<p>If you want to get ‘richer’, sure, be the regional manager for the about to go under department store chain, or the guy who’s a regional sales manager for a roofing shingles company, a beer distributor, or a guy who’s in management for a company that makes those little condiment cups you get at fast food places. You can also be Manuel, the Mexican-born owner of a tile installation company (they did my house, the guy is a genius with tile and the like). The vice president of marketing for a national consumer electronics firm. A pair of pharmacists (the type that works for a drug company); a pair of middle managers for another drug company; a patent lawyer for said drug company; an orthodontist; a corporate lawyer; the attractive 40 year old single daughter of a major utility company CEO (annoying voice over: you did not build that!) who keeps complaining there are no men here because everyone is married (duh); the rags-to-riches-to-divorce-to-rags CEO who sold his very successful cellular company, cashed out, built the restaurant of his dreams and threw it all away in a divorce settlement; a local real estate tycoon who did likewise (both my immediate neighbors); an internal medicine doc; and so on.</p>
<p>Bottom line, there’s all kinds of ways to make money. some are more fun than others; I can’t see how making the condiment cups is an intellectual challenge compared to what I do for a living. But hey, it pays the bills.</p>
<p>Better yet, don’t work for money.</p>