>>10073039The oldest result for the search term "300k starting" on
warosu.org is the OP of this thread from June 11, 2010:
https://warosu.org/sci/thread/S1157950It features the standard version of the meme with the usual three lines of greentext and the iconic image.
However, searching for "any job I want" yields a number of posts from June 5 - 11 with a similar but slightly different format. All of them say something along the lines of
>Masters degree in [subject]>any job I want>100K starting and come with a picture of a man holding money (pic related) that's different from the one now commonly used. These are the oldest of them:
https://warosu.org/sci/thread/S1106901,
https://warosu.org/sci/thread/S1109821.
Since the /sci/ archive on
warosu.org seems to go back to May 13, 2010, it's probably safe to say that the linked posts are the earliest instances of the meme.
