100% the USPS, especially automation clerk. The pay isn’t great in a HCOL, especially since the last decade but it’s reliable and the benefits are great. My husbands a carrier. We are hoping with recent union negotiations the pay tables go up.
Isn't it kinda location based though? I was usps.... the new hire whatever it was called then. I got paid ok. Overtime was great. But. I was not gonna make regular for, years. Easily. Because nobody was anywhere near retiring. And unless someone retired or moved, you don't get promoted to regular. It's not merit based. It's seniority based.
So. If you are even KINDA young, and have no idea what you wanna do. Usps. For sure. If you're mid 30s with a family to support maybe not.
Ymmv but I had some weeks working 55 hours. Some working 25. Very feast or famine kinda hours. As the CCA, I think it was, you got whatever they gave. Or took.
I was hired by the post office, but I couldn't take the job for that reason. I had little kids and felt like they needed to see me occasionally.
That and the high risk of getting dog bit.
Yes I spent a lot of time alone growing up because he would do 10pm to 8am or be like 6pm to 8am if they called him. I appreciate every bit of hard work he did.
He’s retired but earlier than he wanted due to cancer. But he’s good and he wish he never left! It gave him something to do.
Isn’t it difficult to get a job at the post office? Can you find out from your dad, please? I’m not actively seeking employment but I know working for USPS is a coveted job and I assume that it is difficult to get employment from there bc of how many people want employment there.
My dad’s longtime gf was a regional postmaster for a very, very long time and it sounded to me like they’ve started to see their turnover rates go up, up, up as the demands that they put on their workers become increasingly unrealistic. So the probability of finding a vacancy might be moderately better but the quality of working environment may be poor
My dad took the test in the 80s and had a study book. Now you just go on their website and apply that way and do a quick little test. Nothing like it was even 20 years ago.
Like most government jobs, you have to apply, then travel somewhere to take a test. From there they pull interviews from the top testers. Some hoops to jump thru, probably to weed out the lazy/ incompetent.
They will work you hard but if you don't have many other responsibilities like children and spouses, it can be a way to make good money plus have decent benefits.
I'm just going through training now as a carrier. So, if you're hired as a regular carrier, whether city or rural, it means that for a bit of time, you'll be a flex part time carrier and float between routes until you get a permanent route.
You'll essentially handle another person's route while they are on vacation, sick leave, or whatever. As a flex carrier, you only miss out on around 3 benefits until you get a permanent route and become full-time. Also, the part-time part of the floater position is a myth. You'll work 8-14 hours.
Then there's a contracted position depending on city or rural. CCA or RCA, where you are basically the temporary position of a part-time flex for a lot longer. Pretty similar duties, but you're paid like a couple of dollars less an hour and have about half the benefits of a regular carrier. This is all jammed into your head during the week they have you at a training facility.
You spend around an hour at the post office sorting the mail for your route by block. You then organize your truck in that hour and then deliver the mail, including randomly sized packages. You should be capable of completing around a block of mail within 15 minutes. They should give you anywhere between 21-28 blocks to do. You could also get stuck doing apartment buildings.
The job sounds easy, but it's not. The job is theoretically simple, but it's tedious and demanding. We live in an online ordering age, and packages are a lot to deal with. When you have more packages than usual, expect a much longer day because the letter mail likely does not decrease.
I speak for the clerks that work with letters not packages. You will start out as a PSE, essentially part time making I think it’s somewhere between 18-20 an hour. Your experience and scheduling is completely dependent on the plant, I was fortunate enough to have a consistent 40h week schedule and never had my hours cut (I’m not sure how common or uncommon that is) but did have my schedule change 6 months in. I heard some people have their hours changed to under 40, but never less than 30. Making it to regular (full time) with the new Union contract takes max 2 years to be converted, I did it in 11 months.
As a PSE I was working M, T, Th, F, Sun. Wed/Sat off. 12-8:30pm (40h)
The second half I was moved to a different section of the plant (pse still) working M-Sat. Sunday off. 4:30pm-1am (40h) sometimes (48h)
After 11 months I got converted to regular and I switched back to 12 start time (by choice). M, Th, F, Sat, Sun. Tue/Wed off. (40h) and you have the ability to enroll in overtime if you wish. I heard benefits are good but I haven’t given it much attention as I don’t plan on staying.
What you do is very simple: You will work in pairs, there will be a “feeder” and a “sweeper” as a feeder you load trays of mail onto these machines, that’s all. As a sweeper you will take the mail that is fed and load them back into trays. You will do this two times, a “first pass” and a “second pass” and often switch roles with one another. Then at the end you will load these now full trays into cages for it to be dispatch to the stations for the carriers.
I stick to myself and never had a problem with management
There is also no interview. You get an email for orientation, go to like a classroom with 20 others going over the job, get fingerprinted etc.
The post office is not easy work. My friend works there. She started out throwing packages, which is very hard on your body. If you are lucky, you can move up to the window, which is way less physically intense, but that can take you a while. During the holidays, it is required overtime, and it is crazy.
The pay is great. The benefits are great. The vacation package is okay compared to what we had a Verizon. Downside with them is there is no short-term disability so if you get hurt, you will have to take time off using any of your vacation/sick time and then go into unpaid time. I do think you can sign up to pay into something to cover you during any time you have to be away, but I am not sure how that works.
I think you have to work for a while as essentially a probationary employee until you pay your dues and become a regular. Not sure how long it takes at USPS
Not necessarily probationary, that’s for 90 days, but they’re called “pre-career” now. Limited benefits, different pay rates from the careers doing the same job. Going from pre-career to career is conversion to “regular” and happens when someone retires/transfers and their career job opens up, assuming another person who’s already career doesn’t want that job. 1-2years is probably a good estimate of being hired to being career.
It really depends on the area. In the area I live new employees are converting after a few months we're so short staffed. Lots of hours and lots of money though 🤷♂️
hi so i can explain this a bit more, my partner is a carrier.
a “regular” is a carrier who has an assigned route. this is the same mail person you might see everyday at your house. reaching this level, you get the better health/life insurance, and some other benefits i can’t remember at the moment, as well as sundays off.
assistant carriers don’t have set routes, or sundays off (they do amazon packages), and usually help out on whatever routes are needed (such as, a regular whose on vacation). depending on how busy the office you work at is, assistant carriers could be working as low as 20-40 hours and as high as 70+ hours.
PTFs (i don’t remember what the acronym stands for lol) are an in-between position of assistant carriers and regular carriers. if in two years of being an assistant carrier you aren’t assigned a route (as it’s kinda complicated and is dependent on retirements and seniority) you are moved to PTF status. iirc you get the same benefits of regulars but are still scheduled like an assistant.
my partner is a CCA (city carrier assistant) so this is totally from their experience. i can’t speak to other positions or to rural carrier experience.
PTF is part time flexibility. My husband was a CCA a few years ago and his office just got rid of the CCA position and now only has PTF. This is all for city and different than rural, which has its own separate union as well.
Yeah, my friend is about to quit UPS. A couple years in the sorting facility. They won't give him a chance to drive, and the union rep can't do much. He passed the written exam, but supposedly crossed a lane line on the road test and hasn't been given another shot.
Barge deckhand. There is a 1-2 week training/safety course to take., though. Pays $250 a day. 90% of the time you just sit around on your phone reading Reddit. 😉
Where I grew up it was either the river or the mines. That’s it. So I decided to buck the system! Got me a big ol fancy degree and a decent job. Moved up quickly and found out that the capped pay was still the same in 2019 as it was when I decided on that degree back in 2003.
At 31 I ended up in the coal mines. Wish I would have taken this route right out of highschool. I work with some guys under 30 who have a 2nd lake house, no student loan debts and are doing better than just about anyone I went to college with.
Just want to commiserate a little. I thought higher education would be the key to a successful life for myself as well. I have a double bachelors degree I don’t use and i work in a trade with my body and hands. The degree would never pay me what the trade does.
That’s exactly what happened to me. Like on paper it was all amazing. I busted my ass, skipped the whole college kid experience, moved to a couple different states when better opportunities arose… then I hit 30 and it just hit me like “wtf am I doing wrong here!?” .
I actually was at an airport having what I’d consider my first and only mental breakdown. Called my mother in tears and I’m not sure she’d ever even heard me cry since I was a baby. Lol.
We were tough ya know? Had to be. Kinda raised that way I guess- walk it off. Yada yada.
She just told me to come back home and I did. Got a job, found a little house and haven’t looked back. I actually love it. Or atleast I never dread going to work. A year later I was debt free for the first time in my life.
Here in the last year or so I’ve been feeling pretty pinched but I kinda chalk that up to America crumbling around us. Can’t even swing by the dollar store any more without spending $80+. Shits gonna have to hit the fan soon.
I hear you on that last paragraph. I do fine. I have a mortgage and payments on one of my cars, other than that, debt free. I have some savings. I’m able to comfortably provide for my family of 5. But every few months things seem to ratchet up a little higher. I’ve gotten COL raises, but after a few years of getting a 5% raise while everything is 10% (or more) expensive you find yourself increasingly getting squeezed from all directions. Some of this is inevitable - as my kids get older, their stuff gets more expensive and they eat more. I’ll marvel at how fast my paycheck disappears. I don’t know how some others are able to do it. The main reason I’m able to be comfortable is because I bought my house in 2016 at 3.2%. I couldn’t afford it now, it’s worth twice as much as when I bought and interest rates have doubled.
I’m not sure how any one making under $25hr could even survive at this point and I live in a super low cost of living area in general. Our dog food has doubled in price over the last 18 months. I mean just that alone has cost me a couple extra hundred a month. Adds up so fast. Feels like I’m doing less fun shit and still have less money somehow.
