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Does your money jiggle jiggle or fold, pandas? We all hope for it to be the latter, don’t we?
Well, these Redditors most definitely belong to the folding club, as they claim to be earning over $10K a month. Recently, they shared the jobs that help them bring in that kind of income. And no, it’s not just the usual suspects like software engineers or doctors—there are plenty of surprising professions in the mix, including crane operators, dog groomers, train conductors, and *checks notes* companions for Korean women.
If you’re curious to see what other careers rake in the big bucks, keep scrolling for the full list below!
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#1
I prosecute wife beaters.
PeepPeep the duck 7 hours ago (edited)
Wow a wage that actually matches the justice and work someone does, regarding saving lives. (Besides the obvious surgeons and anaesthesia dudes&dudettes)
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#2
I sell propane and propane accessories.
#3
Put people to sleep for surgery.
Multa Nocte 9 hours ago
I've only had surgery twice, but I can't tell you how much I appreciated my anesthesiologist.
#4
I take 35-50 year old Korean women on dates to provide companionship. 99% of them are extremely wealthy and usually divorced. Also get some expensive gifts as extra perks.
No I do not sleep with them. 🙃.
#5
Travel nurse. I travel across multiple states working 13 week contracts in ERs that are short staffed. I work 3 days a week and try to take a month off after every contract.
The Cute Cat 7 hours ago
You are so lucky.. In my place so many people wanted to be a nurse or doctor.. So that draw wage rate down awfully. Many cannot found a job, even jobs below essential living cost is scarce
#6
I run a shop. We build vintage vehicles 30s-40s era. This is what i’ve found in owning a few businesses over the past 12 years.
It’s important to surround yourself with successful people. They dont have to be like minded, it’s even better to not have like minded people around. It gives you different prospectives. A older more wiser mentor will save you a lot of headaches. When you stop learning, you start dying. Stay humble.
PeepPeep the duck 7 hours ago
Yes, I love having people around me with different views and values for that reason.
#7
I manage developers and engineers to make meetings where we talk about the same thing and don’t make any progress for years at a time.
David Houde 9 hours ago (edited)
As a software engineer, I can confirm these type of people exist. I wish we could get rid of them all, but they know how to make themselves look important to leadership.
#8
Crane operator in the oilfield. Work 13 hours a day for 20 days then I’m off 10. I’ve gotten in the crane 2 times so far in the last 10 hours.
#9
$14,000/month. Retired! Pension 1 - Navy. Pension 2 - Teacher. Pension 3 - Social Security.
Edit 1: In “retirement” I also help out an undertaker friend with deceased removals, funerals, etc. I’m very active in the community. Every dime of what I make there goes to charity.
Edit 2: Thank you to the 95% of kind responders. The other 5% of haters (a) don’t know me as a person with their snarky comments, and (b) don’t realize, nor perhaps should they, that I donate/give away over half of what I earn in retirement each month to charity, tuition for poor kids, or others in need. I didn’t come from money, but through hard work, luck, and perseverance I made something of myself. When I was young and struggling, I vowed that if I ever had the means, I’d help at least one youngster succeed in life who had nothing. I did that in spades, and now it gives me purpose in life to help others less fortunate.
Kim Kermes 7 hours ago
You earned your pensions and social security. Even if you weren't so generous, you earned them. End of story. If my health had permitted, I'd have the same and I probably wouldn't be as giving as you.
#10
Arborist. I earn a (pretty good) living using stihl chainsaws.
#11
I’m not quite there yet but averaged $9100 a month for 2024. Before this career I’d never made more than $30k a year. I’m a dog groomer.
Feathered Dinosaur 1 hour ago
Hmmm... but at least my patients don't pee and poop on me. Or try to bite me. Although chances aren't 0% unfortunately
#12
Computer programmer.
I work 4 10s and from home.
#13
I make over 10k a month for 9 months out of the year. My wife and I own an exterior cleaning company. We do window cleaning, gutter cleaning, and pressure washing. In November we make over 20k.
#14
Emergency medicine PA.
I do a lot of suturing and pull a lot of things out of people's butts because everyone slipped while naked getting out of the shower.
