Best pay per hour jobs when you don't give a shit about what you do?
I don't do illegal or unethical. Reasonable jobs for someone with an okay base in finance and above average in "not being stupid."
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Jeff Bezos probably has the best pay per hour. So just go run a company or hedge fund.
plumber / electrician pays ~$100/hour
tree cutter (cut down trees in people's yards they want gone) pays $200/hour
They call them Tree Fellers.
Get a federal job at GS-13 or above. Great job security, pretty lax about everything, a 401k match, and great insurance. What’s not to like
Agreed, if you don't have a desire to make hundreds of thousands to send your kids to private school and own a vacation house etc., the government is the way to go.
You get to be a lazy and incompetent fuck with no fear of being fired and no need to try to succeed.
Didn't say it was for everyone!
Can you imagine having to deal with all THE OTHER incompetent fucks on a day to day basis!? Oh my!
I've worked with the federal government and in these roles from a civilian side consultancy. I think its better to be in the consultancy. You get higher pay, job security is similar (lots of 5 year contracts renewing). So basically its public sector consulting. My position was a position for life basically, but I wasn't down to stay there so left. I felt like I was wasting away doing work for other people, when I wanted to do work for myself. But, some people love the security for life aspect of either role. I have found that working directly with federal employees that they are lazy and slow and don't give a flying fuck about some things. I've seen federal employees botch financial contracts in their system for hundreds of thousands of dollars. Oops. Yes we got them to pay the right amount, but it was an extra 30 days on our DSO.
This is very intersting. Care to share more?
Specialized technicians, like BMW, Porsche, etc. - depending on area you'll average around 80K, with special training/seminars/seniority you'll hit >100K for very cool work on the latest automotive gadgets.
My self-employed plumber is >100K as well.
Sales
Yep, this is the correct answer. Frankly, if you're a partner in a legal or accounting firm, for example, the reality is you are more salesman than industry professional. For all lines of business, sales is the absolute foundation for all success.
Yeah eventually all the senior roles lead to sales. The successful high level salesman is good at maintaining and cultivating relationships.
Specialized and top-tier lawyers can bill out over $1000 an hour (some massively more in unique circumstances). There are also corresponding expert witnesses (many in finance realm) that bill the same (if you don't what to have to get the whole JD thing). Of course, this is hard to get into (i.e. takes time, as in years/decades + advance degrees and/or certifications), but pays fucking well if you make it.
The only expert witnesses that make any real money are academic/economist types. The forensic accounting and valuation expert witness types make probably similar to BB VP (cash comp).
yeah, in fairness, it was the academic/economist types I was more referring to. Maybe a stretch for OP's desires/ability given the "okay base" and "above average" setup, but sure fits the high hourly pay if you don't give a shit setup!
This is like saying yea bro get a bunch of top tier board seats and just have 4 meetings a year. Good gig if you can get it
LOL, very true! but that is essentially how I took the OP's question (or at least one way to interpret/answer it)!
My buddy has formally hit $100 million in annual single-family mortgage loan production (after predicting it all year). He gets compensated about 1% of every dollar he originates. He works about 70 hours a week. $1 million / 3,500 hours = $286/hour.
He's on pace to do $200 million next year with fewer hours, so, like $600/hour. (The funny thing about top tier loan originators is that the more they produce the less they work as their team expands--when you get to the $1+ billion mark, your hours can drop to 25-30 hours/week to make $10+ million a year, so $8,000/hour.)
I know my former company's D.C. real estate attorneys were charging us $1,000/hour, but they were the best of the best of the best. And they were damn good, though $100,000 for a sales contract is a lot of flippin' money (I do feel like my boss over-analyzed every detail).
Talented day traders pay pretty well per hour. I envy the ones that can exit their positions and take a few days off then get back at it.
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