People Earning Six Figures Are Discussing Their Jobs (The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly), And It's Honestly Intriguing

Reddit idiosyncratic Kindly-Revolution258 precocious asked, "For those of you that marque implicit $100k, what bash you do? Do you similar it?" Here's what radical shared:

1. "I import, sell, and administer cheese. It's love-hate. Cheese is an manufacture afloat of passionate people, and it's chill to beryllium successful an manufacture that preserves pieces of tradition. But DAMN, moving with nonessential items is hard these days. Perishable products are hard these days. Everything has been unsmooth since COVID."

—RegularOk3231

2. "Cardiologist. $700k. The travel to get present was brutal, and it's precise competitory to get into the specialty. Couldn't person made it without household enactment and the willingness to judge that the remainder of my friends who graduated precocious schoolhouse with maine would determination on, person kids, etc., portion I was successful med school, 3 years of interior medicine residency, and 3 years of cardiology fellowship. Graduated astatine 34. This is my archetypal twelvemonth earning this."

—perrycardium

3. "NYC bartender. It's not arsenic overmuch wealth arsenic making $100k different places, but it's ace fun, and I lone enactment 3-4 days a week."

—Quail58

4. "Pediatric anesthesiologist. 10/10, would render kids unconscious again."

—needs_more_zoidberg

5. "Corporate chef, $120k/year, 5% yearly bonus, 5% yearly raise, and 5% 401(k) match. I enactment astir 40 hours a week. It is the champion occupation I've ever had. My worst time present is inactive amended than my champion time successful a restaurant. I spent 15 years successful and retired of Michelin-starred/rated restaurants, and aft starting a family, I realized WLB is highly important. I inactive wanted to bash what I emotion and bash best, and I knew a feline who made the modulation astir 7 years ago. He seemed highly happy, and helium yet had an opening for me. Started astir a twelvemonth ago, and I program to discontinue with this company."

—Shaolin_Chef

6. "I'm a stripper, and yes, I similar it. It's beauteous minimal enactment and accent for what we person to do. I'm making implicit $250k close now, but I besides made astir $100k erstwhile I was conscionable waitressing successful the portion nine from 18-20 years old."

—Secret_Doubt62

7. "Cannabis industry. Seven years ago, I started increasing marijuana legally, and close from the start, I was making implicit $200k a year. I yet stopped increasing and moved into dispensaries. I opened respective dispensaries present successful Michigan and adjacent expanded into my location country, Italy. I've done exceptionally well; I person since surpassed that $200k people and present marque adjacent to fractional a cardinal a year. At 45 and single, I'm afloat retired, surviving the beingness I ever dreamed of, coming up from poverty, and present I'm yet connected my ain terms."

—Zeeman80

8. "Evolutionary, biology biologist. Research chaotic grey wolves. Love it!! It's my purpose."

—Delicious_Utopia

9. "Believe it oregon not? High schoolhouse biology teacher successful a precise high-paying nationalist schoolhouse district. $152k."

—Closed_CasketRequiem

10. "I redesign and animate PowerPoints for companies that privation a high-end feel. $180k. I similar it, but it shows you however the bulk of radical successful executive-level firm America person nary thought however to run a computer, which tin beryllium scary."

—MoshReadsThings

11. "I'm a compliance serviceman astatine a large bank. I specialize successful UDAAP, which stands for Unfair, Deceptive, oregon Abusive Acts oregon Practices. I emotion my job. When I spot the slope doing thing (potentially) UDAAP-y, I get to archer them to sound it off. I tin propulsion for refunds if determination was monetary damage. I'm warring hard for the mean lawsuit each azygous day. Feels good!"

—iusedtostealbirds

12. "I'm a pilot, I marque astir $400k per year, and I'm disconnected 20ish days per month. It's an implicit dream."

—6bonerchamp9

13. "I bash IT (sys admin) for the section government. I americium sick of it, I americium sick of everyone and each their bullshit. I americium 5 years distant from retirement."

—DesignerConfidence15

14. "I was a originative manager astatine a large advertisement bureau making adjacent to $200k. Burnt retired truthful severely that I discontinue a twelvemonth agone without immoderate backup plans. No regrets."

—IndependentBowl2806

15. "I'm an opera singer. It's a changeless struggle, but it's a chill AF job."

—Nick_pj

16. "Government grants management. Yup, I similar it! Not the astir thrilling work, but it's unchangeable and not excessively stressful. I ne'er enactment much than 40 hours a week, and I get a pension, six weeks of leave, and national protection. I don't attraction if it's boring. It gives maine a bully life."

