<p>I want to be filthy rich, not so I can spend my time having dinner parties and smoking cigars, but so I can do things that I want to do (sail Yachts, go to every match of the World Cup, race fast cars and actually race them instead of just showing them off, fly planes, Le Mans track) Im into the entire 'fast' style of living and I tend to get bored really easily.</p>
<p>But all my ideas of fun cost lots of $. Therefore I need $ = a high paying job = a good college education.</p>
<p>Im interested in pre med but only surgical/procedure based. I would probably kill my self if I were something like a Dentist of Pediatrician (no offense to those who want to be Dentists or Pediatricians, those jobs just bored the crap out of me). </p>
<p>Also interested in business, but its easy to loose in the business world isn't it? </p>
<p>I talked to my History teacher who is a former Fordham Law professor and he told me what its like to be a lawyer, but it seems to be mostly paper work and more red tape.</p>
<p>any ideas?</p>
<p>Also colleges wise, is it true that its better to go to a less known college and do well rather than ivy for a high paying job? I always thought that one has to get into Ivy if you want a top dog position? Then I looked over some threads at CC forums and it seems that people who go to state schools seem to make more than IVy, what is that? The generel consenus is Ivy gives you prestige, and thats really it</p>
<p>you could be a trader...that's a fast paced, intense, non-boring job which if you do well can lead to millions. Getting a trading job requires that you go to a banking target school (aka ivies, top lacs, other top 20 schools)...and then major in something quantitative like math, stats, finance, financial engineering, etc.</p>
<p>I hear being a pro basketball player pays pretty well... you can major in just about anything (but try something easy like hotel management). Your best bet would be to go somewhere with a good coach like Duke, North Carolina, or UCLA.</p>
<p>Barring the pro basketball player channel, no college and no major can make you that rich. It comes down to you and what you do with what you have.</p>
<p>I suck at all these 'standard' sports like baseball, basketball, football, ect.</p>
<p>I can play, but for my school only Im pretty sure Ill never get to Kobe Bryant, Tiger Woods level because I really dont caare that much.</p>
<p>btw im a dude so I cant marry rich unless I move to massachusetts and I dont bend that way, I think Ill stick with ladies</p>
<p>bern700 what exactly does a trader do, I assume you mean one of those people that plays around with money, but could you elaborate? Is that what you looking at doing seeing as your'e going to the big W</p>
<p>no i mean a trader in the sales & trading department of an investment bank...like being out on the trading floor calling trades. As a trader, to put it simply, you buy and sell financial instruments with the goal of making an incremental gain on the trade (using the firm's money). It's a really high energy, risk taking, intense job that you can definitely succeed with your personality and with good quantitative skills. Trading is one of the most profitable careers (i know guys in their 20s making millions each year)...although being the risky job it is if you don't perfom you can easily lose your job. Personally I don't want to be a trader as it doesn't interest me as much as other areas...i would rather work in the merger and acquisition department of an investment bank working on m&a deals...</p>
<p>Hmm...rich. OH! I got it!! Why don't you stage an insurgent rebellion in a country that is rich with oil/diamond resources, get the insurgents to put you in power, and then strike lucrative deals with the superpowers of the world, keeping 90% of the profit and putting 10% of the profit into your nation's treasury? :D</p>
<p>Suuure they'll call you a tyrant, and you'll have tons of people trying to snipe you, but hey, you'll be RICH! And that's all that matters, right? You can have bodyguards to protect you as you travel the world with your ill-earned money.</p>
<p>Trust, it's the easiest way to get money ;)</p>
<p>[if you miss the BLATANT sarcasm of this statement, here it is in more cut-and-dry terms:</p>
<p>There's no such thing as a surefire road to riches. You'll have money, but everything comes at a price: if you want to be rich, you'll have to work for it. When you work for things, you tend to not have much time to goof off and do things like jetsetting around the world, watching every match of the world cup, or racing cars. </p>
<p>There's no such thing as a safe, non-paperwork-involving, six-figure-paying job that ALSO gives you enough time to do all the things you've listed. :\ Sorry.]</p>
<p>Degree in comp sci --> start software company --> sell it to a large computer company for a sizeable ammount of money --> get offered a position as a consultant by said company --> work as consultant pull down 300k + yearly</p>
<p>I bet what your cousin did happened in the 90s though, it won't happen now. (props to your cousin though, thats still very impressive)</p>
<p>also makemehappy, Im willing to work hard, thats definetly NOT a problem that I cant sort out, its just that I want to have a goal in mind so Im willing to work for it, the things I mentioned they're hobbies and I can make time for them. The way I see it, if I just do what my Dad does (go to IIT/MIT-> Engineer) Ill get a 6 digit job but there isn't much to do with 6 digits so Im willing to be a little risky, Im working pretty hard right now to do well to get into a competetive University so my hardwork has to pay off. My Dad probably worked as hard in school and getting his PHD as did someone who went to Medical school. But the guy who went to medical school makes more than my Dad because the medical profession just pays more. </p>
<p>What Im trying to say is, if I invest X amount of energy I want Y product back. Basically I would need to work a job that pays in the $400,000 a year region. Usually doctors who are specialists, businessmen, high class lawyers, ect. get paid that much and only with experience LOTS of experience</p>
<p>I think that if you work hard doing the right thing, youll probably end up happy</p>
<p>hmmm, go into business. my dad is vice president of supply chain at some company and he makes more than 400K a year. so yeah, business is the route to go.</p>
<p>Engineers can make a lot, but they start LOW and take a while to build up, and they just aren't treated right in the US anymore, my Dad got a lot more lucrative job offers in Singapore then he did domestically</p>
<p>btw hotpiece101, let me get at some of that hotpiece 400k, looks like someone wont ever need financial aid :)</p>
<p>something to do with business...I-BANKING will probably do it...go to wharton...and go straight to wall st...if u do it right..youll be filthy rich</p>
<p>$400K a year?!<br>
Where can I get the drugs your using? That must be good stuff.</p>
<p>That would put you well into the top 1/4 of 1% of wages in the US. No school or degree is going to ensure that kind of earnings. Medicine won't even do that with malpractice costs and current insurance payment rates. Corporate law will do it if you a senior atty. at a big company, but that will take at least 10 years to get promoted up to.
The best way to make big money is to start your own company and then either sell it or take it public. Of course the odds against success are pretty huge, but that's why it pays good.
There is a reason why so few people make that kind of money: risk and hard work. You have to take on a huge amount of both. Our VPs who are in that range B4 bonus work an average of about 80 hours a week, so there goes your play time.</p>
<p>There is no sure fire, easy way to make big money; otherwise all of us would be doing it. Anything over $150K is getting into pretty thin air where only a very small percentage of people get to. Mostly by skill and hard work, not by their school or major.</p>
<p>Professional sports or entertainment. Or starting up the next Microsoft. Or being the next George Jung..take your pick. Also, if you can come up with something thats better than sliced bread.</p>