5 Jobs That Pay 100k a Year Without a Degree

Sal

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pffffffffffffffffffffffffft, real estate...that's a laugh and a half... a tiny % of them make 75% of the money and the other 25% of the sales are split with the idiots on the bottom and they are in a feeding frenzy busily cutting back their salary to make enough just to pay their desk fees to their brokers

you have to build your clientelle which takes years... you have to give client service which means bending over backwards and everyone thinks they can barter your salary down after you run your *** off for them... so happy selling

also the court reporter... a friend did this for a bit....you buy your own equipment and you'd best be able to type like the wind because a judge wants that stuff hard copied like yesterday right after court and it is hours and hours and hours of yapping and she couldn't take hearing about the perps and what they did to their victims. Lovely job.

I don't know about the rest but I sure as hell would not be aspiring to the ones above.
 

petros

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Diplomas and Certificate carry different weights. This article appears to be from a fashion magazine or something brain-dead like that.
 

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Sal

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Four. The usual track is Associate's - 2 years, Bachelor's - 4, Master's - 1 1/2 or two more, Doctorate - 3 to 7 after Bachelor's, depending on the field.
I did my BA in three... here you do an Honours or specialty degree in four... and yeah took my buddy 6 to get the doctorate to teach at university but he fast tracked it because his sister got two PH'ds in seven so he felt pressured...lmao

frigging academics is soooooooooooooooo political it is mind boggling.
 

Tecumsehsbones

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There ya go.

And a lot of money
Indeed. The bill for my BA was around 50K, for my JD about 80K, and for my Ll.M about 30K.

That's tuition and fees, not including minor trivia like beer, films, vacations, rent, food, clothing, &c.

And that was 25-30 years ago.
 

petros

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It takes 5-6 years to get a Red Seal in trades. If Union or a decent non-Union shop, your education is paid and you are paid at a rate good enough to start a family along the way or fill a house garage with toys.
 

Sal

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It takes 5-6 years to get a Red Seal in trades. If Union or a decent non-Union shop, your education is paid and you are paid at a rate good enough to start a family along the way or fill a house garage with toys.
Trades and Red Seal is the way to go now for a decent job.
 

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I have a grandson who went into the trades never out of work. He's an electrician with
residential, commercial and industrial full tickets. Twenty eight years old.
Another is a carpenter and fully accredited less than thirty. Trades have lots of
opportunities if you work hard and strive to be top of your field.
 

gerryh

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It takes 5-6 years to get a Red Seal in trades. If Union or a decent non-Union shop, your education is paid and you are paid at a rate good enough to start a family along the way or fill a house garage with toys.


no it doesn't. 4 years for most trades. You write for your red seal interprovincial when you write for your ticket.
 

Tecumsehsbones

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When I'm asked about professions by young folk, I ask them if they like to work with their heads or their hands. If it's their heads, I tell them to go to college. If it's their hands, I tell them to go into the trades. And I also tell them to go into trades that cannot be outsourced, like carpentry, electrical, plumbing, and HVAC.

Welders, tool and die makers, machinists don't do so well. Their work can be, and has largely been, moved overseas.
 

Sal

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When I'm asked about professions by young folk, I ask them if they like to work with their heads or their hands. If it's their heads, I tell them to go to college. If it's their hands, I tell them to go into the trades. And I also tell them to go into trades that cannot be outsourced, like carpentry, electrical, plumbing, and HVAC.

Welders, tool and die makers, machinists don't do so well. Their work can be, and has largely been, moved overseas.
but the reality is in today's market, if they want a job that pays well they should head to the trades, here BAs are a dime a dozen they almost mean nothing unless it is MA level now... BA is what grade 13 used to be...everyone has it.

The job I did for most of my life and that paid the most needed no BA just hard work and the ability to manage people.

Now the job that I currently do, I can't advance in and they will only contract me because it needs a college degree and my BA means nada. Now mind you they will drop me into any contract position with zero experience and not train me but place me there permanently nope.
 

Tecumsehsbones

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but the reality is in today's market, if they want a job that pays well they should head to the trades, here BAs are a dime a dozen they almost mean nothing unless it is MA level now... BA is what grade 13 used to be...everyone has it.

The job I did for most of my life and that paid the most needed no BA just hard work and the ability to manage people.

Now the job that I currently do, I can't advance in and they will only contract me because it needs a college degree and my BA means nada. Now mind you they will drop me into any contract position with zero experience and not train me but place me there permanently nope.
Well, one must pick one's course of study carefully.
 

Sal

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Well, one must pick one's course of study carefully.
yes, and some BA in any of the arts or the soft sciences means zippo because we now have BAs with B'eds crawling all over each other to get teaching jobs and it ain't gonna happen.

I should have gone into teaching and I would have been retired now on a fully indexed pension, *sigh*

hindsight and all of that