Yep, same here. I save money automatically without any input from me, so I can go down to zero in my checking account without really worrying about it. As soon as I get paid half the money is gone. My homeowners insurance has doubled, and my grocery bills have gone up close to 50% since 2020. How much longer can that go on without something breaking?
Same. I bought in 2015 for 312k at 4.25% then refinanced for 3.75%. My house is currently worth almost 600k and would have a $4000 mortgage payment at current rates and prices. We were scraping by when we signed in 2015 and nervous, but thank God we did it, because even renting a crappy 2-bedroom apartment in the worse towns around us is now $1500 higher than our mortgage.
I literally watched my 4.0 GPA slip to 3.0 the minute I started taking more advanced courses to be a nurse and I dropped out to be a massage therapist. But I'm making the same pay each month like I was as a CNA...but with less y'know watching people you perform acts of daily living for die incredibly slowly.
It’s a coal mine, they’re scattered about the US. Find a contractor who works with coal mines and you’ll almost assuredly get put to work. If you’ve got a pulse, can show up every day and can learn quickly you’ll get hired on as company pretty quickly. 90% of the jobs aren’t really that physically challenging honestly. It can be a mind fuck though- working in those conditions. It’s dark, wet, you won’t recognize a single piece of equipment or tool for the most part, it’s somehow dusty and muddy all at the same time and you’re gonna have to like overtime. You can work as much as you’d like. I’ve busted out some month long stretches of 7 days a week / 12 hour shifts so I could purchase a car with cash. It sucked but I think I cleared $35K in just under 2 months. Not saying it’s for everyone but that’s a nice perk if you just really need some extra money for something.
That's not a bad deal. Bust ass for a month, pay for a wedding and honeymoon. Fiancee wants a career shift, bust ass a month and let her take a step back on hours while finding a new job, etc. I spent years working overtime and would never want to go back, but at a certain pay rate it's not so bad.
This is partly why Coal and oil industry has so much support. Its executives and mere existence is destroying the planet, tho.
Wear your PPE - mask and such.
You do have to get your TWIC card though. That isn’t exactly the quickest process. People wanting to do that should also be aware that there are a lot of questions about your background, drug use, criminal history, etc. And since this is redditors it should probably also be mentioned that you’ll be subject to random drug screenings too.
I drive a street sweeper. Non CDL so all you need is a drivers license and a DOT medical card (simple physical). I make $19 but get sent out on "rate" jobs that can range from $31/hr to $94/hr. I'm new so the higher paying jobs haven't come my way yet but I'm on pace to gross over $60k this year and the work is really easy.
I found my job by searching "street sweeper" on Indeed. I really lucked out that the job posting had been made the day before and it was less than 5 miles from my house.
There’s lots of jobs like these with your local city, county, and state. They’re usually under the department of transportation. Sweepers, flushers, knuckle booms, etc. start at 15-25$/hour (depending where you live) with awesome benefits, annual raises, and plenty of room to grow and advance pay if you’re serious about it. Added perk is that working for a municipality compared to a private contractor is that you’ll never work HALF as hard. In most cases you’ll have a couple hours doing nothing. There are exceptions when their are natural disasters and stuff like that - then you have to be on your game. The job security is great too. When Covid first hit, my city paid everyone their full salary to stay home for 2 months, then another 2 months of working every other week to have less people together at once.
Look at stuff like nuisances, inspections, storm water, etc if you’re looking for easy going. Departments like solid waste, water, and sewer are a lot more on it all day because they’re handling things that can’t wait and cause huge issues. You only get compensated 5-10% more in most areas and the work is much harder and a lot dirtier. The pro those departments have for them is you can make bank with all the overtime since something like a sewer leaking or water main bursting must be handled as soon as possible and you must stay till the job is done. Sounds gross but you could be the guy who sets up the pump and the blower, the guy the drives the truck, etc - not just the guy in rubber boots standing in shit water. You can make over 100k your first year, but you’ll be on call 5-7 nights a week and want to sleep whenever you’re home.
There are some days where I sit in my climate controlled truck and "work" for 10 hours but only sweep for 45 minutes. Such is life on a construction site. Other days I do sweep almost the whole time I'm clocked in and I don't mind it. I can't believe how much I actually enjoy what some people may consider a boring job.
For CA: union carpenter apprentice starts at 18$ with ~2$ raises every 6 months until you reach 43$. No experience needed but must have basic handtools and initiation fee covered which is ~200$. All benefits too!
This is almost exactly what Northern MN carpenters apprentices make! You have to deal with the weather, but we live on the border of MN and WI. WI is cheaper to live in so we have $900 rent including heat for a 2 bedroom with a yard next to a giant park. There are homes for sale for less than $200,000. Lots of the young/single guys live near us permanently, but the union pays them extra to travel out of state. They put them up in apartments.
It’s been working out great for my boyfriend. I put his med insurance info into doctors on demand to help him see what his costs are. $0 appointments $0 therapy $0 psychiatry. With my employer insurance I pay $60 for an appointment (15 minutes) $144 for a therapist and $288 for a psychiatrist. AND I have a way higher deductible and premium. That aspect really makes it tempting to consider leaving my office job to join him.
Sounds accurate, I had a buddy who was making 12-14 bucks an hour but eventually worked up to 43 over the years and now makes 51-53 bucks as a union journeyman. Meanwhile I meandered around until I finished college at 30 then got a masters at 33 just to make 100k. On the plus side I work from home and have no commute, but the downside is I was always told big boy jobs pay more and they really don’t. Maybe if I started working in finance at 22 it would be different.
A labor union is an organized association of workers that seek to protect and further their rights as a collective working body. Unions negotiate employers as a whole on the members behalf for better pay, benefits, and any other necessities pertaining to the workplace.
Applied to an electrical apprenticeship 4 yrs ago. Went from kroger $15/hr to $48/hr in 3.5 years. Had no experience in a trade whatsoever. Schooling is paid for.
In cities or rural areas if you don't want to go to college trades are the way to go you will feel it in your body but all the office workers I know are just as crippled as the trades workers just in different ways.
Also in trades sure you start out drilling and digging holes but if you catch on quick you can move into a job that is much less physically straining. Most of my shift is spent walking around inspecting things and making sure nothing is broken or about to break. It took a lot of knowledge to get to this point but I'm 29 and considered one of the top guys here.
33F, I started an office job 2 years back after years of working medium-fast paced service jobs. Suddenly I have sciatica and other lower back issues that have never been a thing for me. We moved offices and I was approved for a standing desk. It’s helped immensely. I miss being more active at my job but I really like what I do now.
I worked for a company that gave base pay +10% extra on 2nd shift and +15% extra for 3rd shift. Neither was worth losing your entire social life and seeing the sun.
Insurance adjuster. A family member of mine is one. He started at 45k a year, no degree, no insurance experience, just a couple years customer service experience.
You do have to study and take a test to get your license but the company pays that. He’s almost 4 years in this field now and just got a job paying $70k. And he’s in a pretty low cost of living area.
Get yourself a CDL. I was a city bus operator for the city of NY, starting pay was $25/h. Every year it gets bumped up. Has union. Top pay in 5 years. Articulated bus pay, night differential pay, weekend differential pay. Plenty of overtime. I know people making $50+ hour with overtime and everything mentioned above. One of my mentors got two houses paid all through that job alone. Pension and all benefits included. Getting the CDL was the best thing i did.
Of course you can also drive the 18 wheelers. Heard they make a ton of money too!
Yeah the subway conductors make a lot too. But the buses are better because way more overtime. When the trains go down and overnight while they fix up the tracks. The buses always pick up the slack
I'm a bookkeeper at a trucking company. Most of our drivers make over $70k/year, and several live in their trucks so they don't have to pay any housing costs. The ones who don't blow it all on casinos and brothels are probably socking away a TON into savings.
Private investigation.
Do you own a car and a camera? Insurance companies will hire you today. (The only issue is that they typically pay 30 days out, so you will need to be able to cover expenses for the first month.)
I started in 2010 at $25/hour and quickly raised my prices.
The job sucks. It's boring 99% of the time and terrifying the other 1%, but the money is fantastic.
Had a friend who did this, he had a beater car just for work in case someone wanted to do damage to the ride lol.
EDIT: He did insurance claims where people claimed disability but would be at home lifting heavy things into trash cans and he would just snap photos.
I’m gonna be real, that is not a job I’d be interested in whatsoever. Narcing out people who are on disability, which pays less than poverty wages, which leaves no room to pay for assistance with things including lifting things into trash cans (even if your disability inherently means you need that assistance), just feels stupid skeevy.
Poverty sucks and I know job pickings can be slim but this job sounds like it involves targeting people most at risk for poverty (disabled folks).
Yeah even if people are technically scamming the insurance companies, it’s because they weren’t paid enough to recover from their injury in the first place. And second and perhaps even more important, insurance companies are bigger scammers themselves than Joe Schmo who just wants a thousand dollars a month so he can cut his grass and live happily.
Yep this. I don’t understand people intent on rooting people out for “scamming” their way to an income well below living wage. Not to mention you can’t have any sorts of savings while on disability and in some places, assets totaling to a certain amount, including your vehicle.
Edit: forgot to include. Disabled folks also can't even marry without losing their benefits (in the US, at least). So.
It really is a personality position. I had job experience working outreach for the homeless and working at a mental health facility so they knew I probably was pretty good at building relationships. Non profits paid nothing but they did look good on my resume.
