r/financialindependence • u/fidgit86 • Aug 13 '21

What do you do that you earn six figures?

It seems like a lot of people make a lot of money and it seems like I’m missing out on something. So those of you that do, whats your occupation that pays so well?

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u/FatFiredProgrammer Aug 13 '21

Software development. We're all software developers here. True story.

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u/737900ER pls fix Aug 13 '21

That's not accurate! Some of us have to make PowerPoints about what the software developers are doing.

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u/GSD1309 Aug 13 '21

And Excel spreadsheets

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u/This-Moment Aug 13 '21

When the last remaining monuments to the last days of humanity are slowly crumbling, somewhere a radioactive roach will still be tracking something in Excel.

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u/Trek186 Aug 13 '21

Not a six figure earner (yet) but I manage a multi-decade forecast model for a multi-billion dollar project in a massive Excel workbook for work. I have the associated debt service forecasts in three other sizable workbooks. As you can imagine using a VPN to connect to the office is not fun.