What Are Good Performance-Driven Jobs?

hey guys,

i'm looking into consulting as a career but i'm interested in exploring other options as well. from my job this summer i learned that i get a lot more motivated, work harder, and enjoy my job a lot more when i have financial incentives to do so. for example, i'd rather have 40k salary with 10k-60k merit-based bonus than a guaranteed 75k. however, you usually see the second kind in consulting.

do you guys know any good jobs with good pay-for-performance? some ones that came to mind were finance (not interested in finance though), sales, and starting a company (will probably do this at some point in the future but want to gain industry experience first). if you do, what are good companies to look at?

thanks!

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Sales of any type will probably be the purest pay-for-performance job you'll find, especially at lower levels.

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Trading.... about as performance driven as it gets, at least in comparison to the other jobs mentioned.

Consulting is pretty much the antithesis of getting paid based on some objective performance.

 

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