Posted on 11/10/2007 2:58:26 PM PST by shrinkermd
You don't always need that piece of Latin-laden paper to pull in six figures. You don't need to invent something to get rich. And you don't need to look far for a lucrative opportunity.
There are plenty of honest livings to be made in the U.S workforce that can earn you six-figure salaries sans a college degree. That's not to say you won't be required to undergo extensive training or work long hours, but at least you won't be lugging around that student debt. It's important to note that they're not all "blue-collar" jobs, a term that has become outdated when describing skilled-trade work.
The he lists are:
(Excerpt) Read more at forbes.com ...
So, I guess the idea is to be one of those rock stars who have a dozen or so hit songs, and make a lot of money.
But everyone - EVERYONE - graduates in the top 100%.
Do you know what they call the person that graduates last in their medical school class?
Doctor.
Chairman of giant software company.
You can make lots of money if you are in demand. But lots more money can be made if you use other people. If you are a salesman and can get the customers, hiring people that can do the work for you puts money in your pocket. Lets just say you clean pools for a living, If you pay your employees $15 an hour and you can charge $20 an hour, making money is as simple as hiring more employees. Every employee that you hire adds $5.00 an hour to your pocket. You don’t have to do diddly squat.
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Thus, the degree cost $140 million on average. I would chalk it up to opportunity cost, rather than exhorbitant college loan interest.
I would just love to have a job with stability and not having to work for a family owned business that the owner cares little for the employees, could care less if they get hurt, conspicuously plays online casino games at work ignoring the responsibility of trying to maintain a business, oh and I think he may have a drug problem too.
Coke dealer.
Long Island Railroad Ticket Puncher
Politician
>Spend less than you earn. Invest the difference<
You have the answer right there. It’s worked well for me and my relatives.
Most interesting.
Any serious suggestions?
Tell him to change his attitude about sales.
My brother used to do this - but most tech writing work moved to India right after the dot com implosion.
Maybe outsourcing tech writing isn't always such a good idea. A contract technical writer at a company I once worked for was arrested for industrial espionage (in a case involving some other companies). It seems like the perfect way to get the inside details of new technology.
How do you make 6 figures as a bartender? I bet he’d do it if he could.
I am passing that on to him - it sounds good!
Are you serious? These guys at the UPS store are pulling a hundred K down a year? I will suggest your ideas to him. Stripper, huh?
You guys had basically the same idea. I am going to pass it on to him. I like your way of thinking — entrepreneurial.
Nope.
You’ve got the hardest TWO job s of all:
(1) Finding people who will actually work, and work reliably and safely FOR you at a rate you can afford to pay them so YOU can
(2) search for job nbr 5 because their current job nbr 2 is finishing, get paid for job nbr 1, get job 3 planned, and get job 4 sold.
Working for yourself means you have the world's toughest boss, and the world’s pickiest employee.
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