My First $100K

My very first job, I made about $37,000 a year. And I climbed my way through a bunch of positions at Vanguard until I had a job where every call that I made and every increase in sales that I had led to more money for me. And the second that they told me that I couldn't earn more and that I couldn't be promoted, I started looking for new jobs. And then I went to Goldman Sachs. And at Goldman Sachs, I found a place where they paid you for performance to the maximum. And I kept working at Goldman Sachs until they wouldn't promote me. I went and found my next job at State Street. I looked at the top performer, I looked them in the eye, and I said, I'm going to do more than you. I continued to grind until I beat that person. And then I left State Street. When I finally wanted to get my own skin in the game and run part of my own company, and that took just about eight years, I was financially free, and I would never have to work for anybody ever again.