I just helped a friend's wife (late 20s) apply and interview for a general administration position in a tier 3 city. She didn't study anything important and sort of just floundered for a few years after college doing various temp jobs. She ended up getting the job makes about $90k now. They thought I did some sort of a magic trick or something.
That seems great until you realize that fast food and grocery stores are paying new hires $22-27/hr (so 45-54k). Again, if you have any degree of professionalism and work ethic you can move into some low ranking managerial position that is closer to $30-45/hr.
In short, $75k-100 is not a lot of money anymore and is pretty easy to get. It requires ignoring this learned helplessness and working hard.
Are you really telling me that in 2025 someone with skills and grit can’t make more than that? Hell I was making a little over $50K as regular old enterprise dev in Atlanta working for a company that mailed out utility bills in 2000.
Anybody with a good work ethic and the ability to interact with other people reliably is hirable. It's rarer than you think!
Sales is another field where being in the top 20% is shockingly easy and just depends on willingness to work and learn.
Okay boomer. In which fields or industries have you accomplished this? I agree those attributes will generally be rewarded but not at that rate, not in most fields.