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 It's important to note that they're not all "blue-collar" jobs, a term that has become outdated when describing skilled-trade work.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 ...
White House intern.....oh yeah, that was last administration.
And a 9 digit income by becoming a trader on the Merc exchange. You simply need to be born in Brooklyn(of Italian heritage) and know someone. Within 4 years of graduating from High School, you too can speculate on Oil Futures and make your 100 million by age 30.
Local 399, Hollywierd. I’m sure most of you have seen the Simpsons episode where Homer is a 399. Work 16 hour days and eat donuts. That is my brother.
I think I’ll go for Porn Star.
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I had my stage name picked out already but they told me I was too tall and too short.
Bartender.
Superior quality tech writing from foreign countries? You don't mean in English, do you? I hardly find any instructions, directions, or manuals for anything anymore that I'd call well written. I see a lot of sentences that don't make sense, words used incorrectly, and documentation with pages and pages of corrections. Any more, I try to just use it first, then go back to the documentation to see if I can fill in the gaps with anything I missed.
More:
Mortgage broker
High-end goods salesperson
Executive Chef
Locomotive Engineer
Capital Equipment Sales
Bodyguard
Half did not go to an elite college.
http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2000/05/01/278924/index.htm
Don’t worry. Neither do court reporters.
What the author fails to reveal is that given the availability of college graduates, a high school graduate will have a hard time competing. The classic was a want ad from “The Gap: Warehouse position. Must be college graduate and able to lift over fifty pounds.”
Recruiting in his own field:
http://www.i-recruit.com/drecruiters_type_logistics.htm
http://www.mgrmassociates.com/
“Half did not go to an *elite* college.”
Thank you for that clarification - the orginal quote/ statistic did not sound right.
“You don’t need to invent something to get rich. And you don’t need to look far for a lucrative opportunity.”
Actually, it’s really EASY to get “rich” in America. Spend less than you earn. Invest the difference in your choice of investment opportunities, also available ONLY in America.
Lather. Rinse. Repeat.
That “formula” has worked for three generations of my “blue collar” family members, none of which has EVER earned six figures in ANY economy from 1913 to the present.
Thanks, Mr. Forbes for telling me, yet again, how to “get rich.” ROFLMAO!
Nah, Ron Jeremy and Peter North aside, male porn stars don't make much money at all --unless you're willing to do gay bareback. Then the big bucks will roll in! And you better save 'em. AZT treatments aren't cheap.
What the author fails to reveal is that given the availability of college graduates, a high school graduate will have a hard time competing. The classic was a want ad from “The Gap: Warehouse position. Must be college graduate and able to lift over fifty pounds.”
Scratch the aircraft controller. The pay now is far less what it used to be for new guys.
So yeah, it’s possible to GROSS that kind of income. But the truck’s your business, and you’re working fo rthe truck, not for yourself.
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Never been a driver but I worked for some time in a job where I had daily contact with drivers and got to know a few. The general drift I got was that it is not nearly as well paid a job as it used to be (at least on an inflation adjusted basis). One short haul company I know of was paying fifteen dollars an hour two years ago and the drivers said they did not get time and a half for overtime. Those guys didn’t care how long the wait for loading was, they got paid for waiting. Some of those who worked by the mile would have a hemorrhage if they had to wait more than an hour. I remember talking to one guy in February and he said that he had not been home since Thanksgiving. I don’t see how anybody could consider it a well-paid job unless he just loves the road. I had a cousin who would rather drive than eat but he died at forty two.
All the stats you list are for averages. They mean nothing at all for any individual in the groups.
My brother-in-law dropped out of high school at 16. After floundering around for some years he went to work for a contractor, learned the business from the inside and now runs is a contractor for large commercial projects.
He earns well over $250k/year.
Save your money....don’t go to college, and invest the funds you would have spent for college into a franchise of some sort that is up and coming. Bet there are a lots of millionaires next door who run dry cleaners and restaurants.
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