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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Poster with a poli sci undergrad and then a top MBA. I now work for a Fortune 500 known for good work life balance.

I make enough to be in the top 10% of the population in household income, but never really have much to do after work at this stage of my career, and have not for the past 10-15 years.

I have told my similarly math-oriented kid in college now to major in business with a finance or accounting focus, or data science/analytics. Contrary to some popular theories, AI is not taking these jobs and in fact it’s really going to be a tool that people in these jobs will use in the future.

I think it will be easy to be a Director/sr director/VP level in many companies, large and small, with this kind of background undergrad. [/quote]

This is me but without the MBA.  If you include the stock portion of my comp, I am usually at about $600k or so per year ($400k without).  Rarely if ever work after 5-6pm, and never on weekends or during vacations or anything like that.  It certainly helps that my DH makes much more than I do so I can set limits at work without worry about losing my job, so I do recognize that advantage.  But this is a good path for what it sounds like OP's son wants.[/quote]

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