conversation: User (cjgrl1): "\n**EDIT: darn! should say now* in the title, not "not"**\n\nAs the title says, I have a year review coming up next Thursday. I've incurred a lot of abuse from this company and am actively looking for a job elsewhere, but there aren't many openings in my small-ish town apart from retail and labor. \n\nI feel like I'm being grossly underpaid to do specialized work that I wasn't even hired for. I've been a project manager, designed and built several website for this company, ran a 9-month ad campaign (including designing all the materials that went out), become a salesforce administrator, and done the work of my colleagues (who all make over double what I make) while they slack off....all while making less than my friends who work retail and with no recognition from my manager and boss. \n\nIn my year here, I've realized that I know more about these things than my colleagues, but (hate to make this a gender/age thing, but my boss is from an oppressive culture) since they're older men and I'm a younger female, half the time my boss just assumes my colleagues did the work and doesn't believe me when I explain that it was actually me.\n\nHow do I approach this at my review? Do I bring a list of all the work I've done, along with the average salaries from these fields in our area? I don't know that I have enough time to get a counter offer from another company and I'm not sure an opening at another company nearby even exists....\n\nThank you\n"
  Self: "To be real here, going into an interview for a tech company, saying you do "web dev" isn't going to set off any alarm bells immediately, but when all you have on your resume is "WordPress," "HTML," "CSS," you'll be in for a rude awakening. Web development is a very broad field, encompassing a huge range of disciplines. Just want to warn you before hand, because you may not know enough about web dev to actually know how much you're missing. There's a lot of hype around CS and web dev, and as soon as someone writes "web dev," all of reddit will tell you you're a shoe-in for 6 figures. \n\nApart from that, it does seem like you have good management skills, and eye for design, and a knack for getting things done; and hell if I know, you might just be the best damn web developer in existence. In the end, you've got to find out exactly what you're good at, or want to be good at, before you can sell yourself to your boss and to other companies."
  