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Hey everyone! 👋 How many of you are raking in $200,000+ and living your best life? 🤑 How many hours do you work weekly to achieve that level of success? What industries are you in and how many years of experience do you have under your belt? Any regrets or rejoices along the way?
I’m on a quest to find my true career calling and I would love to hear your stories and insights. I’ve been feeling a bit lost in the world of sales and I know there are other paths out there waiting for me. 🌟
Let’s share our journeys and inspire each other to reach our full potential. Drop your thoughts below and let’s start a conversation! 💬 #Inspiration #SuccessStories #CommunityEngagement
What industry are you in?
Tech industry is hard to get into right now, but the salaries for front office + management roles are the near-best across all industries (marketing, sales, cs, and product management, project / program management etc.)
I do not make over $200K. I make ~$120K as a Customer Success Manager at a tech company (fully remote). Plenty of our sales guys push over $200K. Our Solutions Architects push between $170-210K. Our managers push between $130-180K. Our directors are $200K+. Our Product Managers go between $125-200K.
Just depends if you want to be an individual contributor versus people management.
If people management, pick an industry and climb with team-wide results.
If individual contributor, pick an industry and department. Sometime additional education is required (PM certification or front-end dev cert for architects). Otherwise sales can/may get you there in the right industry.
… my 2¢
Make >$200k work 3 days a week.
Own a commercial pest control company and invest in Realestate on the side (wholesaling mostly). Had a deal close in January for $40k, have another that should close this summer for $25k.
Just put a significantly larger one in the pipe that could be over $100k but would close next year or late this year.
I did that last year. Cybersecurity consulting. I averaged about 20 hours per week and can work from anywhere. A little more if I include my podcast, but that is more of a passion project, even though it is owned by my business.
I’m 23 and last year I made around $260,000. I own a hotshot general freight company. I started in February of 2023. Coming from a family that owns companies helped me out for sure. I was in the same spot as you in 2022. I was fresh out of college and had no idea on what I was going to do with my life. My parents gave me a great opportunity and I’m doing great. You need to find out what you’re good at and excel in that. I didn’t know I was good at doing business and negotiating until I gave it a try. Good luck brother! You’ll be fine.
60+, 13 years, Medicine. Regrets- life passing by without me- not married, no kids. Rejoices- not living paycheck to paycheck/financial security.
I make significant over $200k a year.
I’m in the retail industry and work around 50hrs a week, fully remote. I’ve been doing this for around 4 years and enjoy it. The business would be easy to sell and easy to scale if I wanted to do it.
I’m also in the real estate industry and make about $200k/year here as well. I spend less than 10hrs per week on it, but most of them are in person. This could be fully remote but it seems like being more personally involved leads to better returns and tighter control.
No regrets.
I love being able to volunteer a significant amount of my time to charities without having to worry about money. I also really enjoy donating money to charities that are in need. 10/10 giving money away is me living my best life.
As a w2, i capped out averaging around 240-270k in a regional sales leadership role for a national insurance carrier. That includes bonus and stock. I’ve made a bit more than twice that starting my own recruitment agency within that same industry, but that took a few years.
Revenue director for a mid-large company in the real estate sector. Prob in the 60 hrs a week range but really enjoy the work so doesn’t feel like quite as much. Had to really grind to get to this level, started as a financial analyst 10 years ago and just took on progressively more responsibility with a promotion every 2-3 years on average. Had 3 years of exp in finance/ops at the analyst level before that. Undergrad is in finance and finished my MBA in 2014.
I make >$200k working like 2 half days a weeks. Pharma sales. The lack of effort is going to catch up to me though, it’s not sustainable. But yea work life balance is insane rn.
Not me but a close friend is killing it in affiliate marketing, made 400K last year and close to if not over 200K so far this year. He works his ass off.. 14 hr days almost every day easily but he works from home on a laptop and is able to be close to his newborn baby.
Software engineer $150k but trying a software agency like anyone else.
Attorney. 205K/yr for 1920hrs/year. Bonus at $70/hr for every extra hour, plus $25/hr additional on cases I bring in for any attorney’s work on the case and $10/paralegal work. Plus discretionary bonus.
14 years experience. Regrets none except maybe massive student loans.
Working 10 hour days for a year gets me a bonus of a little over $33k per year. Which I have done.
I probably do about 9 hrs per day on average.
If I worked 12 hour days like “big law requires” I’d make about $272k per year, not including money from cases I bring in, but I’m not really wanting to work that much at this point.
There are definitely easier professions. I work for my money for sure. If you won your own firm, which is the goal, you can average 300-500k per year pretty reasonably.
Own an IT company (MSP), should hit 300k+ this year. i work 25 hrs a week. Doing this for 20 years. No regerts besides not putting in enough effort at the start. I was pretty lazy but was pretty happy with my money then also. so maybe not regret either.
