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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m OP and I think I now realize I have been asking two questions.

The first question is what are the $200K+ paying jobs. Not industries. Actual job descriptions. If I were to network with someone, my ask being “how do I go from (my job) to become a (high paying profession)?”

The other question I guess is where are all the middle class people. The median household income is $110K, but single family homes are a million dollars. Which I think I can answer myself. Among my friends with normal-people jobs, with $100-200K HHI, this is where they live:

- Mid-sized apartment in a DTSS high rise 
- Townhouse in Germantown
- Two different couples bought decent sized SFHs in MoCo, but they had parents helped with the down payments
- One couple moved to PG county to buy a SFH, which they could afford in 2018 but probably couldn’t afford to purchase today
- One single guy bought a 900sq ft SFH in Rockville, sold to him directly by a friend, below market rate 
- Older people who bought in the 80s and then saw their homes appreciate tenfold

Maybe my overall question should have been “What normal-people jobs pay enough to live the 1990s white picket fence ideal” and the answer is none of them 😂[/quote]

I think what you’re missing is 1) better/higher roles are not advertised in ordinary ways. They’re filled internally by people working to do better or externally by accomplished outsiders through recruiting firms; 2) there are no “normal” $200k jobs that don’t require specialized knowledge and/or added responsibilities. [/quote]

Oftentimes, younger professionals assume that their salary and position will organically grow. By that, I mean that their employer will provide explicit, concrete steps to achieve the next rung on the ladder. It takes a while for many to realize that they are responsible for their career and development. It's a huge mindset shift from school where the next course, next reading, next assignment is outlined for you and the student just needs to follow directions to graduate to the next ladder rung/grade. [/quote]

A big part of that thought is learning from others who have succeeded. You can know your strengths and your interests and aptitudes, but you can’t get ahead on just making random guesses as to what your next move should be, or just continuing to grind and toil away and hope you get chosen for promotion. It’s part of working smarter as opposed to harder. And working smarter involves knowing what kind of work leads to more money and success, and what kind of work is just toiling on a hamster wheel. So you learn from the examples of others and then apply it to your own skills. [/quote]

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