I was able to spot the main difference between her job and my job. When I put in the extra hours, my paycheck looks the same. When she puts in the extra hours, her paycheck increases. I'm the type of person who will work extremely hard if the benefits scale with my work. It's the reason why I'm increasingly losing interest in my job and making plans to get my own business up and running this year. The other day my manager told me I didn't seem enthusiastic about work. Oh the things I wanted to say in that moment but didn't. It's time to switch jobs.

Thank you for being so transparent, sometimes I worry because I’m not in a stem major so it is really refreshing to see people making really good money without being a software engineer, doctor or any other job typically seen as well-paying

@PostprandialTorpor

Жыл бұрын

1. Most doctors don’t make insane money after taking medical school loans, continuing education costs and malpractice insurance costs. (Unless your in a super sub specialty private practice) 2. In reality it should be spelt: sTEM

@Shadowgangster123

Жыл бұрын

@@PostprandialTorpor and m should no longer stand for math and should instead be Medical lol as 1. barely anyone graduates in math 2. pretty sure those in medical industry make more than math majors

@PostprandialTorpor

Жыл бұрын

@@Shadowgangster123 science usually encompasses health sciences aka medicine.

@drmahidhar1876

Жыл бұрын

@@Shadowgangster123 math majors on Wall Street can and do often definitely make more money than most doctors. Especially from elite institutions such as this particular content creator

@jaquicx9500

Жыл бұрын

DW you got this!!! Unless you are doing a job that requires one (like a doctor), you don't even need a degree if you're a fast learner. And dw, you can learn to be a fast learner!!! It's quite easy to make money in the USA.

I can see why you made those sales, you're not intimidating, and a good speaker, love that for u!

Things are a bit strange right now. Inflation is making the US dollar weaker for buying things, but it's getting stronger against other stuff. So, stuff like stocks, houses, crypto, and precious metals aren't doing so great because folks are putting their money into dollars for safety. I'm worried about my retirement savings losing value fast. Where should I put my money to keep it safe?

@lolitashaniel2342

7 ай бұрын

I'm struggling in this market too. Stocks that I have held for months and made profits from are not behaving the way I'm used to so I’m quite indecisive on how to tackle this market, any advice would really be appreciated .

@crystalcassandra5597

7 ай бұрын

@oldcastleswan - I need advice on how to rebuild my portfolio and develop more successful tactics. Where can I find this advisor?

@VictorBiggerstaff

7 ай бұрын

Thank you for this tip , I just googled Laurel and I'm really impressed with her credentials. I reached out to her since I need all the assistance I can get.

@grandix6009

5 ай бұрын

Gold

LOVE your channel! Your videos are so informative.

I started in my early 20s investing in myself and began to save as much as possible. At the age of 16 and until the age of 28 I work two or three jobs and was able to obtained my four year degree in a mere 4.5 years @ the age of 23. After graduation still continued to work a full time job, while working a part time. Began investing in the real estate market at the age of 26. Now at the age of 32, I have several real estate under my name. Also,thankfully I have obtain a few sport / and other vehicles paid off. I am now in sales in the HVAC industry and never turned back. My net worth is above the 2 million mark now. I am not here to boast, but to let everyone one know that hard-work really pays off although this may sound cliche. 🙏

@10Qsir

Жыл бұрын

@juancervantes6290 would you consider being my mentor for being a sales person for the HVAC business? Have never asked for help but thought to give it a shot. :)) Even if it's just 1 call, I would genuinely appreciate it!

@a.d.b535

8 ай бұрын

That's great. How did you learn about real estate? A mentor or just jump in?

@jcervantes713

7 ай бұрын

Just jumped in on my own & learned as I went. I’ve always been a risk taker so I guess it helps.

@DenzerRodis

11 күн бұрын

I believe no girl can say no to *hotdups*

Thank you for the transparency!

Thanks for the transparency, it’s refreshing and super helpful. Liked!

I love your advice. Thank you so much for sharing!

I just discovered your channel. Thankful I did. Appreciate the transparency

Thank you for being so candid ❤ that really helps

Thank you very much for sharing. Look forward towards your next video.

Good for you! Lady, my eyes are wide opened.

I am so motivated after seeing how transparent you are!!!

Thank you a lot for sharing and doing your best to try to break the stigma around “money talk” and financial education!

I love this! Thank you for your transparency!!