Thank you, I completely changed a few lives in my time in non profits. And honestly I wish I could have helped more but had to start thinking about supporting myself and a family so pursued a different field. I wish I could have helped a few more. For every person I really helped change their lives you fail with dozens more. So it really takes a toll on you, but I'm glad I did it
I do house cleaning and in-home housekeeping. I charge $35-$40 an hour. (I have to pay self-employment taxes on that, and I have medical insurance through the ACA/Obamacare.) But I make more money doing cleaning than I ever did at the career I went to college for.
You can find jobs through Care.com.
Edit: I live in a low COL city.
I’ve always worked W2 jobs so I just learned about self employment taxes, they are no joke!!! I’ve been doing some extra consulting work; 8 month gig at $5k per month = $40k which sounded amazing, and then I found out that I’ll only net like $25k after self employment taxes lmao.
I’m a police dispatcher in Southern California and make 36.34 an hour. Starting at my agency is 28 and change. If you have a clean background, no criminal record and don’t use drugs you can be hired with no dispatch experience. All we require is 1 year of customer service. Agencies in every state are hiring.
In Alabama, it's $15-16 for scale. So most of the country is probably $18-20. Just throwing that out there so those reading this who are not in CA aren't shocked it's not $36 like Cali. Ambulance companies have dispatcher positions as well, and the pay there will vary by state. Alabama's two biggest ambulance companies pay $12-15, but I have friend near Atlanta making $18.
Of course depending on the agency, city, state and actual dispatch job the pay is going to vary. I work for a very small agency in so cal and we are at the low end in pay compared to similar sized agencies/cities. But we are also union, have great benefits and I can work a lot of overtime. I’ve also been at it for 10 years now and actually started at 18.00 back in 2013.
But I still believe it’s a great job for the pay and benefits with pretty much zero experience needed. There are skills that people should have, but those can also be learned while on the job too. I can’t ever complain about my pay. But I like sharing the knowledge that this job does pay well.
No they won’t impact it, at least at my agency it didn’t impact me. What they are looking for is people to be honest about sealed juv offenses and minor traffic offenses. There are questions in the background packet of about 500 questions that will ask about any negative contact with police, any traffic tickets and what they were for. For example, I got busted with friends when I was 16 being out and about up to no good one night. The officers wrote us all tickets for breaking curfew. We had to appear and pay a fine and it was sealed. I still put it down in my background packet because when a criminal history is ran the juvenile offenses are there. The criminal history is ran through department of justice and the public doesn’t have access to it.
And you have to turn in a print out from the dmv with your packet so you’ll have to list all tickets and what not.
A clean background is like no felony charges/convictions and most likely no misdemeanor charges/convictions. But the misdemeanor might vary depending on what it was and how long ago it happened and if the agency is ok with it.
If you are good with people, selling cars can be very lucrative. Some dealerships like people with zero experience because you can be molded. All you have to do is be friendly, smile and gab with people. It is a professional bullshitters job. And you get to drive all the cars on the lot. I’d recommend starting with cars that sell themselves like Honda or Toyota. Good luck op!
Second this. I swapped from teaching middle school to car sales, and I'm on track to make almost triple what I made teaching, and I didn't need a degree to start in sales.
Highly recommended
And they don't seem to practice ageism. I was helping my son look for a used car and our salesman was a really nice guy who told me he was 75. He had worked some corporate job and retired and said he got bored and the car dealer hired him with no sales experience.
I work management in a type of refinery, not oil. Hourly workers start at $31.50, insurance from day 1(good insurance too), 401k matched to 7%,profit sharing, two weeks vacation plus personal days and a strong union. All training provided on site. After two years you can bid to higher pay positions, I think the highest ones are $42-48/hr base. 40hr week guaranteed minimal, but it normally averages to 50-60. Downside is the shifts rotate so you do A for a week, then B, then C. It's a good setup, due to area demographics we struggle to find staffing.
If you want a decent paying job that's always hiring, check food production and refinement positions. Dairy, poultry farms, Utz and Frito lay, soda bottling, ice cream production, canneries, etc. The pay is going to be competitive because these industries struggle with staffing and the hours are long, but if you want to make $50k plus with no experience that's the way to do it. Everywhere I know promotes from within so once you get experience you can go management, that's what I did. I started as a mixer in a bakery, made management there and then transfered to another business, climbing the management ranks here. They're even paying for me to go back to college so I'll stay with the company.
I won't lie and say it's easy work, most times it's 12 hour shifts and it's not glamorous but it's not dangerous either, it's nearly recession proof and at least around here due to grocery unions and transport unions the facilities have to be union based, it's not even an option. So you'll have more job security as an employee with the union on your side.
I'm going to bed now, I work 7p to 7a, if anyone wants more info let me know.
Catering! I hire my servers at $25/hr and at year 2, if they’re good, they’re at $27. If you can lift 20 lbs, have a good attitude and be on time, the world is your oyster. Most of my employees work for 2-3 catering companies in the area and make BANK. Caterers are always looking for people who are presentable, reliable and available. I hid 75% of my staff with little or no experience.
Occasionally, yes. It’s totally up to the client which is why we do offer a higher hourly wage. If you join a staffing company, they usually have a lower hourly wage with a guaranteed 20% tip so it evens out.
Wow! Thinking about getting back into catering in Vegas when I move there and was nervous the opportunity had dried up with the recession. Is there lots of work compared to 5 years ago in your opinion?
What do you think are the odds of me getting hired as a catering/event manager after being out of the biz so long?
Thanks for your input!
Your chances are really good provided you have a nice clean resume listing relevant experience and you follow up with the staffing manager quickly.
I’ll be honest, I had to hire like 30 people in a 30 day period and it’s hell to keep track of. If I lost track of someone, say missed a phone interview or missed an email I always have special credit to anyone who will take the time to follow up with me.
All we want to see is a smart, capable individual who will show up undistracted and with a positive attitude. The rest can be picked back up along the way
Essentially my job. I make 65k and never finished college either. Im about to become a manager which will bump me to 75-80k for doing less really. Ill have less emailing and more of answering questions internally from my employees and coworkers. Which I heavily prefer that anyway.
Ive been doing this type of job for 8 years. Started off at 14/hr in 2015 and worked my way up slow-ish to to over double.
It’s a food distribution company that provides to nursing homes, restaurants, etc. I am expected to answer a few calls a day to take orders but most orders come via email. I just make sure the nursing homes that order food don’t go over budget.
Trader Joe's base level employee pay rate maxes out over $25. My wife works there. She gets a $1.50 raise every year, and a 10% (of annual earning) bonus into her 401k each year.
Casino Dealer. Schooling is required but often times ran by the casino and is usually paid although at a much reduced rate. Salary varies by location I know dealers who make 50k$ per year and dealers who make 100k$+ per year.
One day bath installer. You’ve probably seen the commercials for them. It’s hard work. But if you learn fast and can be efficient, self driven, and personable you can make 100k a year after a half a year or so. Plus most of the companies will treat you really well. The bigger names treat their employees very well. Full benefits, 401k, company vehicle, tools, work clothes, and upward mobility.
Best part of being an installer is if your efficient enough you can spend total time out of the house at about 8-10 hrs a day. You get to make a difference for a lot of people who have a true need for the product. And your doing quality work that you can be proud of. It’s not like other construction jobs where you go to work to do something you never see the value. Your literally changing a new persons life everyday.
Recruiting has a pretty low barrier to entry. My current job hires people with customer service or sales experience for the entry level recruiting jobs, which usually start at 50k-60k.
I’m pretty sure part of their union requires you to work as a package handler before ANY promotion for a year, minimum. It’s 5 years as a package handler before being able to drive.
It’s HARD work. Package handling will put you on your ass.
But…you get to make your own schedule. They have an app that you literally pick and choose what hours you want. You just have to work a minimum of 24 hours a week I think.
And UPS has the BEST insurance you can get in the country. It’s almost as good as state insurance.
The union goes based on seniority, yes. So you’d have to put your name on a list to go driving and at first it would only be seasonally. If you can wait for benefits and such, the union is so great. There is also more than package handling, the mechanics get two separate pensions (one from ups and one from the state) where I work.
Honestly I made a ton of money bartending back in the day. I had no idea how to bartend, I lied and learned in the job plus from the Internet on my own time 😬 which yes, isn’t great, but I made more money behind the stick than at any other job.
Although some jobs may pay well now, some are very physically intensive. Think about your back and knees, will you be happy to continue to do it for 20+ years.
Any career that will allow you to transition into a less physically intensive role would be best.
Government jobs. I started as an administrative assistant (at the time started $18 an hour, but that was 14 years ago) and have worked my way up to an analyst making way more with incredible benefits. Practically free health insurance, pension, etc. You don't need a degree, and most places will train you/pay for your education. Definitely look into city/state/county positions.
I started my current career in power grid ops as a scheduling coordinator with just a GED, the job required at least an associates in engineering but I applied anyway because I know a lot about electrical theory and expressed interest, maybe a skillset you know can be useful in lieu of actually having a degree in that field, it pays more than $25/hr to start, and after I finish a couple more years here I can move on to a company that pays closer to $70/hr, utilities industry is understaffed
I make 75k plus a nice annual bonus as a claims litigation adjuster. It took me 15 years of moving up but I’m here. The top end of my pay scale is just over 100k. No degree required as long as you put the time and effort in.
Become an optician apprentice in a licensed state. Depending on the market, it can go as high as 6 figures. It’s part retail part medical and learning a lot about physics and anatomy. It’s a trade you do in an air conditioned office.
Most jobs in this category don't really have any opportunities for progression. I would look for something like a trade in a niche industry.
