Positions that make the most money

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<p>What positions make the most money? Feel free to list the top 5-10.</p>

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<ol>
<li>Investment Banking</li>
<li>Investment Banking</li>
<li>Investment Banking</li>
<li>Investment Banking</li>
<li>Investment Banking</li>
</ol>

<p>Haven't you looked at the other threads around here? It seems like every other one is devoted to I-Banking or finance..... besides that:</p>

<ol>
<li>corporate law</li>
<li>extremely disgusting/difficult fields of medicine (neurosurgery, urology, etc.)</li>
<li>Film Producer for a major studio </li>
<li>extremely successful film/TV stars can rake in million(s) per film/episode</li>
<li>Or you could start your own company and see that it gets listed on the NYSE.</li>
<li>Popular fiction authors (JK Rowling isn't hurting for cash)</li>
<li>Professional Athletes (football, basketball, baseball)</li>
<li>plumbers (not going to be a millionaire, but you could do alright without even earning a college degree)</li>
</ol>

<p>Sorry. Probably not the best person to answer your question. I'm a philosophy major....</p>

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<p>uh... that order is wrong. TV/Movie stars and athletes make much more than ibankers. and most fiction writers aren't jk rowling. 99% of them are poor.</p>

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<p>Investment Banking, but 98% of this board cannot get in.</p>

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<p>Programmers earn comparable wages with bankers. </p>

<p>IB is overrated. There are more profitable careers. IB is just what most people have a more realistic chance at getting into.</p>

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<p>
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IB is just what most people have a more realistic chance at getting into.

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Whhaa?????? Programmers more competitive than getting into investment banking @ a BB?</p>

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<p>Whoops. Didn't come out like I wanted. I meant that IB is more realistic to get into than stuff like trading and stuff, which makes it a more realistic goal for most people. </p>

<p>IB as a career is overrated. Of course programming does not earn as much and is much less competitive, but it pays a comparable wage 150k or so and you don't have to live in new york and suffer the ib lifestyle. well 150k if you provide some sort of valuable programming knowledge.</p>

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<p>Yup you are right, good man! Spreading the word!</p>

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<p>First of all, you shouldn't be asking this. You come off as someone who only cares about money and would subject themselves to anything to earn it. If what I said pertains to you, sucks to be you man I almost feel bad. </p>

<p>Depends if you look at hourly wage or what... Some jobs make alot of money but you work for endless hours 90+ a week. So per hour it might not be that much. So I would say many medical professions would earn alot of money, surgery's for example. Top doctors charge alot just for seeing you. Lawyers too, can charge thousands of dollars per hour. Esp in business law for sitting down and reading contracts or helping companies legally fire employees without violating the hundreds of anti-descrimination, anti-racism laws out there (which i think are absurd, but that's a diff story.)</p>

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<p>Become a professional lottery player, you will hit the jackpot eventually.</p>

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<p>Pshaw. I'll be happy and poor doing things I like to do in my life. No stuffy offices for me.</p>

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<p>I recall seeing an article, saying that if you spent a lifetime buying lottery tickets you wont win. Let me find it, it might be helpful to you people</p>

<p>here's a quote: </p>

<p>"I could buy a lottery ticket every day for the rest of my life and still not win the top prize. In fact, if I did it for my next 250 lifetimes, I most likely wouldn't win the top prize.</p>

<p>After 2,500 years, it would get pretty frustrating to lose every time. So a less-annoying strategy is to simply buy stocks on a regular basis and wait for them to become worth a bundle."</p>

<p><a href="http://www.fool.com/investing/value/2007/07/02/the-easiest-path-to-1-million.aspx%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.fool.com/investing/value/2007/07/02/the-easiest-path-to-1-million.aspx&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>Someone mentioned some positions in medicine; you don't need to do disgusting/extremely hard things necessarily. If you specialize in Anesthesiology or Radiology, you can start at 350-400k. But if you wish to pursue a career in medicine, you have to spend a lot of time in school during some of the better years of your life... The real advantage of being a Doctor is complete job security unless you mess up really bad.</p>

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<p>how does sales & trading pay? especially say a commodities trader</p>

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<p>I know a silver/cooper/gold trader. It's only good money if you are really good at it.</p>

<p>The average salary for an Anesthesiology in NYC is half a million.</p>

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<p>before or after the 300k in malpractice insurance?</p>

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<p>Don't know how that works when you work in a hospital. But look what I found: </p>

<p><a href="http://www.allied-physicians.com/salary_surveys/physician-salaries.htm%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.allied-physicians.com/salary_surveys/physician-salaries.htm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>I'll ask around, but I believe that is take home before tax. None of the doctors that I know pay anything close to 300k in malpractice insurance. 300k is ridiculous--at that point it would be cheaper to self insure especially if you lived in a state with tort reform. I'll ask the MDs that I work with and post back.</p>

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<p>Plastic surgery is where all the best at Johns Hopkins and Harvard want to go.
Radiology is where the lowest paid specialized doctors at JH and Harvard go.</p>

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<p>how about structured finance jobs?</p>