<p>What's the fastest path to a very high paying job? I'm considering one to be very high paying, if it pays 250 k+ a year, such as a CEO. I am going to be majoring in some aspect of business for undergrad with a minor in spanish.</p>
<p>Thanks</p>
<p>No first job will pay 250K+. Not in the good old days, and certainly not now. Your best option would be to take fun/difficult college courses and then go on to a decent school for MBA. You should get a starting salary of anywhere between 100K and 180K.</p>
<p>The road less traveled by …</p>
<p>Build a time machine, teleporter, some kind of practical laser gun. Perhaps a flying car powered by dreams. Or come up with a business plan and execute it. I’ll start you off, you finish it up.</p>
<p>Step 1: Steal underwear.
Step 2: _________
Step 3: Profit</p>
<p>Are you good at Basketball? You could be an NBA player.</p>
<p>I will pay you 250,000 a year if you become my slave. </p>
<p>( Before bonus, depending on how well you shine my shoes.)</p>
<p>im not saying first job. Notice I just said fastest path</p>
<p>Are you really good looking? You can provide many rich people with “happy endings” if this is the case.</p>
<p>The fastest way to being rich would tend to involve taking a risk (ie starting your own business(es)). If you want to work for someone, then you should go for positions that require long hours and possible travel. You will also likely need to switch jobs/employers fairly often.</p>
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<p>I don’t think there is a known fastest path. Unless you want to head into the medical field, where doctors entry level salary is 200k because of the inflated and monstrous US medical system. But you’d have to stay in school for 10 years, be really smart, and get near perfect grades.</p>
<p>I think you become rich by…</p>
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<li><p>Doing what you like and enjoy doing. Yes, you should get out of bed excited for work, not whining as you get up. This is the most ideal career.</p></li>
<li><p>Being careful with your money and not being a d-bag and racking up 18 credit cards in your wallet.</p></li>
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<p>“doctors entry level salary is 200k”</p>
<p>Do you have a link to support that figure? I’m guessing you can find one to support your opinion about why it’s so.</p>
<p>Doesn’t sound right to me. Here’s one I found. (Where I come from, “most” doctors are in primary care, especially the ones who finish training in 10 years.)</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.residency.valuemd.com/physiciansalary.htm[/url]”>http://www.residency.valuemd.com/physiciansalary.htm</a></p>
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<p><a href=“People with Jobs as Physicians / Doctors Salary | PayScale”>People with Jobs as Physicians / Doctors Salary | PayScale;
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<p>If there was a definitive answer to this question, everyone would be pursuing that degree or career path. If there is an easy way to make large sums of money (e.g. truck driver in Iraq), it comes with a significant downside, otherwise the career would be saturated with graduates and the degree value would drop (this is what happened to MBA degrees from non-top universities).</p>
<p>^^ of course there isn’t a link. Even specialists avg less than $200k a year starting. In fact, the avg physician’s salary with even 20+ yrs of experience is under $200k.</p>
<p>I should have been more specific then. A lot of surgeons and highly specialized doctors can make nearly or well over 200k when they first start.</p>
<p>Re: fastest path to very high paying job</p>
<p>posting on internet forums. heh. i’ve earned $5K typing out this post.</p>
<p>Doctors don’t make any money until they’ve been in the game for a while. Given the huge student loans and the danger that by 2015 Obamacare will not have achieved magical cost savings and will decide to pay doctors like they are taxi drivers(like they do in Germany), I’d say being a doctor for the money is not really smart. </p>
<p>Student Loans+Potential Salary Cap+Big Delay in Entering Workforce+Malpractice Insurance=not good.</p>
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<p>Oh dear, it really kills me when I see people encouraging others to be doctors for the money. I really wish this MYTH (yes, I said it, MYTH) would end. To begin with, doctors will be well off/have good job security, but they will not be out of this world rich unless you become a plastic surgeon or dermatologist, which very, very few people ever become. Plus, I was a pre-med mostly for the money, and trust me, doing something you hate will eventually get to ya. I cannot tell you how much I hated being stuck in Chem Lab doing a worthless experiment for 4 hours (and this was just 2 terms, imagine a whole career!). That’s why I switched to a subject I actually enjoy.</p>
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<p>All the options presume you can do the work. Here are some more:</p>
<p>Rock/tv/movie star
Invent something that everyone will want to have</p>