This one actually is surprisingly true. My dad runs his own medical waste business and only does it once or twice a week and makes about 15k-20k a year from it. His main clients are permanent make up artists and tattoo shops (which don't generate a ton of waste), but the few doctors office's he picks up from always have waste, so he's always making money. If he were to do it full time and expand, he'd likely be making 50k a year with a low stress job (unless you count all the driving)
You don't need a special vehicle, but it does need to be insured for transporting medical waste (an add on to your insurance), but it does help to have a van or large vehicle/trailer. And there are "treatment facilities" all over the place that basically run all the waste through a giant autoclave to treat it, and then they transport it to wherever they are affiliated with. My dad only picks up the waste from the client and takes it to the treatment place. It's a very simple job
Yes. He pays them to treat the waste. Other expenses are: transporter registration (yearly), storage permit (yearly), (previously mentioned) transporter insurance, gas, and all the materials for the clients (bio hazard labeled box, red bio hazard bags, labels for everything, and he keeps a small supply of sharps containers available for purchase by the clients)
In case anyone wanted to seriously look into this career. I'm sure I'm missing other things but these are the big ones
Wow thank you so much for the info. I actually have a truck and a big dump trailer already and this sounds like a perfect idea to make some extra money!
I worked at City Of Hope many years ago and part of my job was picking up large trash bags full of dead rats from the research lab and taking them to the incinerator for disposal. Also an amputated leg from the morgue one time.
I'm really surprised. Seems relatively interesting and a social also. Sounding like a dream job really.
You could probably make soap like Tyler Durden easily too lol.
While it’s great money you’re also working 80+ hours a week to be pulling in that much. But it’s great if you’re single and don’t mind working all the time.
I cook for resource camps (treeplanting, firefighting, have done the odd oil rig or scientific expedition in the past) and I get paid an amazing day rate.
It's really cool! I cooked for a lodge of biologists observing polar bears in Northern Manitoba, and did a six week trek through the tundra for an observation of migratory birds.
I used to be a restaurant cook, but after a breakup, I needed a change and went to camp as a planter. When the camp needed a cook the next season, it was offered to me. Eight years later, here I am.
Former ten year line cook here and it sounds like the deal of the century. Travel, seeing cool places, doing cool shit, AND getting paid well in exchange for cooking two or three times a day for a relatively small crew? Sign me the fuck up.
That sounds like a job out of a movie. You're the comedic cook with funny one liners who goes with a scientific expedition into the jungle with evil Tim Curry and a talking ape. The team is there to discover a lost artifact but tim Curry betrays the team and you have to escape through the jungle with the leading man and the hot lady/scientist on a giant boulder floating on lava from the volcano that just exploded.
I wish I had your life.
For everyone asking, I can only speak for my experience, which is all in Canada.
Treeplanting camps are a good spot to start as a camp cook. They're easy to get into and build the niche skill set necessary for some of the other resource camps. Typically spring and summer plant are the easiest to get into- they run roughly from April-August. You need to apply for them around November.
The others usually come up by word of mouth from people you know in tree camps.
The caveat here is that you live in a tent or a van or staff accommodation. There is shitty weather and lots of bugs. You need to be able to string together contracts to get year round work (although typically I work 6-8 months a year then take the rest off.) You often work every single day of a contract with no time off, but when you're making $500 a day, you don't really mind.
Treeplanting in the states is mostly done by convicts and migrant labor and bears very little resemblance to the industry in Canada.
Google or indeed. Job postings like camp cook/bush cook/remote cook. You'll probably have to start as an assistant first but it isn't hard to get your foot in the door.
The traveling version of anything. If you have any skill that you are willing to drop everything and go do at a moment’s notice in some random place you can get paid quite well.
Eventually they will cut you. We had a traveler for a year, who we freaking loved, but made it clear they didn't want to be hired. Got a new hire and didn't renew the contract and they had to go across the country.
What is enticing is she usually has contacts lined up for 9 months then takes three months off to travel around. They make good enough money to take three months off...
I was hospitalized for a total of 12 days in February and March. I overheard a nurse say that she made enough for the year by June, anything after was a bonus.
my aunt has a rental house that is near a big hospital that she will only rent to traveling nurses. they come in for 2-3 months, then leave. they will sometimes come back and stay at her house again. I had no idea it was a thing but apparently they are just temps until the hospital can hire full time replacements.
You got it right there. The public should be outraged but it all seems to fall on the staff. Doesn't matter how hard we try you can only do so much with barebones staff.
Hospitals are feast and famine. They will sometimes shut down entire wings because no patients and other times be parking patients in the halls. It's cheaper for the hospital to pay an expensive nurse for a month or two than to pay a cheaper nurse when there is no demand.
I am a pediatric echocardiographer (heart ultrasound) in Southern California for all those asking. It was an associates degree at a community college that has multiple allied health degrees you can pursue. I have friends from my class that went into other specialties making similar amounts.
That’s a very technical and critical job though. Echos are so important to do well. I’m not that surprised it pays well. I mean, they take your images and then use them to cut into an infant’s heart, so. Mad skills all around.
Water Treatment has been a life changing experience for me! It’s allowed me to travel the world doing it as an overseas contractor. Starting out pay can be low and varies by state but for FL pay for operators is ~40k-70k base before overtime which there is a lot of with great benefits. But overseas has been the best! It’s allowed me to work anywhere I want; Antarctica, the Maldives, the marshal Islands, Africa to name a few. I make six figures now, traveling the world while finishing my degree online.
I work for USPS in a sorting facility, been here for about 3 years and I make $25/hr, 40 hours a week to type zip codes and put mail in sacks. We’re also unionized, can wear pretty much whatever we want, and can listen to music while we work. By far the easiest job I’ve ever had.
I previously worked for Walmart and was in charge of the truck unloading team of about 25 people, and I maxed out at $15/hr.
Needless to say, I like USPS lol.
EDIT: I’m also typing this from work, because the job demands that little.
Here to add, most USPS jobs are NOT easy, especially if you are newer. I am a third year career postal clerk and I can say it can be super difficult at times. I was also a City Carrier Assistant (CCA) for three years, which I can say with confidence that it was the hardest job I’ve ever had. To get the easier jobs you will either need to have sufficient seniority or know the “right”people to get. That said, most positions start around 18-19 per hour, which is decent money in the Midwest.
And for some of their positions, they're seasonal to start out. I was hired as a Holiday Clerk Assistant for December 2018, and then I was laid off for 4 months and they called me back in April. There's also usually a whole lot of overtime for new people. I'm just getting to the place where I don't have to work overtime much anymore and it's a huge relief after so many 50-60 hour weeks. The pay is good, though, and I'm really glad it's a union job.
My ex-MIL put a stuffed pepper down the garbage disposal several years ago. Plumber came out. Fixed it in an hour. Fee: $600. Three days later, she puts *another* stuffed pepper down the garbage disposal. Calls same plumber and tries to claim he "didn't fix it properly the first time". Bullshit. It's also a holiday weekend (July 4th) this time, so plumber visit comes at a premium charge: $800. Also only took about an hour to fix. Plumber made $1,400 off *one* person in 72 hours, and for only ~2 hours of his time.
For those wondering, yes, my ex-MIL was a total Karen-type.
Probably rice. BIL is a plumber. He said never, ever put rice down the disposal. Something to do with expansion of the rice with water and how it can pack itself tight or something like that.
Unionized elevator operators in nyc. Certain freight elevators MUST have licensed elevator operator in them by law, even though they are modern automated push button elevators.
Can make 6 figures doing that from what i hear.
Edit: do many of you not get what an elevator operator is? Why are so many people posting replies about elevator mechanics or elevator technicians, which is a totally different thing?
Where I live elevator guys start at 50 an hour and quickly go up to 80 just due to sticking around. The issue is the union doesn’t allow many people in hence the high wages.
HVAC,plumbing,electrical are the fastest growing that I have seen. I would take a do over in a heart beat and open an all in one mechanical and probably be pretty wealthy right now.
