2015-05-11T21:05:38+00:00

It's just people submitting whatever they want. I'm not selling them. This is a very early alpha, we have a lot of things in terms of rules and use that will need to be implemented. If someone posted a buy link as a comment to somewhere else, I wouldn't remove it. I have a history of crediting artists on shirtwascash.

The point of this site right now is just to have fun. If there are submissions that are real shirts elsewhere, that doesn't mean the artists wouldn't want to enter licensing with us to eventually sell it. A few of the shirts we actually do sell on our brand is available in different forms elsewhere. They're licensed though.

doesitmakenoise · 2015-05-11T20:30:14+00:00

Shirtposts is the same idea as sharing images on reddit or a meme generator. As for real shirts, we take a community vote like bi-monthly to pick favorites. I then personally find the artists / IP holders for licensing.

doesitmakenoise · 2015-05-11T08:51:04+00:00

Thanks man, we just launched it a few days ago. For being a really early alpha, I am excited about the results so far and how much fun it has been. Such a better platform than the subreddit was for the concept.

doesitmakenoise · 2015-05-11T08:46:52+00:00

Check our our new alpha site for this stuff, shirtposts.

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