How much are/were you making at your slowlane job?

[Valier]

Age 19

Working two jobs, one that pays £9.69 an hour. Another that pays £8.23 an hour. Working 7 days a week.

It ain't much, but it's honest work (;

On a more serious note, I aim on getting just one job that pays better than those two combined in January. And more importantly, I spend my free time working on building a fastlane business.

 

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[Scot]

I’m on track to make $120k this year as a pharmaceutical rep.

Job is mind numbing, the sales tracking/quotas are made up BS, but it pays the bills and gave me the idea for my current business. And it gives me a lot of free time to work on the business.

If anyone cares, $73k salary plus ~$50k commission.

 

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[Tubs]

Age 21
Making $15/hr as a bank teller.
Nothing amazing but it pays the bills while I work on building my fastlane.

 

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[biophase]

At 26 I was making $43k a year, or $22/hr.

 

[BellaPippin]

55k as of last week, property tax analyst. Started at 20k as a bank teller 5 years ago. Not bad, I'm proud of myself career-move wise, just changed jobs three times to get here and don't even have a degree (just got an associates which I finished this year). Now I've got tons of disposable income to save for my first property and start the new decade on track to my fastlane LIKE A BAWS ***Go ME 2020*** <3

 

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[Thirty&Free]

Currently 27 making $115k /yr at an insurance company. The walls are closing in more each day

 

[Real Deal Denver]

Age 46

$75k a year working in IT.

Made several swings at the fastlane that have not gone Fastlane as of yet. I struggle more with ideas and traction than planning and execution.

I might be able to help you a bit, as I am exactly the opposite. I have ideas I'm literally wading through, hip deep.

I want two biz ventures that can easily expand - require no rented office space - and I can delegate all the work out. Sound impossible?

Here are two that you can start this week. Your IT experience should allow you to launch these big time. Promoting is the name of the game. Do that well, and you can sell ice cubes to Eskimos.

First. I like this one because the demand and market is so damn huge. And it's an easy job.

Commercial cleaning. It's done after hours. Easy to master. Constant demand. Easy to delegate. Repeat steady business. Easy to grow. Ease into it with carpet steam cleaning. Add the whole cleaning package. Manage snacks and coffee as an option. Make it impossible for them to say no. Sheeet man - what a biz this could be. But does anyone do all of that now? No. Why not? They don't think like a marketer.

Second. I like this one because it's like owning an ATM machine. Takes some skill, but the sky is the limit here.

Leads. Create social marketing and SEO for customers using YOUR resources - i.e. your website. You own the matrix of what makes the money. Then you sell the leads. Other companies are doing this, but not all that well. Think; Angie's List, Yelp, Home Advisor, Yellow Pages. They try to mass market though. And their methods suck. I know - I've tried them. Do one on one with high paying services, like Medical, Dental, Vacation Packages. The list is endless. I go through a company that plans vacations - Apple Travel. I've had bad experiences without them, and I've had great experiences with them - so with them I go. They don't slap things together - they do a really good job, even though they are the middleman and don't do the work themselves.

Some do this and call it digital marketing. This better because it's ongoing and you own the network. Some business don't want the whole set-up. They want to pay for the results and have you manage/do it.

In fact, I can't think of a business that DOESN'T need superior marketing. And so many of them do an absolute crap job of it that it's embarrassing.

@Johnny boy does one of the basic things in biz - lawn mowing. And he's taken it to a whole different level.

Here's another one - Limo drivers! Oh wait...

 

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[NursingTn]

35-38 bucks an hour.

A job is a mean to an end for me.

I, for one, know how crappy it is to work on a business without a consistent source of income outside of the business.

I, for one, am thankful my two jobs are on a as needed basis in a highly demand medical area, so I usually do not lack work to get paid.

I, for one, am glad that being an entrepreneur is wholly dependent on making a positive impact on the world and all I need to do is put a price tag on it so I can get paid making a difference.