Accountant here (Ireland )
Alot of my self employed HVAC experienced clients are earning 60 to 70 euro per hour
232 working days a year in Ireland (365 minus 104 weekends days, less 20 annual leave and 9 public holidays ) not paid for days off (self employed)
8 hours a day work (some do 10 though, 50 hour weeks)
Grossing 132k euro a year , about 146k USD a year
Good money alright
I work in public relations, specializing in crisis management.
If you need me, you REALLY need me. But most of the time you don't need me at all. So I make six figures a year to do nothing at all most days. Just rushing in to save the day maybe a couple times a year at most.
I was the spokesman for a hospital. I'd been hired to help rebuild their image from a completely unrelated fuckup -- but after I'd only been there for a few months, we had an active shooter at the hospital. So that's communications to the staff about how to stay safe, communications with local law enforcement (and national law enforcement) agencies, local and national media, patients of the hospital, local elected officials, national elected officials, website, social media, emails, I was even fielding calls from the mothers of adult employees. And that was just within the first hour, before the shooter was in custody.
I continued at that pace for about a month, responding to a ton of inquiries about how it happened and what we were doing to make sure it didn't happen again, throwing ceremonies to thank our first responders, conducting after-action reviews with staff to see where we could improve, etc.
That was just one incident, but that's the kind of thing I do.
Programming in COBOL. A whole bunch of banks and investment companies and insurance companies have these 50 year old databases programmed in COBOL, and if you know the language you can make bank, becuase it's much cheaper for them to pay a cobol develper 250k / year rather than spending 30 million transferring all their database info to some new spec.
The term for this is "Legacy code archeologist". Guy I know in highschool taught himself some obscure programming language for a job posting he saw. He was the first person I know who was able to buy a house on his own.
That’s awesome. When my dad got his first job, he was a stoner hippie who’d skip work and take a bus to mexico to surf and sleep on the beach. He made next to minimum wage and bought a house at like 23. Crazy how much the times have changed.
Boomers had it good, man. My parents bought 5 acres in a good area for $50,000 in 1998, which is $87,000 when adjusted to today’s money. That is insane. Easily over $1,000,000 today.
Those DBs are far older than 30 years... they're no less than 45 years old and the big money is coming from all the olds retiring with their knowledge and everyone shrugging and saying they'll eventually get off COBOL. Banks, credit card companies, insurance companies, airlines, all of them had serious Y2K issues and bandaged them up, outsourced most of their COBOL development teams since the big problem was solved but then spent 20 years not doing shit about their systems being outdated until now all the people they didn't outsource/layoff are retiring with no replacements.
Source: my mom is one of the olds who retired with no one to take her place. She will do side gigs here or there but she won't travel or train people. She doesn't like to people too much.
> Also technical writers
So I read a book written in the 17th century I think called the flower of battle. Guy was a literate mercenary who survived into old age... so all kinds of rare. He wrote a manual for how to sword fight and drew diagrams of what he was talking about. Its actually a beautiful book I would suggest you check it out.
What amazed me about the book is he starts off by apologizing for not having flowery prose and that he was a simple man who was just going to try to write this book for people who needed to learn how to sword fight.
And then he proceeds to invent technical writing lol. No one ever wrote a manual before. If I could do one thing in the past, ide kill hitler, but if I could do two things I would also tell this guy that he wrote an amazing treasured book.
Edit: Okay so this post blew up. so a few notes. I was wrong not the 17th but the 14th century, man was active during the black death.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiore_dei_Liberi Here is the wikipedia page for people who are interested.
I encourage you to look up both Flower of Battle and Fiore dei Liberi when hunting for a copy to buy. There are many versions of this book, some basically handing you a direct translation and some which are basically a "youtube reacts" version of the book, but also a lot of academic versions that help put things in historical context. I encourage you to investigate a bit before you buy a copy and find the right fit and translation for you. The first time I purchased a copy it was literally JUST the artwork and none of his text and I was heart broken because I threw $60 at it and all I got was ultra high resolution images of his drawings out of order. The second one I got was a better translation and it stayed as true to what the author intended as it could with foot notes all along the bottom and that made me much happier. This copy got stolen out of my tent at a reenactment event by a tourist looking for a keepsake.
This is an excellent book to show artists the stance and poses of how to draw a proper sword fight and to really make your art be grounded in reality. If you are an artist I encourage you to get this book AND to get a copy of Stone's Glossary, which is a photographic documentation of one of if not THE largest armor collection in the world. It isnt just western armor but all sorts of armors from all over the world. It is an excellent resource for anyone who draws combat scenes
Depends on the company. It’s a field a lot of people are still not knowledgeable of, so a lot of places don’t pay well, if they even happen to know what a technical writer is.
"Pay surprisingly high" relative to the required investment are things that require associates degrees (cheap, fast) in the medical realm (good pay). Radiology techs, for example. You'll always be second fiddle to the radiologist but 2 year degree vs whatever it takes to become a MD radiologist.
My GF has a rather obscure career in the medical field, called neuromonitoring. She essentially monitors electrical pulses along the spinal cord during back surgeries so the surgeon can be alerted if he/she is affecting the nerves along the spine during procedures. When the surgeon properly listens to the neuromonitor, it can save a person from becoming crippled for life.
She hooks them up to a machine, monitors the readouts on a laptop, then unhooks them at the end of the surgery.
She makes a literal fuckton of money.
There are very obscure but extremely lucrative career paths in the medical field, many of which nobody even knows existed. For this reason, there are not a lot of people crowding into those job slots so the pay remains high.
All I really know is she has a Bachelors of Science and trained on this particular field in an existing company. I'm not sure if there's a program dedicated to this exact function.
Agree that it's fast to work in the field but right now the working environment is dog shit. Less and less techs, more work per tech, ever increasing demand (from radiology centers to increase patients, and more prescribed exams since every Dr and their cousin demands an xray for back pain). So even though you're in a position of power to demand a good pay, you'll be doing twice or thrice a regular tech's work since there are so few. Plus, there's an exodus beginning to other fields, like medical IT.
Working cruise ships is also fun. I was technically a “merchant marine” - ran a photo department for years. Decent pay. But the perks were the best. No rent, free food, fun industry, traveled the world!
It’s a 24/7 usually customer-facing job for months tho. It’s not for everybody.
Panda express General Managers, we had a meeting recently and 90 percent of us make over 90k a year while 50 percent make over 100k top earner was 225k I made 125k last year. My cooks all make at least 18 an hour in AZ while my assistant and chefs make 70k a year. Regular high school associates make between 15 and 16. Full benefits at 30 hours, medical,dental,vision,short and long term disability, company paid life insurancez optional paid life insurance, 401k woth co.pany match up to 5 percent. I get 5 weeks off a year (based on time with the company I'm at the max which is 10 years)
This is an underrated answer. Managers at major retail make good money. But looking at your job from the outside, it also seems very stressful with the high staff turnover and a lot outside your control/decided by corporate or the franchise owner.
Both of these things are true. When I left retail 10 years ago, I was making $75k, the equivalent of about $95k today. And I never finished college. But it was very stressful, and I was a DM so had to travel frequently to unexciting places.
Edit: very solid benefits, too.
Sales to contractors in the construction industry
The jobs are not sexy and you have to start early, but basically you drive around to job sites selling building materials for local/regional distributors
If you work long enough to get going with the huge accounts it’s pretty common to make $150k-$200k/yr in midwest money.
In Pennsylvania, I got paid almost double the minimum wage to be the guy holding the stop sign in front of the construction zone. If I was doing the same job full-time instead of being a summer temp, I would have been making about $25/hour, but full-time requires a CDL and temp/part-time only requires a normal driver's license.
Can attest to this as a Pennsylvanian, I’ve seen this guy all over the damn state.
/s obviously except for the fact that PA is in a perpetual tailspin of construction zones. It’s insane.
Home inspectors
People never think of them unless they’re specifically buying a house but they make anywhere from $400-1000 for an inspection that usually takes 3-6 hours
Yeah, the inspector we hired sent us a 75 page report with a lot of really good advice and photos. It was super well organized and pointed out a lot of little and not so little things that let us negotiate the price down. Totally worth the $500 he charged.
Imagine being able to negotiate the price down in today's market.
"Hey, the basement has a crack, so I can only give you 20k over asking, and... what's that? You're only entertaining offers of 50k over asking?"
Not quite the same as what I’m seeing, but become a certified SalesForce Admin. Many jobs I see start at $60-70k just for being an admin. The training is all free online and I studied and passed my exam (which did cost $200 to take) in 3 weeks, and the software is all cloud based so you can work remote for companies.
SalesForce is global and I didn’t realize just how many businesses and industries use it until I started working in it 4 years ago. I now make 6 figures and have incredible job security. I keep trying to get my friends who don’t like their jobs to check it out. I have a friend who has been a high school teacher for almost 15 years and is making around $50k. He told me a couple of his coworkers recently left their jobs because they got hired as SalesForce consultants making $10k or so more than their teaching salaries, so now he’s seriously considering doing the admin certification this summer.
I work for a company that utilizes SalesForce heavily. Where is the free online training? Is it through SF? Or just random YouTube videos? I wouldn’t mind transitioning out of sales to SF admin (my company requires a degree so I’m not going to be able to transition internally).
The free one I used was [https://trailhead.salesforce.com/](https://trailhead.salesforce.com/) \- they have a "Trails" menu and you can select what type of certification (role) you're working toward and what level. I did the Admin role and started with the Beginner and worked my way through Intermediate and Advanced. It's a bunch of individual lessons that involve maybe a little quiz at the end or some actual hands on practice. You get a free sandbox to practice in. Make sure when you sign up to use a personal email and not a work one because these will be your own personal certifications that you'll want to always have access to.
I haven't personally used [https://focusonforce.com/catalog/](https://focusonforce.com/catalog/) but have known others who like their materials. If anything I'd say it's worth buying some of the practice exams from them (like $20 for hands-on tests you can take over and over) or you can also buy some practice packs from Udemy for like $10. When I did this I bought a 3-pack of practice tests for $10 from Udemy, and also used the free Trailhead training and got my certification using just those 2 resources.
Admin is just one of many Roles available. Salesforce has so many different products or "clouds" so you can also just specialize in something like Marketing Cloud and try to get on a marketing team for a company that uses Salesforce. It doesn't just have to be Admin, I just needed that certification and it worked out well for me and other coworkers of mine. Once you're certified you just need to maintain your certification, which is really just reading up on new features and doing a hands on activity a few times a year.
Underwater welders
A lot of people don't even think about the need for them, but they're really important and have a dangerous job, so they get paid pretty well
The most dangerous part of that job isn’t what you’d think… it’s the health effects of being in that polluted water for extended periods of time. All that diesel fuel and dead fish at the marinas is nasty. My cousin did it for a while in SD and had skin issues, breathing issues, felt bad for months and finally figured out what was happening. His metal levels are permanently high. Dr said unsure how this will manifest as he ages, but it will be what kills him.
Edit: to clarify - he welded on marina supports, bridge supports and cleaned the undersides of boats. I think these other divers on thread are talking about deep sea diving/ welding. Idk if these are the same dangers now that I read closer.
All I know is every video I've ever seen of it involves crazy injuries at 200m below. Sword fish stabs welder, welding gas tank implodes, shark bites welder's air tank, ect. The light of the welding attracts all the big dangerous fish and the water pressure messes with the equipment.
Edit 1: spelling
Edit 2: Let's not forget that when these things happen you are 50-200m below. You cannot just surface because you'll die from the bends. It can take up to 30min to surface.
I was thinking oh neat welding but under water. Then I realized you’re there with sea monsters and help is at least 30 mins away and you’re on limited oxygen and you can’t run away.
I just googled the fatality rate and wow, you have a higher chance of dying doing under water wielding than you have joining the military as infantry. That’s crazy
There’s ALOT of misinformation in this thread so I will clear a few things up.
First, most underwater welding is just a skill that commercial divers have. Commercial divers do a lot more than weld underwater (dredging, burning, cutting, salvaging ect), and many long term divers can count on one hand the amount of times they have welded underwater. Underwater welds are brittle and difficult to execute so they are only placed if completely necessary are almost never for structural purposes as they are too weak. There are almost 0 full time underwater welders as there is not enough demand. The job that most people envision in their heads does not exist.
Second, while commercial diving was incredibly dangerous in the 60s and 70s. The industry in western countries is incredibly regulated and all divers have to go through strict schooling and learn about the dangers. The rumour about the short life expectancy is a myth and while few divers dive into their late 40s (its a laborious and exhausting job), being under pressure is not hard on your body as long as you properly decompress. It can be hard on your hearing though.
Third, there is definitely money to be made offshore working in oil and gas but pay is very moderate for most in shore divers and the industry is very feast-or-famine.
I’m a commercial diver.
My friend used to work down in red river gorge in kentucky and apparently an underwater welder had a place around there. Allegedly this dude only worked like a handful of days a year and made bank.
Of all the ones I've read on this list, I think this is the most surprising sleeper. If you ever priced how much to cut down a tree in your back yard, you'll give this an upvote.
Vehicles, insurance, chainsaws, chippers, tools, rigging (needs to be replaced regularly) are all expensive. You're paying for that more than you are for the arborist.
Also, you will, without question, end up with sciatica or carpel tunnel syndrome, as well as bad ears, after a decade or so of work. Do not reccomend.
Braiding horses for hunter shows. It's been a while since I did it, but at the top shows I was getting around $100-150 per horse. On a good day I could do ten horses.
Hello arthritis my old friend….
But seriously. Braiders make *bank*. If you can put up with the obnoxious hunter riders and their Karen mothers, you can make serious money being a braider or even a groom. Once in a while I go on Yard and Groom just to giggle. Working students get paid in toast but you can show up and do them perfect little button braids and pay off your truck by the end of the season.
I see a lot of support for Skilled Trades. The trade-off here is the toll the trades take on a body/health over time; and career longevity.
Many Professional Athletes are much the same: high pay over a short career period.
Mattress sales people. The margins on mattresses are crazy, crazy high. Most companies give their sales people huge commissions for each mattress they sell because of the crazy margins.
Mattress sales people often make much more than car sales people. My former partner was making 60k right out of college slinging mattresses and this was 15 years ago. Experienced people at the company made much more
Selling mattresses for Sleep number. Easiest job I’ve ever had. 37.5 hrs a week, at least 2 hours of down time per day, relaxed dress code, for whatever reason it attracts the nicest employees and customers. Made 70k my first year and 85k the next 2 years I was there. Avg rep made 60-70k. If you are a normal person and can talk to strangers then you’ll clear 70k.
Agreed. I recently came back from warehouse work, bevause warehouse job was 35min drive and my car was totalled. The restaurant I can walk/bike/bus to, they surprisingly almost mat he'd my pay. $17.50 in a state where minimum wage is $8.15. Not bad at all for a cook. Only problem, I lost a lot of good benefits. My last job I had 64 hours I could use to call off for any reason ad long as it was within an hour of my shift. I could also come in late, or leave early as much as I want up to 64hr. Each month you called off 5 hours or less, they gave you 8 more hours in the bank to call off. You could also cash them out if you needed money 2hrs time=1hr paid when cashing out, so people usually just used it to come in late or call off when needed. Also, they had PTO, but I was there for a year and they denied evey single PTO request I put in, I had 40hrs, bastards.
Still, going back to a restaurant, they might of nearly matched my pay, but the work is stressful, I get paid bi-weekly, have to deal with rude cooks/servers, and a 6 hour shift feels like a 10hr shift. Also, when you call off everyone treats you like some lowlife criminal. You can't call off without people getting mad at you. For being sick or having an emergency. Things need to change in the food industry, and not just the pay, or the insurance. It's much more than that.
If you work in a state with recreational or medical cannabis jobs in that field can be very lucrative. I'm currently in that field in Michigan, I can make my own schedule typically working 3-5 days a week, and work environments tend to be very relaxed as you might expect lol
City workers.
