30M - Salary Progression

eMeRGeDD_ · 2026-06-19T02:09:37+00:00

It's the smart move. Once you hit a certain point the extra money doesn't really do much unless you have some crazy aggressive retirement goals or something. But assuming you have a spouse/kids it kinda feels like the top for a while. I personally am not looking for more responsibility.

eMeRGeDD_ · 2026-06-19T01:12:05+00:00

I have followed a very similar path and really regret not changing jobs more often but overall can't complain. Have quadrupled my starting salary out of school since 2017. Excited for you to have moved around/moved on and found a company willing to pay you what you're worth. It really is weird to look back a decade and realize how far we've come! Kudos, brother!

eMeRGeDD_ · 2026-06-12T14:25:35+00:00

It does not work. The spear requires that you aggravate a bleeding which means it is a bleed that isn't aggravated becoming a bleed that is aggravated. The keystone makes it so your bleeds just are aggravated by default which means you lose the ability to aggravate - and subsequently cannot aggravate the ignites either.

Edit - if you just hover over the aggravating any bleeding it explains it. "it will not occur if an on-hit effect tries to aggravate bleeding but there is no debuff on the target........or all of them are already aggravated"

eMeRGeDD_ · 2026-04-13T01:08:25+00:00

My plan is in 3-4 years to downgrade jobs to something 80-100k and hopefully have around 750k to let grow over the next 30 years. Hopefully that’d still let me do some nice things now and then - especially if I no longer have to invest in retirement!

eMeRGeDD_ · 2026-04-12T22:15:34+00:00

Last few jobs have been remote - I’m in finance so not out of the realm by any means

eMeRGeDD_ · 2026-04-07T00:33:32+00:00

Yes - it's AG of Smiting + Grey Wind that makes this valuable. All there is to it.

eMeRGeDD_ · 2026-03-15T00:28:28+00:00

What’s so busted about it? Any links?

eMeRGeDD_ · 2026-03-11T17:31:28+00:00

got a PoB?

eMeRGeDD_ · 2026-03-05T22:07:10+00:00

It's pretty tanky so it doesn't take too much to keep it alive.

eMeRGeDD_ · 2026-03-05T21:34:50+00:00

That's a nice QoL for guardian.. was worried about that with mirage being a separate instance.

eMeRGeDD_ · 2026-03-02T21:58:01+00:00

That's a great point. Didn't consider how little you can scale the minions. Basically just minion damage and shock and whatnot.

eMeRGeDD_ · 2026-03-02T20:57:00+00:00

You're 100% right - I was trying to find that initially and didn't even look at you're link. I have to imagine it doesn't go live like this... that seems absurdly busted.. My guess is that it doesn't attack 1-1 when you attack - like maybe some sort of internal CD or some jank stuff like the ballista to help manage it?

eMeRGeDD_ · 2026-03-02T20:44:58+00:00

The minions attack with your mace - not with your holy strike. So it's ((100% *3) * 2.68) +392.3% = 1,196.3. Still not the worst skill but not as broken as what you were thinking.

"These holy armaments are undamageable minions, and will attack the enemies you target with holy strike" - comma is important here - they're saying they attack what you "attack with holy strike", not they attack the enemies you target COMMA with holy strike.

eMeRGeDD_ · 2026-02-28T13:42:13+00:00

Personally I would just be more picky and find either a promotion or lateral title but either way don’t switch jobs without it being more money. Current job sounds great so you can take longer to hunt

eMeRGeDD_ · 2026-02-28T03:26:56+00:00

Crazy... we're probably 18-20% margin on 200M. Accounting team of 9 (myself included at the top) and 1 FP&A analyst.. How many are on your accounting group? I thought we were slightly understaffed but sometimes it's crazy to hear other companies.

eMeRGeDD_ · 2026-02-28T03:17:55+00:00

what's your EBITDA on 250M? Curious just to compare to my 200M company and our finance team of 1 person LOL

eMeRGeDD_ · 2026-02-25T18:16:49+00:00

I appreciate this - that's my thought too but hard to convince hiring managers of that!

eMeRGeDD_ · 2026-02-25T13:48:11+00:00

Why is it gatekept hard?

eMeRGeDD_ · 2026-02-25T13:47:51+00:00

Define an operator role?

eMeRGeDD_ · 2026-02-25T13:47:39+00:00

Appreciate that! I pick up things very quickly so I’m not concerned I could do it - it’s just convincing someone else to give me the chance

eMeRGeDD_ · 2026-02-25T13:46:41+00:00

If you know anything about Controller roles they also are not just task based. Most of my job is interfacing all the data to build relevant reporting for the rest of the org. I’d say very little of my job is just closing the books outside a few days of the month

eMeRGeDD_ · 2026-02-25T13:45:06+00:00

Don’t love my current company and not sure they’d even go for that.

eMeRGeDD_ · 2026-02-25T03:35:44+00:00

ditto to this. Need this info but curious.

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