Posted on 08/11/2011 8:51:49 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Sorry that someone researched this..Congress will now extend H1 visas for those jobs..we cant have Americans making that much
My step dad only had a high school degree and was successful, a few years after retirement he became a County Judge as well.
I know quite a few CAD designers working in the energy/petrochem industry that make over $100k in a bad year and over $250k in a very good year, lots of overtime. Many of these are without a college degree but all have levels of technical training post High School.
Most of the nuclear power plant operators that do not have college degrees are from the navy nuclear program.
I have worked with one former enlisted who had served on the boats. No college degree. Still held his own around other engineers, and now moving toward plant manager.
Some people knock military tech training as “knowing just the narrow technical area”, but then I’m in Minnesota (for a week and a half remaining, then I’m outa here). The crew on the boats have their technical specialties, but are cross trained on every thing else, with the exception of operating the radio (thank John Walker for that).
Security managers in retail can make a lot of money. At the higher end it can be over $100k a year.
BILL GATES - No. 1 dropout!!
Your typical welder,pipefitter,instrument tech,electrician,heavy equipment operator,boiler maker,machinest,milright and many other construction or maintenance hands routinely make $60 K without overtime.A welder that owns his own rig will make over a 100K.Plumbers around 80K. Yet how many students in HS are informed of this? There is nothing wrong in telling the average student that maybe college isn’t for them.
I laugh at that. I will not go into how little you make while climbing the ladder to that 6 figure airline job.
High school only? To get an Airplane Transport Pilot License you do not need a degree. But, most Airlines will not hire you if you do not have a four year degree.
Plumbers can do pretty well.
Bill Gates had a rich father bankrolling him.
Hooker, pimp, drug dealer, President.
President of the United States of America - $400,000 per year.
No degree, diploma or birth certificate required!
Hooker, pimp, drug dealer, President.
But you repeat yourself...
I joined the Navy at 17. I spent 4 years in, got out and went back to work at the Kroger’s. I worked there 3 years, and started working in the computer field. I’m a network geek now, and pre-crash (2003), I make over $125,000, including bonuses. Without bonuses, I was bringing home $90,000. Post-crash, I’m at a much better job (technology advances, but the environment is A1), and I’m not making that much now, but I really love my work. At no point have I gone to college.
America was built over 200 years ago by people who were smarter than we are today. Have you ever read some of the schoolbooks from the early 1800’s? I don’t know what some of the words those ‘poor, ignorant farmers’ used back then, and it’s not just spelling, it’s the meaning, the context.
Whatever happened to being an apprentice electrician? Or plumber, etc.? Now, it’s all “go to school, get your EE” You know what? That doesn’t mean you can be an electrician. Experience is the key to many jobs.
2, Businessman Arthur Fortune 
So what? He educated himself and the world is a very much better and richer place because he had the stones to do what he did.
My dad wasn’t rich but I ended up doing very well also.
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