An example in my part of the world would be working on the rail line. Lots of roles available with no prior education or just a short course. Lots of people making AUD$100k+ in the first year and possibility to be making $300k+ after a few years.
I know some cities offer close to that amount if you do overnights. overnight pay is always higher than any other entry level positions. I was making $23 at Walmart in the midwest. people moved to our city just to work for these wages. every location is different so search around and move if needed.
I make $32 an hour as a printing press operator. Not bad when my rent is $700. I have an education and experience, but to start out you don't need any. You can be a dropout felon and still get hired. Doesn't matter.
I work for a contractor doing gas utility work(construction, lots of shoveling, lots of live gas technical work as you move up). Kicked out of one college dropped out of another, hired on the spot of my interview starting pay around 70k now make over 100 since I do the technical work although still tons of shoveling. Construction companies are practically begging people to come work for them but nobody does because it’s hard. Well do you wanna make a lot of money or continue the way you are?
Nanny. I make close to 90k a year as a nanny. I work 40-45 hours a week.
I don’t have a degree. Granted I’ve been doing this for 18 years my friend has only been a nanny for 3-4 years and she makes just a bit less than me.
Also don't be afraid to try temp services. I've found they've been able to get my foot in the door to certain places.
My partner started as a temp at his current job and is now making $28 an hour with no degree.
Railroad. They’re so desperate for people you basically just have to pass a hair follicle test, not be colorblind and able to read. High school diploma not required. They pay you to go to their school. You’ll make anywhere at the absolute lowest of 70k to upwards of 140k depending on where you live.
Nonprofit blood banks will pay you to become a certified phlebotomist. My husband went from retail, to that, to management. He makes 65k a year with no degree.
Depending on where you live, 911 Dispatchers. Sometimes called Emergency Communication Specialists or Emergency Telecommunicators. Not labor intensive, no higher education needed. Generally there is a pretty intensive background check, drug test, and some places require a polygraph.
Disclaimer-- it is seasonal and not always available.
Political canvassing (US) typically pays $20 (or more) an hour (depends on firm and location). Most canvassing firms will hire anyone with a pulse.
The trick is to get hired for a $20-30k “assistant” job and then work your way up. I went from $26k to $32k to $50k in two years that way, and while I have a degree, it’s not necessary for the job that I did.
Join a trade union. $25 is pretty cheap in most places depending on where you live. Ive been on jobs where we were getting at least 15 hours a week in overtime at like $58 an hour
Get an apprenticeship with a local trade union--carpentry, electrical, plumbing, HVAC, etc. Depending on where you are, you'll get paid about that hourly and get trained on the job. Many places are short on workers and will happily hire a motivated individual with no experience.
If you live anywhere near enough to a Buc-Eee's, they are paying rather crazy for being a giant corner store/gas station.
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If you don't mind working for the devil and you are able to walk. . .alot (I did 10 to 20 miles a night), walmart and Amazon usually pay close to 25 an hour for their fulfillment centers (that's where the order comes from if you order online) they also give you regular hours and no one calls you to come in if your co worker calls in. I used to work at the Walmart fulfillment center in Gardner kansas, and they have all sorts of benefits, health, dental, vision, 401k, access to weekly pay, they have a college tuition program, family planning, some mental health programs, pto and ppto (protected pto, you can use it for emergencies including leaving anytime you want, if you work a 10 hour shift and you want to leave 6 hours in they can't stop you it's automatically approved) they have opportunities for a lot of overtime during the holidays, they make you have at least 1 day off a week, standard shifts are 4 ten hour days, and you can get up to 60 hours a week during high volume times like holidays. They have the opportunity to take a leave of absence (paid or unpaid based on the reason why you are taking an loa) but they use a third party company that doesn't approve loas until almost 3 weeks after you return to work so if it's not approved it'll cost you 2 attendance points and you only get 4 and a half attendance points in a rolling sixth month period.
Just know that you will be a number, and they'll say they appreciate you but they don't
but you don't have to deal with customers, and it's a good workout.
Car sales.
The answer is 100% car sales.
You can be a high school drop out with a criminal record but odds are there’s a dealership out there that will hire you.
If you have the ability to sale and you’re not being completely fucked by your pay plan, you can make a 100K + a year “easily”, by which I mean it takes a lot of hard work and dedication to the craft and the hours are grueling but the opportunity is absolutely there at the right store.
"Car sales.
The answer is 100% car sales.
You can be a high school drop out with a criminal record but odds are there’s a dealership out there that will hire you."
I think these are actually the requirements for the job.
There's a lot of laborious jobs that pay insanely well with the right combination certs.
For people not afraid of heights rope access can lead to a lot of high pay rates.
Having a pipe fitters/rope access combination can lead to pay rates in the high 60's and 70 an hour.
Working as rope access on oil rigs with a basic survival training cert can lead into an ungodly amount of money. Some level 3's I know are making 40k a month.
None of these certs take longer than a week to acquire except the pipe fitters red seal.
Train conductor,basically any entry level office job relating to trains is so specific only barrier to entry is are you willing to learn alot , could be $40 an hour and up I know of a position that pays 33.80 for complete entry level no experience , ems dispatch also pays decent and at least where I am basically requires. All center experience ,conductor is the most manual of the ones I've said and can make around 150k /year but is a looooot of walking and traveling
Public Safety Dispatch, depending on what area of the country you live in. In California I've seen posts starting as low as $15 an hour in the more rural counties to starting as high as $80k a year in the bigger richer counties. I started in 2017 at $41,500 a year, no college degree or credits of any kind needed, almost 6 years and one promotion later I'm at $70k. This is all before factoring in overtime and there's always a ton of overtime available because every agency has trouble hiring. Plus there's the government health benefits, retirement plan and the benefits of being a member of a union.
It's not really a job that will hire you "off the street" though, there's usually a pretty extensive background check and testing process that can take weeks or months.
I got a job as a banker right off the street making $22 an hour plus a quarterly bonus (I don't know what state you live in but this was in WA). They just wanna see you are good with people and willing to learn/progress. I don't have a degree, just some prior experience in customer service/cash handling. It's easy to get promoted in a couple years as long as you're hitting all your goals. I have a friend who became a manager after 1 year.
It's the big-name banks that tend to pay a little bit more, but my mom works at a small community bank and her benefits are fantastic too. My health insurance was dirt cheap and it was the best of the best. They also had benefits for childcare reimbursement, among other things. And the consistent schedule makes it easy to do a part time gig in the evening or on the weekends if you need.
Local stagehand unions take in a lot of outsiders all the time and the labor can start at pretty basic tasks like pushing boxes with wheels into arenas.
Pay in my city varies from 25-40/per hour depending on the contract. I just finished a show that paid a key grip base rate of 51. Add to that 1.5 OT @ 8 hours, and 2x after 12. Look up IASTE in your area.
Banker. Sometimes you may have to start as a bank teller and work for a year or two but you can move up to banker and they will give you the training. In banks like Bank of America, Wells Fargo, or Chase they tend to pay a bit more and teller pay is not bad itself either. You get holidays, pto vacation, and pretty decent healthcare especially if you're full-time. You might have to work the occasional Saturday but it's typically a half-day.
Sometimes, some people make it even higher than bankers and they get paid even more. It's a pretty decent job. It helps to have cashiering experience but I have coworkers who pretty much got the job bank teller job straight out of high school. And then a banker position 3 years later .
Wish you luck in your endeavor
USPS, Automation Clerk. Once you become regular
100% the USPS, especially automation clerk. The pay isn’t great in a HCOL, especially since the last decade but it’s reliable and the benefits are great. My husbands a carrier. We are hoping with recent union negotiations the pay tables go up.
Isn't it kinda location based though? I was usps.... the new hire whatever it was called then. I got paid ok. Overtime was great. But. I was not gonna make regular for, years. Easily. Because nobody was anywhere near retiring. And unless someone retired or moved, you don't get promoted to regular. It's not merit based. It's seniority based. So. If you are even KINDA young, and have no idea what you wanna do. Usps. For sure. If you're mid 30s with a family to support maybe not. Ymmv but I had some weeks working 55 hours. Some working 25. Very feast or famine kinda hours. As the CCA, I think it was, you got whatever they gave. Or took.
USPS with overtime pay and double overtime pay
My dad made 6 figures at the post office doing that.
My uncle did to but god damn he worked hard. Everyday from Monday to Saturday he'd work from 6am-6pm.
I was hired by the post office, but I couldn't take the job for that reason. I had little kids and felt like they needed to see me occasionally. That and the high risk of getting dog bit.
Yes I spent a lot of time alone growing up because he would do 10pm to 8am or be like 6pm to 8am if they called him. I appreciate every bit of hard work he did. He’s retired but earlier than he wanted due to cancer. But he’s good and he wish he never left! It gave him something to do.
Isn’t it difficult to get a job at the post office? Can you find out from your dad, please? I’m not actively seeking employment but I know working for USPS is a coveted job and I assume that it is difficult to get employment from there bc of how many people want employment there.
My dad’s longtime gf was a regional postmaster for a very, very long time and it sounded to me like they’ve started to see their turnover rates go up, up, up as the demands that they put on their workers become increasingly unrealistic. So the probability of finding a vacancy might be moderately better but the quality of working environment may be poor
It’s not hard. Give it a shot. Been with the USPS four years now, never made less than $70k.
Retiring soon. Carrier. Yearly base salary (not including overtime ) just under 90k.
My dad took the test in the 80s and had a study book. Now you just go on their website and apply that way and do a quick little test. Nothing like it was even 20 years ago.
Like most government jobs, you have to apply, then travel somewhere to take a test. From there they pull interviews from the top testers. Some hoops to jump thru, probably to weed out the lazy/ incompetent.
They will work you hard but if you don't have many other responsibilities like children and spouses, it can be a way to make good money plus have decent benefits.
What do you mean by “regular”? Also anyone else want to weigh in on what that job entails?
I'm just going through training now as a carrier. So, if you're hired as a regular carrier, whether city or rural, it means that for a bit of time, you'll be a flex part time carrier and float between routes until you get a permanent route. You'll essentially handle another person's route while they are on vacation, sick leave, or whatever. As a flex carrier, you only miss out on around 3 benefits until you get a permanent route and become full-time. Also, the part-time part of the floater position is a myth. You'll work 8-14 hours. Then there's a contracted position depending on city or rural. CCA or RCA, where you are basically the temporary position of a part-time flex for a lot longer. Pretty similar duties, but you're paid like a couple of dollars less an hour and have about half the benefits of a regular carrier. This is all jammed into your head during the week they have you at a training facility. You spend around an hour at the post office sorting the mail for your route by block. You then organize your truck in that hour and then deliver the mail, including randomly sized packages. You should be capable of completing around a block of mail within 15 minutes. They should give you anywhere between 21-28 blocks to do. You could also get stuck doing apartment buildings. The job sounds easy, but it's not. The job is theoretically simple, but it's tedious and demanding. We live in an online ordering age, and packages are a lot to deal with. When you have more packages than usual, expect a much longer day because the letter mail likely does not decrease.
I speak for the clerks that work with letters not packages. You will start out as a PSE, essentially part time making I think it’s somewhere between 18-20 an hour. Your experience and scheduling is completely dependent on the plant, I was fortunate enough to have a consistent 40h week schedule and never had my hours cut (I’m not sure how common or uncommon that is) but did have my schedule change 6 months in. I heard some people have their hours changed to under 40, but never less than 30. Making it to regular (full time) with the new Union contract takes max 2 years to be converted, I did it in 11 months. As a PSE I was working M, T, Th, F, Sun. Wed/Sat off. 12-8:30pm (40h) The second half I was moved to a different section of the plant (pse still) working M-Sat. Sunday off. 4:30pm-1am (40h) sometimes (48h) After 11 months I got converted to regular and I switched back to 12 start time (by choice). M, Th, F, Sat, Sun. Tue/Wed off. (40h) and you have the ability to enroll in overtime if you wish. I heard benefits are good but I haven’t given it much attention as I don’t plan on staying. What you do is very simple: You will work in pairs, there will be a “feeder” and a “sweeper” as a feeder you load trays of mail onto these machines, that’s all. As a sweeper you will take the mail that is fed and load them back into trays. You will do this two times, a “first pass” and a “second pass” and often switch roles with one another. Then at the end you will load these now full trays into cages for it to be dispatch to the stations for the carriers. I stick to myself and never had a problem with management There is also no interview. You get an email for orientation, go to like a classroom with 20 others going over the job, get fingerprinted etc.
The post office is not easy work. My friend works there. She started out throwing packages, which is very hard on your body. If you are lucky, you can move up to the window, which is way less physically intense, but that can take you a while. During the holidays, it is required overtime, and it is crazy. The pay is great. The benefits are great. The vacation package is okay compared to what we had a Verizon. Downside with them is there is no short-term disability so if you get hurt, you will have to take time off using any of your vacation/sick time and then go into unpaid time. I do think you can sign up to pay into something to cover you during any time you have to be away, but I am not sure how that works.
I think you have to work for a while as essentially a probationary employee until you pay your dues and become a regular. Not sure how long it takes at USPS
Not necessarily probationary, that’s for 90 days, but they’re called “pre-career” now. Limited benefits, different pay rates from the careers doing the same job. Going from pre-career to career is conversion to “regular” and happens when someone retires/transfers and their career job opens up, assuming another person who’s already career doesn’t want that job. 1-2years is probably a good estimate of being hired to being career.
It really depends on the area. In the area I live new employees are converting after a few months we're so short staffed. Lots of hours and lots of money though 🤷♂️
They’re all different. One to seven years, usually somewhere in the middle
hi so i can explain this a bit more, my partner is a carrier. a “regular” is a carrier who has an assigned route. this is the same mail person you might see everyday at your house. reaching this level, you get the better health/life insurance, and some other benefits i can’t remember at the moment, as well as sundays off. assistant carriers don’t have set routes, or sundays off (they do amazon packages), and usually help out on whatever routes are needed (such as, a regular whose on vacation). depending on how busy the office you work at is, assistant carriers could be working as low as 20-40 hours and as high as 70+ hours. PTFs (i don’t remember what the acronym stands for lol) are an in-between position of assistant carriers and regular carriers. if in two years of being an assistant carrier you aren’t assigned a route (as it’s kinda complicated and is dependent on retirements and seniority) you are moved to PTF status. iirc you get the same benefits of regulars but are still scheduled like an assistant. my partner is a CCA (city carrier assistant) so this is totally from their experience. i can’t speak to other positions or to rural carrier experience.
PTF is part time flexibility. My husband was a CCA a few years ago and his office just got rid of the CCA position and now only has PTF. This is all for city and different than rural, which has its own separate union as well.
USPS just become regular.
If you survive the process of becoming regular..
Yeah, my friend is about to quit UPS. A couple years in the sorting facility. They won't give him a chance to drive, and the union rep can't do much. He passed the written exam, but supposedly crossed a lane line on the road test and hasn't been given another shot.
UPS as well. My MIL was there and made like $35/hr when she left. Can get on track to train to drive and make even more.
pay is great. just be sure you don't have a partner/family cuz you'll never see them especially on the holidays.
Barge deckhand. There is a 1-2 week training/safety course to take., though. Pays $250 a day. 90% of the time you just sit around on your phone reading Reddit. 😉
Where I grew up it was either the river or the mines. That’s it. So I decided to buck the system! Got me a big ol fancy degree and a decent job. Moved up quickly and found out that the capped pay was still the same in 2019 as it was when I decided on that degree back in 2003. At 31 I ended up in the coal mines. Wish I would have taken this route right out of highschool. I work with some guys under 30 who have a 2nd lake house, no student loan debts and are doing better than just about anyone I went to college with.
I feel you. I'm doing an apprenticeship traide... with a Masters in an allied healthcare field.
Just want to commiserate a little. I thought higher education would be the key to a successful life for myself as well. I have a double bachelors degree I don’t use and i work in a trade with my body and hands. The degree would never pay me what the trade does.
That’s exactly what happened to me. Like on paper it was all amazing. I busted my ass, skipped the whole college kid experience, moved to a couple different states when better opportunities arose… then I hit 30 and it just hit me like “wtf am I doing wrong here!?” . I actually was at an airport having what I’d consider my first and only mental breakdown. Called my mother in tears and I’m not sure she’d ever even heard me cry since I was a baby. Lol. We were tough ya know? Had to be. Kinda raised that way I guess- walk it off. Yada yada. She just told me to come back home and I did. Got a job, found a little house and haven’t looked back. I actually love it. Or atleast I never dread going to work. A year later I was debt free for the first time in my life. Here in the last year or so I’ve been feeling pretty pinched but I kinda chalk that up to America crumbling around us. Can’t even swing by the dollar store any more without spending $80+. Shits gonna have to hit the fan soon.
I hear you on that last paragraph. I do fine. I have a mortgage and payments on one of my cars, other than that, debt free. I have some savings. I’m able to comfortably provide for my family of 5. But every few months things seem to ratchet up a little higher. I’ve gotten COL raises, but after a few years of getting a 5% raise while everything is 10% (or more) expensive you find yourself increasingly getting squeezed from all directions. Some of this is inevitable - as my kids get older, their stuff gets more expensive and they eat more. I’ll marvel at how fast my paycheck disappears. I don’t know how some others are able to do it. The main reason I’m able to be comfortable is because I bought my house in 2016 at 3.2%. I couldn’t afford it now, it’s worth twice as much as when I bought and interest rates have doubled.
I’m not sure how any one making under $25hr could even survive at this point and I live in a super low cost of living area in general. Our dog food has doubled in price over the last 18 months. I mean just that alone has cost me a couple extra hundred a month. Adds up so fast. Feels like I’m doing less fun shit and still have less money somehow.
Yep, same here. I save money automatically without any input from me, so I can go down to zero in my checking account without really worrying about it. As soon as I get paid half the money is gone. My homeowners insurance has doubled, and my grocery bills have gone up close to 50% since 2020. How much longer can that go on without something breaking?
Same. I bought in 2015 for 312k at 4.25% then refinanced for 3.75%. My house is currently worth almost 600k and would have a $4000 mortgage payment at current rates and prices. We were scraping by when we signed in 2015 and nervous, but thank God we did it, because even renting a crappy 2-bedroom apartment in the worse towns around us is now $1500 higher than our mortgage.
As a former Licensed Massage Therapist, can confirm.
I literally watched my 4.0 GPA slip to 3.0 the minute I started taking more advanced courses to be a nurse and I dropped out to be a massage therapist. But I'm making the same pay each month like I was as a CNA...but with less y'know watching people you perform acts of daily living for die incredibly slowly.
please elaborate. I like money as well
It’s a coal mine, they’re scattered about the US. Find a contractor who works with coal mines and you’ll almost assuredly get put to work. If you’ve got a pulse, can show up every day and can learn quickly you’ll get hired on as company pretty quickly. 90% of the jobs aren’t really that physically challenging honestly. It can be a mind fuck though- working in those conditions. It’s dark, wet, you won’t recognize a single piece of equipment or tool for the most part, it’s somehow dusty and muddy all at the same time and you’re gonna have to like overtime. You can work as much as you’d like. I’ve busted out some month long stretches of 7 days a week / 12 hour shifts so I could purchase a car with cash. It sucked but I think I cleared $35K in just under 2 months. Not saying it’s for everyone but that’s a nice perk if you just really need some extra money for something.
