drivejumpfly

Would any of you care to share what career paths and/or choices in life allow someone to afford this finely crafted wonder of American machinery? It may encourage some of us to change things up a bit.

Anthony D'Aloisio

RedRay

Engineering Management; also been driving corvettes since I was 17 (78 silver anniversary); Bought used until Intel during the dot.com error (120% profit) got me to my first brand new one in 2000, then bought a first year C6, C7, and now a ZR1 (because you need the king). Will buy the C8 when they put over 700 ponies in it. All cars are daily drivers; got to smile at least on the way into and on way home from that 4 letter word called work. Got 38K on my RedRay now; never a problem.

hcvone

Made can tooling for just about every type of can made today, then sold our 70 year old family business to our largest customer, you hear the term "laughing all the way to the bank" it really can happen, but it took a lot of 80-100 hour weeks to get there. Corvette 13 & 14 on order.

Suns_PSD

Here are the ways people make BIG money, although a ZR1 can be had with just lots of saving and prioritizing.

1) Luck (i.e. inheritance, lawsuit, lottery)
2) natural talent and commitment (i.e. athlete, musician, writer)
3) Own a business (my path, and the hardest to succeed at)
4) Investments (primarily real estate, most reliable way, but can take decades)
5) Always spending less than you make, while maximizing your income, and saving over many years.

Good luck!

Anthony D'Aloisio

Carvin

I predict a lot of replies here but you can't top this

Tally Ho

Career military, military contractor, no children.

D'ZR1 Messiah

DebRedZR1

Work work and more work. No kids, where am I going for vaca---my garage

keagan

Well, I guess its back to the grind for a decade or two.

Katech_Zach

I sell one of the most addictive drugs out there - horsepower.

DoctorV8

I zap tumors with photons.

carsnpars

spearfish25

Human plumber. But I haven't ordered my ZR1 yet.

TrackAire

Regardless of the job you do, I've found that it really helps to do the following if you want to have a substantial disposable income.

1. If you do get married, never get a divorce. Ex's are a money pit and the stress keeps you from reaching your full potential. If you're not marriage material, just don't get married.
2. If you do have kids, pray they turn out ok and you don't need to have an attorney on retainer. Hope your kids go to a state college and not some private joint, lol. My suggestion if you don't ever want kids is to get snipped asap.
3. Don't gamble (casino's, sports book, etc)
4. Don't do any recreational drugs, don't get addicted as rehab is expensive
5. Don't drink and drive, DUI's are expensive forever. God forbid you wreck and hurt somebody.
6. Don't even drink, especially at bars....super expensive to buy drinks.
7. Try to pay off your house as soon as possible so you don't have a monthly mortgage payment. Don't keep upgrading your house just to keep up with the Jones'.
8. Don't screw up your credit and try to have a credit score as high as possible. Get rid of any credit card balances, especially with high interest rates because of your mistakes.

I know people that can put 20% down on a ZR1 and easily make the monthly payments on what they spend on marijuana and bar tabs every month. Yet they complain they don't make enough money to survive. Lets not even talk about going through the drive through at Starbucks once or twice a day, that expense would cover your ZR1's insurance premium.

I also know doctors that own their own practice and and make a minimum of $35,000.00 per month and live pay check to pay check because of bad life choices. Divorces, bad real estate investments, adult kid that they still enable, etc.

It is very easy to make good money in America.....understanding how to keep it is where most people fail.

Garret

You just need disposable income and lots of it. If you can't have kids and cars that's pretty sad IMO, If you can't go out in order to have a car, pretty sad IMO, If you have to work 80-100 hours a week to get one, you really don't have disposable income IMO..No one should have to work that hard for a car. I get these are expensive, but most people who have them have lots of disposable income, it's that simple. Most of them already have everything they want, house, spending cash, old and retired with lots of cash.....etc.etc.etc.

Best thing to do is wait for a used one and save 40 grand, cause these people that paid MSRP are going to be here in 1-2 years complaining about the drop in value Z06 owners did it and so will the ZR1 owners.

I'm in I/T, I have kids, I have lots of things, I drink lots of craft beer, a house, take trips everywhere over the years...etc.etc.etc...I don't work over 40-50 hours a week. With that said, I don't have a ZR1 and have no asperation to get one, but could as a "regular" Joe. It has also taken me years to get where I am, but new people in the right I/T fields are making lots of cash these days.

Don't sacrifice for a car. You can be a plumber and make $100,000+ a year, electricians make bank too these days....

3 Z06ZR1

May as well have one ZR1 which would have cost a little less but since my 2015 Z06 M7 would have brought less than half needed to trade. It made more sense to buy another Z06 only in A8.
1 ZR1 falls short of having 2 higher horsepower Z06's 1 in each transmission. Times the A8 is better from the dig nicer on dates and times the M7 is more fun to drive and it is better at high speed rolls no doubt period on this fact.

The Z06 can have 675 rwhp and less weight where the ZR1 comes with 660 rwhp and weights more. With just a Halltech intake, headers, tune, and a 2.3 blower kit that costs 5k and installs in one day. So for $8,000 doing self install and then getting a professional tune. The Z06 becomes a beast!
Ok I'll add I worked for Burlington Northern SF for 40 years and 6 months. Started at 18 and 5 months was able to retire at 58 and 11 months.


Did everything from welding on box cars to being a yardmaster and lead in the yard tower for over 10 years. Owned an advertising business I sold to stockholders. Used to rent 3 houses out sold them at a profit still have 4 apartments. Bought and sold other houses as well. Now I own forest land inherited some but bought more and some has been rezoned in to the city and turned valuable. Been lucky but I worked a lot hours was working 7 days a week at times but it was all worth it! Now I make my own way!
Bar all that your health is the most important! Hoping it holds out!

Varmit

Pimp at a cheap New Orleans ***** house!!!

We got Friday specials!! lol

Boba Fett

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