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This graph illustrates low skill jobs. Illegals typically don't have high paying skills: few doctors, engineers, electricians, managers and so on.
To stop being poor, you need to move yourself out of the glut of low skilled workers into areas that aren't as crowded like aerospace, robotics, AI, civil engineering, medical industries and so on. Either that or create your own niche and do something few other people can do.
Crime, dealing drugs and prostitution can pay well, but these types of professions have other negative issues.
when your senior programmer is $haniqua and your manager is Kumar
Either that or create your own niche and do something few other people can do.
I think the important thing is have a niche and be able to connect with the customer. Understand their business, opportunities, and challenges as well as be competent at what you do. If you do those things, you can be acceptably good and be successful. Better if you are the expert, always, but successful enterprises are not necessarily the best in their field. There are plenty of examples of this.
Rather than crime, I think a private investigator specializing in political influence may be a good business opportunity also. It's crime adjacent.
Some nice places to live only have low skill jobs.
Correct. In this case, you make your own job.
This is excellent advice. If Pablo the broken English speaking criminal from Mexico steals your job, you're a pretty bad worker.
I always tel people, you don't get paid what you're worth, you get what you negotiate.
And value is subjective. If a tree knocks my power out and a lineman offers to fix it right meow instead of when the power company shows up in a week, I'm highly amenable to negotiating. Because I'm not paying for half an hour of his time, I'm paying for a the +10 hours I'd spend babysitting my generator for the next week. Which is worth a heck of a lot.