Your Blueprint to a Six-Figure Income

I graduated high school with a 1.6 GPA.

Not because I couldn't do the work. I just didn't see the point. Nobody in my family had money. Nobody talked about careers. We were on food stamps, and that was normal.

At 18, I got a job at The Price Club stocking shelves for $5 an hour. I figured that was the trajectory — work, pay rent, repeat.

Then I met a girl. Got her pregnant. Had a daughter.

That changed everything.

I looked at this kid and realized I had nothing to offer her. No skills. No credentials. No upward path. Just a name tag and a time clock.

I didn't have a plan. I had panic. But panic, properly aimed, is fuel.

Nine Words from a Billionaire

Back then I was reading Brian Tracy and Tony Robbins — the self-help stuff people mock but that actually works if you do what it says. One piece of advice stuck: ask someone who's done what you want to do.

Sol Price — the founder of Price Club — used to walk every warehouse once a year. When he came through ours, I introduced myself and asked him for his best advice.

He said: "Learn everything you can about money and business."

That was it. Nine words. I didn't fully understand them for another 20 years.

The Climb

I enrolled in college while working full-time. Got my BSBA in Finance. Moved from the warehouse floor into audit. Made manager. Got pulled into the Price Club / Costco merger — the kind of experience you can't buy.

Went back for my MBA. Still working.

After 12 years at Costco, I jumped to Echostar as a Business Process Manager in Global Manufacturing. Got certified in Six Sigma, LEAN, and Kaizen. Studied Deming until his ideas were part of how I saw everything.

Added a PMP. Then an Executive MBA in Strategic Leadership.

Moved up to Senior Finance Manager. Then Senior Manager of Program Management — reporting directly to the CFO.

From $5 an hour stocking shelves to the executive floor. No connections. No inheritance. No special talent. Just a decision, followed by two decades of showing up.

What I Learned

The path exists. It's not hidden. But nobody hands you the map.

I made every mistake. Took detours. Wasted time figuring out what someone could've told me in an afternoon.

These posts are that afternoon.

Real paths. Real numbers. Real timelines. What it actually takes to go from $40K to $100K — not theory, not motivation, just the blueprint.

If you're willing to do the work, I'll show you the routes.

Let's go

— Scot Free

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