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Here's what my realistic salary progression has looked like as a 24 year old Londoner who moved to the US with absolutely no plan. So my first job in the US I was making $16 an hour working at Best Buy. For those that don't know what Best Buy is, it's just an electronics department store. Very similar to Curry's PC World. I used to work in the TV department and after about a month my boss told me I sold the most TVs and gave me a raise of $17 an hour. My next job in the US I was making $20 per hour working in tech support. Man I hated this job so much I quit after 3 weeks. I walked out for lunch one day and I didn't come back. I was meant to be working as a tech support guy, but they had me doing warehouse work. I should have known when they gave me the job as soon as my interview ended. I then work various jobs in the $21 to $24 dollars per hour range. Security, delivery driving. While I'm working at these jobs, I'm also applying for tech positions and electrical roles that are gonna pay me a lot more money. After about four months of applying to jobs, I finally got a job offer in tech sales that was gonna pay me $80,000 a year. I turned it down. Oh. Yeah. I turned it down just to do this. Literally the next day the electrical union called me up and said, Do you wanna be an electrician? In my first year as an electrician, I made $55,000. And in my second year as an electrician, I made $72,000, and I had $12,000 paid into my pension and annuity. I'm now moving into my third year of my electrical apprenticeship. I'm going to be getting paid $87,000 per year, paid $14,000 into my pension and annuity. Sometimes I think, what if I went down the tech sales route? Would I be making more money? Who knows? But I'm still super grateful for the opportunity to be an electrician. I'm trying to learn how to be more transparent on TikTok. So if you like content like this, drop your boy a like and a follow. Peace.