Ive posted here with varying screen names that I worked in car sales and outperformed national average by over 300%, for a decade. All commission performance based pay. Made about $250k a year working 10 feet away from coworkers making 50k a year doing the exact same job and basically the same hours.

The people making $50k a year can tell you tons of stories about things that weren't in their control. High performers realize everything is in their control to fix or push to a large degree, and even if that one task does implode out of your control, you take it and grin and move on to the next task.

Would you really turn down the chance to make 5x what your coworkers do, just because sometimes in a blue moon you got screwed on a particular task and didn't get paid for it?