As someone that came from a very low income family to now making 190k and rising at 30. One major problem is that when you’re on one end of the spectrum you often don’t get to meet/talk to people on the other end of the spectrum. That leaves people clueless on paths to take and opportunities available to them. Then you get the kids who are born into these situations and they have a huge advantage just off of who they know and the knowledge of these high paying careers and how to get into them. (Excluding nepotism)

As iv come to make more money, move to a more expensive area, and interact with people in higher income brackets, iv learned so many different paths to wealth. It almost seems so obvious now, but looking back it was so confusing. Googling things like “highest paid careers” “highest paid degrees” “best jobs without a degree” “is (insert career) high stress?” Then google gives terrible answers, and the listed salaries on stuff like Glassdoor is absolutely off.

Reddit breaks this class barrier down. So the people that come to Reddit and see these salaries and say “oh that’s just not real life”, look at this stuff with an open mind, not everyone with a super high salary just “got lucky”. Luck plays a part in everything in life, but there are some step you can take to set yourself on the path to take advantage of opportunities when they arise. Look at these jobs, listen to the experiences of the people making the money you want to make.

• disclaimer: money isn’t everything, and lots of people can be happy in their careers without striving for super high salaries. Im just saying, maybe the path between someone’s min wage job and a 200k salary isn’t as impossible as you think.