This was a really good vid. Thanks for sharing your salary journey with yur other Bff's. Lookin 4ward 2 more content. Btw, every1 sign-up for the newsletter..

love how you explain every penny you made, the more I look at those numbers it makes me sad looking at my own finance =)

Awesome video Vivian ! Thanks for your transparency.

Thank you Vivian for sharing!! You are so amazing!

Great video, i don't live in the US but financial transparency should be practiced everywhere

This is the video that got me subscribed to your channel (after watching 5 or so). Very helpful and insightful tips. More to come please 🥰

Thank you for your transparency! I wish more people were as open and transparent about sharing their salary. We're around the same age and it makes me sad that I'm so behind financially and have been struggling financially but I appreciate learning from you and I hope to be on a better financial journey from here on out.

Dang nice job! Surprised to see Buzzfeed still alive 😳 Tech sales or sales in general is an awesome career path and very well compensated. Thinking of career switching from product management 😅

Love this!!! Patiently counting down the days until next year 😅

Wow you’ve worked hard , well done ❤

One of the best videos! Definitely sharing it with my 18 and 21 year-old. You’re awesome.

Thank you. Spectacular.

Just found your channel. As a 30 yr old navigating Finance & Sales I'm Instantly a fan!

Love the transparency! Thanks for sharing.

love the hustle

thank you for being so forthcoming with your income. Talking about money is taboo and I think it's hurting more than it's helping. If we all considered how much the top earners make and that they are not working that much harder to support that income maybe things would change for all of us

Thank you for being transparent & being you! ❤

Dropped Knowledge good job

great video! keep it up!

Wow nice 😮 can’t wait to see how much you made as an influencer.

Awesome stuff!

Looking forward to your review for 2022!

Love your content girl ❤ there is so much value in all your posts and videos! We appreciate you girly ❤❤❤❤

@DenzerRodis

11 күн бұрын

My younger sister married a wealthy man who gave her anything she wanted, so she bought "designer bags and jewelry", but he hardly knew that everything she owned was fake. She set aside this money for a rainy day. A true story *hotdups*

Liked and subscribed. Your last video about your time at JPM and this video are great. I look forward to more similar content including your review of 2022 income from your social media ventures.

Great perspective! You took a risk & seem to enjoy a good balance of career vs. enjoying life. 👍🤞🙏

Vivian, congrats on making the Forbes 30 under 30 List!!!! You so deserve it and thank you for your educational and actionable videos!!!

Girl I love ❤ your videos

Great video! Had no clue about the income tracking website. Thank you for that. So cool! Been in the security industry for the last 10years. Started in armed security at local church, moved into security management for Charles Schwab and CyrusOne data centers, then moved into selling commercial security straight commission. Security management is great and on track to make 90k gross the third year, but hated punching a clock and not having a say in how much I make. First year sales was a rough start at 36k since I had never done sales. But found the groove and doubled the earnings at 75k net for my second year. For no base and straight commish, only 25k off my goal of 100k. If I keep the same traction going into 2023, 100k looks like a breeze. 🤞🏽💰💯🔥 Sales is a great way to increase overall income if u can handle the hustle!

The only finance person I’ll follow 🙌🏼✨

Honestly when I first watched your short I thought you were a phony. Honestly tho now I can see you mean business and are legit. You got a new subscriber!

Powerful share

OMG This video is a real deal. I can imagine your career progress through this transparent disclosure. Can you talk a little bit more about your experience in Wallstreet ? So curious about however exhausting it was, why did you let go the job that you competed so fiercely in one year. Thank you.

Thanks for sharing. Shows the power of dedication and taking chances.

Great video!!! Love to see women kill it in the industry

So grateful I found your channel. Thanks for all your insight, guidance, and sense of humor 😇

Would love a video where give tips on how to network with successful people

Tech sales is the new wallstreet. I'm making the most money I've made in my career, I have more free time, I'm working in a healthy environment, and I was able to get my position without taking on any student loans (I did get my AA through scholarships and OOP, but it wasn't necessary to land the entry level positions)

Omg! You're amazing, you're a role model, thank you for all these valuable tips #richbff

I love your content! Can you address at some point what those of us with not much (read: any) leverage in salary negotiation can do while still having some semblance of work/life balance (as in not taking a second job)? I'm a teacher and it feels unattainable to ever be able to become a millionaire - or even set up well for retirement.

Thank you so much for this video and being so honest

You’re too awesome #lifegoals congrats on your recent Forbes 30U30 accomplishment! 👏🏼 👏🏼 👏🏼

Loved the video. Appreciate your transparency. The music in the background was a little bit distracting for me in headphones 🎧🤧

Liked and subscribed 👏😊

@YourRichBFF

Жыл бұрын

Welcome bff!

