re: What are some jobs that pay less than people expect.

MLM entrepreneur
You think its all glitz and glam but it really be hard out there

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Yeah my wife’s best friend is a college professor with a doctorate and might make 50k... I’m not judging, my wife doesn’t make that, but the only degree my wife has is a mrs degree and she makes like 42ish.

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Yeah, it’s pretty shitty. Many don’t even being working and earning a living (if you call that earning a living) until they are in their 30s. Many are moving across the country several times doing Visiting Professor positions hoping to one day land a tenure track position which really doesn’t pay great. Then you spend so much time trying to write and publish to hopefully get tenure... if you don’t get tenure you are then 40 years old with no career

Offshore Platform Operators make less than 100k.

Apparently, Loan Officer in Rhode Island.

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Family doctor

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Family medicine, internal medicine, and peda all make a lot less than most people think. Still great job and great profession, but it’s a LONG drop from say neurosurgery to pediatrics.

Reiger Road pimp.

911 operator, or even much harder first responder dispatcher.

Listed as the second most stressful job on the planet, the national turnover ratio is 18 months, they are tasked with trying to save your or your loved ones' lives, their command and control centers are the first place targeted in time of war ...


yet they are paid terribly.

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The welders you see running around in their own welding trucks (Rigs) make 225,000 to 250,000 per year IF they want to work.

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You can own a muffin shop and make $250k a year...IF ya want to. Same with every other small business.

Plant baw.

I thought they all made 200k. Turns out they make like 60k

I'll tell you who's doing well in small towns across this country, and that's exactly who you just described. A competent, timely mechanic shop who has the knowledge and tooling to work on most any vehicle has always been a hot commodity, but they're dying out and in small towns if one or two still exists, they're slammed with work.

I'm not saying they net $200k a year, but I know of a few mechanic shops that I've no doubt in my mind gross that much and are an invaluable source of cash flow in their small town.