#15
Locomotive engineer. Tl;dr I drive trains.
#16
Draw maps for D&D and sell them through Patreon. Started during the pandemic where online D&D really took off.
#17
Financial adviser specialising in retirement planning - has its ups and downs but a lot of my job is helping people realise their dream retirements so it’s very rewarding.
#19
Massage Therapist. 250.00 per client. 3 every Monday-Friday. Off weekends. Not including tips btw. Learn how to market yourself well and it flows smoothly. Love it so much. Only work for 3 hours and im done for the day :). You HAVE to have charisma and a decent well look btw. Ex nurse here- - really wish I would have went the route for LMT
sooner, never looked back at nursing since then. The best part is the connections you make. Your clients will consist of possible doctors, lawyers, pr agents etc. good word goes around for you and you made it. Yes your hands will be tired but it’s worth it. That’s probably the major Con. At least for me.
Go where the money is. I live 10 minutes away from Woodlands Texas where the clients pay the big bucks. They wont bat an eye and hand it like pocket change. .
#20
Work on the same place for 20 years, starting at age 20 and slowly climbing my way from the guy emptying the trucks (shipping dept) to senior leadership. I got two degrees along the way but honestly, sticking with the job for a long while, treating people with honesty and respect, building relationships and just generally never being an ahole to anyone did more for my career than my 2 degrees.
#21
Pharmacist. It’s been a year and a half since I graduated and I’ve been making 10k a month the whole time.
#22
Chimney sweep. Not joking.
Lost Panda 5 hours ago
Considering this is probably on the same page as other blue collar jobs where parents use it as a way to scare children. Due to demand and lack of professionals, I could see this being a very lucrative job.
#23
Train conductor in Norway.
Rather well paid, but a somewhat bad rotation (you can work early morning one day, midday the next, and night the one after that again).
But I enjoy it a lot.
Wouldn’t do anything else, except win the lottery.
#24
IT leadership for large healthcare organization. My husband is in technology sales. We each earn over $10k a month.
#25
I write automated models to catch money laundering for large banks.
#26
Project Manager. When I work 40 hrs a week or less it’s worth it, when I’m working 70+ I want to jump off a bridge. The work is not fulfilling but I’m glad to pay the bills.
#27
Senior Software Engineer *not* based in silicon valley!
David Houde 9 hours ago
Same, and I can personally confirm that $10k plus per month is very realistic.
#28
Linux System Administrator, I’m overpaid for this position I think but it’s highly stressful.
WindySwede 8 hours ago
"It's a Linux system, I know this!" *raptors screaming in the background* /jk
#31
I play violin in an orchestra.
Kim Kermes 7 hours ago
You must be in a top shelf orchestra to get that pay. Congratulations! Your work paid off. I hope you love what you're doing as much as we amateurs.
#33
Paint apartments. I get about $1200 a unit and do one every two days.
PeepPeep the duck 7 hours ago (edited)
My boyfriend used to do diesel mechanic - which is good work anyways, so he is also lucky and privileged enough to have parents to borrow money off, not like Paris Hilton rich, but country nsw farmer money. So he started his own business and it’s more than 10k a month for him it’s insane, I come from peasantry roots so it blows me away, but it’s kool to know if you could actually get the initial money, there’s a chance, so from my poor perspective, to do what he did our way, work any full time job (which is hard to get but if you get it ❤️) work for three months and apply for a loan for your idea, through your bank as a personal loan, so interest and contract is better than business, get your business going while working like a M**o. I’m still paying my loan off but I’m now on the 2-3k a well bracket in my new work, which is a massive leg up from my $400-800 week in restaurants. But I used his rich people money smarts combined with my poor upbringing to see if I could, and we can dammit but it’s harrrd.
#34
Waste management consultant; NJ.
#35
I'm an operator at a nuclear power plant.
#36
Senior Engineer also in Silicon Valley. Double edged sword, since housing in this area is ~$1.5m minimum.
David Houde 9 hours ago
Dang, I'm a software engineer nowhere near Silicon Valley. You can get a pretty nice where I live (Michigan, between Detroit and Flint) for under $500k.
