Best Career Options (5 Best Jobs that Will Make You the Most Money)

Are you looking to find out which are the best career options at present for you? Look no further, we at GrowthAdvisor will help you to find out the best jobs that you are looking for.

In this post, we’ve compared the 5 best career options that can make you up to $100,000 in salary and up to $200K in Employee Stock Options (in 10 years).

A career is a long-term game. Consider this:

A job is a way to make money now.
A career is a series of jobs to make money now and much money later.

To achieve the goal of getting the highest paid jobs or need a smart strategy, the discipline to follow it, and lots of patience.

But that doesn’t mean that you’ll need a special degree or be skilled in one area—like a lawyer, a surgeon or a pilot. There are many careers that can make you money while you sleep—through the ownership of the company’s equity.

What does this mean and why is it important?

Because if you’re only after a job, you don’t think long-term and might switch jobs within a year.

But if you’re after a career, you’ll stay at one job for at least 4-5 years to take advantage of the company’s equity ownership through Employee Stock Options.

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Want to know how much in equity you can make? Just enter any company’s name in GrowthAdvisor and watch it crunch the numbers. More on how to maximize your earnings later.

5 Best Career Options :

Operations Manager
Sales Manager
Project Manager
Marketing Manager
Software Engineer

Think of your overall compensation as a building. Your company is the foundation. Whereas your salary is on the 1st floor. Your bonus is on the 2nd floor. And your Employee Stock Options are the top floors. The stronger the foundation, the more floors it can support. The stronger the company, the more money you can make from your options. Use GrowthAdvisor to see how much.

1. Operations Manager

We have put Operations Manager as the first on the list of best career options because we feel that it is probably the easiest of rest in the list. But it’s also the one that requires the candidate to be most disciplined.

Operations Management has different dimensions to it as can be found here.

It speaks for itself. If you can help the company run its operations smoothly, the company will reward you.

A company is a complicated machine. Can you run this machine and oversee every one of its parts? Can you spot problems before they arise and fix them?

You don’t need a college degree to do this. But you do need an impeccable work ethic, an iron discipline, and people skills. Because you’ll have to talk to a lot of people and to keep them all happy, no matter what happens.

Sounds like you?

Here are three steps to get started.

Step #1. Responsibilities

Check the typical Operations Manager’s responsibilities to see if you can do it. Or if you can learn how to do it. Google “Operations manager responsibilities” and read descriptions.

We’ve summarized the typical responsibilities for you:

Responsibilities:

Lead and supervise teams;
Praise, reward, and train employees;
Mentor new employees for career growth;
Monitor business performance, product quality, and customer experience;
Meet and exceed the company’s operational goals;
Plan winning strategies and forecast potential problems;
Create and communicate best business practices across all departments;
Champion improvement and weather challenges in a fast-paced work environment;

Step #2. Salary

Google the Operations Manager salary range. Type in, “Operations manager salary.”

Salary range: $46K — $140K

Step #3. Companies

Check the companies that are looking for Operations Managers on sites like LinkedIn or Glassdoor. Then make a list of those companies.

Step #4. Stock Options

Enter companies into GrowthAdvisor and see how much you can make at each in stock options.

Stock options’ earnings: $16K — $188K

Now you’re ready to make a decision.

Use these tips to decide if the Operations Manager career is for you:

Take time to think. A career is a long-term commitment. Are you sure this is the one?
Make your own decision. Listen to people’s advice, but only if it’s helpful. It’s your life that will take a chunk out of it. All these working years. So you’re the one who has to make the final decision.
Imagine success. What would the perfect ending to your career look like? Is this what you want from your life? Then go for it.
Ask for help. If you’re struggling with the final decision, ask for help someone whom you trust. It has to be a person who always uplifts you. Someone who always makes you happy.
Allow yourself to fail. Mistakes are the best teachers. Unfortunately, the thrill of making mistakes has been schooled out of most of us. The school punished you for making mistakes by giving you bad grades. Real-life will reward you for making mistakes by teaching you. So remember. If all goes bad, you didn’t fail. You learned something to get you closer to success.

2. Sales Manager

Sales Manager is in no.2 in our best career options list because it is one of those best jobs where your words alone can generate money. If for Operations you need some knowledge of business, for Sales you can get away with having only your enthusiasm and drive.

If you’re not afraid of rejection and love talking to people, then sales might be just your ticket.

Every company needs salespeople. Because every company needs to make sales. That makes a Sales Manager position bulletproof. You’ll always be able to find work.

You could be a high-school dropout. All that matters is, can you sell? If you can, you’re golden. If you can’t or have never done it before, can you learn? Do you have enough discipline? Enough drive to succeed even when you don’t feel like selling?

If your answer is yes, go for Sales.

Here are three steps to get started.