re: What was your starting salary right out of college?

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Got into sales and just started hustling.

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I took a sales gig in construction where I talked the owner into paying me 60% of whatever I could add on top of any contract price that he approved, on top of my normal commission. I started making an extra $2k-$25k per project. Eventually,the owner got greedy and wanted to reduce it to 40%. It pissed me off and I left, but by that time my experience let me take a better job at a higher pay.