#37
$242k annual base salary ($20k/mo). General counsel at an industrial manufacturing and construction company. That means I'm a lawyer and head of the legal department for a fairly big company. I've been a lawyer for almost 9 years and done multiple kinds of law. That has allowed me to skip a few steps. But I'm also damn good at what I do and work my a*s off.
The only lawyers I know that are happy are in-house lawyers like me (and some prosecutors, but they get paid s**t). But not everyone gets lucky enough to go in house.
If you're thinking about law I would highly recommend that you reconsider. Do medicine, software, cyber security or if you're hot be a sugar baby I guess (jk, don't do that). But anything but law.
For those who might ask why not law-
It starts with school, everyone at law school was the smartest kid in every one of their classes from elementary school through college. Everyone. Then you go from that to being... maybe middle of the pack. A nobody. And it's super f*****g cutthroat to get even there. But you learn to "think like a lawyer" (i.e. be a super obnoxious and hyper critical over thinker.)
Then you get to a law firm or a government job or whatever and it turns out law school taught you very little, if anything, about being a lawyer. But you're expected to know or learn the rules and start billing time, or charging people with crimes or protecting kids from abusive parents or some other super f*****g heavy thing, at 25 years old.
Don't get me wrong, I take a tremendous amount of pride in it. But imagine, if you will, keeping track of everything you do in six minute increments to get to 150 hours worth of billable hours of work a month; you can never get ahead, at very best you are caught up, until the first of the month when you are 150 hours behind again. It takes you 200+ hours of actual work to get to 150 or 160 of billable time. This is not an exaggeration in any sense.
Imagine also being the only thing between your client and ten years in prison, or losing their home, or losing their business or kids. In my situation I am constantly on the lookout for problems and watching for things that may become problems. For my entire company. The mental burden is ... a lot.
I am a borderline alcoholic and am only now learning to take care of myself again. It's been a long road and I'm on the right side of it now but there were times when I could have easily not made it to tomorrow, if you catch my drift.
#38
I work two jobs: cyber security for one company full time (9K) and game developer contractor with another (5K-10K). The contractor job is based on completed work so pay fluctuates on how much time I can dedicate to it.
#39
Not me, I'm retired. But I have two kids who each earn over $100,000 per mo. One is an attorney who bills out at $1650 an hour and the other is a VP with a major software company.
#40
Data Engineer: Switched careers 7 years ago. Learned Python, SQL, VBA, and dabbled in other languages. Learned Databricks, Azure, AWS and others. Also, Power BI, Qlik, SSRS.
Started as a Data Analyst and switched jobs every one to two years. Now at $100 an hour. So basically worked my a*s off.
#41
Doctor. In the past it used to be a very high-paying job, these days it's not so much - I still make a good living, but in low COL areas family docs make $100K and specialists make $250K. A partner of mine made $150K in the 70's when he started, he was still making $150K in 2010.
#42
Film industry. (Camera Department)
No life while working, then hustling to get the next job between gigs.
You have no clue when the next gig will come so you have to budget like you might not work again in a year.
3/10 don't recommend.
#43
Surprised I havent seen any contractors for doe/dod contractors. I net ~12k a month from that and another 2k from VA disability.
#44
PhD running government training program. 40 years experience.
#45
Event coordinator for weddings.
What do you think ?
Warren Peece 7 hours ago (edited)
I was making about $10,000/month during my last couple years as a nurse. But I was working 48 or more hours a week trying to get as much money as possible before retirement. (I'm not old enough yet to get money from my retirement account or social security). When I retired, I also got about $20,000 for my unused vacation time and sick days.
Arabiata Arabiata 6 hours ago (edited)
As I read the stories, with a little learning and imagination, anyone can free themselves from the hell of the retail industry.
Warren Peece 7 hours ago (edited)
I was making about $10,000/month during my last couple years as a nurse. But I was working 48 or more hours a week trying to get as much money as possible before retirement. (I'm not old enough yet to get money from my retirement account or social security). When I retired, I also got about $20,000 for my unused vacation time and sick days.
Arabiata Arabiata 6 hours ago (edited)
As I read the stories, with a little learning and imagination, anyone can free themselves from the hell of the retail industry.
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