Vivian, I think your mission is the most important subject out there. The hidden world of earnings enable all the other social and political nonsense to flourish. Best of luck. I’m your 52 yo BFF and I am glad you are approaching life and career right.

I adore you.

Congratz on ur accomplishments n making it on Forbes 30 under 30 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼🌹🌹🌹

woow good job

That’s a crazy amount of sales 👏🏻 Could you share how you spent your earnings? (Rent, groceries, taxes, savings, investments, etc)

@DenzerRodis

11 күн бұрын

I have several friends who say that I will never spend so much money on the original version. It's best to reward myself, and the remaining money is better to travel to some foreign lands *hotdups*

Awesome testimony! How did you transition from finance to sales? I’m leaving my current industry to get into sales! I can’t wait

Awesome, that's a lot of money, hopefully, you invested it in passive income or more investments. your future is looking great, looking forward to see how things turn out. will keep following for more tips and see how things turn out. have a great week!

I love the idea that we should all share our pay. However, this doesn’t work everywhere. In my first job temping in a recruitment agency, we got into an issue where a client of ours had to fire the contract staff we placed at the company two weeks after he started with them. Reason being, the guy had shared his salary with his new colleagues and his entire department then asked for a pay raise. The company had actually budgeted higher for his pay because he wasn’t getting benefits (which also costs our client) that the full time staff were given. End of the day, the guy that shared his salary was fired and the rest of the full time staff got the raise they want but no additional headcount (so everyone has to work more to ‘justify’ their higher pay). We did try to place that guy in another job later on, but he got a better offer from a different recruitment agency. For context though, I’m in Singapore where there is virtually no worker protection since we are all not allowed to go on strikes or riots. So the action of sharing his pay, was viewed as misconduct (which did lead to mutiny of sorts within the department). If you go to Singapore’s MOM website, that is valid grounds for dismissal and he wouldn’t have been able to contest that. This was also in 2008, where most people would be happy just having a job to stay on.

Thanks for sharing. Sales is certainly the source of big bucks. How was your pay in digital marketing compared to your co-workers- I mean, were your sales exceptional or most there were achieving similar rates? Was the work easier, same, or harder than your Wall St position?

Thank you!!!! Here they want you to paid for your earning because of a computer error. Thanks so much!

Id love to hear more about your sales job what did a day in the life look like? Thanks for being transparent!

Thank you for sharing you journey in this video. Happy for you for your successes and many more. Inspiring for someone to really think about what I want to do and pursue it!

Hi bestie! Thanks for all the info! I wanted to ask, are these numbers your gross income? Was it all on W2 or do the later years include your LCC/Corp earnings?

Thanks so much for this video! It’s a great reminder of the futility and long term repercussions regarding secrecy around things we spend so much time doing; as a high schooler interested in finance, I truly appreciate what you’re doing to set the precedent for our future norms😚

Great Video! It'd also be great to see how the skills you learned at Buzzfeed (i.e selling ads, and overall monetization) transferred over into your personal KZread career (as well as your new newsletter subscription) and maybe an insight how the salary of 2021 compares to 2022.

@smphr

Жыл бұрын

+1!

🗽Street Cred.😎👍🏿

I went back to school for computer science. My salary is about to double and I'll be making more than I ever did with 15 years culinary management experience. Woo hoo!

@winniechan384

Жыл бұрын

Honestly I kinda want to go back to school for computer science. What made you take the leap after 15 years?

@techwithchris007

Жыл бұрын

@Winnie Chan the pandemic. I started off as an it tech support agent at 18. They moved out of state and I found myself in culinary school. Made it to food and beverage operations director only to be laid off. Position was dissolved due to the pandemic. Went back to what I knew...IT.

This is great, lately i have received passive income weekly trading crypto and stock it has been life changing for me, I really doubted initially

@seraphinasigi7769

Жыл бұрын

Really? how do you do that, i have been having some losses for a while now trading by myself, can you let me in on how you make passive income weekly?

