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Tech pays because it’s hard. It’s going to be tough if you want an easy job that pays a lot.
In consulting - was mgmt, then went tech - now have offers for 190K in consulting as an M. The market is primed. I didn’t suffer my 20s to not capitalize. Get the bag while you can.
I left USAF IN 2000, went in to tech sales (pre-sales / system engineer). I’ve made 200k+ for the last 5 years. If you have a personality and are self-motivated, sales is
One of my old colleagues left and became a doctor and he makes like $400k a year because he practices in Wyoming
Another is getting out next year and is doing $2mil isn sales of his online Shopify store
Another started his own DoD contracting company and is killing it.
All the rest of us are either in contracting, consulting, or tech and make between $80k(the contractor) to $250k(AWS/google) a year. $200k is a pretty hard threshold to cross only a couple years after leaving the military. Something in sales might get you there but that’s also a grind.