Reply to Anyone Here NOT Make $100K (yet)?

Forum Index » Money and Finances

Reply to "Anyone Here NOT Make $100K (yet)?"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here. An interesting pattern is starting to show. Many of us who are not at $100k by our 30s (or, in my case, finally at $100k at 50) d[b]id not have as a primary driver the ability to make lots of money[/b]. I admit this was/is me. I wanted to use my skills and be comfortable - food is great! - but I also wanted evenings free (other than the occasional work crisis).

The lawyer friend I mentioned, who made a ton early on (and who left me in the dust)? I knew her since we were 14, and even then she said she wanted to make a lot of money. Different strokes for different folks. [/quote]

This shouldn't necessarily mean the drive the to make lots of money.  A main factor to this "ability" is whether you're working in the right field in the right time as well. [/quote]
But what do you mean by the "right" field? Some fields are notorious for being low-paying - like social work, for example - and people who are driven to earn lots of money would have chosen elsewhere. That's not to say that social work isn't the "right" field for that person.[/quote]

Of course, people who are driven to make lots of money won't go into traditional low-paying fields.  However, people who are not driven to make lots of money/work long hours do not necessarily mean they can't work in fields that pays well.

When I was talking about "right" field, it was more about whether there was a boom in that field in that moment of time--think the dotcom era.  I'm an attorney so I'll use fields within the legal practice as an example. Currently, there's an influx of demand for ethics lawyers in this area compared to several years ago; or there was a rise in demand for bankruptcy law several years back.  Of course, this is taken away from OP's 100k context, but I hope you get my point.    [/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics