[xfitm3]

When you own your own business you can easily make 6 figures, it just takes years of sweat equity and rough times. A friend of mine has grown his business from 100k/y in sales (and 5-10k profit) to millions per year (~300k profit) installing TVs and stereos in 13 years. He worked his ass off for a long time.

[alan-hn]

Is he doing the installations himself or does he have employees

[darth_avocado]

Definitely has employees (or contractors he works with). From experience, beyond $300k (~$1000/day excluding Sundays), for blue collar jobs like that, it is hard to grow revenue without the additional help.

[alan-hn]

Doesn't really sound blue collar when he's mostly managing the blue collar workers. Is management a blue collar job?