 

[TKDTyler]

28yr @ ~300k/years as a lead engineer in the Silicon Valley. Fortunately, it is in a very fascinating field where I’m growing and learning a ton on someone else’s dime - doesn’t stop my business from running in the back either.

 

[Real Deal Denver]

I was making about 35 per hour at age 26 in the medical industry last year, I quit and never looked back.

I'd have a hard time walking away from that "back in the day." 20 years ago I was busting my a$$ trying to get to $13.00 an hour. Never happened. That was just toooo much money. Keep the little people down! I tried to get on with IBM for $20 full time (was not full time, so I had no benefits, of course - but a lot of hope!), but they knew how to play people. They knew I had a family and would take whatever they gave me. And that's how that went - exactly. Screw em. I couldn't afford a decent car even - used to buy cheap ones and fix them up. You don't have to say it...

Stupid. Don't have to slap me or kick me down - I do it just fine all by myself.

I could make $40 an hour now doing easy work, but I'm burnt out. I'm an appraiser. But that job has been gutted so bad it's a one way street to a dead-end that will suck the life out of you. I know, because it has.

My Plan B (on the way to C, D, and E!) is to make $27K a month. It sounds impossible, but I know many people doing twice that. Real estate agent. 3 homes a month. Not impossible by any means. Competitive market though. I have 20+ years of experience, so I am not entering this as a newcomer by any means.

Stupid me. IBM could have had me for $20 an hour and I would have been king of the world! I set records in that biz (system administrator). Got awards up the wazoo. Thought that was the big time. Ha!

OW - slapped me again - just for good measure!

Fascinating thread. I hate when people won't discuss pay. It's no big thing, especially since we have Google... but to some - it's taboo. Screw them too...

 

[ravenspear]

about $300-$400/hr equivalent

Still wasn't enough to convince me to stay in the slowlane.

 

[evgeney]

I’m just curious.

Currently 26 years old, $37/hr now. But have potential to work overtime for times a half.

I was making about 35 per hour at age 26 in the medical industry last year, I quit and never looked back.

 

[arl]

Currently making € 44k a year at 29. Not great by any means but I'm able to save most of my paycheck for my future fastlane endeavours

 

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[Dark Knight]

23 years old
24 PLN / hr = 6 USD / hr

I work in Poland and this is a little more than the average salary in Poland .. Earnings are 4 times less than in the US for the same work. I work in an insurance company.

 

[Yoda]

At peak earning, I was pulling about $55/hr. if you're including benefits, etc.

I'm probably getting closer to 10x the hourly if I were to break down my business income to hourly, working about the same hours (though, I don't). No benefits, of course.

 

[minivanman]

Under $6 an hour. Heck, I worked 120 hours a WEEK @ $5.15 an hour, rode my bicycle to work through 3 blizzards and was damn happy to do it. lmao Looking back, I wouldn't change a thing because if I did, I would not be where I am today and if I was not where I am today.... life would SUCK!!! Livin the dream thanks to those times.

 

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[DeletedUser0287]

I’m just curious.

Currently 26 years old, $37/hr now. But have potential to work overtime for times a half.

 

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[Pink Sheep]

Im 25, currently making $27/hr in Norway.

Not great, typical lower middle class wage. Plenty enough to start my fastlane business and outsource a lot of the technical work.

 

[Abrodos]

I'm 30. At my school teacher job, I'm making about 13-15€/hour (fixed by the government).
With my art commissions, I've been trying for a couple years to set a 20€ hourly rate, even though I still get my fingers burned every now and then, due to budget miscalculations.
I'm now aiming to raise my sculptor hourly wage to 25 for my previous clients and to 80-100 for new ones. That needs a huge business shift.

I've been making a slow-lane small salary from it during the first half of the year,(about 1000 monthly from art commissions + 700 from teaching) but there has been no income from either of the jobs during summer, so the monthly average will go down from 1700 to about 1200 at the end of the year.

However, the summer no-income period was far from unproductive, as it was when I read Unscripted and started the CENTS venture.

