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/pn_dubya Aug 13 '21

Hey PM don’t you have 200 emails to answer? Get off Reddit sheesh

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u/machonm Aug 13 '21

PM here also but I've been on vacation for the last two weeks. Your comment made me curious about my unread email count. I am anal about a clean inbox so when I left, there were only three unread emails I left as a reminder for something I wanted to take care of. As of now I am sitting at 2,347 unread mails. Figure I'll be around 2,600-2,700 by the time I decide to do actual work on Monday which is of course the obligatory 6-10hrs of meetings.

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u/Andy802 Aug 13 '21

I used to have that problem, but then I discovered that outlook has this "decline" button for meetings. I've been getting so much shit done at work ever since. Got even better when I found out you don't have to replay to every message my inbox either. If it's important, they follow up!

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u/machonm Aug 13 '21

LOL, yup. I love me some decline button action. I'm just in a weird spot at work right now where I've got some very large projects but also an impending long OOF due to surgery so my timelines have gotten super compressed. You're dead on though, the ability to decline or not attend useless meetings allows so much more to get done in a day.