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"Move to New York City and make $500,000" -- Ok where do I sign up?

• jquery 16y ago
  Become an investment banker and work 100 hour weeks for 10 years. Total investment: your teens, your twenties, half of your thirties, and your self-respect. Probably 5-10 years off the other end of your life as well... That's the easy method, easy due to our government pumping the financial industry full of cheap money via low interest rates, but I digress... Then there's option two: Become a brain surgeon and work 100 hour weeks for 20 years. Pray your future pay isn't cut in half by future government regulations or nationalizations of your profession. Total investment: your teens, twenties, thirties, maybe your early forties if you didn't fast track. After your third wife you may wonder if it was all worth it... Option three, become a startup founder and work 100 hour weeks for 5 years.... and hope you get lucky. If you don't, try again. Or become a software engineer and work 40 hour weeks. After 3-4 years, make over $100k and realize even that's far more than you need... pity the people who strive for $500k, because life is too short. Admire and salute their noble sacrifices. :)