Imagine your goal in life was simply to make as much money as possible. What should you do? According to data from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, you should become a doctor. https://qz.com/1601910/which-jobs-make-the-most-money/
I see "law teachers - post-secondary" is high in the standings for increased growth. I think that might be over-optimistic, given what we know of the dim prospects for many recent law grads and the troubles and sometimes closures affecting law schools. If my ambition was solely to make the most money possible (and it ISN'T), I'd try to join an organized criminal syndicate and do my best to move up in the ranks. But maybe I've just been reading too many Mafia books.
Maybe I'd do OK in loan-sharking. I was a bill-collector for most of the 30 years before I retired. Maybe I'd get to do all those violent things I wanted to do sometimes, at work - but couldn't, due to silly rules. I recently read something by a Mob turncoat - I think it was Jimmy "The Weasel" Fratianno - not sure. The book said doctors have quite a role in financing loan-sharks. Per Jimmy, a whole lot of doctors have big money they want to keep under the table, away from prying tax people's eyes. They invest it with mob loan-sharks and receive 1% per week interest. The sharks put the money out on the street for 5% a week and keep 4%. I figured it out - it would take around $800,000 invested in my Credit Union at today's low rates to make the current minimum-wage income from it, here in Ontario. ($14 an hour - $560 a 40-hr. week). Loansharking at 5% a week, it would take less than $12,000 in capital. Bonus - no taxes. Hey... I could DO this!