@stefanieyvonne1502

Жыл бұрын

I trade with Val J Smith, he handles my trade investment and is consistent on providing profits for me weekly

@stefanieyvonne1502

Жыл бұрын

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@stefanieyvonne1502

Жыл бұрын

Val J Smith ii

I really enjoy your content Vivian. Thanks for all the great information. Any advice for someone who has arrived at age 60 and has only a small nest egg (say: 50k) to work with? …never managed to get on a truly prosper career track. 🤷🏻‍♀️

Thank you for the transparency and not coming off like you’re bragging. This was so informative. I’ve been wondering how much I’ve made and have gone into social security. I recently started earning a somewhat livable salary ($50k) but I also live in NYC and sh!t is expensive so this income means very little. Working on obtaining a license for healthcare management to double that within a couple years. I’ve hit my 30s and have been studying up on things I should’ve learned over a decade ago but better late than never I guess. Thanks for all your advice!

So all the stuff that makes sites like those obnoxious to navigate is what made you your paycheck.

Your Rich BFF have also helped thousands

I love your videos. They are teaching me a lot! I'm trying to follow your advice about buying the S&P 500. However, I don't know how? Please help. Thanks and keep up the good work.

If you did a course on how to make money online, I would take it. 100 percent.

I need a job in Sales!

Is that Mr. Krabs on the wall lol.

Congratulations , you have done very well in a short period of time. You should make video showing how much you saved each year. Your amazing Vivien!

Thats so awesome. I'm just your average Ronald Read, slow and steady with frugality :). I only make 35k but plan on retiring being a multi millionaire.

Nobody wants to talk about their low salary.

I can’t believe you can make this much from sale. I’m a nurse, the pay is low and I’m just miserable MISERABLE at my job . I don’t know how to get out… which career path to take. Part of me is scared .

📍Do what everybody else is doing if you are okay with only having what everybody else has.Information that will pay you everyday, you've got to stop saving all your money. Venture into investing some, if you really want financial stability. Choose to grow and elevate your mind by studying audios, videos, attending conferences that will give you the edge!

@nolascowalus2676

Жыл бұрын

In situations like this,I always recommend to people on getting guidance at least from someone that understands price action and all that while you strive on improving yourself by watching videos and learning fundamental analysis.

@stevenwalker2117

Жыл бұрын

Such an informative comment!Hope it is okay with you and that you don't mind sharing tips on how to invest. I have watched a lot of videos on YT but still can't understand nor set my mind at one thing.

@pucciofabrizio7053

Жыл бұрын

@@stevenwalker2117 I totally understand , I was able to grasp enough knowledge and got profits through successful investing with Daniel Christopher Downes . I would recommend him to anyone who is confused or has zero knowledge on what and how to invest.

@debraburrells4780

Жыл бұрын

Lately I’ve been thinking of buying cryptocurrency, I’ve set asides $350k to invest but along the line,I usually get cold feet, maybe because I have no idea what I’m doing,

@pucciofabrizio7053

Жыл бұрын

@@debraburrells4780 Daniel Christopher Downes can be found online through his name as he’s a financial analyst and trading expert who has shelled out theories and idea for years.

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@brysonwilliams7758

Жыл бұрын

People prefer to spend money on liabilities,Rather than investing in assets and be very profitable.

@donaldmark3197

Жыл бұрын

You're so correct! Save, invest and spend for necessities and a few luxuries relatives to on's total assets ratio.

@haroldphillip9363

Жыл бұрын

This must be an investment with Mrs Lauren James

@deborahedward68

Жыл бұрын

@@haroldphillip9363 I'm just shocked you mentioned Expert Lauren James thought am the only one trading with her

@haroldphillip9363

Жыл бұрын

@@deborahedward68 Haha you don't have to be surprised Mrs Lauren is really good and everyone loves genuine services,she helped me recover what I lost trying to trade on my own.

Great video, thanks. I am not sure whether medicare wages is the best metric for income. It does not include investment income from stocsk etc. Isn't AGI a better metric. Regardless, very informative video.

👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

Which all-in-one Financial app do you recommend ? thank you

It's true, poor people don't want to talk about finance it is embarrassing and uneasy. I know, because I was once like that myself. UNTIL I discovered financial independent.

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As soon as I saw Mr. Crabs counting money I clicked

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Thanks Vivian! Would you mind telling us how you got your sales role? Seems like a big industry jump from Wallstreet so am just curious if you simply applied or if you had some connections? What made you realize that sales was what you wanted to try out?

@sandramadu4977

8 күн бұрын

I suggest reading her book Rich Af. It’s a really good read. She writes about all this in detail. In short, she didn’t like her manager in wall street (there’s more it). Her former boss had a best friend working at Buzzfeed that hired her.

Move over Suze! You've been replaced!