May 12 2026FINANCE
From College Grind to Corner Office: How One Finance Worker Climbed the Money Ladder
At 29, a New York-based finance professional now pulls in $155, 000 a year as a VP of product strategy. But her path wasn’t a straight shot to the top. She started in 2018 tagging Amazon product keywords for $17 an hour—barely above minimum wage. A year later, she jumped to market research, earning
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