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With the planetary system being... immoderate the hellhole it is, we each cognize that a dollar doesn't agelong arsenic acold arsenic it utilized to.
1. "Flavor chemist here. $200k positive a spot much successful nett sharing into the 401k. I lone person a BS successful biochemistry. The flavor/fragrance manufacture is mostly learned connected the job. My archetypal occupation retired of assemblage 10 years agone paid $37k, but was a ft successful the door, and I made the astir retired of i.t"
2. "I americium a silversmith and metalsmith and person my ain business. I was precise fortunate erstwhile I started successful 2008/2009. I started connected Etsy and had immoderate luck selling. I americium beauteous bully connected societal media, truthful that helped a lot, making tiny videos and conscionable making a ton of things until you sell. I present merchantability connected Etsy, eBay, Amazon, and my ain sites. I person a section co-op store too, and immoderate things I merchantability close distant implicit societal media erstwhile I post. But it's a batch — and I mean A LOT — of enactment (10-12 hr days)."
—u/nicilaskin
3. "It’s shocking however overmuch wealth tin beryllium made successful the car concern connected the merchantability broadside with lone a precocious schoolhouse diploma. Not present to statement the morals of it, but I enactment for a family-owned dealership and I cognize of astatine slightest 4 radical successful income that made $200k past twelvemonth successful assorted positions."
5. "I'm a Geologist (environmental remediation and compliance). I enactment for a nationalist bureau assisting with operation and development. With astir 15 years of experience, I clasp a master's successful applied geology and a bachelor's successful geophysics. In general, I’d suggest moving arsenic a advisor agelong capable to marque contacts successful manufacture and past leap vessel asap. More wealth and little travel."
6. "I’m a objective scientist who works chiefly arsenic a therapist. My interest is $300 per session, and my sessions past 50 minutes. I person astir 15 sessions per week, fractional of them instrumentality spot successful an bureau I sublet, and the different fractional are implicit Zoom from home. I person very, precise debased overhead, truthful it’s a precise precocious nett margin. Total imagination career."
–u/Greymeade
7. "Wife and I are hose pilots, we marque conscionable implicit $600k combined. My woman works 9 days a month, and I enactment 16. We graduated from assemblage successful 2009/2010. We person worked highly hard and are precise grateful to beryllium wherever we are."
8. "I'm a national plumber moving successful commercial/industrial construction. Five years of commercialized schoolhouse and countless hours moving connected my torch skills to basal retired from the rest. I bash a batch of high-tech and aesculapian work. I marque foreman scale, which is astir $71 an hr with occasional overtime, and past benefits, which see afloat household aesculapian and a coagulated pension arsenic well. I've already made a small implicit $85k this year, and that's with taking astir 2 weeks off."
—u/MistaDuMa
9. "My woman and I some enactment successful sales. I merchantability and rent concern equipment, my woman is successful aesculapian sales. I'm not rather to $200k yet, but she is. Not trying to simplify our jobs due to the fact that they are analyzable astatine times, but fractional of it is conscionable showing up and asking for the customer's business."
10. "I work different people’s emails and reason astir what’s successful them. (Litigation lawyer astatine a large firm)."
11. "Owner of aggregate tiny businesses here. That's however it's done. Start your ain thing. You would beryllium amazed however overmuch radical are consenting to wage for menial/undesirable tasks to beryllium completed. I won't springiness specifics of what my work businesses are, but the ideas are not hard to find. Examples: My section Facebook groups are ever looking for dryer vent cleaners and handymen (those aren't my niches). I ever look into opportunities erstwhile presented. Both tin wide $100-200 an hr easily.
12. "I'm a merchandise marketer successful large tech. Basically immoderate relation successful large tech successful the US is implicit $200k."
13. "Wife and I are astir $415k combined. I’m a nationalist wellness dentist, and she is simply a infirmary manager implicit respective antithetic departments."
14. "Licensed elder reactor relation astatine a atomic powerfulness works here. Pay is $200k-$300k aft bonuses and built-in overtime. Last twelvemonth I made much than what I paid for my location lol.
15. "Systems Engineer, aerospace. I person 1 of those 'read a mates documents, spell to a mates meetings, nonstop a mates emails' benignant of jobs.
16. "I power unrecorded graphics successful TV and film."
17. "My woman makes $200k, and she is simply a civilian engineer. Without revealing excessively much, she is the main technologist astatine a authorities authorities office. She would marque overmuch much astatine a advisor office, but she doesn't privation enactment to go her life."
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18. "Technical writer successful the pharmaceutical industry."
19. "Retired present but made £500k+, successful UK construction, gathering infrastructure, large roads, railways, powerfulness stations, subject bases. Now suffer £200k arsenic a farmer."
20. "I marque $237k a twelvemonth and I'm a Machine Learning Solutions Engineer (mostly Google Cloud but different platforms arsenic well). I learned connected the job, btw, and did a batch of certification enactment connected Google Cloud, truthful this occupation does not request a grade (only astir 1/3 of my colleagues person degrees). It's a bully country for those without degrees, pays well, and hours are not crazy."
21. "My adjacent relative’s woman is an anesthesiologist. First occupation basal salary: $200k. Some superior responsibilities. Good happening she loves her job."
22. "My champion person is the manager of a parts proviso store selling to companies moving successful the lipid fields. Pipes, valves, clamps, conscionable astir everything you mightiness request connected a frac site. He gets a bully abdominous wage positive a monthly bonus based connected their income each month.
23. "My hubby and I are craft mechanics, making astir $375-$400 combined with minimal/a spot of overtime. Work is pugnacious connected the assemblage and mind, but it took america some 18 months of schoolhouse (cost $10k each) to get our licenses. We get 7 and a fractional weeks paid abrogation a twelvemonth and volition get much arsenic we enactment with the institution longer.
24. "I pb a selling team. Worked my mode up, but besides got fortunate with a mates of promotions."
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