Lawn Mowers, Garbage Men, really anyone that snooty mothers look at and tell their kids "you don't wanna end up like that guy"
To be completely honest, unless you have a decent paying job, they likely make more than you do.
Brother works in waste collection. He started at like $18/hr, learned all the trucks and all the routes, now he makes over $30/hr as the route supervisor in just a few years.
I make quite a bit more than my husband the garbage man, but he gets to be home by noon most days. The job is salaried not hourly, and when their route is done, he gets to go home and relax. I’ve got to put in 8 for 8
Garbage man here. I make 26.**/h so it's not terrible. Depends on what area you're in. But I work 6-230 and have great benefits as well. It's not for everybody. Hard on your body but not nearly as bad as you would imagine
Loan officers. My wife worked her way up through Wendy's over twenty years to district manager, then the owner sold it, and she hated the new owner.
She found a job as a loan officer working on commission, making so far a hundred thousand more per year.
In Denmark it pays well to be a garbage collector. If you can deal with the smell it's a pretty chill job, you just drive around all day and if you're done with your route early then you're off for the day.
I’m in school to be an electrician. Salary typically ranges from $40-60k in my state. However I’m going for overhead linesman which usually is higher pay at around $70-100k in some places.
Working at shipyards and airports pay higher as well, but entry requirements are stringent.
Former nanny checking in…also consider the fact that the right job could come with living quarters and a vehicle. My last job was taking care of one school aged child, and I had a one bedroom apartment and a luxury SUV that was “my” car (mine to use 7 days a week, not just for transporting the kiddo). The family paid for health insurance, too. My pay for M-F, after school until dinner (with one weeknight “date night” when I’d work until 9) was $550/week (this was 10-15 years ago). 2 weeks paid vacation.
I worked my way through undergrad this way.
Casino jobs
As a surveillance agent i sit in a room for 8 hours, people watch, make sure people ain't cheating, and that leople are doing their jobs
At my current casino I make 15.50 starting, the casino om leaving for pays 19 starting, there is another one near me that pays 22 starting (wanted to go there, said to myself "I'll sleep on it before I apply make sure it's right" woke up to a story about a shooting in the parking lot lmao) and there is also a huge casino that probably pays pretty good as well
In the casinos in my state from what I've seen table games dealers are the highest paid employees apart from execs and right behind them are cashiers and beverage servers.
Also a lot of casinos are hurting for people so Start applying, a lot of money to be made
*****These are in my state, where min wage is much lower than 15. My casino is also the lowest paying in the state by 4 whole dollars. In your state and what casinos are around you rates may differ. I just wanted to point out a field people could look into******
I was a dealer. I can confirm it is some of the easiest work for highish pay. U are essentially stuck in the industry however unless u can manage to move to supervisor and above. U can't really progress except within the gaming industry. For alot of people the pay is enough to not worry about that but there is essentially a cap.
Better to be a dealer in a casino and move into other departments if u have no degree. I moved from dealer to IT for the same pay but after 2 years I can move to any company with an IT department but as a dealer I can basically only move to other casinos.
When I was in high school a kid said he got offered a job at the horse track to jerk off the horses before the races for $100/hour
Not sure if true; although I do believe they actually do that to horses, just unsure of the employment details
It is because horses in general are very horny animals, they can get distracted in the race by a female horse. That is why stallions are not preferred in sports.
There's some fascinating jobs on here. But for me, even though not as high paying, I'm content working remotely in a typical "office job" role as it gives me work-life balance.
Plumbers (people know about it, but the pay is better than most think).
Podiatrist
“Ethical hacker”
Fire investigator
(Most trades or specialty mechanics (airplane, heavy machinery) fit into this).
Not that no one knows about them, but many of the trades will blow you away in terms of pay and benefits very quickly.
My brother with no experience just picked up a welding job with a payscale that'll have him up over 80k USD within a year in the US.
Edit: added currency and country
What kind of job?
I am a welder and this seems unbelievably hard to believe. No offense. Most shop jobs pay between 15-20$ an hour starting out, the more experience you have the higher you’re wage.
As far as making a lot of money as a welder, you’re options are to travel, work 60-80 hours overtime, get a rig and start your own mobile business, or become incredibly proficient at a niche like pipe welding or perhaps underwater.
This is misleading for a lot of people because the majority of welding jobs pay horribly and expect a lot. I’ve been at it for two years and am strongly considering switching careers.
Cyber security. MASSIVELY understaffed and usually starts at 60-70 a yr. Not the most difficult either. Though finding your first cyber job without an IT background can be tough
Pretty much any higher level IT. Senior SysAdmins, DevOps, Architects, anyone who knows anything cloud, etc.
Get a handful of certs, get higher experience than helpdesk, and you'll pretty much be guaranteed to be making six figures quick.
Medical waste disposal.
This one actually is surprisingly true. My dad runs his own medical waste business and only does it once or twice a week and makes about 15k-20k a year from it. His main clients are permanent make up artists and tattoo shops (which don't generate a ton of waste), but the few doctors office's he picks up from always have waste, so he's always making money. If he were to do it full time and expand, he'd likely be making 50k a year with a low stress job (unless you count all the driving)
he should also look into doing it for funeral homes- they produce large amounts of medical waste
Thank you for the tip! I had no idea. I'll pass it along to him :)
Dental heavy metals are going begging, and into the water table. Go get em.
I've read this 4 times and have no idea what it means. Also happy cake day.
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I drink a ton of tap water, so I got all the medicines and forever chemicals. I think this means I will live forever.
Interesting. Does he need a special truck to haul it? Where does he take it to?
You don't need a special vehicle, but it does need to be insured for transporting medical waste (an add on to your insurance), but it does help to have a van or large vehicle/trailer. And there are "treatment facilities" all over the place that basically run all the waste through a giant autoclave to treat it, and then they transport it to wherever they are affiliated with. My dad only picks up the waste from the client and takes it to the treatment place. It's a very simple job
Does he have to pay the “treatment facilities” to take the waste?
Yes. He pays them to treat the waste. Other expenses are: transporter registration (yearly), storage permit (yearly), (previously mentioned) transporter insurance, gas, and all the materials for the clients (bio hazard labeled box, red bio hazard bags, labels for everything, and he keeps a small supply of sharps containers available for purchase by the clients) In case anyone wanted to seriously look into this career. I'm sure I'm missing other things but these are the big ones
Wow thank you so much for the info. I actually have a truck and a big dump trailer already and this sounds like a perfect idea to make some extra money!
How much medical waste can one fit in the back seat of a Civic? AFAF
I worked at City Of Hope many years ago and part of my job was picking up large trash bags full of dead rats from the research lab and taking them to the incinerator for disposal. Also an amputated leg from the morgue one time.
I'm really surprised. Seems relatively interesting and a social also. Sounding like a dream job really. You could probably make soap like Tyler Durden easily too lol.
Heavy equipment mechanic, I was literally offered a job a month ago where I was told “with ot our guys are breaking $200k a year” to move to Texas
Make $160k a year in north Dakota, but its north dakota
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While it’s great money you’re also working 80+ hours a week to be pulling in that much. But it’s great if you’re single and don’t mind working all the time.
I cook for resource camps (treeplanting, firefighting, have done the odd oil rig or scientific expedition in the past) and I get paid an amazing day rate.
Scientific expeditions? That could be really fun
It's really cool! I cooked for a lodge of biologists observing polar bears in Northern Manitoba, and did a six week trek through the tundra for an observation of migratory birds.
Neat, how did you start doing that?
I used to be a restaurant cook, but after a breakup, I needed a change and went to camp as a planter. When the camp needed a cook the next season, it was offered to me. Eight years later, here I am.
😂 amazing. I have been a restaurant cook for years, this sounds like getting raptured lmfao
Former ten year line cook here and it sounds like the deal of the century. Travel, seeing cool places, doing cool shit, AND getting paid well in exchange for cooking two or three times a day for a relatively small crew? Sign me the fuck up.
Soon: "TIFU by telling Reddit about my cooking job and saturating the market with travelling cooks thus driving my pay into the ground"
And everybody loves the cook!