Also, I was obsessing a lot over that income decrease, and it had an effect in my health (anxiety and recurring headaches), so I try to take it calmer now. If stuff takes a bit longer than expected, that's ok. If the CENTS business doesn't start yielding before Christmas and has to be postponed a few months because new challenges arise (I didn't even know about copywriting until a couple months ago), that's ok as well.
The important is that I'm woking towards the goals, and that there's a lot of actual progress going on.

 

[James Klymus]

$36k a year delivering food for a restaurant

 

[Val Okafor]

Software Engineer - $140K base (not that much in California). Still, in the slow lane, have a self-imposed deadline to transition to the fast lane in 2020.

 

[Ronin365]

Age 46

$75k a year working in IT.

Made several swings at the fastlane that have not gone fastlane as of yet. I struggle more with ideas and traction than planning and execution.

 

[Pinnacle]

I never made even $40k/yr until I started a business on the side.

Far too much work involved to get incremental (and negligible) raises when I can increase my income exponentially by getting more sales for my business.

 

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[MattR82]

Oil and gas construction. About 170k USD. Works out about 80 per hour.

Couldn't wait to get out of there. Not often physically difficult, mostly machines, but it was like being in jail.

 

[Mixwell]

34 years old here. Work in Hong Kong at a large U.S.-based financial services firm earning ~$180k (tax adjusted for low HK tax rates ~$250k in the major U.S. city where I previously worked). Struggle daily with the large corporate bureaucracy and those who define themselves by slowlane attributes. Working on a fastlane exit in next two years.

 

[Timmy C]

31 years old, making $100,000 a year as a prison officer.
Making about $15,000 a year from my business aswell.

It's not enough, especially after this inflation and COL increases.

FYI I'm Australian, cost of living a bit more than USA.

 

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[Guest-5ty5s4]

30 years old, I make $24.03 an hour working full time as a buyer for an eyecare company.
It's work from home but I live in California so most of my paycheck goes to rent and bills. Unfortunately it has gotten to the point where I may need to pick up a second job in order to properly save for anything else worth pursuing.

I feel very stuck without a degree or meaningful connections and don't know if my current role really has any growth opportunities after being here 2 years. Seems pretty well known across the company that we're all paid below "industry standard".

Sounds like you probably live in one of the most expensive places in the country. You could either move somewhere else to get saving more or you could use the expensiveness to your advantage and start your business now and charge more. Even something like cleaning gutters can be highly lucrative around cities like LA, San Fran etc

In a business like that you could set your rates up to make at least $100 per hour. And you don’t have to do that forever, either...

 

[EmotionEngine]

I am over $40 an hour and just got a 15% raise. "Instant amnesia" like that line in Unscripted . I know I'll have to leave that fake comfort soon.

(I was making less than $24 an hour pre-2020)

 

[fastlane_dad]

Last time I had a 'job' with a paycheck was 2007, exactly 15 years ago...working as an engineer @ $23.50 an hour (about 47K a year)! I lasted all of 2 years working 'full time' in the slowlane.

It was good money for the time, let me save quite a bit, buy all the toys / clothes / alcohol and travel I wanted (for the time) and gave me resources needed to focus and build up the beginnings of my fastlane business.

I quit that lovely July afternoon to take a month off traveling Europe and never looked back!!

 

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[Ocean Man]

21, Contract Software Developer making $20/H. Note, I’m the only developer at this company of 35. As such, I do all the developing myself, get some assistance here and there when I have a question for friends. But otherwise solo developing, everything from making edits to our online storefront to working on in-house software.

I can’t believe I used to work 10-12 hour days everyday because “I believed in the mission statement” and I wanted equity at the time since it was much smaller back then. Thinking if I work longer hours and show more results I’d get a piece of the pie.

Nowadays the only time I work that long is if I have important projects and strict deadlines. As I do right now.

Nowadays, I see it only as a job and not me trying to get equity in the company. Definitely trying to get my own thing started.

Should be roughly $41,600 a year, plus or minus overtime.