I always believed that having an education and working your *** off will get you easily to a $100k salary...well it's not as simple as that.
Education will help to a point. Only one of my 'educated' friends with B. Eng., P. Eng, MBA, MEng have broken the $100k mark, average is 70-85k. My buddy in accounting easily gets close to 150k or so...but he works his *** off for it.
However, I know a good bunch of people who make b/w 100-140k without any formal education just doing simple labour jobs and killing it in overtime. One guy never finished university, or college, but his dad knew a guy who got him into a position and he's making a stupid amount of money and laughs all day long at how little he works for it. But these jobs are hard to get because the competition is fierce, and helping to know someone on the inside is the only way in.
On the other hand, I agree with those that say there is money to be made. There's a ton of money to be made if you are WILLING and WANT it bad enough. Simple example, I was unemployed and through some digging and able to score a small contracting job was able to make a good amount in a few months, but it took a lot of physical effort. I don't do as much of it now because frankly I don't have time, but the money is there. And now I'm trying to expand on that effort in order to improve my own situation as I want to make more money and going through a traditional channel of working for someone else it's very difficult to step up in salary grades.
People are afraid of doing their own physical labour, and many look down on the trades as 'uneducated' but sorry, those uneducated people are the ones that'll always have work if they want it, because it takes a certain skill set (which can be taught) and a knack for it.
There's a lot of guys out who do very well for themselves doing simple work like mowing lawns, landscaping, painting, flooring etc...all it takes is some creativity, skills to complete a task, and getting off your *** to go get it.
Education will help to a point. Only one of my 'educated' friends with B. Eng., P. Eng, MBA, MEng have broken the $100k mark, average is 70-85k. My buddy in accounting easily gets close to 150k or so...but he works his *** off for it.
However, I know a good bunch of people who make b/w 100-140k without any formal education just doing simple labour jobs and killing it in overtime. One guy never finished university, or college, but his dad knew a guy who got him into a position and he's making a stupid amount of money and laughs all day long at how little he works for it. But these jobs are hard to get because the competition is fierce, and helping to know someone on the inside is the only way in.
On the other hand, I agree with those that say there is money to be made. There's a ton of money to be made if you are WILLING and WANT it bad enough. Simple example, I was unemployed and through some digging and able to score a small contracting job was able to make a good amount in a few months, but it took a lot of physical effort. I don't do as much of it now because frankly I don't have time, but the money is there. And now I'm trying to expand on that effort in order to improve my own situation as I want to make more money and going through a traditional channel of working for someone else it's very difficult to step up in salary grades.
People are afraid of doing their own physical labour, and many look down on the trades as 'uneducated' but sorry, those uneducated people are the ones that'll always have work if they want it, because it takes a certain skill set (which can be taught) and a knack for it.
There's a lot of guys out who do very well for themselves doing simple work like mowing lawns, landscaping, painting, flooring etc...all it takes is some creativity, skills to complete a task, and getting off your *** to go get it.