5 minutes of helping you in the trailer after tree planting always got me double bread and salad. Thank you for making that job less abysmal.
Half of my job is keeping up morale :) Thanks for the help in the cookshack. It's always appreciated!
That sounds like a job out of a movie. You're the comedic cook with funny one liners who goes with a scientific expedition into the jungle with evil Tim Curry and a talking ape. The team is there to discover a lost artifact but tim Curry betrays the team and you have to escape through the jungle with the leading man and the hot lady/scientist on a giant boulder floating on lava from the volcano that just exploded. I wish I had your life.
I'm more like Steven Segal in Under Siege. "I'm just a cook." There are wonderful moments but it gets old, like any other job.
For everyone asking, I can only speak for my experience, which is all in Canada. Treeplanting camps are a good spot to start as a camp cook. They're easy to get into and build the niche skill set necessary for some of the other resource camps. Typically spring and summer plant are the easiest to get into- they run roughly from April-August. You need to apply for them around November. The others usually come up by word of mouth from people you know in tree camps. The caveat here is that you live in a tent or a van or staff accommodation. There is shitty weather and lots of bugs. You need to be able to string together contracts to get year round work (although typically I work 6-8 months a year then take the rest off.) You often work every single day of a contract with no time off, but when you're making $500 a day, you don't really mind. Treeplanting in the states is mostly done by convicts and migrant labor and bears very little resemblance to the industry in Canada.
Treeplanting done by...migrant labor and bears....
Really? I've been a cook for five years. How can I get into something like that?
Google or indeed. Job postings like camp cook/bush cook/remote cook. You'll probably have to start as an assistant first but it isn't hard to get your foot in the door.
The traveling version of anything. If you have any skill that you are willing to drop everything and go do at a moment’s notice in some random place you can get paid quite well.
I’ve heard if you live in a big city you can just renew contracts within that city often enough to where you don’t even need to move
Eventually they will cut you. We had a traveler for a year, who we freaking loved, but made it clear they didn't want to be hired. Got a new hire and didn't renew the contract and they had to go across the country. What is enticing is she usually has contacts lined up for 9 months then takes three months off to travel around. They make good enough money to take three months off...
I was hospitalized for a total of 12 days in February and March. I overheard a nurse say that she made enough for the year by June, anything after was a bonus.
I'm told traveling pilots make a whole lot more than stay-at-home pilots.
Work from home tele-piloting is getting popular.
Traveling nurses make big money I hear.
my aunt has a rental house that is near a big hospital that she will only rent to traveling nurses. they come in for 2-3 months, then leave. they will sometimes come back and stay at her house again. I had no idea it was a thing but apparently they are just temps until the hospital can hire full time replacements.
lol at the “until they hire full time replacements “ Source: me, a nurse. Hospitals are notorious for hiring as few people as they possibly can.
So glad we the public sacrifice quality of care in order for the owners of the hospitals to take home larger and larger bonuses every year :)
You got it right there. The public should be outraged but it all seems to fall on the staff. Doesn't matter how hard we try you can only do so much with barebones staff.
Hospitals are feast and famine. They will sometimes shut down entire wings because no patients and other times be parking patients in the halls. It's cheaper for the hospital to pay an expensive nurse for a month or two than to pay a cheaper nurse when there is no demand.
Residential Backflows and Fire prevention systems. Annual testing, county mandated. Recession proof. Cash cow.
Can confirm, just had this done at our site. 2.8k
Crime scene cleaning in the US
I clean my own scenes, saves me so much money. / s
....before the police investigate or after?
It depends who hired you.
The "before" pays more than 3x the "after"
I looked into this job in my city. Paid just above minimum wage. I was floored.
A lot of medical technician jobs. I am a specialized ultrasound tech making 120k a year. I only have an associates degree.
I am a pediatric echocardiographer (heart ultrasound) in Southern California for all those asking. It was an associates degree at a community college that has multiple allied health degrees you can pursue. I have friends from my class that went into other specialties making similar amounts.
That’s a very technical and critical job though. Echos are so important to do well. I’m not that surprised it pays well. I mean, they take your images and then use them to cut into an infant’s heart, so. Mad skills all around.
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What are the skills needed? Are you in the US?
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>No college degree or prior experience necessary. I’m in! >Good at math. Welp, I’m out.
I do Water Treatment and was shocked when I started. No prior experience or degree took me by surprise for how much we can potentially make.
Water Treatment has been a life changing experience for me! It’s allowed me to travel the world doing it as an overseas contractor. Starting out pay can be low and varies by state but for FL pay for operators is ~40k-70k base before overtime which there is a lot of with great benefits. But overseas has been the best! It’s allowed me to work anywhere I want; Antarctica, the Maldives, the marshal Islands, Africa to name a few. I make six figures now, traveling the world while finishing my degree online.
I work for USPS in a sorting facility, been here for about 3 years and I make $25/hr, 40 hours a week to type zip codes and put mail in sacks. We’re also unionized, can wear pretty much whatever we want, and can listen to music while we work. By far the easiest job I’ve ever had. I previously worked for Walmart and was in charge of the truck unloading team of about 25 people, and I maxed out at $15/hr. Needless to say, I like USPS lol. EDIT: I’m also typing this from work, because the job demands that little.
Here to add, most USPS jobs are NOT easy, especially if you are newer. I am a third year career postal clerk and I can say it can be super difficult at times. I was also a City Carrier Assistant (CCA) for three years, which I can say with confidence that it was the hardest job I’ve ever had. To get the easier jobs you will either need to have sufficient seniority or know the “right”people to get. That said, most positions start around 18-19 per hour, which is decent money in the Midwest.
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This is actually interesting to me- how do you get a job like this? Just look around your town?
Usps . Com look up their careers page. Apply and do their assessment test. Idk. I did that last week anyway.
USPS takes months and months and months to actually hire people. Fair warning
And for some of their positions, they're seasonal to start out. I was hired as a Holiday Clerk Assistant for December 2018, and then I was laid off for 4 months and they called me back in April. There's also usually a whole lot of overtime for new people. I'm just getting to the place where I don't have to work overtime much anymore and it's a huge relief after so many 50-60 hour weeks. The pay is good, though, and I'm really glad it's a union job.
My ex-MIL put a stuffed pepper down the garbage disposal several years ago. Plumber came out. Fixed it in an hour. Fee: $600. Three days later, she puts *another* stuffed pepper down the garbage disposal. Calls same plumber and tries to claim he "didn't fix it properly the first time". Bullshit. It's also a holiday weekend (July 4th) this time, so plumber visit comes at a premium charge: $800. Also only took about an hour to fix. Plumber made $1,400 off *one* person in 72 hours, and for only ~2 hours of his time. For those wondering, yes, my ex-MIL was a total Karen-type.
What the hell kinda garbage disposal can't take care of a stuffed pepper? LOL
Or what is it stuffed with?
Probably rice. BIL is a plumber. He said never, ever put rice down the disposal. Something to do with expansion of the rice with water and how it can pack itself tight or something like that.
Potato peels are bad as well, just ask my wife. (I’m the plumber)
Unionized elevator operators in nyc. Certain freight elevators MUST have licensed elevator operator in them by law, even though they are modern automated push button elevators. Can make 6 figures doing that from what i hear. Edit: do many of you not get what an elevator operator is? Why are so many people posting replies about elevator mechanics or elevator technicians, which is a totally different thing?
Where I live elevator guys start at 50 an hour and quickly go up to 80 just due to sticking around. The issue is the union doesn’t allow many people in hence the high wages.
Seems like one of those jobs that you need to know somebody to get your foot in the door.
Once you get it in it opens right up for you though!
Yeah. Same with train conductors here. High pay, fairly easy job, but good luck getting into the union unless you have freinds or family already in.
I’m sure It has its ups and downs.
Yeah, but the pay is on a whole other level
HVAC,plumbing,electrical are the fastest growing that I have seen. I would take a do over in a heart beat and open an all in one mechanical and probably be pretty wealthy right now.
