Boring Money

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He Makes $185K/Year as an Electrician. I Told Him He Can Do $1M Next Year.

He Makes $185K/Year as an Electrician. I Told Him He Can Do $1M Next Year.8 sep1 u 14 min

Ron Butler spent eight years at one residential electrical company and didn't want to leave. He asked them to match a $100K offer he'd gotten elsewhere. They couldn't. He pitched them on starting a service department instead, four guys, he'd out-earn the whole shop. They didn't bite. So he took the other job.

Day one he walked into a branch running on chaos. Day two he called his CPA and asked whether $60 or $70K working for himself, after the tax treatment, would match the $100K. She said ...