Um hello, be a crooked cop and you can clear twice that in a year! Now that's what we call thinking outside the box!

 

non-crooked cops can make 6 figures in a year if they work enough special events and overtime.... holidays... 2x, 3x, 4x pay adds up

 

Being a non-crooked cop is not geting anyone a Puerto Rican villa with a 100ft yacht.

Stop being silly, Tuna.

 

 

Love what I do, who I work with, my set up, my commute. I'm very fortunate.

 

Working for yourself is getting harder and harder with the recession, equipment upgrades, corporations wanting to take longer and longer to pay (60, 90 or 120 days instead of 30) and the dickwads on Craigslist who expect everything under the sun for free or close to free.

 

im in a situation where i have a good job where i'm 25 years old in a group where most everyone else is nearing retirement. i like the people i work with, i have a pretty good commute to work everyday, and i usually get home before 6pm. the pay is OK but not $100k.

the bad thing is that i hate my company. i hate the upper management and i 100% disagree with some of the policies that they've implemented. i work in aerospace and i absolutely can't stand the way the business is run and the direction it is heading.

this job, honestly, if i got paid $100k now i'd be content and i could work here forever. but the fact that i dont, and that the way this company is now run, it'll probably take me 5-10 years just to get there drives me crazy.

thus, im not happy right now - but thats only cuz i'm not making $100k.

(for some perspective, i took over the technical duties of a guy with 25+ years experience. i've taken over all his programs and designed, tested, and manufactured parts. he made upwards of $120k and retired last year. i've stepped in and replaced him - done his job for a whole year now and there is no indication that'll i'll even get a raise.)

 

I love my work (not quite at $100K yet, though) and enjoy going to work every day. Great boss, great coworkers, and a relaxed but relatively competitive environment.

I've turned down multiple offers recently to go places that offered way more money, more promotion potential (quickly) and a lot more responsibility. However, I'm doing 50+ hours a week already so I'm not looking to add to my workload just to make a bunch more money. It all washes out to similar pay but a lot less time with the family and doing things that really matter.

 

f f f f fck that

like others said, should have taken the job a few years, banked it all, became a cop and lived off the interest + salary

best of both worlds

 

I'd guess he already saved the money he needed to do that.