How do you make a lot of money if you aren't really smart?

nagoya wrote:

This is standard middle class people advice. A wealthy person would tell you to leverage other people's time and money for your own gain. Hope that helps.

How do you do that?

Yhhhnndndndnd wrote:

How about this wrote:

Become a prostitute.

A lot of dumb women choose this route but also some smart women choose prostitution. The dumb ones generally end up blowing their money as fast as they get it and have a lack of ambition. That's a vicious cycle to imagine. The smart ones save the money and pay off college or just bank some cash to get going. If they're really pretty they could just live vicariously through a man via marriage anyways.

You seem to personally know a LOT of prostitutes. If you're a pimp, you need to start a new thread ASAP and update it constantly, because, a running pimp.

+1 for Lawyer

lawitup wrote:

I know several idiot lawyers who are raking. You need a decent memory to be a lawyer, but you definitely do not need to be smart.

Two things:

1) You DO have to pass the bar exam, and not everyone can:

2) My brother is a lawyer...a partner in his law firm, and he works his a$$ off. He has a Ph.D. as well as a JD, so he makes serious bank, but he takes 2 weeks off per year MAX, and while he doesn't need it at this point, he doesn't get paid for the time he takes off. So, work that hard if you want, but not everyone wants to work that hard. I sure don't.

Move to a legal state, and sell weed. From a storefront. Jump through the hoops, and roll in the bucks.

Precious Roy wrote:

Auto sales is probably the last job in the US where you can walk in off the street with no skills, training or higher education and make a solid middle class salary with the opportunity to move up into management and make mix six to seven figures. A top car salesman at a major metro franchised dealer can make over $200k every year. Very good ones will make $100-120k.

Huh?

Car salesman make an average of $22k, with the highest reported on glassdoor of $42k. A "solid middle class salary"?

You'd be better off being a truck driver for Walmart. They recently raised salary to $90k and are planning on hiring hundreds of truck drivers.

Flounder wrote:

Realtor is even worse. I know several people that got their license and then were out of the business within 3 years. With the internet there is very little need for realtors. That business should have vanished 10 years ago.

Realtors definitely should have vanished, but amazingly, they have not. I know over 20 people that have bought or sold a house in the past 5 years, and in every case, they paid a realtor commission for both buying and selling.

I have a friend that was in special education growing up. Think Forrest Gump. But he's a nice, personable guy, and he moved to California and became a realtor and cleans up. It obviously takes some skill, but not intelligence in the traditional sense.

The other realtors I know are former stay at home mom's, and when their kids got into high school, they got their realtor licenses and supplement their husband's income pretty well doing a part-time job.

And I know one guy that is an elite realtor. He won't even talk to you unless the house you want to list is over $1mil. He mostly works with custom home builders in the Boulder area. He has no degree and isn't particularly smart, as far as I can tell. But he's one of the nicest people you'll ever hang out with.

Person I work with quit a few weeks back, to work at a weed dispensary (legal state). Said they made more working 1.5 days than they made in a week where I work.

They're now working FT there, which tells me they're earning probably triple what they earned here? Hmmmm ...

I opened a store on shopify and sell farts in a bottle.

Military

Nice one wrote:

Ya'll missed it wrote:

Latch on to your brother after he achieves mild cult fame among a small group of overly committed sports fans, then ride his coattails to easy street.

Not a lot of money here, but running a "sports" blog is pretty chill. Let the other two "employees" do the groundwork and you basically copy/paste links to other articles and occasionally weigh in on meaningless message board convos. Skills as a self promoter/own hype man are helpful.

Good stuff, If LR is really worth a few mil, I'd think the third in command is worth at least a mil. Probably can pull in 100k a year. Coaching at a school full of smart people def doesnt make you a smart person, but it probably impresses the ladies, until they find out the website he started isnt flotrack.

This.

http://www.cracked.com/personal-experiences-1994-i-am-professional-mourner-6-realities-my-job.html

josh1988 wrote:

GSUfan wrote:

Be a welder on the pipeline and make $5000+ a week.

More like $3500. Which is from lots of overtime.

Interesting how some things have changed so much in less than two years!

The American Way. Be born into a rich family.

OP--Be persistent in your quest to make a lot of money. People who are successful generally keep plugging away at whatever they are trying to accomplish until it gets done. That may take years of grinding. Most people are not willing to work that hard.

People may question you, they may doubt you, they may underestimate you. That doesn't matter. What they think is irrelevant. You have to have a different mindset than the typical sheep that is constantly broke and makes no moves. Having the same mindset as them will get you the same results as them. You want to think and act like a successful person until you become one.

Trust me on this, I've grinded hard in life, many people have underestimated me and doubted me, and then they either revere me or are jealous because I've made it. The whole time I just believed in myself and stuck with my plan. I was stubborn to be successful and the hard work paid off. Good luck to you.

B- wrote:

What are some jobs that a guy of average intelligence can make a lot of money?

I went to college and I'm not an idiot, but I'm not smart enough to work at Google or be a doctor. I am in IT and make $75K. I would like to make $200K. I have a friend who isn't that smart and he made a ton in real estate. What are some other ways to do it?

Own a running website

Do like the Trumps do. Pull your pants down. Grab your knees. Squeal in Delight!

Stop White Supremacy Anti-Semitism Islamophobia wrote:

Do like the Trumps do. Pull your pants down. Grab your knees. Squeal in Delight!

Or eat d!cks like you?