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<blockquote data-quote="Veloce" data-source="post: 1206623" data-attributes="member: 1041">Great thread.&nbsp; It's always been a fantasy of mine to start an online business and this thread makes me glad I didn't.&nbsp; There's a case to be made for being a midlevel or upper level manager in a corporation.&nbsp; My job is more of a 9-7 at this point...but that's only if people above or below me know where I am.&nbsp; I have regular meetings where, if I went missing for 3 hours to eat a giant porterhouse steak with a couple martinis and polish off a rail off a strippers ass, nobody would be the wiser.&nbsp; I just have to make it to the meeting and sound smarter than the people around me, something that's not very difficult.&nbsp; This month I net well over 10k.&nbsp; I have zero stress about the company I work for or my job security, and I'm on a pretty good path to eject from my life as I know it by the time I'm 40 or 41 if I choose to do so and never turn back, or I can stay on and make ridiculously more cash.&nbsp; In the meantime it's a good cushy life with paid vacation and not really anyone above me to answer to, if anything I answer more to the 60 employees below me and the thousands of customers that fuel a $15 mil operation.&nbsp; By no means am I bragging, there's a lot of people out there and on this forum making far more than me, but I've gotten things to where it's *almost* easy money.&nbsp; The points above about delegating workload and training your underlings are absolute gold.&nbsp; In Vegas, there's tons of people like me.&nbsp; Chefs, managers, casino managers, bean counters, financial controllers, VPs, beverage managers, etc...people of middling intelligence that just know how to play the game that are making upwards of $250k/year plus bonus plus partnership plus plus plus.&nbsp; I can only believe that the same thing exists in other major cities.&nbsp; There are a LOT of people that bullshit their way into these positions, and while Vegas is famous for hustlers like that, I know it exists everywhere.&nbsp; Anyway, just making a case for the 9-5.&nbsp; In any 9-5 there might be an opportunity to work the system, it's just all about learning to recognize opportunity and capitalizing on flaws or cracks.&nbsp; And you get the benefit of learning how to exploit these things while someone else takes the business risk.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Veloce, post: 1206623, member: 1041"] Great thread. It's always been a fantasy of mine to start an online business and this thread makes me glad I didn't. There's a case to be made for being a midlevel or upper level manager in a corporation. My job is more of a 9-7 at this point...but that's only if people above or below me know where I am. I have regular meetings where, if I went missing for 3 hours to eat a giant porterhouse steak with a couple martinis and polish off a rail off a strippers ass, nobody would be the wiser. I just have to make it to the meeting and sound smarter than the people around me, something that's not very difficult. This month I net well over 10k. I have zero stress about the company I work for or my job security, and I'm on a pretty good path to eject from my life as I know it by the time I'm 40 or 41 if I choose to do so and never turn back, or I can stay on and make ridiculously more cash. In the meantime it's a good cushy life with paid vacation and not really anyone above me to answer to, if anything I answer more to the 60 employees below me and the thousands of customers that fuel a $15 mil operation. By no means am I bragging, there's a lot of people out there and on this forum making far more than me, but I've gotten things to where it's *almost* easy money. The points above about delegating workload and training your underlings are absolute gold. In Vegas, there's tons of people like me. Chefs, managers, casino managers, bean counters, financial controllers, VPs, beverage managers, etc...people of middling intelligence that just know how to play the game that are making upwards of $250k/year plus bonus plus partnership plus plus plus. I can only believe that the same thing exists in other major cities. There are a LOT of people that bullshit their way into these positions, and while Vegas is famous for hustlers like that, I know it exists everywhere. Anyway, just making a case for the 9-5. In any 9-5 there might be an opportunity to work the system, it's just all about learning to recognize opportunity and capitalizing on flaws or cracks. And you get the benefit of learning how to exploit these things while someone else takes the business risk. [/QUOTE]

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