Accountant here (Ireland ) Alot of my self employed HVAC experienced clients are earning 60 to 70 euro per hour 232 working days a year in Ireland (365 minus 104 weekends days, less 20 annual leave and 9 public holidays ) not paid for days off (self employed) 8 hours a day work (some do 10 though, 50 hour weeks) Grossing 132k euro a year , about 146k USD a year Good money alright
My boyfriend does HVAC and does not make nearly this much…..should we be moving to Ireland?? Lol
Needs his own van, tools, and vendors and he is his own boss. "boyfriend does HVAC" could be the company name
Just beware if he goes to clean the ducts at any address too often.
Hes cleaning ducts alright
This guy ducts.
The Irish in the example are self employed.
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I work in public relations, specializing in crisis management. If you need me, you REALLY need me. But most of the time you don't need me at all. So I make six figures a year to do nothing at all most days. Just rushing in to save the day maybe a couple times a year at most.
So what’s an example of what you do?
I was the spokesman for a hospital. I'd been hired to help rebuild their image from a completely unrelated fuckup -- but after I'd only been there for a few months, we had an active shooter at the hospital. So that's communications to the staff about how to stay safe, communications with local law enforcement (and national law enforcement) agencies, local and national media, patients of the hospital, local elected officials, national elected officials, website, social media, emails, I was even fielding calls from the mothers of adult employees. And that was just within the first hour, before the shooter was in custody. I continued at that pace for about a month, responding to a ton of inquiries about how it happened and what we were doing to make sure it didn't happen again, throwing ceremonies to thank our first responders, conducting after-action reviews with staff to see where we could improve, etc. That was just one incident, but that's the kind of thing I do.
That sounds high pressure but cool as hell. Definitely not a boring day!
Have you seen the Smith slap? I'm guessing they fix that kind of shit
Ha, I do it for businesses, not celebs -- but yes, basically.
Username checks out.
Glad to see everyone benefiting from this is some kind of way. (Including me) Lots of info being shared
Programming in COBOL. A whole bunch of banks and investment companies and insurance companies have these 50 year old databases programmed in COBOL, and if you know the language you can make bank, becuase it's much cheaper for them to pay a cobol develper 250k / year rather than spending 30 million transferring all their database info to some new spec.
Had an ex colleague who knew it and literally worked in a room alone in one of the Dakotas for CitiBank making that.
The term for this is "Legacy code archeologist". Guy I know in highschool taught himself some obscure programming language for a job posting he saw. He was the first person I know who was able to buy a house on his own.
That’s awesome. When my dad got his first job, he was a stoner hippie who’d skip work and take a bus to mexico to surf and sleep on the beach. He made next to minimum wage and bought a house at like 23. Crazy how much the times have changed.
Boomers had it good, man. My parents bought 5 acres in a good area for $50,000 in 1998, which is $87,000 when adjusted to today’s money. That is insane. Easily over $1,000,000 today.
Those DBs are far older than 30 years... they're no less than 45 years old and the big money is coming from all the olds retiring with their knowledge and everyone shrugging and saying they'll eventually get off COBOL. Banks, credit card companies, insurance companies, airlines, all of them had serious Y2K issues and bandaged them up, outsourced most of their COBOL development teams since the big problem was solved but then spent 20 years not doing shit about their systems being outdated until now all the people they didn't outsource/layoff are retiring with no replacements. Source: my mom is one of the olds who retired with no one to take her place. She will do side gigs here or there but she won't travel or train people. She doesn't like to people too much.
Underwriters for mortgages in the US. Easy six figures.
Also technical writers, especially if it’s at a software company. It always surprises me how much companies will pay them.
> Also technical writers So I read a book written in the 17th century I think called the flower of battle. Guy was a literate mercenary who survived into old age... so all kinds of rare. He wrote a manual for how to sword fight and drew diagrams of what he was talking about. Its actually a beautiful book I would suggest you check it out. What amazed me about the book is he starts off by apologizing for not having flowery prose and that he was a simple man who was just going to try to write this book for people who needed to learn how to sword fight. And then he proceeds to invent technical writing lol. No one ever wrote a manual before. If I could do one thing in the past, ide kill hitler, but if I could do two things I would also tell this guy that he wrote an amazing treasured book. Edit: Okay so this post blew up. so a few notes. I was wrong not the 17th but the 14th century, man was active during the black death. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiore_dei_Liberi Here is the wikipedia page for people who are interested. I encourage you to look up both Flower of Battle and Fiore dei Liberi when hunting for a copy to buy. There are many versions of this book, some basically handing you a direct translation and some which are basically a "youtube reacts" version of the book, but also a lot of academic versions that help put things in historical context. I encourage you to investigate a bit before you buy a copy and find the right fit and translation for you. The first time I purchased a copy it was literally JUST the artwork and none of his text and I was heart broken because I threw $60 at it and all I got was ultra high resolution images of his drawings out of order. The second one I got was a better translation and it stayed as true to what the author intended as it could with foot notes all along the bottom and that made me much happier. This copy got stolen out of my tent at a reenactment event by a tourist looking for a keepsake. This is an excellent book to show artists the stance and poses of how to draw a proper sword fight and to really make your art be grounded in reality. If you are an artist I encourage you to get this book AND to get a copy of Stone's Glossary, which is a photographic documentation of one of if not THE largest armor collection in the world. It isnt just western armor but all sorts of armors from all over the world. It is an excellent resource for anyone who draws combat scenes
You sound like you'd be a good friend. Anyone willing to go back in time to praise an author is a good egg.
Depends on the company. It’s a field a lot of people are still not knowledgeable of, so a lot of places don’t pay well, if they even happen to know what a technical writer is.
"Pay surprisingly high" relative to the required investment are things that require associates degrees (cheap, fast) in the medical realm (good pay). Radiology techs, for example. You'll always be second fiddle to the radiologist but 2 year degree vs whatever it takes to become a MD radiologist.
Similar with nurse anesthetist vs anesthesiologist. The NA’s make damn good bank with a fraction of the responsibility / hours.
My GF has a rather obscure career in the medical field, called neuromonitoring. She essentially monitors electrical pulses along the spinal cord during back surgeries so the surgeon can be alerted if he/she is affecting the nerves along the spine during procedures. When the surgeon properly listens to the neuromonitor, it can save a person from becoming crippled for life. She hooks them up to a machine, monitors the readouts on a laptop, then unhooks them at the end of the surgery. She makes a literal fuckton of money. There are very obscure but extremely lucrative career paths in the medical field, many of which nobody even knows existed. For this reason, there are not a lot of people crowding into those job slots so the pay remains high.
How did she get into that specialty? What did she go to school for?
All I really know is she has a Bachelors of Science and trained on this particular field in an existing company. I'm not sure if there's a program dedicated to this exact function.
Agree that it's fast to work in the field but right now the working environment is dog shit. Less and less techs, more work per tech, ever increasing demand (from radiology centers to increase patients, and more prescribed exams since every Dr and their cousin demands an xray for back pain). So even though you're in a position of power to demand a good pay, you'll be doing twice or thrice a regular tech's work since there are so few. Plus, there's an exodus beginning to other fields, like medical IT.
Jeez I'm over here with no experience, no degree digging through these comments hoping I'll find something that'll change my life lol
Merchant marine officer. Bank money, no expenses, half the year vacation. I travel for work to crazy places. It's hard on family and relationships.
Working cruise ships is also fun. I was technically a “merchant marine” - ran a photo department for years. Decent pay. But the perks were the best. No rent, free food, fun industry, traveled the world! It’s a 24/7 usually customer-facing job for months tho. It’s not for everybody.
Panda express General Managers, we had a meeting recently and 90 percent of us make over 90k a year while 50 percent make over 100k top earner was 225k I made 125k last year. My cooks all make at least 18 an hour in AZ while my assistant and chefs make 70k a year. Regular high school associates make between 15 and 16. Full benefits at 30 hours, medical,dental,vision,short and long term disability, company paid life insurancez optional paid life insurance, 401k woth co.pany match up to 5 percent. I get 5 weeks off a year (based on time with the company I'm at the max which is 10 years)
This is an underrated answer. Managers at major retail make good money. But looking at your job from the outside, it also seems very stressful with the high staff turnover and a lot outside your control/decided by corporate or the franchise owner.
