In order to make crazy money with modest hours, you must have a unique skill in demand, or start with crazy money. By unique skill, I mean you must be able to do something someone will pay crazy money (or many people will pay a little money).

The elite athletes are a good example; actors/actoresses, musicians...but it scales down to every day life. I am very good at what I do; I am in demand (but do not make crazy money). But I work the hours I want to work (though they total full time)....that is because I get the job done and never miss a deadline.

You need something that you do better than almost everyone out there, and is in demand.

If I could look at a map and say there is oil here, I would be very rich...

Model like Gisele Bunchen.

Actors in a sitcom. they work 4 days a week - 30 hours max x 25 week a year.

Anonymous wrote:How about this: you work crazy hours but do not make money?

I'll go first:

Teacher

YEP

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Anonymous wrote:I know several examples of moderate versions of your question -- good money and good hours and minimal to no travel -- people who work about 9-6 (which I consider family friendly hours) and make in the 300k's. They are all VPs or SVPs at places like Discovery, Capital One, defense contractor firms. When I made that kind of money working at a law firm, I worked crazy hours and was losing hair to stress ... Not worth it.

VPs at discovery do NOT make 300k.

So they make more?

I know one who does- including bonus though. Sometimes stock options pushes it over 350.

Anonymous wrote:Thank you to the previous poster re: Nurses. I would have thought nurses make more than $50,000 to $70,000 with overtime, etc. I know they really work hard and I've read they "eat their young".

The whole nurses "eat their young" really varies from unit to unit or hospital to hospital. You are paid hourly and I think the starting salary at hospitals around here is high $20s. Hospitals do not necessarily pay more than private practices. If you graduate you will most likely hve to start working at a hospital to get experience and in the DC area you will most likely have to start out
On night shifts or a combo if night shift and day shifts.

You do not need to be an RN for 2 yrs to become an NP. Many schools offer BSN/MSN programs so the graduates are NPs without
Ever working a day as an RN. Georgetown offers this program for their 2nd degree program... At least they did a few yrs ago

Anonymous wrote:Not a common job in DC, but it seems like traders work intense hours but leave by 5pm and can make crazy money.

+1

High stress though and very variable comp.

Anonymous wrote:CRNA. Usually 9-6 150k + a year. Intense but short residency program

This field is becoming saturated like regular nursing b/c this has been common knowledge for a decade.

CRNA. Usually 9-6 150k + a year. Intense but short residency program

Baseball starting pitchers. Max Scherzer gets paid about 10,000 per pitch. (assuming 100 pitchers per game, 30 games started, 30,000,000/yr, though half deferred).

Closers make more (per pitch).

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Anonymous wrote:I know several examples of moderate versions of your question -- good money and good hours and minimal to no travel -- people who work about 9-6 (which I consider family friendly hours) and make in the 300k's. They are all VPs or SVPs at places like Discovery, Capital One, defense contractor firms. When I made that kind of money working at a law firm, I worked crazy hours and was losing hair to stress ... Not worth it.

VPs at discovery do NOT make 300k.

So they make more?

Anonymous wrote:I know several examples of moderate versions of your question -- good money and good hours and minimal to no travel -- people who work about 9-6 (which I consider family friendly hours) and make in the 300k's. They are all VPs or SVPs at places like Discovery, Capital One, defense contractor firms. When I made that kind of money working at a law firm, I worked crazy hours and was losing hair to stress ... Not worth it.

VPs at discovery do NOT make 300k.

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Anonymous wrote:Finance. DH works 55 ish hours a week. Last year he made 700k.

DH isn't on Wall St. We're in a small city on the east coast. One of the advantages of working at a branch office or a smaller shop is more family friendly hours. He probably would make more in NYC but the COL would be higher, commute longer, hours longer, etc. His comp is pretty good considering he very rarely has to work more than 55-60 hours.

How does he make so much money working at a little branch or family office? What does he do?

Anonymous wrote:dermatologist. Salary can go up to 400K in private practice and you work 3 days a week.

Dermatologist physician assistant: Ranges up to $160K

WOW that's a lot of money for someone who just "predicts" what you have and uses me as a guinea pig. Dang my foreign doctor who I paid just 10 bucks and who gave me her cell phone number AND took 1 hour to talk to me is a much better and more accurate doctor than any of my greedy money grubbing US doctors.

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Anonymous wrote:Pharmacist? Flexible hours and I believe quite good pay also. It doesn't look like high pressure to me

pharmacists make $110 to 140K for full time work.
hardly "crazy money". You couldn't buy a house in DC on that salary.

ridiculous.. just how pampered do you have to be that you can't save up and budget to not be able to afford a house in dc on any salary? stop being a SNOB

Marry money.