Woo Hoo!
Posted on 08/11/2011 8:51:49 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Steve Jobs. Dropped out of college after 6 months due to financial strain on his parent's savings.
This is the career choice of too many. Or becoming famous, somehow.
I call bs on the detective one. I can’t think of a Federal agency that doesn’t require a degree to be an investigator. EI- FBI wants a bachelors and preferably a law or accounting degree
“10. Captains, Mates, Pilot of Water Vessel
Median annual income: $64,180
High-end annual income: $117,310”
That’s nuthin’.
One of the railroad conductors where I work earned $205,000 last year (or so I’ve been told).
I’m sure a few others were close to that amount.
There ARE downsides to earning so much. The guy is someone who “never takes his shoes off”, so to speak — he’s there seven days a week, weekends, holidays, working 12-hour shifts, or “dobule shifts” where he may leave home and not be back for 15-20 hours at a time. Most people reading this wouldn’t work that way by choice.
I also would reckon that his wife and kids don’t know him as well as they should.
But them sea cap’ns ought to get on the rails and make some REAL money...
Just sayin’....
I went to college for about a year, couldnt hack it. So went to A&P school for AC maint. I made pretty good money but did get laid off 3 years in...
Most Airlines pay is around 65k without OT...
When things were jumping, and in some cases still today, it was easy to make six figures selling new homes. And I know people who did it with a GED.
At about the same time they stopped keeping score during Little League/T-Ball games.
I believe it is almost impossible to get to the upper level of any of those jobs without a college degree. Unless you’re a friend/relative of the company owner, or, possibly in a government job like police chief in some podunk town. And that would still have to invlove some sort of favor or graft from (likely) a democrat hack.
A friend of mine worked on Navy nukes.
His favorite bumper sticker; "Navy Nukes Are Built Better Than Jane Fonda"
Isn’t that Richard Branson?
Woo Hoo!
Many people with a high school diploma have become extremely
successful. In fact, avoiding higher education at all costs may be highly referable because of the accelerated indoctrination by the Commies who have infiltrated academia.
I did very well in raising a family, and earning a living in business without a college degree. And I am still a thinking, conservative, practical, God fearing independent woman.
Our community college offers 6-18 month programs in all of those trades. The cost is about 2000 a semester, with the state giving special trades grants to attend of 1000-2000.
A kid who isn’t college bound can be doing pretty well for himself in 1 to 2 years.
The college also offers nuclear power plant trades Associate degrees. TVA is hiring almost all of the graduates starting at around $50,000. If a kid hates high school he could dual enroll in 10th grade, get 2 diplomas and be hired all by the time he is 18.
they left out bartender and stripper.
both are jobs that you can easily clear $100k in the right establishment.
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Right now I’m listening to a high school graduate on the radio who makes $40 million(?) a year providing the most advanced and insightful social and political analysis in the world.
Janitor, New York city public school system? Salary 30,000. Benefits 200,000.
Number of positions? How many are in your family?
And you only work one day a week to collect your paycheck.
There are 3 Things you need to do to put you into the 89 percentile of having a successful and fulfilling life.
1) Finish High school
2) Don't have children before you are married
3) Don't get married until you are at least 24.
Notice college is not one of the three. A degree is a nice thing to have, and you have the right to be proud of it, but adding it changes the equation very little.
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