Do you know anybody, who's got rich by working no more than 40 hours/week?

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I don't.

I am long convinced that to become rich one has to work beyond 40 hours on the regular these days. Say like 60-80 hours/week and not limit themselves to 40 hours maximum. This is also under the condition not wagecucking for 12h/day on jobs like McDonalds or construction workers somewhere in high risk poverty driven countries or potato pickers in Russia.

Do you know anybody, whos got rich by working no more than 40 hours/week?

I believe doing 60-80h a week for some years will earn me enough to eventually buy a villa in Thailand or something.

Some will moan like "but your health!" or "but when freetime?" but my health is worse with limited income and i can't do anything on my freetime without money.

MrOracle · Accepted Answer

You can always find a one-in-a-million example of someone who managed to get very lucky doing something that required little time, but that's like thinking that winning the Lotto is a legit strategy for getting rich. While you shouldn't ignore important opportunities, you also should not build your life strategy around rare exceptions, but rather around the norm. In this case, the norm is that people who become wealthy virtually all do so by working 60-80 hours a week, for decades.

Note that this often comes with a price - relationships get strained, divorce rates are sky high, etc. Work-life balance goes out the window. But that's what it takes the vast majority of the time.

ChillaxingLove · Accepted Answer

Wrong. If you work for someone you will never be rich because you only have so much time in a day and the person you’re working for also will limit how much time you get and earn. And that is their view of how valuable you are to them. You are a consumer, you have to be a producer/ problem solver. Rich people are the content creators the problem solvers.

you on Facebook your consuming
your on YouTube your consuming
you buy a subscription your consuming
buy music your consuming
you go to the grocery store your consuming
You buy books and watch tv your consuming

All these things have a ceo that owns the things you consume. You must switch from being a consumer to producing.

Anonymous · Accepted Answer

I dont think its hard if you can save 50-75% of every check. Its just hard to keep it up. I couldn’t keep saving like that after so many years because I tend to be impulsive when shopping

Razp_Sorbet · Accepted Answer

What do you consider rich? Depending on where you live you can work 40 hr weeks and have plenty of money for living plus savings.

MzAsh · Answer

Most rich people work closer to 80 hours a week.

lightbulb27 · Answer

Generally its hard work and long hours.

I see people like this... I suspect it took OT to get there, but indicates it's minimal time a month.

https://gillianperkins.com/

however all of that is buying into a program that costs $ so that you can run your own program.

I've seen real estate investors do well quickly and over time, if they manage it right and as well realtors.

in general, it's going to take hard work to get to a place where you can milk the cow with low effort.

if it was so easy, everyone be filthy rich.

Sun_Kim-Ai · Answer

Well, me and some of our relatives, but that's because we live on inherited wealth...

My grandfather, who built it all, worked more than 40 hours a week and sometimes even got hospitalized for overworking.

So I think you can get rich without working 40 hours a week - you have to inherit, or hit a jackpot, o steal. Hell, even drug dealers and coke barons have to work to keep their empires up.

richardcory · Answer

Sometimes people get lucky, but even the lucky rich people usually worked hard to get there. But not always. Some were just in the right place at the right time.

Telekinetic-Potato · Answer

With few exceptions, at best it requires a significant amount of time in the beginning. Not even counting learning necessary knowledge for your goals.

WhyohWhy69 · Answer

I’d love to work more than 40. My boss won’t allow it, even though he swears up and down there’s plenty of work. Btw- I got very high reviews from him.

electromagnetic · Answer

I know a couple dealers that are hella loaded and they put in maybe.10, hrs of actual work

goaded · Answer

Yes, I do. Mostly, he leverages other people's work to make himself a handsome profit and spends most of his time on vacation.

exitseven · Answer

I know small business owners in construction and other things that are very wealthy. They all worked long hours and still do.

DryGermanGuy · Answer

You don't get rich by being an employee, anyway (apart from C-level top management)...

Astarlessnightsky · Answer

Most people i know become rich by being born into an already rich family.

Blurr090 · Answer

You're probably not going to ever get real rich by working a 9-5, no matter how many hours you work. Rich people usually do things like invest or start businesses.

jamesgoldman · Answer

No excluding enough money to invest and make passive income

Gabriel-Chicanito · Answer

My Father. Whom wz a gardener, then started working for the city; bought a Property ( apt. building ). Later bought MORE Properties, and's been rich since..

gagsfather · Answer

You can not get rich by working.

Anonymous · Answer

no i don't, actually

Guardian45 · Answer

Ya, any effen filthy rich person.

Anonymous · Answer

Paris Hilton, Kylie Jenner, Kendall Jenner

Agape93 · Answer

Nope

Do you know anybody, who's got rich by working no more than 40 hours/week?

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