How to make 200K a year (without hating your life in the process)
The hidden price of being a high-paid employee
Let’s get one thing straight.
You don’t actually want to earn 200K a year.
You want to stop living with your stomach in a knot.
That’s what this is about.
You don’t fantasize about numbers.
You fantasize about waking up without panic.
About not flinching every time your kid asks, “Can we go for ice cream?” and you start calculating if the card will go through.
You want the power to say:
“No meetings today.”
“I’m taking Tuesday off because my kid wants to ride bikes.”
“Fuck the Q3 report, I’m watching Mickey Mouse.”
Now listen up, because this part stings:
Yes, you can make 200K in a job. I know because I did.
But that job will also suck the life out of you with:
bosses that track your bathroom breaks,
meetings that should’ve been a bullet point,
and taxes that smile while draining half your soul.
Being employed is stable, yes.
Like a caged lion in a zoo is “safe.”
_ You want an easier life? Start a business
Not a startup.
Not a hustle.
A real, adult, boring-as-fuck business that prints money while you sleep.
Is it risky? Sure.
But you know what’s riskier?
Spending your best years making other people rich while convincing yourself you’re “grateful to have a job.”
Let me hit you with a number:
Less than 2% of employees in Germany make over 200K.
Most of them?
They hate Mondays and live for a couple of weeks of vacation a year.
The ones making that money as entrepreneurs?
They don’t pay 48% in taxes.
They don’t ask permission to take their kid to lunch.
They don’t fear layoffs, because they laid off fear.
_ Here’s what no one told you in school
There’s a difference between "earning more" and "owning your time."
And you feel it.
Every time your kid asks if you can play and you say: “Later.”
Every time you stare at the ceiling at 3:00 AM doing mental math about daycare, taxes, and what would happen if you got fired tomorrow.
You’re not crazy.
You’re just in a system that teaches you to trade your best years for someone else’s dividends.
Still think this is about money?
It’s not.
It’s about time.
It’s about dignity.
It’s about your kid asking to play and you saying “Yes,” not “Later.”
_ We’ve inherited a dangerous idea
That a good job = security.
That security = happiness.
And that happiness means waiting for weekends, counting vacation days, and swallowing frustration like pills.
My father believed it.
He passed it down to me like an heirloom.
Save. Buy a house. Play it safe. Retire.
And I believed him.
Until one Tuesday morning, at 29, sitting in a beige office under fluorescent lights,
I asked myself:
“Is this it?”
Because if this was the prize for doing everything right, I didn’t want it.
_ So what’s the move?
You start earning like a business, even if you’re still employed.
You open an LLC.
You learn how to deduct, invest, build.
You stop bleeding money because no one ever taught you to protect it.
Is it legal? 100%.
Is it boring? Sometimes.
Does it work? Fuck yes.
It’s just a better way to play the same game.
P.S. If you make 200K as an employee, you take home around 104K. The rest? Gone. Confiscated politely.
P.S.2 I don’t sell freedom. I’m showing you how to earn it.
P.S.3 Want to know how to start without quitting your job?
P.S.4 You don’t get many chances to take a real turn in life.
Most people stay on the highway, even when they hate where it’s going.
But if you read this far?
You’re not most people.
You’ve got two choices:
Close this tab and get back to surviving.
Or open a new one and learn how to start owning your time.
Either way, you’ve already paid for this life.
Not in money.
In time.