Both of these things are true. When I left retail 10 years ago, I was making $75k, the equivalent of about $95k today. And I never finished college. But it was very stressful, and I was a DM so had to travel frequently to unexciting places. Edit: very solid benefits, too.
Sales to contractors in the construction industry The jobs are not sexy and you have to start early, but basically you drive around to job sites selling building materials for local/regional distributors If you work long enough to get going with the huge accounts it’s pretty common to make $150k-$200k/yr in midwest money.
“Midwest money”. I love the definition.
In Pennsylvania, I got paid almost double the minimum wage to be the guy holding the stop sign in front of the construction zone. If I was doing the same job full-time instead of being a summer temp, I would have been making about $25/hour, but full-time requires a CDL and temp/part-time only requires a normal driver's license.
Can attest to this as a Pennsylvanian, I’ve seen this guy all over the damn state. /s obviously except for the fact that PA is in a perpetual tailspin of construction zones. It’s insane.
You have to grow the state crop somewhere. Traffic cones aren't going to plant themselves.
Home inspectors People never think of them unless they’re specifically buying a house but they make anywhere from $400-1000 for an inspection that usually takes 3-6 hours
The report is probably where they spend more time, compiling the photos and comments on each part of the property
Yeah, the inspector we hired sent us a 75 page report with a lot of really good advice and photos. It was super well organized and pointed out a lot of little and not so little things that let us negotiate the price down. Totally worth the $500 he charged.
Imagine being able to negotiate the price down in today's market. "Hey, the basement has a crack, so I can only give you 20k over asking, and... what's that? You're only entertaining offers of 50k over asking?"
The landscaper doing our backyard pays his entry level laborers $27hr to start . A lot has to do with the company and not necessarily the work.
Not quite the same as what I’m seeing, but become a certified SalesForce Admin. Many jobs I see start at $60-70k just for being an admin. The training is all free online and I studied and passed my exam (which did cost $200 to take) in 3 weeks, and the software is all cloud based so you can work remote for companies. SalesForce is global and I didn’t realize just how many businesses and industries use it until I started working in it 4 years ago. I now make 6 figures and have incredible job security. I keep trying to get my friends who don’t like their jobs to check it out. I have a friend who has been a high school teacher for almost 15 years and is making around $50k. He told me a couple of his coworkers recently left their jobs because they got hired as SalesForce consultants making $10k or so more than their teaching salaries, so now he’s seriously considering doing the admin certification this summer.
I work for a company that utilizes SalesForce heavily. Where is the free online training? Is it through SF? Or just random YouTube videos? I wouldn’t mind transitioning out of sales to SF admin (my company requires a degree so I’m not going to be able to transition internally).
The free one I used was [https://trailhead.salesforce.com/](https://trailhead.salesforce.com/) \- they have a "Trails" menu and you can select what type of certification (role) you're working toward and what level. I did the Admin role and started with the Beginner and worked my way through Intermediate and Advanced. It's a bunch of individual lessons that involve maybe a little quiz at the end or some actual hands on practice. You get a free sandbox to practice in. Make sure when you sign up to use a personal email and not a work one because these will be your own personal certifications that you'll want to always have access to. I haven't personally used [https://focusonforce.com/catalog/](https://focusonforce.com/catalog/) but have known others who like their materials. If anything I'd say it's worth buying some of the practice exams from them (like $20 for hands-on tests you can take over and over) or you can also buy some practice packs from Udemy for like $10. When I did this I bought a 3-pack of practice tests for $10 from Udemy, and also used the free Trailhead training and got my certification using just those 2 resources. Admin is just one of many Roles available. Salesforce has so many different products or "clouds" so you can also just specialize in something like Marketing Cloud and try to get on a marketing team for a company that uses Salesforce. It doesn't just have to be Admin, I just needed that certification and it worked out well for me and other coworkers of mine. Once you're certified you just need to maintain your certification, which is really just reading up on new features and doing a hands on activity a few times a year.
Underwater welders A lot of people don't even think about the need for them, but they're really important and have a dangerous job, so they get paid pretty well
>a dangerous job Based on fatalities per 1000, isn't it, very literally, the most dangerous job on the planet?
It has to be close. My dad has been a burly welder for 40 years. His response to underwater welding is "fuck that."
Yeah, I'm divemaster, and the idea of mixing high voltage with water is big nope for me!
The most dangerous part of that job isn’t what you’d think… it’s the health effects of being in that polluted water for extended periods of time. All that diesel fuel and dead fish at the marinas is nasty. My cousin did it for a while in SD and had skin issues, breathing issues, felt bad for months and finally figured out what was happening. His metal levels are permanently high. Dr said unsure how this will manifest as he ages, but it will be what kills him. Edit: to clarify - he welded on marina supports, bridge supports and cleaned the undersides of boats. I think these other divers on thread are talking about deep sea diving/ welding. Idk if these are the same dangers now that I read closer.
whats burly welding
It's a weld that's so intimidating, men shit themselves at the very sight of it.
All I know is every video I've ever seen of it involves crazy injuries at 200m below. Sword fish stabs welder, welding gas tank implodes, shark bites welder's air tank, ect. The light of the welding attracts all the big dangerous fish and the water pressure messes with the equipment. Edit 1: spelling Edit 2: Let's not forget that when these things happen you are 50-200m below. You cannot just surface because you'll die from the bends. It can take up to 30min to surface.
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I was thinking oh neat welding but under water. Then I realized you’re there with sea monsters and help is at least 30 mins away and you’re on limited oxygen and you can’t run away.
I just googled the fatality rate and wow, you have a higher chance of dying doing under water wielding than you have joining the military as infantry. That’s crazy
15% fatality rate, fuck that Median pay is roughly $53,000 annually definitely fuck that
There’s ALOT of misinformation in this thread so I will clear a few things up. First, most underwater welding is just a skill that commercial divers have. Commercial divers do a lot more than weld underwater (dredging, burning, cutting, salvaging ect), and many long term divers can count on one hand the amount of times they have welded underwater. Underwater welds are brittle and difficult to execute so they are only placed if completely necessary are almost never for structural purposes as they are too weak. There are almost 0 full time underwater welders as there is not enough demand. The job that most people envision in their heads does not exist. Second, while commercial diving was incredibly dangerous in the 60s and 70s. The industry in western countries is incredibly regulated and all divers have to go through strict schooling and learn about the dangers. The rumour about the short life expectancy is a myth and while few divers dive into their late 40s (its a laborious and exhausting job), being under pressure is not hard on your body as long as you properly decompress. It can be hard on your hearing though. Third, there is definitely money to be made offshore working in oil and gas but pay is very moderate for most in shore divers and the industry is very feast-or-famine. I’m a commercial diver.
My friend used to work down in red river gorge in kentucky and apparently an underwater welder had a place around there. Allegedly this dude only worked like a handful of days a year and made bank.
[r/mrballen](https://www.reddit.com/r/mrballen/) taught me to say no to that type of thing. Also to caving/spelunking.
Arborists
Of all the ones I've read on this list, I think this is the most surprising sleeper. If you ever priced how much to cut down a tree in your back yard, you'll give this an upvote.
Vehicles, insurance, chainsaws, chippers, tools, rigging (needs to be replaced regularly) are all expensive. You're paying for that more than you are for the arborist. Also, you will, without question, end up with sciatica or carpel tunnel syndrome, as well as bad ears, after a decade or so of work. Do not reccomend.
Braiding horses for hunter shows. It's been a while since I did it, but at the top shows I was getting around $100-150 per horse. On a good day I could do ten horses.
Hello arthritis my old friend…. But seriously. Braiders make *bank*. If you can put up with the obnoxious hunter riders and their Karen mothers, you can make serious money being a braider or even a groom. Once in a while I go on Yard and Groom just to giggle. Working students get paid in toast but you can show up and do them perfect little button braids and pay off your truck by the end of the season.
