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am in my first year of college and feel like I am being pressured into taking classes I am not sure I want to take. I really don t know what I want to do with the rest of my life, but I know I want to be in college and working towards a better future for me and my son. My question is this..aside from being a Dr, attorney, nurse or anything else in the medical field, what can I do that will make a substantial amount of money? I really want to do somehting that helps people. I thought about going into teaching, but that does not pay well. The pay for a social worker is a joke. I want to be making around 200,000+ a year. I intend on spending a lot of time in school to work towards this. I def. plan to earn my MBA and possibly my PH D. I just do not know for sure what I want to do and what will provide me with the income I want and the time with my family I need. I am also trying to look into a career that will allow me to work from home sometimes. My family is the most important thing in the world to me and I dont want to miss my kids growing up because I am in an office all the time or always working late. Does anyone know what I can major in that is basically an open door to anything I may want to do? The only things I am not open to are medical field jobs and finance jobs. Serious answers only please!|::::|Sorry but there are people who will have the same degree as you and they will be willing to put work before family. Any job that pays 100k plus is going to require a lot of education and time. There are plenty of jobs in business that pay a lot but count on a 55+ hour work week once you reach the senior executive or partner level. I have several people in my family that earn the salary you seek but they all work a lot. I have to say though there are some jobs in healthcare that pay that much without a lot of work. Nurse practitioners earn 100k plus and work around 40 hours a week. Pharmacists make 100k plus and work around 40. The other person who thinks lawyers have a nice workweek have you ever known an attorney? Law school alone is 70 hours a week. In the workforce as an attorney you can count on working 60+ hour weeks if you want the big buxx! Some plumbers I know make around 100k and work 50 hours a week. You can t have it both ways! Sorry but there are no easy jobs that pay 100k+|::::|Nuclear physicist Astronaut Investment banking IT Chemical engineer Uranium mining Architect With you having a child already, you better do some testing, have some career counselling so you are not just putting in time, taking classes for nothing. Any career, especially with your high renumeration expectations, is going to totally take you away from a family. That s the tradeoff. So, you have some choices to make.|::::|I think you re ultimately going to need to choose between money, helping people, and family. Aside from a few quot;talentquot; jobs such as A-list actors, very few make the kind of money (in today s dollars) you ve targeted, even among those that are focused entirely on that. A two-income family might reach that, or single-income, with one spouse in one of the fields that you don t like. For instance, you could be a doctor s wife. If family is the most important thing to you, then that would let you spend all your time with the family. And you could do volunteer work, or part-time social work, to fulfill your desire to help, if that s really what you want. But you would set aside the idea of achieving the finances independently.|::::|geez, ur askin for alot, do ur own homework|::::|try your shot at business. owning your own business lets you leave anytime you want and depending on the size of your business it can make you lots of dough.|::::|Sorry, I m getting my PhD, and I know very few PhDs making that much money. All the people making over 200k a year are working far too much to enjoy it (doctors, mostly). Lawyer is probably your best bet - not as much school as a doctor or PhD, and if you get the right job you can make a ton of money without having to work much overtime.|::::|200000 a year is way to much go for 100000 thats enough for a good living