Hey there! Just wanted to share my experience as an Amazon bookseller. I make around $400K in profit per year, working about 20 hours a week. I’ve been in this business since 2015, and it’s been a great journey so far.
One of my biggest regrets is not scaling up sooner in the first few years. The last 3 years have been incredible for growing my business to 8-figure annual revenue.
If you’re considering starting an Amazon business, I highly recommend selling books. It’s an ideal product category for many reasons. I recently wrote an article about why books are such a great choice for new Amazon sellers. Feel free to check it out if you’re interested:
[https://bookzpro.com/why-selling-books-on-amazon-is-the-ideal-way-to-kickstart-your-amazon-journey/](https://bookzpro.com/why-selling-books-on-amazon-is-the-ideal-way-to-kickstart-your-amazon-journey/)
Wishing you all the best in your career path!
47 guy checking in. Work 30-60 hours a week. Could probably outsorce 50% but Im a micromanager at heart and can’t get over it. Made 1.2-1.3 last year. Will probably make slightly more this year. Just 5 years ago was 90k in debt and had to sell pretty much everything. Didn’t finish college. Done everything from legal to very illegal. Found God and straightened up my act. Multiple business failures, personal dramas, betrayals. Finally met a solid business partner and became obsessed with learning. Now me and my partner are working in private security sector and although competition is serious, you meet very high profile people and can learn a lot from them. Regrets? Not finding faith sooner and being stubborn kid in my thirties. In terms of business advice – surrender your ego and become obsessee with providing value. Fuck money, make people smile and let them shake your hand with respect.
Me trying to figure this out being the bottom of a labor trade
I work a few hours a month but in all fairness, I worked for what seemed like 24/7 in my first year and a half. I’m in the retail industry but I actually studied Medicine (which I’m hoping I can fall back on if my business ever goes belly-up!). I do have some regrets spending too many years of my life at university. I’m a millennial raised in a small community with rigid beliefs, so there’s always that part of me that was raised believing that success comes from being “conventionally” educated. My daily “rejoices” is that I can wake up whenever the heck I want to and not having to do anything if I’m simply not feeling up for it. Get out there and shoot your shot, it’s worth it. My advice (which is just my opinion!) is don’t focus too much on which career path you should choose to try to lock that in. Jump into a business that you feel might work, and start from there. The more money you earn, the more money you get to play with and re-invest into things that you actually enjoy doing.
I worked it into my life to be able to retire and make $200,000 a year. Zero hours. 40 years experience. Rejoice every day. To stop wasting money is one of the best incomes you can ever have.
I manage software for a bank. Base+Super+Bonus is about 210k but my wife is only a casual so it’s pay check to pay check thanks to the RBA.
I have a good manager since last May, which is priceless. Before that I struggled with a headless chicken manager for 3.5 years.
On track to do between 250-300k. I own a luxury picnic company. Sales 24/7, networking 24/7, emails and inquiries pretty much 24/7. Looking to hire an event planner to help with the load off this year. No regrets, love the clientele I work with, and job feels fulfilling
Try an agency.
Here’s [mine](https://www.24hour.design)
as an example.
Historically my business has done quite well since 2018. This is not an indicator for future success, but “you kill what you eat”.
I am also an American living in France. I moved here after the pandemic to be with my wife’s family after we lost her father and many others. So fully “remote”. Most of my clients are US based.
Feel free to steal my ideas.
I’ve made $200k+ since I was 27. Now 30 years older than that and make that much passively — every month.
The key is aggressive, focused investments in both public markets and private companies. When you’re young, take more risk. I’ve had duds, but also some 20x payouts. It’s my hobby and doesn’t feel like work.
Aim very, very high. $200k is good living, but working backwards it’s not really that difficult to conceive.
>$200k as an it contractor 20 years experience used to work for two big consultancies. Project management and business analysis. Typically bill for 35 hours a week but realistically work 15-20 hours all remote the last 7 years. I use it recruiting agencies to help me find work but am my own llc
Making well over that across a few different businesses/business types. Have been working 100% for myself (ourselves, wife included) since 2018.
Traditional businesses fall in the IT consulting and digital advertising space. Also do a bit of real estate (few rental properties and buy/sell here and there when we get bored of a place).
On paper life is amazing. Live in a $3m house with next to no mortgage, drive expensive cars, spend a lot of time with the kids, vacation whenever we want.
But it’s hard work, insane work, no such thing as a 9-5. I work pretty much every day in some way, with maybe a full day off a week. We’ve taken many great vacations but always have to squeeze in client calls, meetings, or other work in there.
I’m in my 30s and my goal is to start a new business or two that’s a lot less involved.
Not me and I work too much
Construction.
Brought in just over $300k net thus far this year. Working 100hr weeks though 😬