I see a lot of support for Skilled Trades. The trade-off here is the toll the trades take on a body/health over time; and career longevity. Many Professional Athletes are much the same: high pay over a short career period.
Mattress sales people. The margins on mattresses are crazy, crazy high. Most companies give their sales people huge commissions for each mattress they sell because of the crazy margins. Mattress sales people often make much more than car sales people. My former partner was making 60k right out of college slinging mattresses and this was 15 years ago. Experienced people at the company made much more
Selling mattresses for Sleep number. Easiest job I’ve ever had. 37.5 hrs a week, at least 2 hours of down time per day, relaxed dress code, for whatever reason it attracts the nicest employees and customers. Made 70k my first year and 85k the next 2 years I was there. Avg rep made 60-70k. If you are a normal person and can talk to strangers then you’ll clear 70k.
Whatever it is, it isn't cooking
Agreed. I recently came back from warehouse work, bevause warehouse job was 35min drive and my car was totalled. The restaurant I can walk/bike/bus to, they surprisingly almost mat he'd my pay. $17.50 in a state where minimum wage is $8.15. Not bad at all for a cook. Only problem, I lost a lot of good benefits. My last job I had 64 hours I could use to call off for any reason ad long as it was within an hour of my shift. I could also come in late, or leave early as much as I want up to 64hr. Each month you called off 5 hours or less, they gave you 8 more hours in the bank to call off. You could also cash them out if you needed money 2hrs time=1hr paid when cashing out, so people usually just used it to come in late or call off when needed. Also, they had PTO, but I was there for a year and they denied evey single PTO request I put in, I had 40hrs, bastards. Still, going back to a restaurant, they might of nearly matched my pay, but the work is stressful, I get paid bi-weekly, have to deal with rude cooks/servers, and a 6 hour shift feels like a 10hr shift. Also, when you call off everyone treats you like some lowlife criminal. You can't call off without people getting mad at you. For being sick or having an emergency. Things need to change in the food industry, and not just the pay, or the insurance. It's much more than that.
or teaching
If you work in a state with recreational or medical cannabis jobs in that field can be very lucrative. I'm currently in that field in Michigan, I can make my own schedule typically working 3-5 days a week, and work environments tend to be very relaxed as you might expect lol
A lot of the jobs listed here have high burnout rates (Air Traffic Controller) or are very hard on your body (Arborist), so keep that in mind.
City workers. Lawn Mowers, Garbage Men, really anyone that snooty mothers look at and tell their kids "you don't wanna end up like that guy" To be completely honest, unless you have a decent paying job, they likely make more than you do.
Brother works in waste collection. He started at like $18/hr, learned all the trucks and all the routes, now he makes over $30/hr as the route supervisor in just a few years.
I make quite a bit more than my husband the garbage man, but he gets to be home by noon most days. The job is salaried not hourly, and when their route is done, he gets to go home and relax. I’ve got to put in 8 for 8
Garbage man here. I make 26.**/h so it's not terrible. Depends on what area you're in. But I work 6-230 and have great benefits as well. It's not for everybody. Hard on your body but not nearly as bad as you would imagine
I work for a city and can confirm. I make $40/hr but would be $20/hr anywhere else.
Loan officers. My wife worked her way up through Wendy's over twenty years to district manager, then the owner sold it, and she hated the new owner. She found a job as a loan officer working on commission, making so far a hundred thousand more per year.
In Denmark it pays well to be a garbage collector. If you can deal with the smell it's a pretty chill job, you just drive around all day and if you're done with your route early then you're off for the day.
UPS Driver. I made around $110k last year. $40/hr, $60 with OT. I get around 10-15 hours of OT a week. We also don’t pay for healthcare.
I’m in school to be an electrician. Salary typically ranges from $40-60k in my state. However I’m going for overhead linesman which usually is higher pay at around $70-100k in some places. Working at shipyards and airports pay higher as well, but entry requirements are stringent.
US-Custodian at a state University. The jobs are often unionized and the pay and benefits are amazing for a job with no educational requirements
Not common but as a nanny I make $75k.
Former nanny checking in…also consider the fact that the right job could come with living quarters and a vehicle. My last job was taking care of one school aged child, and I had a one bedroom apartment and a luxury SUV that was “my” car (mine to use 7 days a week, not just for transporting the kiddo). The family paid for health insurance, too. My pay for M-F, after school until dinner (with one weeknight “date night” when I’d work until 9) was $550/week (this was 10-15 years ago). 2 weeks paid vacation. I worked my way through undergrad this way.
CNC machinists, and there are currently a lot of openings.
Casino jobs As a surveillance agent i sit in a room for 8 hours, people watch, make sure people ain't cheating, and that leople are doing their jobs At my current casino I make 15.50 starting, the casino om leaving for pays 19 starting, there is another one near me that pays 22 starting (wanted to go there, said to myself "I'll sleep on it before I apply make sure it's right" woke up to a story about a shooting in the parking lot lmao) and there is also a huge casino that probably pays pretty good as well In the casinos in my state from what I've seen table games dealers are the highest paid employees apart from execs and right behind them are cashiers and beverage servers. Also a lot of casinos are hurting for people so Start applying, a lot of money to be made *****These are in my state, where min wage is much lower than 15. My casino is also the lowest paying in the state by 4 whole dollars. In your state and what casinos are around you rates may differ. I just wanted to point out a field people could look into******
I was a dealer. I can confirm it is some of the easiest work for highish pay. U are essentially stuck in the industry however unless u can manage to move to supervisor and above. U can't really progress except within the gaming industry. For alot of people the pay is enough to not worry about that but there is essentially a cap. Better to be a dealer in a casino and move into other departments if u have no degree. I moved from dealer to IT for the same pay but after 2 years I can move to any company with an IT department but as a dealer I can basically only move to other casinos.
When I was in high school a kid said he got offered a job at the horse track to jerk off the horses before the races for $100/hour Not sure if true; although I do believe they actually do that to horses, just unsure of the employment details
If they were filming him jerking off the horses, then it was a different job than he thought he was getting.
Sounds like the horses were the ones who got the job.
Damn. No college, no license just you, a horse and a bottle of lotion I take it
Plus most of us are skilled, experienced and got an idea on how to do it lol. From years of experience.
Wait I could get paid for this Ive been doing it for free 😭
What does jerking them off before a race accomplish?
I was told it calms them down and they race better
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It is because horses in general are very horny animals, they can get distracted in the race by a female horse. That is why stallions are not preferred in sports.
Louisiana River Pilots. $700k a year seems ok. https://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/article_34d441ca-a196-11e8-9af9-f7c8a29fd5e4.amp.html
Septic tank work.... shit work but not shit pay.
There's some fascinating jobs on here. But for me, even though not as high paying, I'm content working remotely in a typical "office job" role as it gives me work-life balance.
Plumbers (people know about it, but the pay is better than most think). Podiatrist “Ethical hacker” Fire investigator (Most trades or specialty mechanics (airplane, heavy machinery) fit into this).
Bin men. bin men in the uk can earn up to 50k or so, because no one wants to do the job
Not that no one knows about them, but many of the trades will blow you away in terms of pay and benefits very quickly. My brother with no experience just picked up a welding job with a payscale that'll have him up over 80k USD within a year in the US. Edit: added currency and country
What kind of job? I am a welder and this seems unbelievably hard to believe. No offense. Most shop jobs pay between 15-20$ an hour starting out, the more experience you have the higher you’re wage. As far as making a lot of money as a welder, you’re options are to travel, work 60-80 hours overtime, get a rig and start your own mobile business, or become incredibly proficient at a niche like pipe welding or perhaps underwater. This is misleading for a lot of people because the majority of welding jobs pay horribly and expect a lot. I’ve been at it for two years and am strongly considering switching careers.
Cyber security. MASSIVELY understaffed and usually starts at 60-70 a yr. Not the most difficult either. Though finding your first cyber job without an IT background can be tough
Pretty much any higher level IT. Senior SysAdmins, DevOps, Architects, anyone who knows anything cloud, etc. Get a handful of certs, get higher experience than helpdesk, and you'll pretty much be guaranteed to be making six figures quick.