<p>What job would pay 160K plus with an 8 hour work day. I am willing to work hard the first few years. But do any jobs actually allow for a decent lifestyle with a lot of money.</p>
<p>at the start or during the middle of your career?</p>
<p>after 4 or 5 years at most</p>
<p>programming. my dad earned like 140k or so are 4-5 years of programming. worked 4-5 hours of daily. the rest of the time was just swimming or exercising in the company gym. 9-5 everyday. 4-5 days a week. that plus stock options and other benefits is a pretty fair compensation i think.</p>
<p>^ With the caveat being you don't just decide to become a programmer in college for the money. You have to have a natural aptitude for it. Most successful programmers started in their teens. Realistically though, if you want that great salary you're going to have to work hard for it. And that means plenty of hours. There's no free lunch on this planet, unless your family's loaded or you hit the jackpot.</p>
<p>MD at Goldman Sachs imo</p>
<p>yeah, my dad did bust his ass developing the database software for the first couple of years, but after that, all maintenance and updating. very easy. annual raises too.</p>
<p>Its hard to become a managing director at Goldman Sachs. Probably takes 10 years of imo and I am sure they work long hours. As someone in another thread said you can tall who the MD is by loooking for the guy who looks like he is 70 when he is 40.</p>
<p>I'd say a coke dealer might be your best bet.</p>
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<p>When I think "decent lifestyle", I think an engineering-related job.</p>
<p>But 160K seems to me like an extravagant lifestyle, and you won't be able to ENSURE that kind of money in any engineering discipline. For that kind of money, business and medical are your best bets.</p>
<p>alot of engineers/managers at companies like yahoo, google, ibm, intel earn that.</p>
<p>Professional poker player. If you're good, you play play fewer than 8 hours a week online, and make at least 200k after taxes. If you want seven figures, you'll probably need to play a little more though.</p>
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<p>160k is definitely not an extravagant lifestyle (my dad makes this much as an engineer), especially if u have a family to support</p>
<p>or maybe its because i live in the silicon valley
damn cost of living!</p>
<p>i was actually going to say "unless you live in a costly city, e.g. silicon valley"... in my part of the country you start off at about $60,000 - $70,000 in electrical engineering for companies such as ibm and rockwell collins.</p>
<p>$160K working only 8 hours after 4-5 years out of college ???Dream on !!!</p>
<p>^ for real.</p>