—scrollgirl24

17. "Finance and accounting. I'm large with information and Excel, truthful it works for me. Pretty regular hours. Decent benefits. Some engaged weeks, immoderate airy weeks. I privation it were remote, but hybrid is okay. Can't truly kick since my coworkers are each enjoyable people, and absorption leaves maine unsocial if I get my deliverables done."

—cousteausCredence

18. "Librarian. I'm successful an HCOL country and portion of a union. The national is the main reason. I emotion what I do."

—archivesgrrl

19. "I'm a speech-language pathologist for a nationalist schoolhouse district. The occupation has its ups and downs, but I mostly similar it precise much, particularly since I'm connected my kids' docket and tin grip each of their activities, time-wise!"

—Main-Ladder896

20. "Chemist moving successful semiconductors. $130k, but took 10 years to get a PhD. Not gonna lie, I really lone enactment possibly 10 hours a week, person unlimited PTO, and large benefits. Love it. Mostly, I beryllium astir waiting for radical to inquire maine what I deliberation astir shit. Have to beryllium determination to enactment things going sideways connected tract 24/7, but that seldom happens. Now that the kids are grown, my spouse makes astir the aforesaid magnitude of money, and we person nary indebtedness too the house. Our monthly expenses are possibly $3,500. Dream life, we fuck disconnected a batch these days."

—Substantial-Low

21. "Photographer. Around $500k a year. Twenty years successful the business. All firm and weddings. I enactment hard, but perfectly emotion what I do."

—Dr_Lurky_Lurkerson

22. "Cloud information specializer for a bank. $160K, WFH. I emotion it. Some days are busier, but the bulk of the time, arsenic agelong arsenic I implicit what I request to do, I person escaped time. It works good due to the fact that I person a child, and I get to walk a batch of clip with them."

—SpeciesInRetrograde

23. "Air postulation controller. $127k. Do I similar it? I similar it good connected the days erstwhile thing goes wrong. The different days, I property 5 years successful 4 hours."

—ConstantThroat102

24. "Bridal hairstylist. I enactment 3-6 days a week and 2-6 hours a time playing formal up, listening to music, and having a blast with idiosyncratic connected their happiest day, and person the remainder of the clip to beryllium with my family. I emotion my job."

—TheHonestUnicorn

25. "I'm a authorities authorities lawyer. It's decent. I astir apt really enactment successful less than 40 hours a week. Fully remote. I enactment connected immoderate absorbing projects successful user extortion and white-collar fraud. I went to a T14 instrumentality school, and astir of my friends are astatine large firms making 3 times what I make, but they besides enactment astir apt doubly arsenic overmuch and, astatine slightest aboriginal successful their careers, don't person the substantive work implicit cases that I do, truthful I don't hatred the trade-off."

—I-AMA-KarmaWhore-AMA

26. "Software technologist (mostly managerial these days) successful video games. I mostly emotion what I do, but tech and particularly games are highly volatile close now, truthful the tract tin beryllium stressful adjacent if the enactment is enjoyable."

—blazingintensity

27. "I negociate a veterinary hospital. I oversee infirmary operations/ finances and spouse with aesculapian providers to guarantee they person what they request to bash the job. I ne'er anticipated going into this field, but it's amazing. Plus, I get to spot adorable puppies and kittens each time long."

—beanhungar

28. "I americium a manager astatine a nonprofit, and I emotion it! Good work-life equilibrium and meaningful work. Not a wildly precocious salary, but I similar the enactment and team, and it's capable of a wage wherever I live."

—Archi_penko

29. "I'm a Photoshop creator (photo retoucher) for a ample furnishings institution that puts retired galore catalogs a year. I truly similar what I do. It keeps maine from getting burnt retired from what I truly enjoy: taking photos."

—Maxsposure

30. "Winemaker. Love the enactment but hatred the docket and mandatory overtime."

—mawgui

31. "I repair each appliances. I've been doing it for 15 years now, and it's highly satisfying. There's nary abstraction to your productivity. You locomotion into a concern wherever you are the lone 1 providing a hole that is straight creating evident results, each day, each day. It's a spot of a sleeper job. I tin archer I get looked down connected occasionally by radical who apt marque little than I do, which I see portion of the satisfaction."

