30k a year or 60k a year? Rant & Poll

What would you choose for the next 3 years of your life

  • Make 30k a year working for yourself

    Votes: 121 72.0%

  • Make 60k a year working for somebody else

    Votes: 47 28.0%
  • Total voters
    168
Are you really making $60k/yr though? What about gas, tires, and oil for your car? Toll booths? Do you eat out for lunch at work, or do you bring your lunch? Is there a dress code? Do you have to buy stupid suits just to work there? My point is you're probably making closer to $40-45k/yr after expenses then subtract your taxes it's $30-40k. Factor all that shit in and you'll realize you aren't making a true $60k a year.

Seriously, ditch the 9-5. When you have to hustle for a living you find out you can easily make more than $30k a year with half the hassle of the corporate world.
 


REIMktg said:
You presumption of a linear track is mistaken. If you are a "Star" in the corporate world they will promote you so fast you will not know what happened. Take the stability and the earnings and build it into residual income (rental properties etc Cash flow=rent/2-expenses).

Of course bust your ass at night and the weekends building your own sites etc - but diversify when you earn and never buy depreciating assets (Cars, Flat Screens) invest in SEO, stocks, whatever to build a solid base.

Use the knowledge you learned skyrocketing in the corporate world and hanging with the top brass (because you are a star they will seek you out - they may be stuck but they oftentimes have a lot of advice) - then leverage everything above into starting your own companies. You will need the corporate experience to understand bureaucracies and how to effectively manage people, projects, etc.

You are here on WF for a year and a few months and are not confident that you can make it in SEO etc - so do the above, learn, build a base - then go out on your own. If you were confident after a year and 2 months my advice to you would be different - for now let the Corporate world to grow, train, and mature you.

That extra $2,500/month can buy you a lot of SEO - then sell the productive sites and invest the proceeds.

Good luck.
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i took the corporate route for many of these things. needed to see what it was like, and if i liked it or hated it to give me that extra motivation to work harder on my own. also to mature, and see how the biz world is run ... it's just that doing it now isn't the greatest. also i'm working 10hrs a day, coming home, working 4hrs+ on my own endeavors. sleep, rinse and repeat
 
if you cant match the salary you are getting paid through the internet then you should not be on the internet

im turning 18 in a month and make more than any worker drone in the corporate world could dream of. i work when i can, juggling school and everything else. just make sure you are making a good amount of money with the internets before taking the leap
 
leadsupplier said:
I'm already starting to loathe the job. I don't do any real work, and i basically just need to be there for 8-9 hours every day. What a waste.
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Hello friend,

Since you no do work at job then maybe should use time to do affiliate marketing for self.

That way you get pay for make money for self and no get pay for much money for other.

Once have enough money save you be boss and hire other work for you. Will have people who work hard to make you lot money and only have to pay them little back.

Good luck bro
 
I would take the 60k a year from someone else. If you only make 30k working for yourself, then really, thats all you are worth. If them paying 60k for a 30k worker then let them do it.

Free monies
 
I think this is not only about learning and making money. I can see many other things involved into it. Such as paying taxes, building the credit history, getting the referrals and so on. When you went to the collage, did you have a plan of how to build up your career?
Honestly, it totally depends on how you live now and what you want. There is no better answer than yours. The only thing that I would suggest for you is to build the platform that you could use in the future regardless of where the life goes.
As to business, you can run it part time :)
Good luck.
 
I love working for myself. But it takes time to learn and work up a stable income. I tell my friends you can work full time on your job and part time on your fortune. Jim Rohn Quote.
I'm into the burn your ships theory. But in reality we need to eat to.
Plus imagine this; job 60k plus your 30k and your almost a 6 fig man.
 
Got a taste of that soul-sucking feeling for the first time... pretty awful, isn't it? I clearly remember the first time I had that moment of: "holy shit, after 4 years of school, this is what was waiting for me???"

If you can keep the lights on at 30K year and continue to grow THAT, then fuck the "big" money.

Besides: when you add commute, gym-tan-laundry, and sucking your boss's dick, those 4 hours a night are NOT you at your best. Your productivity just isn't the same after your energy's been used. Energy (like time) is a precious commodity.

I think back on every time when I chose money over freedom... and I kick myself for not choosing freedom.

You learn and grow the most from being in uncomfortable situations. You're forced to adapt. It's not easy and a lot of the time it hurts. But that's the price you're paying to be the boss.
 
the whole point of working for yourself is for better lifestyle (not a baller thing). for better income, convenience, better growth in life. if you think it's going to be the same (30k working for yourself and 60k working for someone else) forever, what's the point in choosing the former option?!

when you work for yourself (when you start seeing money) you work even harder to make more money. you expect to attain success in your projects and that's what you should keep working hard on.

i think this thread is retarded, posting in this thread is even more retarded, but you need to be retarded to tell someone they are retarded, that's what i did here. so, finally i am retarded too.
 
I will never work for anyone ever again. I'm no ones bitch. I fucking hated every second of working for someone else. I quite my job and started my own business. First year was the most stressful year of my life but in the end I ended up banking about 30k, second year it was 60k and I'm on pace for 120k+ this year.

Take the 30k, work and hustle your ass off doing something you enjoy and in the end you'll make more yourself than you could in the corp world.
 
$500 a day online is about 180k a year before taxes. After taxes you're still earning well into the six figures and this income goal is easily achievable online. Fuck the corporate job and just start grinding.
 
I am in the exact same position. The job is soul leeching like you say, but it's worth putting up with for the time being. If you're young like me, save your monies up. I have done AM before, and it's a grind. Unless you are some kind of automation expert, there's a lot of work (and responsibility) resting solely on your shoulders. Some people thrive under that kind of pressure.

Personally, I have the day job, and then do SEO/local SEO consulting in my spare time. This way, I can put some of my excess creative energy into various other niches/clients. Eventually, I could build this business into my own full-time job, but for the time being, I like having a guaranteed paycheck w/ full benefits.
 
$30k = 2727 "$11 logos" per year

increase logo production to 5454 per year.

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Seriously though, do you have the option to work on your own shit at the corporate job? If they aren't monitoring your ass, then keep the corporate job and build some campaigns while at work and generate income from both
 
I've done both. The best part of this industry is the freedom. You can do the work during the day that you need to move projects along, live your life, then work at night for a few hours to purge the busy work. Can't work a friday? make up for it saturday.
There is a certain level of stability when in a corp job and most of those skills are transferable. We are all just a few acts of congress away from having the industry turned upside-down.
 
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