Six figures, by far, is easier.
Six figures, by far, is easier.
Any moron with a college degree can go to law school and come out making six figures.
im 22 and already have both...
real question is what's tougher: sub 14 for 5k or seven figure salary?
tretre wrote:
High paying jobs are there for anyone who wants them...ASSUMING that person has the necessary qualifications.
Unless you are a successful small business owner (most are not), the only reliable way to a six figure salary is a graduate degree: law, medicine, science, engineering, business. These virtually guarantee 6 figs, but also those jobs demand a lot of work. A LOT of work.
You can't be serious. I have a bachelor's degree in communications and graduated with barely a 3.0 and have made no less than $115,000 each year for the past 17 years...and I've run 14:45 (at age 25), broken 17 as late as age 43.
six figure salary, breaking 17...both reasonable for ANYBODY.
Guy below me, what do you do for a living? I want to make bank! Show me the money!
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You can't be serious. I have a bachelor's degree in communications and graduated with barely a 3.0 and have made no less than $115,000 each year for the past 17 years...and I've run 14:45 (at age 25), broken 17 as late as age 43.
six figure salary, breaking 17...both reasonable for ANYBODY.
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If you make $100K/yr straight out of undergrad, you've already spent 16 years in school in order to earn that salary. Has anyone here ever known anyone who had to train 7 hours per day for 16 years to break 17?
In terms of effort level and investment in your own human capital, the $100K salary is much harder.
Statistics Man wrote:
Let's look at raw statistics for an answer:
6.03% of individuals in the U.S. make more than $100k
And clearly 95% of those +$100k earners post on Letsrun.
Both are hard. And yes I have done both, but not at the same time. Can you do both at the same time. Or can you hit six figures and be debt free (no student loan debt). Do both at and be debt free, that would be an accomplishment.
I have the salary, but only a 17:04 PR. So, the running is harder.
In reality, either is difficult but definitely do-able for anyone with the right work ethic.
It took me just over 3 years to get under 17:00, and a little over 5 to get to a 6 figure salary. Without my particular degree though, the salary either would have never happened, or I would have been trying for a lot longer.
Need to start Applying wrote:
Guy below me, what do you do for a living? I want to make bank! Show me the money!
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You can't be serious. I have a bachelor's degree in communications and graduated with barely a 3.0 and have made no less than $115,000 each year for the past 17 years...and I've run 14:45 (at age 25), broken 17 as late as age 43.
six figure salary, breaking 17...both reasonable for ANYBODY.
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Corporate sales for a big computer company.
ygfvgh wrote:
Guys almost 7 feet tall have gone under 4 for the mile.
who's that?
I'm a mid-level civil servant with advanced degrees. My pay grade in today's dollars and adjusted for cost of living tops out at just under 100K. :(
Could exceed that with a bit of overtime and some moonlighting/part time work, or to move into management (not likely for that latter), or possibly a supervisory role (more likely than management).
I probably broke 17 min for 5K 80 to 100 times over a period of more than 20 years.
Dumbest topic ever. You guys are douches
The Mollusk wrote:
Dumbest topic ever. You guys are douches
So what you're saying is that you are not capable of either.
Nope, both were achieved well before you kissed your first boy.
Rainy Day wrote:
I would venture a guess that many more people make over $100K than run under a 17 min 5K. Perhaps that is because most people try to make as much money as they can, and only a segment attempts to run as fast as they can for 5 KM.
That's why it's not that great of a comparison. Also, running sub 17 relies only on yourself, while making any money relies on others (whether employer or customers).
I've done both and while running sub 17 was a heck of lot easier for me (I ran sub 15), for most people it would be the other way around. My wife makes a 6 figure income and she'd need a bike to dream about a sub 17.
lowcut wrote:
new to running, my 5k is in the 20s. i can definitely see myself improving by at least 2-3 min in the next couple of years. I also want a decent job w/ 100k+ salary. which is harder? i always thought that the high paying jobs are there for anyone who wants them. is that not the case?
Hmm...this is a harder-to-determine question than I thought it would be. If you research on the web about the percentage of people making 100k a year or more, you get lots of info about HOUSEHOLDS making that, and to my surprise, it seems anywhere from 11-15% of US Households make $100k or more (I would have thought a little more). BUT, the problem is that it's hard to find individual salary averages.
Just a guess, but if 15% of households make $100,000 or more, I'll assume that MOST of those are the result of two incomes but that maybe 40% of them result from a single income, or that a single income in that household makes $100,000 or more, so 40% of 15 is 6%, so my SWAG is 6% of individual people in the US make $100,000 or more.
That is MUCH more than the percentage of people who can run 5,000 meters in under 17 minutes. Perhaps more could if they trained, but more could make $100,000 if they set that as a goal too.
So, if the winner is the one that's harder to do, breaking 17 for 5,000 meters is WAY harder than making $100,000 a year...remember we're not talking percentage of D1 distance runners...we're talking percentage of all people who might actually make an income...average people. Sub-17 for 5k wins big time.
ukathleticscoach wrote:
If you offered somone six figures to run sub 17 it would suddenly be easy
I believe in this situation they would be the exact same level of difficulty.
lowcut wrote:
new to running, my 5k is in the 20s. i can definitely see myself improving by at least 2-3 min in the next couple of years. I also want a decent job w/ 100k+ salary. which is harder? i always thought that the high paying jobs are there for anyone who wants them. is that not the case?
If you interpret harder as rarer, then this is an easy question to answer. Just find out how many six figure salary people are in the US, and then find out how many 16:xx 5ker's are in the country. The lesser one is the harder one.