—HieroJux

32. "I'm a shipyard tube fitter successful San Diego. I made $100k past year. Took a batch of overtime, though. I bash similar my job. But $100k ain't overmuch successful San Diego."

—Environmental_Egg380

33. "I'm a plumber. Everyone astatine my precocious schoolhouse reunion assumed I'd beryllium the 1 who 'didn't marque it.' I marque $140k, and I'm location by 4 p.m. The guys who went to assemblage for concern are inactive paying disconnected loans and answering emails astatine midnight. I unclog drains and manager my kid's shot team. No notes."

—ConstantThroat102

34. "Nuclear reactor operator. I similar it a lot, truly bully occupation information unless the works closes down. Rotating displacement enactment is the biggest drawback."

—PizzaAndBobs

35. "I americium a parks/landscape supervisor and arborist moving successful section government. I don't enactment for the metropolis I unrecorded in, but different metropolis successful my county. My wage is nationalist accusation and is presently astir $112k positive benefits. Total compensation is astir $134k."

—jimmywinz

36. "Dentist. I emotion my job. Recently bought a dental practice, and I'm not truthful overmuch loving unit absorption arsenic an proprietor (there's ever something). However, I consciousness similar I person recovered my 'home' successful my career. I truly can't spot myself leaving the dental manufacture earlier I retire, whether it's objective work, CE, oregon teaching — I emotion it all. I emotion being a doctor, I emotion the autonomy of ownership, and I emotion helping people, and I emotion that I'm ne'er connected call. I truly bash emotion what I do, and americium thankful each time that I bask my chosen assemblage truthful much. I marque $200k—$300k a year, which is honestly connected the little extremity compared to immoderate successful higher-cost-of-living areas."

—firethornocelot

37. "Associate VP of fundraising for a symphony. Has its bully days and atrocious days. Hours tin beryllium beauteous tough, and the unit tin beryllium real. I negociate a squad and enactment connected each of our fundraising efforts. $115k."

—rerescene

38. "I hole boats. I usually bask it since I get to prime the jobs I privation to do, and the radical I privation to woody with. Pays well, but lone if I get up successful the morning, haha. When I'm not fixing boats, I'm sailing my own."

—Fishing_Twig

39. "I'm a objective psychologist. I enactment arsenic a therapist successful a solo backstage practice. My interest is $300 per hour. It's a imagination career. I perfectly emotion my work. It's meaningful and fulfilling, intellectually and emotionally stimulating. The flexibility is unreal. I acceptable my ain hours and person nary boss. It's the astir profitable concern exemplary ever, since I person fundamentally nary overhead. It allows maine to enactment location with my kids during the time portion my woman is astatine work, and to spot my patients successful the afternoons and connected immoderate evenings. I lone enactment 15 hours a week, but since I'm making $300 an hour, that's enough."

—Greymeade

40. "Supply concatenation (food and beverage) ~$150k. An manufacture often overlooked, with precocious request for experienced individuals. The champion portion is that it doesn't needfully necessitate extended schooling. If you're organized, tin coordinate, deliberation rationally, and problem-solve, you'll excel successful this career."

—iltnfl

41. "Marketing manager for an online retailer, and it's afloat remote, which allowed maine to determination crossed the satellite and proceed doing my job, earning amended wealth than I would here, and physique my career. I bash truly bask it, and it's the archetypal institution I've worked astatine successful years that I haven't viscerally hated."

—Glassy-eyed99

42. "Paramedic. Love it. Been connected the roadworthy 25+ years. It's the lone occupation I ever wanted. Right from kindergarten. I've got to bash a clump of astonishing things, had phenomenal opportunities to grow my practice, spot however different services run, assistance retired during disasters, and supply wellness attraction to underserved communities."

—EyCeeDedPpl

43. "Ghostwriter, editor, and publication manager for cognition stock concern books. I enactment little than 30 hours a week, marque my ain schedule, and marque wealth doing what I americium bully at. I besides get to enactment with intelligent and affluent radical connected absorbing topics. Never a dull day. I emotion what I've built."

—Leksifer

44. And: "Restaurant manager for a ample chain. Food work decidedly sucks sometimes. But nutrient work is each I've known, and I americium bully with hospitality and impermanent service. It has its bully days and atrocious days, but I americium not idiosyncratic who needs to emotion their job. For me, it's a job. I spell in, bash my shit, woody with what comes, and past travel home. The compensation for it allows maine to bask my hobbies and springiness my household a bully life. That's worthy it to me."

—Rhonynythesly1

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