How I got wealthy without working too hard
&gt; Take a $ 500-1000 &#x2F; day, full-remote job<p>&gt; Take 2 months for holidays in-between contracts<p>&gt; Do this for 7 years while investing most of your salary in a diversified portfolio.<p>Working $1000&#x2F;day contracts for 5 days per week, 10 months per year is equivalent to $217K of contractor income per year. But contractor income is not comparable to normal career income because you have to handle additional taxes and health insurance, so this is more like a $150K (plus or minus) full time job once you subtract self-employment taxes and pay for health insurance.<p>But that’s also assuming that the author stated out making $1000&#x2F;day, always made $1000&#x2F;day, and always had availability of these easy, low-effort, $1000&#x2F;day contracts whenever they wanted. Most people don’t start out contracting with an unlimited supply of contracts that pay exactly what they want.<p>Working a $150K job for 7 years isn’t really a recipe for getting “wealthy”. Even if you could reduce your expenses to below $25K per year (eg $1K&#x2F;month rent, $1K&#x2F;month for everything else) you might be able to save $100K of that annually after taxes. But that’s best case and you really have to compromise a lot to get there unless you really enjoy living in the middle of nowhere, never traveling, and none of your hobbies or interests cost any money.<p>So there’s a lot missing from this blog post. I suspect maybe the author got lucky with some outlier investments, but that’s not something that can be conveyed in a “how to” blog post.<p>FIRE type wealth trajectories are possible, but this isn’t what it looks like. Working normally-paid jobs for 7 years and just living your normal life doesn’t get you there (unless you luck into some 1000X investment somewhere or get a huge inheritance boost, but those are rarely mentioned).