Anonymous
Post 12/30/2016 15:32     Subject: How old were you when you broke six figures?

27, fed
Anonymous
Post 12/30/2016 15:26     Subject: How old were you when you broke six figures?

28 or 29 - teacher and small business owner. If / when the business goes under, I'll never see 100k again, ha.
Anonymous
Post 11/15/2016 17:08     Subject: How old were you when you broke six figures?

Finally broke 6 figures this year. 41
Anonymous
Post 11/15/2016 16:56     Subject: Re:How old were you when you broke six figures?

Anonymous wrote:35. I'm 50 now and make $225K.


Nice! in what field?
Anonymous
Post 11/15/2016 16:51     Subject: How old were you when you broke six figures?

Anonymous wrote:My brother broke 6 figures at age 26. I-banker.
He broke 7 at age 28.


how????
Anonymous
Post 11/15/2016 16:49     Subject: How old were you when you broke six figures?

Anonymous wrote:I'm 41 and a teacher. I don't anticipate ever doing that. I bust my ass at work, BTW.


Many DCPS teachers make low 6 figures ( 110.000-120.000)
Anonymous
Post 11/15/2016 16:05     Subject: How old were you when you broke six figures?

Anonymous wrote:Never going to happen for me. My career has been in a low-paying, dying area of publishing. My oldest child broke six figures while still in his twenties. He's in IT.


Could you try something different, rather than remain stuck in publishing if you think it's a dying area?
Anonymous
Post 11/15/2016 15:28     Subject: How old were you when you broke six figures?

Never going to happen for me. My career has been in a low-paying, dying area of publishing. My oldest child broke six figures while still in his twenties. He's in IT.
Anonymous
Post 11/15/2016 14:05     Subject: Re:How old were you when you broke six figures?

31 or 32 -- my second year at "Big Law" in the mid-1990s.
Anonymous
Post 11/15/2016 13:50     Subject: Re:How old were you when you broke six figures?

Anonymous wrote:almost 44 and still waiting. graduated tops of my class at ivy, pursued a phd and....work in the arts.

at least I have a cool job.


Have you considered changing industries to be able to make a better salary?
Anonymous
Post 11/15/2016 12:59     Subject: Re:How old were you when you broke six figures?

Anonymous wrote:OP here - love how this thread gained some recent traction. Maybe in some years down the road, I will post "How old were you when you broke 200,000 .... or 7 figures"?


An interesting tangent - if you made six figures at an early age, did you continue to make six figures for all of the following years, or did you have some salary reductions/time of the workforce?
Anonymous
Post 11/15/2016 12:14     Subject: Re:How old were you when you broke six figures?

Anonymous wrote:Female 31. IT Sector.


no loans, only took a few college courses before saying fuck it.
Anonymous
Post 11/15/2016 12:09     Subject: Re:How old were you when you broke six figures?

Female 31. IT Sector.
Anonymous
Post 11/15/2016 11:42     Subject: How old were you when you broke six figures?

53, statistician.
Anonymous
Post 11/15/2016 11:26     Subject: How old were you when you broke six figures?

Anonymous wrote:23 - commissioned mortgage loan officer


What year was that? Lol