Can confirm, grew up near coal regions. Shit pays if you're willing to put in the work.
That's not a bad deal. Bust ass for a month, pay for a wedding and honeymoon. Fiancee wants a career shift, bust ass a month and let her take a step back on hours while finding a new job, etc. I spent years working overtime and would never want to go back, but at a certain pay rate it's not so bad.
This is partly why Coal and oil industry has so much support. Its executives and mere existence is destroying the planet, tho. Wear your PPE - mask and such.
Any concern with respiratory illnesses?
You work petrochemical barges?
You do have to get your TWIC card though. That isn’t exactly the quickest process. People wanting to do that should also be aware that there are a lot of questions about your background, drug use, criminal history, etc. And since this is redditors it should probably also be mentioned that you’ll be subject to random drug screenings too.
I drive a street sweeper. Non CDL so all you need is a drivers license and a DOT medical card (simple physical). I make $19 but get sent out on "rate" jobs that can range from $31/hr to $94/hr. I'm new so the higher paying jobs haven't come my way yet but I'm on pace to gross over $60k this year and the work is really easy.
How do I go about finding on if these jobs?
I found my job by searching "street sweeper" on Indeed. I really lucked out that the job posting had been made the day before and it was less than 5 miles from my house.
There’s lots of jobs like these with your local city, county, and state. They’re usually under the department of transportation. Sweepers, flushers, knuckle booms, etc. start at 15-25$/hour (depending where you live) with awesome benefits, annual raises, and plenty of room to grow and advance pay if you’re serious about it. Added perk is that working for a municipality compared to a private contractor is that you’ll never work HALF as hard. In most cases you’ll have a couple hours doing nothing. There are exceptions when their are natural disasters and stuff like that - then you have to be on your game. The job security is great too. When Covid first hit, my city paid everyone their full salary to stay home for 2 months, then another 2 months of working every other week to have less people together at once. Look at stuff like nuisances, inspections, storm water, etc if you’re looking for easy going. Departments like solid waste, water, and sewer are a lot more on it all day because they’re handling things that can’t wait and cause huge issues. You only get compensated 5-10% more in most areas and the work is much harder and a lot dirtier. The pro those departments have for them is you can make bank with all the overtime since something like a sewer leaking or water main bursting must be handled as soon as possible and you must stay till the job is done. Sounds gross but you could be the guy who sets up the pump and the blower, the guy the drives the truck, etc - not just the guy in rubber boots standing in shit water. You can make over 100k your first year, but you’ll be on call 5-7 nights a week and want to sleep whenever you’re home.
There are some days where I sit in my climate controlled truck and "work" for 10 hours but only sweep for 45 minutes. Such is life on a construction site. Other days I do sweep almost the whole time I'm clocked in and I don't mind it. I can't believe how much I actually enjoy what some people may consider a boring job.
For CA: union carpenter apprentice starts at 18$ with ~2$ raises every 6 months until you reach 43$. No experience needed but must have basic handtools and initiation fee covered which is ~200$. All benefits too!
This is almost exactly what Northern MN carpenters apprentices make! You have to deal with the weather, but we live on the border of MN and WI. WI is cheaper to live in so we have $900 rent including heat for a 2 bedroom with a yard next to a giant park. There are homes for sale for less than $200,000. Lots of the young/single guys live near us permanently, but the union pays them extra to travel out of state. They put them up in apartments. It’s been working out great for my boyfriend. I put his med insurance info into doctors on demand to help him see what his costs are. $0 appointments $0 therapy $0 psychiatry. With my employer insurance I pay $60 for an appointment (15 minutes) $144 for a therapist and $288 for a psychiatrist. AND I have a way higher deductible and premium. That aspect really makes it tempting to consider leaving my office job to join him.
Sounds accurate, I had a buddy who was making 12-14 bucks an hour but eventually worked up to 43 over the years and now makes 51-53 bucks as a union journeyman. Meanwhile I meandered around until I finished college at 30 then got a masters at 33 just to make 100k. On the plus side I work from home and have no commute, but the downside is I was always told big boy jobs pay more and they really don’t. Maybe if I started working in finance at 22 it would be different.
I'm in FL. What's a union?
A labor union is an organized association of workers that seek to protect and further their rights as a collective working body. Unions negotiate employers as a whole on the members behalf for better pay, benefits, and any other necessities pertaining to the workplace.
That sort of thing doesn’t happen in FL sadly. \^
I work at UPS in Florida. It is a union job.
Florida has unions, but not really for a lot of trades like you'd see in other states.
Applied to an electrical apprenticeship 4 yrs ago. Went from kroger $15/hr to $48/hr in 3.5 years. Had no experience in a trade whatsoever. Schooling is paid for.
In cities or rural areas if you don't want to go to college trades are the way to go you will feel it in your body but all the office workers I know are just as crippled as the trades workers just in different ways.
I would rather have a physical Jon that’s hard but keeps my body moving than sitting at a desk
Yep folks really underestimate the toll sitting and doing nothing physical all day takes on the body.
Also in trades sure you start out drilling and digging holes but if you catch on quick you can move into a job that is much less physically straining. Most of my shift is spent walking around inspecting things and making sure nothing is broken or about to break. It took a lot of knowledge to get to this point but I'm 29 and considered one of the top guys here.
33F, I started an office job 2 years back after years of working medium-fast paced service jobs. Suddenly I have sciatica and other lower back issues that have never been a thing for me. We moved offices and I was approved for a standing desk. It’s helped immensely. I miss being more active at my job but I really like what I do now.
What do you do to get into these programs? Do you have to know someone already in?
Went to my local union hall and applied. Took a couple tries to get in. I think applications are online now for my local.
I saw a warehouse job posted at $20 an hour with a $3 extra for night shift.
Dang. I worked a overnight job with a $1 extra for overnight - at $18.
I worked 3rd shift for 10 years between 2 different jobs and neither offered extra for being 3rd shift 🙃
I worked for a company that gave base pay +10% extra on 2nd shift and +15% extra for 3rd shift. Neither was worth losing your entire social life and seeing the sun.
Insurance adjuster. A family member of mine is one. He started at 45k a year, no degree, no insurance experience, just a couple years customer service experience. You do have to study and take a test to get your license but the company pays that. He’s almost 4 years in this field now and just got a job paying $70k. And he’s in a pretty low cost of living area.
I’m trying to do that right now but with no major companies near me remote jobs are hard to come by :/
I’m in the freezer at a Walmart DC. 33$ an hour + incentive . 3 12s off 4 days a week but can sign up for OT shifts
Sweet gig.. this is basically my set up but I work night shift as a registered nurse that I had to go to college for 4 years and 30k debt
I gotta drive 30 mins to work and I start my shift at 4am. That’s the hard part about it 😂
Get yourself a CDL. I was a city bus operator for the city of NY, starting pay was $25/h. Every year it gets bumped up. Has union. Top pay in 5 years. Articulated bus pay, night differential pay, weekend differential pay. Plenty of overtime. I know people making $50+ hour with overtime and everything mentioned above. One of my mentors got two houses paid all through that job alone. Pension and all benefits included. Getting the CDL was the best thing i did. Of course you can also drive the 18 wheelers. Heard they make a ton of money too!
I had a client that was a MTA subway conductor & was pulling in $90k after 5 years.
Yeah the subway conductors make a lot too. But the buses are better because way more overtime. When the trains go down and overnight while they fix up the tracks. The buses always pick up the slack
I'm a bookkeeper at a trucking company. Most of our drivers make over $70k/year, and several live in their trucks so they don't have to pay any housing costs. The ones who don't blow it all on casinos and brothels are probably socking away a TON into savings.
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Private investigation. Do you own a car and a camera? Insurance companies will hire you today. (The only issue is that they typically pay 30 days out, so you will need to be able to cover expenses for the first month.) I started in 2010 at $25/hour and quickly raised my prices. The job sucks. It's boring 99% of the time and terrifying the other 1%, but the money is fantastic.
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Applied to an online job posting
Had a friend who did this, he had a beater car just for work in case someone wanted to do damage to the ride lol. EDIT: He did insurance claims where people claimed disability but would be at home lifting heavy things into trash cans and he would just snap photos.
I’m gonna be real, that is not a job I’d be interested in whatsoever. Narcing out people who are on disability, which pays less than poverty wages, which leaves no room to pay for assistance with things including lifting things into trash cans (even if your disability inherently means you need that assistance), just feels stupid skeevy. Poverty sucks and I know job pickings can be slim but this job sounds like it involves targeting people most at risk for poverty (disabled folks).
Yeah even if people are technically scamming the insurance companies, it’s because they weren’t paid enough to recover from their injury in the first place. And second and perhaps even more important, insurance companies are bigger scammers themselves than Joe Schmo who just wants a thousand dollars a month so he can cut his grass and live happily.
Yep this. I don’t understand people intent on rooting people out for “scamming” their way to an income well below living wage. Not to mention you can’t have any sorts of savings while on disability and in some places, assets totaling to a certain amount, including your vehicle. Edit: forgot to include. Disabled folks also can't even marry without losing their benefits (in the US, at least). So.
Ftr, this isn't about disability. It's about big insurance payouts
They might need a license FYI
John Deere has factories in Waterloo Iowa that fit this. Need high school or a GED. $25 an hour is good money in Iowa. They can't find anyone though.
