Fisherman, farmer, rancher, stripper, porn star, car wash owner, U-haul-type franchise, Self-storage franchise, UPS franchise, guide, tow truck owner, caterer, business liasson contractor to government agencies or politicians, lobbyest, parking lot owner, drag strip owner, show biker, show dragster, show drifter, car show promoter, oil lease agent (you go talk to land owners to get them to lease you their land for drilling)...
You have to *try* to earn less than $100k in the U.S.
Making money here is pathetically easy.
Sounds like Jack Abramoff.
What did you do to make your millions? Some of us have those pesky taxes, transportation costs, mortgages, insurance, medical insurance costs....Yeah, I made good money last year and I worked my ass off for it. Had I lived in a tent and not paid taxes than I would be “rich”.
Whats a “Show Drifter”?
“You have to *try* to earn less than $100k in the U.S.”
Cheddar ping.
Maybe 20 years ago. Not any more.
My dad was a commercial fisherman for at least 25 years, from the early 60s to the late 80s. His particular fishery was albacore and salmon, trolling. He earned the equivalent of six figures many years and our large family lived well, but success like his was very, very rare. On the whole west coast in that fishery, maybe a few hundred captains -- maybe -- were in the same league. On the other hand, there were thousands of commercial albacore/salmon fishermen on the West Coast at the time. Most of them didn't make enough for a good living. And that was true for pretty much every fishery on the coast. Lots of guys dreaming of making a good living, very few ever actually achieving that. It's a hard life that requires smarts, discipline, mathematical, technical, survival, and mechanical skills, and balls -- all in amounts well above average.
Today, regulations have gotten so ridiculous that it's damned near impossible for a man to make a good living in a commercial fishery, at least on the West Coast. It's disgusting and sad to see so many great industries and family traditions go by the wayside because of asswipe environmentalists and their bullsh*t regulations. Some of those regulations, like the ones that have maximum catches in a very small seasonal window, kill fishermen, who are already in a dangerous, unpredictable business without the gubmint telling them when they can fish, a cap on how much they can catch, and a merciless limit in how much time they have to do it. Disgusting and murderous.
Then again ... maybe you were being sarcastic! I’m a little dense this evening!!!
Are you serious? These guys at the UPS store are pulling a hundred K down a year? I will suggest your ideas to him. Stripper, huh?