People with careers; what do you do and how did you/do you get your foot in the door?
Pros and cons?
Salary cap and how much you make?
I'm 18, broke, and don't want to go the useless degree route
People with careers; what do you do and how did you/do you get your foot in the door?
Jacob Baker
Luis Roberts
become a nurse. even if a male. you can get a 2 year degree of science in nursing and become a registered nurse. starts at about $30 an hour. 3 12s a week, unlimited overtime.
Ian Richardson
I work as a data center engineer for a large tech company.
Before working at my current job, worked my way up from customer support to network engineer at an ISP.
No college experience here.
Currently floating around $100k US, but expect to top out somewhere around $150k, but can make jumps to other roles and increase the ceiling.
Charles Taylor
I got a degree. Then I got a graduate job. Attained a lot of professional qualifications from that initial job. Not saying that it's the way to go. It depends what you're good at. Loads of my friends were making a lot more money than me by doing a trade straight after school and doing an apprenticeship. Some of them still do. I'd say, if not university, then whichever trade that you have an aptitude for is the way to go
James Thompson
get some type of trade job, you won't make very much money starting out, but with experience you will start to make more. plus you wont have college debt to pay off
Logan Bailey
Be a radiology tech. It's a 2 year community college associate's degree and they make 50k-ish depending where you live. I woulda done that if someone had told me it existed before I went to a 4 year University.
I got my marketing degree and I make 75k and I'm 27. The kicker is I have 50k of student loan debt. So all that extra money is going down the drain. Much rather make 50k with very little to no student loan debt.
Luis Scott
Get into a trade. Hvac or electrical. Fuck plumbing and carpentry and all the other trades, theyre for mouth breathers. If youre not a complete retard you can get good at hvac and make well over $100k. Ask me how i know
Michael Baker
I got an engineering degree, but didn't want to be an engineer, so stayed in school and got a PhD. Finally had to get a job, moved to software industry (tech support, then management - no coding). Started in 2000 at $60k, 4 jobs/20 yrs later in sr. management, making $130k. My job is easy, sitting through meetings, making informed decisions. No dealing with the public or hard physical labor.
Liam Lewis
Yeah don't get a useless degree, but a useful one, even if it's a trade, trust me. You don't want to be 33 trying to figure out what to do because the whole fucking planet runs on degrees.
Henry Walker
Im 26 and a maintenance mechanic at a hospital and i made $60k last year. Granted, it sucks to be working in a hospital right now. If youre good mechanically, its actually a really easy job. And its secure. Plus if you ever want to leave the hospital, anywhere will take you as a mechanic with hospital experience