32-year-old left college her senior year, now earns over $100,000 without a degree

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Chelsea Norstedt left college just two semesters shy of finishing her bachelor’s degree. Now, she earns over $100,000 working at a cybersecurity startup.

Whenever someone asked Chelsea Norstedt what she wanted to be when she grew up, she didn't have a job title in mind, but a number.

‘Building up the middle class will be a defining goal,' Harris says — here's how she may make that happenNorstedt earns close to $150,000 working as a senior account manager at Huntress, a cybersecurity startup. She works remotely from Miami, Florida.Norstedt left Penn State University in 2014 just two semesters shy of finishing her bachelor's degree in criminology.

Norstedt worked as a bartender and server at different restaurants around town,"wherever would hire me," she recalls. Norstedt landed her first job as an experience specialist at a Verizon store in Altoona, Pennsylvania in January 2015. The job paid about $45,000 a year."I felt like I was rich," she says.From that first job, Norstedt's career took off quickly. She was promoted three times at Verizon within four years, holding different roles in customer service, sales operations and people development.

Norstedt credits her fast ascent up the corporate ladder to the supportive managers and free training programs she encountered at Verizon. That job introduced Norstedt to the cybersecurity field and led her to Huntress, where she started working in April 2024. Norstedt is a senior account manager at Huntress, supporting small businesses that use Huntress's cybersecurity software and products to protect them from threats.

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