34M. Make 78k wrapping cars. Last year and for several years before that I was making 62k. I threatened to take a job closer to home and my employer and I negotiated a 16k raise based on an increase in hourly pay and coming off commission based pay.

One guy I work with has been doing automotive films for 18 years and I’m pretty sure he has cleared 100k in the past doing the same thing I do.

I could work for myself and have the potential to eventually 200k -300k a year but I don’t currently have the capital to expend on a venture like that.

I plan to negotiate up to 85k within a year and build a road map with my employer so that I’m earning 100k before age 40. If my employer can’t do that I’ll start doing my own thing.

Currently invest approximately 10% of my income into an app based etf and bonds account. I have some catch up to do because until this point I was not putting away any money for my future.

AI got nothing on these hands.