Must be legal, of course.
> No morals.
What kind of family you got?
Lots of opportunity in FinTech - see https://www.web3isgoinggreat.com/
Oh wait only sales matters and everything else just exists to support that? I kind of have to rethink things now.
If you're really good it might not take the entire year.
If I was going to do $1M worth of technical work in one year I would definitely want a sales associate who could deliver on the same scale themself.
OTOH, if I was going to try for $1M in technology sales over the next year, I wouldn't consider an engineering associate fully adequate unless they're coming up with offerings that are well worth that, or already has them under their belt.
More seriously, why are you aiming so low if your goal is to use money to induce pride? Caring about dollars suggests the USA*, where a mere one million can be earned the boring way by working as a software developer for, like, 7 years or something.
Also more seriously, find a better way to make people proud. Money is an endless treadmill of anxiety and one-upmanship if you don't have a specific end in mind.
* but could also be Canada, Australia, NZ, or a few other places
1 million dollars or more, in one year.
(But I get the impression that a million might be a little on the low side for many VCs, as you can't run any team for very long on that).