lol!
OWS protester
But without my college degree, how will I know when I’ve risen to my level of incompetence???
Here are some others that are pretty good:
Welder
Machinist
Electrician
Oil Field worker
If I had to do it all over again, I definitely would have gotten more training to supplement the backyard mechanics my Dad taught me. I think I could have been happy working on motorcycles in a different life.
Let’s not get too loose about recommending auto mechanics to these losers. One of the few colleges that offer auto mechanics as a course of study stated that they have to reject many applicants because of poor reading and comprehension skills. The tech manuals and service information provided by the manufacturers require this. Considering that up to 60% of incoming college freshmen require remedial work, this opens to question just how many of these fleabaggers are that capable.
Pimp: whatevah your hoes can earn for ya!
I know this illegal alien in San Francisco —he’s legal now, and a great, smart guy. He came here and lived in someone’s garage for years, working as an HVAC guy.
Someone nasty got him fired for some contrived stuff —he had to strike out on his own. He succeeded, and later the company that fired him ended up having to subcontract him, but for over $150 per hour —way more than he was making when he was their employee; he ended up delighted he’d been fired.
He’s an autodidact and knows all kids of arcane stuff —he even married a daughter of Henry Kissinger at one point.
He’s rich now, actually —his house is really cool. He has lots of people working for him. He’s also a huge conservative.
He’s way smarter than about 95% of the people I knew in college, and since, also. He’s one of the few guys I know not on FR who almost ALWAYS knows more than me about anything that comes up.
He quit school in middle-school. His new wife has huge boobs —not bad.
Rockstar: $$$ millions.
Most of the positions that are open in our current economy are blue collar jobs like machinist, equipment operator. All the people with the worthless social studies, and minority /diversity claptrap can’t find a job because they don’t know anything of value to anyone.
Oil patch welders 75 an hour on the rigs, 85 an hour as a wildcatter.
Very long hours in very cold it very hot weather
Politician: unlimited $$$.
Having previously employed as many as 25 truckers, Union truckers make the most. Private Contractors (few and far between) do the best overall. And over the road dudes work hard and suck pondwater by mileage.
Another fine example of too much Gov’t.
Registered Nurse: All it takes is an associate’s degree, the endurance of a marathon runner, and a cast-iron stomach.
However, if you look at some of our most famous Internet gurus who have brought technology to where it is today-the social networks, start-ups etc..they were college drop outs.
Probably never heard of the "Wicked" Whoopie pie, a Maine woman started making and selling them from her own kitchen to sell to stores to help their income now she is famous and her husband went to work for her.
You just need an idea, drive and ambition.. just because you are not in college; does not mean you are any less intelligent than a student therein.
And 9 Presidents did not go to college or studied at far less influential colleges than those elite colleges [family tree of donations] that have some Wall Street protesters demanding the rich pay off their student loans.
Depends on the major and the choices you've made. As a career counselor & recruiter since 1983, I can tell you that the difference in incomes between two individuals in the same occupation would amaze you. And you couldn't buffalo me about how much you were making: I was at the state unemployment office and had your earnings information (at least your legal ones) at my fingertips. The highest income I ever saw was a high school graduate who started an insurance company (not an agency, an actual company) and sold it to a French firm.
The flip side, most of these are heavily unionized...
3- Mechanic
Starting salary: $30,584 - $40,564
Want to be the envy of all your worthless liberal arts degree-having friends? Become a mechanic. Being able to fix cars around these people is like having a license to print money. Plus, it’s a damned respectable and professional career choice.
Starting as a mechanic usually involves being an apprentice. You know, how useful education used to be passed along before everyone decided you should have letters after your name?
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Malarky. You can get a job as an oil changer maybe, but this guy must be talking about when people would shade tree repair basic Fords and Chevy’s from 1972.
There is so much electrical and emission crap that goes into cars now, and you need to be certified in some states to even work on emission parts. Not to mention know how to run the codes on the computer hooked up to the system.
While it might need an academic degree, you will be making minimum wage changing tires and oil unless you go get a technical degree. And even this, in this economy (we own an auto repair shop and business SUCKS), people are riding on “check engine” lights as long as they can. People just can’t afford to fix it unless it interfers with their emission test. And even then they will pay the mechanic to clear the code and pass the test.
Of course if you get an engineering degree the sky is the limit..male or female. Then you are easily in the 6 figure category and/or a spin off into sales for the leading telecom or their equipment makers. Those that remained in the category of “employed” are being hired away by competitors for even more money. I have seen it. Start-ups are always after those same people as well.