How many senior managers are there at your place of work? And how many others are there? The ratio is likely to be anywhere from 40:1 to 200:1. So if you have their education, background, ability, contacts and perhaps luck, those will be your odds of making that kind of money also. If you lack any one of those parameters, the odds increase exponentially.
Then ask yourself how long you would have to wait before you started earning that sort of cash? By the time you start making enough money to relax with, it's nearly time to retire.
Pah! You want the cash NOW, just when you need it most - when you want to build a home, raise a family, do stuff, take activity holidays, drive a fast car or whatever.
So what do you do about it?
Well, you could look to get into one of the more lucrative and growing business sectors such as computing, finance or recruitment. Or one of the traditional ones such as law or accountancy. Any of these may mean re-training. And you must be sure you are going to at least enjoy it a bit. Alternatively, you could put your efforts into Number 1, above, which may take years to develop, or...
Have outside interests! This is much more fun. Don't fall for getrich quick schemes (because they are anything but) or homeworking schemes. And be wary also of MLM (multi-level marketing) stuff.
Keep your eyes and ears open. Talk to friends. Can you club together and start something? Think about what interests you; what you already know something about. What have you learnt from your employer than you can apply outside? Can you trade your skills elsewhere? Are there certain elements of what your employer does that you could do better or cheaper? You certainly won't have the overheads they have and that will make you cheaper. Are there ideas and suggestions that would work but which they have failed to or refuse to take on board? "Ripping off" your employer in this way is probably the most common way of doing your own thing. Accumulate everything you can from them that you think might help.
Keep these questions in your mind and sooner or later ideas will start to flow, often in the most unexpected places.
I'm always on the look out for good part-time business ideas myself to pass onto ProFile members. Perhaps I will have the opportunity to divulge some to you in the future.