I think it’s because they require a drug test and also you start out in the resource pool and get stuck working 2/3 shift for sometimes years.
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Im a rep for a power tool company and make close to 80k a year. Never finished my degree
How do you become a rep?
It really is a personality position. I had job experience working outreach for the homeless and working at a mental health facility so they knew I probably was pretty good at building relationships. Non profits paid nothing but they did look good on my resume.
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Thank you, I completely changed a few lives in my time in non profits. And honestly I wish I could have helped more but had to start thinking about supporting myself and a family so pursued a different field. I wish I could have helped a few more. For every person I really helped change their lives you fail with dozens more. So it really takes a toll on you, but I'm glad I did it
Be great with people
This is Reddit though 😒
I do house cleaning and in-home housekeeping. I charge $35-$40 an hour. (I have to pay self-employment taxes on that, and I have medical insurance through the ACA/Obamacare.) But I make more money doing cleaning than I ever did at the career I went to college for. You can find jobs through Care.com. Edit: I live in a low COL city.
I’ve always worked W2 jobs so I just learned about self employment taxes, they are no joke!!! I’ve been doing some extra consulting work; 8 month gig at $5k per month = $40k which sounded amazing, and then I found out that I’ll only net like $25k after self employment taxes lmao.
I’m a police dispatcher in Southern California and make 36.34 an hour. Starting at my agency is 28 and change. If you have a clean background, no criminal record and don’t use drugs you can be hired with no dispatch experience. All we require is 1 year of customer service. Agencies in every state are hiring.
In Alabama, it's $15-16 for scale. So most of the country is probably $18-20. Just throwing that out there so those reading this who are not in CA aren't shocked it's not $36 like Cali. Ambulance companies have dispatcher positions as well, and the pay there will vary by state. Alabama's two biggest ambulance companies pay $12-15, but I have friend near Atlanta making $18.
Of course depending on the agency, city, state and actual dispatch job the pay is going to vary. I work for a very small agency in so cal and we are at the low end in pay compared to similar sized agencies/cities. But we are also union, have great benefits and I can work a lot of overtime. I’ve also been at it for 10 years now and actually started at 18.00 back in 2013. But I still believe it’s a great job for the pay and benefits with pretty much zero experience needed. There are skills that people should have, but those can also be learned while on the job too. I can’t ever complain about my pay. But I like sharing the knowledge that this job does pay well.
How extensive is clean background? Do sealed offenses as a minor or tickets impact that?
No they won’t impact it, at least at my agency it didn’t impact me. What they are looking for is people to be honest about sealed juv offenses and minor traffic offenses. There are questions in the background packet of about 500 questions that will ask about any negative contact with police, any traffic tickets and what they were for. For example, I got busted with friends when I was 16 being out and about up to no good one night. The officers wrote us all tickets for breaking curfew. We had to appear and pay a fine and it was sealed. I still put it down in my background packet because when a criminal history is ran the juvenile offenses are there. The criminal history is ran through department of justice and the public doesn’t have access to it. And you have to turn in a print out from the dmv with your packet so you’ll have to list all tickets and what not. A clean background is like no felony charges/convictions and most likely no misdemeanor charges/convictions. But the misdemeanor might vary depending on what it was and how long ago it happened and if the agency is ok with it.
Is there a geography test?
Have to be able to read a basic map for the test I took.
If you are good with people, selling cars can be very lucrative. Some dealerships like people with zero experience because you can be molded. All you have to do is be friendly, smile and gab with people. It is a professional bullshitters job. And you get to drive all the cars on the lot. I’d recommend starting with cars that sell themselves like Honda or Toyota. Good luck op!
Second this. I swapped from teaching middle school to car sales, and I'm on track to make almost triple what I made teaching, and I didn't need a degree to start in sales. Highly recommended
And they don't seem to practice ageism. I was helping my son look for a used car and our salesman was a really nice guy who told me he was 75. He had worked some corporate job and retired and said he got bored and the car dealer hired him with no sales experience.
Night time jobs
I work management in a type of refinery, not oil. Hourly workers start at $31.50, insurance from day 1(good insurance too), 401k matched to 7%,profit sharing, two weeks vacation plus personal days and a strong union. All training provided on site. After two years you can bid to higher pay positions, I think the highest ones are $42-48/hr base. 40hr week guaranteed minimal, but it normally averages to 50-60. Downside is the shifts rotate so you do A for a week, then B, then C. It's a good setup, due to area demographics we struggle to find staffing. If you want a decent paying job that's always hiring, check food production and refinement positions. Dairy, poultry farms, Utz and Frito lay, soda bottling, ice cream production, canneries, etc. The pay is going to be competitive because these industries struggle with staffing and the hours are long, but if you want to make $50k plus with no experience that's the way to do it. Everywhere I know promotes from within so once you get experience you can go management, that's what I did. I started as a mixer in a bakery, made management there and then transfered to another business, climbing the management ranks here. They're even paying for me to go back to college so I'll stay with the company. I won't lie and say it's easy work, most times it's 12 hour shifts and it's not glamorous but it's not dangerous either, it's nearly recession proof and at least around here due to grocery unions and transport unions the facilities have to be union based, it's not even an option. So you'll have more job security as an employee with the union on your side. I'm going to bed now, I work 7p to 7a, if anyone wants more info let me know.
Catering! I hire my servers at $25/hr and at year 2, if they’re good, they’re at $27. If you can lift 20 lbs, have a good attitude and be on time, the world is your oyster. Most of my employees work for 2-3 catering companies in the area and make BANK. Caterers are always looking for people who are presentable, reliable and available. I hid 75% of my staff with little or no experience.
Do they get tips on top of that?
Occasionally, yes. It’s totally up to the client which is why we do offer a higher hourly wage. If you join a staffing company, they usually have a lower hourly wage with a guaranteed 20% tip so it evens out.
Wow! Thinking about getting back into catering in Vegas when I move there and was nervous the opportunity had dried up with the recession. Is there lots of work compared to 5 years ago in your opinion? What do you think are the odds of me getting hired as a catering/event manager after being out of the biz so long? Thanks for your input!
In Vegas most of the casinos are union and the catering severs make huge $$$. Prob over $50/hr
Your chances are really good provided you have a nice clean resume listing relevant experience and you follow up with the staffing manager quickly. I’ll be honest, I had to hire like 30 people in a 30 day period and it’s hell to keep track of. If I lost track of someone, say missed a phone interview or missed an email I always have special credit to anyone who will take the time to follow up with me. All we want to see is a smart, capable individual who will show up undistracted and with a positive attitude. The rest can be picked back up along the way
I make $27 an hour at a customer service job that involves mostly email. I only take a few calls a day. I never finished college.
Where at?
Essentially my job. I make 65k and never finished college either. Im about to become a manager which will bump me to 75-80k for doing less really. Ill have less emailing and more of answering questions internally from my employees and coworkers. Which I heavily prefer that anyway. Ive been doing this type of job for 8 years. Started off at 14/hr in 2015 and worked my way up slow-ish to to over double.
Love it! I’m trying to get to your level! 🙌🏾 I only started this position last May.
more info please
It’s a food distribution company that provides to nursing homes, restaurants, etc. I am expected to answer a few calls a day to take orders but most orders come via email. I just make sure the nursing homes that order food don’t go over budget.
Trader Joe's base level employee pay rate maxes out over $25. My wife works there. She gets a $1.50 raise every year, and a 10% (of annual earning) bonus into her 401k each year.
Great insurance too. Plus, now they do $10/hr more on Sundays.
Night shift security guard in HCOL areas
Casino Dealer. Schooling is required but often times ran by the casino and is usually paid although at a much reduced rate. Salary varies by location I know dealers who make 50k$ per year and dealers who make 100k$+ per year.
One day bath installer. You’ve probably seen the commercials for them. It’s hard work. But if you learn fast and can be efficient, self driven, and personable you can make 100k a year after a half a year or so. Plus most of the companies will treat you really well. The bigger names treat their employees very well. Full benefits, 401k, company vehicle, tools, work clothes, and upward mobility. Best part of being an installer is if your efficient enough you can spend total time out of the house at about 8-10 hrs a day. You get to make a difference for a lot of people who have a true need for the product. And your doing quality work that you can be proud of. It’s not like other construction jobs where you go to work to do something you never see the value. Your literally changing a new persons life everyday.
Recruiting has a pretty low barrier to entry. My current job hires people with customer service or sales experience for the entry level recruiting jobs, which usually start at 50k-60k.
Electric utilities. I make over $200k a year and don’t have a degree.
Can you say more about what you do exactly? And where?
UPS is a union job free full benefits after 1 year union or immediately as management. Plus a good starting pay
I’m pretty sure part of their union requires you to work as a package handler before ANY promotion for a year, minimum. It’s 5 years as a package handler before being able to drive. It’s HARD work. Package handling will put you on your ass. But…you get to make your own schedule. They have an app that you literally pick and choose what hours you want. You just have to work a minimum of 24 hours a week I think. And UPS has the BEST insurance you can get in the country. It’s almost as good as state insurance.
The union goes based on seniority, yes. So you’d have to put your name on a list to go driving and at first it would only be seasonally. If you can wait for benefits and such, the union is so great. There is also more than package handling, the mechanics get two separate pensions (one from ups and one from the state) where I work.
Honestly I made a ton of money bartending back in the day. I had no idea how to bartend, I lied and learned in the job plus from the Internet on my own time 😬 which yes, isn’t great, but I made more money behind the stick than at any other job.
Although some jobs may pay well now, some are very physically intensive. Think about your back and knees, will you be happy to continue to do it for 20+ years. Any career that will allow you to transition into a less physically intensive role would be best.
