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In my last job I hired a guy who had no college degree but had his newly-minted Cisco CCIE Voice certification and we brought him onboard starting at $110,000.
That's $50 an hour. Nobody is paid $50 an hour wages full time to arrive at the office at 8-am wearing a necktie and sit in a cubicle. That's jut not where the money is, and nobody will ever, ever, ever get rich doing that.
You make $100K if you are in a specialty field where you can demand whatever you want for the piece work that you do, like doctor, lawyer, etc. Or you make $100K if you have a $25 job and work huge amounts of overtime.
Or you make $100K if you have a particular skill and can find someone who will agree to pay you that for completing the assigned task.
Or you make $100K as your share of the gate if you can entertain people who pay $100 a seat to watch you perform.
Or you make $100K if you are doing something illegal and highly profitable.
Heh jtur88, why make absurd claims like that? Nobody, not a single person according to jtur88, makes $100k doing a mundane office job.
Pshaw. There are plenty of people who go to work 40 hours/week sitting in a cubicle and make $100k per year without any unique skillset. It isn't unusual at all, just (obviously) outside your realm of personal experience. Furthermore go look at one of the bigger retire early forums on the internet, and you'll find scores of people who did indeed get rich doing exactly that.
Believe it or not, in Miami-Dade county schools, you will find a teacher every blue moon who makes over 100k. SUrely they are doing lots of extra things such as teaching an extra period, maybe a few nights of night school, or maybe they are department chair. But I am sure people don't think of teachers when they think of a 100k salary!
Several have mentioned it in the thread already but if you have the right personality you can make a killing in sales. No formal education needed and your skill set is portable.
That's $50 an hour. Nobody is paid $50 an hour wages full time to arrive at the office at 8-am wearing a necktie and sit in a cubicle. That's jut not where the money is, and nobody will ever, ever, ever get rich doing that.
That really is a surprising claim... I would say most of the people I know (typical midwest college grads) arrive at 8 am to sit in a cube at a big Chicago corporation and make over $50 an hour. With business casual though, I agree they're not wearing ties... The salespeople wear the suits and they make more money.
I'll just stick with: there are many six figure 40 hour cubicle drone jobs, it isn't some rare two headed baby thing and I submit if you took a poll most in this forum have either worked with one or are one.
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