Aeriis posted...
What do you rich guys do for a living? I'm at 130k
Had my own talent agency that got squired by a larger firm and so got aqui-hired to basically run my own company the exact same way in exchange for a steady paycheck and more support while the company beared the profits
Before that I was communication & marketing manager for a couple of tech companies. The most I ever made at one of those gigs was 175k, but post covid with Work From Home protocol in effect, I at one pint worked for 5 different companies.
Three as a part time contractor (consulting) where all I had to do was join one zoom call a week. Each one was 5k a month, which came out to 15k a month for about 15-20 hours of total work.
The other was the 175k marketing lead job for an Israel based company. I technically had to do work, but I got everything done in about 90 minutes or less a day. I did have to join a zoom call three times a week tho, but sometimes they only lasted 15 minute, but they took place at 11pm my time.
The other was a 120k gig as a communications manager, which involved speaking to media and arranging influencer videos. That took up maybe 1-3 total hours a week. I did have to join an hour zoom call every single day tho.
So all in, including zoom calls, I was having between 9-10 hours of zooms calls a week, but only doing 8-10 hours of actual work a week.
So either way you look at it I got about 40k a month just to work what was essentially a part time job. This also didnt include the profits from my own business which probably added another 30k a year to it (it wasnt very profitable, but it appeared to be, thus the aquisition). But for 2021 I made close to 500k
Then took a 50% pay cut in 2022 when I got aqui-hired. But the plan in my mind was to basically be the boss of a team of 10-25 employees. So I could basically just call an hour zoom call every morning, delegate duties, then go play video games or whatever else I wanted to do. I thought working for such a large company came with job securitybut after a year I quit because they only let me hire 2 employees. I had like 5 different bosses, and I was working 60 hour weeks to try and stay afloat.
Ive been living off my savings, doing odd consulting gigs here and there since Feb of 2023.