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If you’re looking for a well-paid job but you don’t have the money, time and sheer patience required to complete a four-year bachelor degree, do not fear! According to Bureau of Labor Statistics data published by Business Insider, plenty of U.S. jobs require an associate degree (usually taking two years), a postsecondary nondegree certificate or a high-school diploma.
Air-traffic controller offers the highest wages without a bachelor degree with the median annual salary coming to $122,410. Prospective applicants should keep in mind that the job still requires an associate degree. Even though nuclear-power reactor operator sounds like a job requiring extensive university qualifications, it actually only requires a high-school diploma or equivalent. It has a very lucrative median salary of $91,170 a year.
I wonder how many jobs require a degree but can be done without a degreed person. Or with some on the job training.
I’ve heard a first grade teacher with a masters degree is paid more than a teacher with a bachelor’s degree even though the job doesn’t need it.
I’d like to see those #s.
Kind of a shitty list:
#1 -ATC. Government position. Requires school, and has a bunch of disclaimers attached. For example, I got (mis)diagnosed with ADHD when I was 8. This would probably be enough to disqualify me for the position.
#2 – Nuclear power operators. New reactors aren’t coming online and the people who have been operating their reactor for the last 20 years so no signs of wanting to quit. If you thought the line for the ATC position was long, you should try getting on this one.
#3 – Dist. Manager. 10 years experience might do it, but they’d probably want to see 15. I know we did when hiring our current logistics manager.
#4 – Police Supervisor. Same as #3.
#5 – Power Distributors. I think I’ll stop here.
This list is a good example of people without degrees who are reliable, intelligent, and/or connected can make a damned good paycheck.
Its just not realistic for every Joe-blow out there to achieve pay of this stature. They aren’t capable of it, and they don’t deserve it.
Averages wages of 50k for a journeyman tradeskill are more achievable. Those wages climb higher when you realize side work and skill can build a tidy little income once into your 30s.
I’ve seen lots of Information Technology jobs that pay over $100k if you have an Associates Degree plus 1-2 years experience and/or a certification such as CyberSecurity or other specialized discipline like Oracle database or Cisco networking.
The push for college for useless degrees continues. Waste of time and money for someone to go to school for a liberal arts education that will get them no where.
My son didn’t go to college yet makes 20+ bucks an hour (he’s 25) working in the IT field. He self-taught and then pounded the pavement taking less pay to “prove” himself while gaining on the job experience in the field.
Then the employers had him take certification classes with testing which added more skill and experience.
You gotta start somewhere, and if it means living cheap and doing what you have to do, then do it. But sadly the millenials think they are entitled to 50K a year out of the gate for doing nothing their whole lives except maybe working a little summer job flipping burgers or scooping ice cream.
You gotta start somewhere and work you way up. that’s the way life goes.
Lets face it, this country operated just fine (in some cases better) when most of the populous was not “credentialed”. The whole idea of “credential-ism” is simply a construct to serve to limit competition in the workplace, and is reinforced by the college / academic money scam. Period. “Don’t like your present job, get a career, just pay us a ton of borrowed money and YOU TO can be SOMEONE PROFESSIONAL” BS.
There are only a few areas (very few) in fact where it is necessary to do a job with a degree. When you see a receptionist position, management position or various other position that requires a degree to do, that is an employer (usually corporate, as small to medium hiring managers are more competent) that has been advised by some HR drone that they “have” to only hire a “credentialed” professional.
When I look at all of the successful people that DO NOT have college degrees, and then see people slinging coffees at Starbucks that have bachelors, and in some cases masters degrees, that tells me all I need to know. In fact, in today’s world, I would say the degreed “professional” is probably the worse hire. It tells me they could not do a basic cost-benefit analysis and listened to the propaganda that they “need” a degree to do something productive. I want the guy that looked at the debt, and quality and said to themselves “I can do better on my own”. Also, he / she is more flexible on salary / benefits because they are not in debt to the government / banksters up to their eyeballs. And, as far as the character nonsense that if you don’t hire a “degreed professional” then you are getting someone stupid or lazy, a good hiring manager can probably spot someone like that after 5 minutes in to the interview. It is not like millennials that fit that profile try to hide it….in fact, they embrace it, thinking that you too will embrace it because you are “progressive” too….
There are truck driver owner operators making over a hundred thousand dollars a year . You just have to be in the right place at the right time to get right routes with the right company.No education required.How do I know? They show me their take home pay for the year. I’m not in that pay range but maybe one day if the economy doesn’t die on us.
Hey BB,
Start smuggling immigrants-I hear there’s good money in that but you have to make sure they have air and water.