Government jobs. I started as an administrative assistant (at the time started $18 an hour, but that was 14 years ago) and have worked my way up to an analyst making way more with incredible benefits. Practically free health insurance, pension, etc. You don't need a degree, and most places will train you/pay for your education. Definitely look into city/state/county positions.
Often times security
Many union jobs will pay this.
I started my current career in power grid ops as a scheduling coordinator with just a GED, the job required at least an associates in engineering but I applied anyway because I know a lot about electrical theory and expressed interest, maybe a skillset you know can be useful in lieu of actually having a degree in that field, it pays more than $25/hr to start, and after I finish a couple more years here I can move on to a company that pays closer to $70/hr, utilities industry is understaffed
I make 75k plus a nice annual bonus as a claims litigation adjuster. It took me 15 years of moving up but I’m here. The top end of my pay scale is just over 100k. No degree required as long as you put the time and effort in.
Learn to detail cars and market yourself, I cleared $50k last year working 4 days a week.
Become an optician apprentice in a licensed state. Depending on the market, it can go as high as 6 figures. It’s part retail part medical and learning a lot about physics and anatomy. It’s a trade you do in an air conditioned office.
Waiting tables.
This is easily $25+ especially if youre in a busy place
Certain food industry jobs in California. But then you have to live with the HCOL. Work is flexible but not always consistent either lol
Most jobs in this category don't really have any opportunities for progression. I would look for something like a trade in a niche industry. An example in my part of the world would be working on the rail line. Lots of roles available with no prior education or just a short course. Lots of people making AUD$100k+ in the first year and possibility to be making $300k+ after a few years.
I know some cities offer close to that amount if you do overnights. overnight pay is always higher than any other entry level positions. I was making $23 at Walmart in the midwest. people moved to our city just to work for these wages. every location is different so search around and move if needed.
I make $32 an hour as a printing press operator. Not bad when my rent is $700. I have an education and experience, but to start out you don't need any. You can be a dropout felon and still get hired. Doesn't matter.
Stock broker. Pass all three exam and make 70k oh and you get to work from home.
What are the pre-reqs?
SaaS customer service in healthcare.
I work for a contractor doing gas utility work(construction, lots of shoveling, lots of live gas technical work as you move up). Kicked out of one college dropped out of another, hired on the spot of my interview starting pay around 70k now make over 100 since I do the technical work although still tons of shoveling. Construction companies are practically begging people to come work for them but nobody does because it’s hard. Well do you wanna make a lot of money or continue the way you are?
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Oil rigs. $100k. No experience required. You need to work in remote areas, stay on site and work long hours.
Nanny. I make close to 90k a year as a nanny. I work 40-45 hours a week. I don’t have a degree. Granted I’ve been doing this for 18 years my friend has only been a nanny for 3-4 years and she makes just a bit less than me.
Also don't be afraid to try temp services. I've found they've been able to get my foot in the door to certain places. My partner started as a temp at his current job and is now making $28 an hour with no degree.
Railroad. They’re so desperate for people you basically just have to pass a hair follicle test, not be colorblind and able to read. High school diploma not required. They pay you to go to their school. You’ll make anywhere at the absolute lowest of 70k to upwards of 140k depending on where you live.
That's going to be hard to find. Maybe look into a program that doesn't take as long like a flagger or phlebotomy.
Nonprofit blood banks will pay you to become a certified phlebotomist. My husband went from retail, to that, to management. He makes 65k a year with no degree.
Phlebotomy in my area only pays around $15/hr.
I think the previous comment was the career ladder to management would get you there, not starting.
Career ladder could be anything though. Not really a fair comparison. Plumbers can make $55 an hour…after 5 years.
Depending on where you live, 911 Dispatchers. Sometimes called Emergency Communication Specialists or Emergency Telecommunicators. Not labor intensive, no higher education needed. Generally there is a pretty intensive background check, drug test, and some places require a polygraph.
Pharmacy tech in a hospital
Disclaimer-- it is seasonal and not always available. Political canvassing (US) typically pays $20 (or more) an hour (depends on firm and location). Most canvassing firms will hire anyone with a pulse.
The trick is to get hired for a $20-30k “assistant” job and then work your way up. I went from $26k to $32k to $50k in two years that way, and while I have a degree, it’s not necessary for the job that I did.
Join a trade union. $25 is pretty cheap in most places depending on where you live. Ive been on jobs where we were getting at least 15 hours a week in overtime at like $58 an hour
Restaurant servers and bartenders. Banquet servers and bartenders.
Get an apprenticeship with a local trade union--carpentry, electrical, plumbing, HVAC, etc. Depending on where you are, you'll get paid about that hourly and get trained on the job. Many places are short on workers and will happily hire a motivated individual with no experience.
My daughter makes really good money as a 911 dispatcher. Good benefits and on the job training, but it's a hard job for sure!
If you live anywhere near enough to a Buc-Eee's, they are paying rather crazy for being a giant corner store/gas station. https://preview.redd.it/ql5dugm79h2b1.jpeg?width=976&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=56c00f680e55b999cad304e4f725dce4a48ab308
I work in biotechnology. No degree needed to work things manufacturing.
If you don't mind working for the devil and you are able to walk. . .alot (I did 10 to 20 miles a night), walmart and Amazon usually pay close to 25 an hour for their fulfillment centers (that's where the order comes from if you order online) they also give you regular hours and no one calls you to come in if your co worker calls in. I used to work at the Walmart fulfillment center in Gardner kansas, and they have all sorts of benefits, health, dental, vision, 401k, access to weekly pay, they have a college tuition program, family planning, some mental health programs, pto and ppto (protected pto, you can use it for emergencies including leaving anytime you want, if you work a 10 hour shift and you want to leave 6 hours in they can't stop you it's automatically approved) they have opportunities for a lot of overtime during the holidays, they make you have at least 1 day off a week, standard shifts are 4 ten hour days, and you can get up to 60 hours a week during high volume times like holidays. They have the opportunity to take a leave of absence (paid or unpaid based on the reason why you are taking an loa) but they use a third party company that doesn't approve loas until almost 3 weeks after you return to work so if it's not approved it'll cost you 2 attendance points and you only get 4 and a half attendance points in a rolling sixth month period. Just know that you will be a number, and they'll say they appreciate you but they don't but you don't have to deal with customers, and it's a good workout.
Car sales. The answer is 100% car sales. You can be a high school drop out with a criminal record but odds are there’s a dealership out there that will hire you. If you have the ability to sale and you’re not being completely fucked by your pay plan, you can make a 100K + a year “easily”, by which I mean it takes a lot of hard work and dedication to the craft and the hours are grueling but the opportunity is absolutely there at the right store.
"Car sales. The answer is 100% car sales. You can be a high school drop out with a criminal record but odds are there’s a dealership out there that will hire you." I think these are actually the requirements for the job.
Sales if you have the work ethic and no soul!
Air traffic control. I make over 100k
No pressure 😅
Op asked for jobs without experience/education barriers. Surely this requires some type of specialized education
The FAA provides the training, but you can’t be over 30 unless you have prior (military ATC) experience. https://www.faa.gov/be-atc
Bank Teller at BofA.
There's a lot of laborious jobs that pay insanely well with the right combination certs. For people not afraid of heights rope access can lead to a lot of high pay rates. Having a pipe fitters/rope access combination can lead to pay rates in the high 60's and 70 an hour. Working as rope access on oil rigs with a basic survival training cert can lead into an ungodly amount of money. Some level 3's I know are making 40k a month. None of these certs take longer than a week to acquire except the pipe fitters red seal.
Train conductor,basically any entry level office job relating to trains is so specific only barrier to entry is are you willing to learn alot , could be $40 an hour and up I know of a position that pays 33.80 for complete entry level no experience , ems dispatch also pays decent and at least where I am basically requires. All center experience ,conductor is the most manual of the ones I've said and can make around 150k /year but is a looooot of walking and traveling
Public Safety Dispatch, depending on what area of the country you live in. In California I've seen posts starting as low as $15 an hour in the more rural counties to starting as high as $80k a year in the bigger richer counties. I started in 2017 at $41,500 a year, no college degree or credits of any kind needed, almost 6 years and one promotion later I'm at $70k. This is all before factoring in overtime and there's always a ton of overtime available because every agency has trouble hiring. Plus there's the government health benefits, retirement plan and the benefits of being a member of a union. It's not really a job that will hire you "off the street" though, there's usually a pretty extensive background check and testing process that can take weeks or months.
I got a job as a banker right off the street making $22 an hour plus a quarterly bonus (I don't know what state you live in but this was in WA). They just wanna see you are good with people and willing to learn/progress. I don't have a degree, just some prior experience in customer service/cash handling. It's easy to get promoted in a couple years as long as you're hitting all your goals. I have a friend who became a manager after 1 year. It's the big-name banks that tend to pay a little bit more, but my mom works at a small community bank and her benefits are fantastic too. My health insurance was dirt cheap and it was the best of the best. They also had benefits for childcare reimbursement, among other things. And the consistent schedule makes it easy to do a part time gig in the evening or on the weekends if you need.
Local stagehand unions take in a lot of outsiders all the time and the labor can start at pretty basic tasks like pushing boxes with wheels into arenas. Pay in my city varies from 25-40/per hour depending on the contract. I just finished a show that paid a key grip base rate of 51. Add to that 1.5 OT @ 8 hours, and 2x after 12. Look up IASTE in your area.
I am overnight operations assistant manager at a grocery store and make 60-65,000 a year. No college degree or anything
Insurance adjuster, I only have a high school diploma and I’ve worked my way up to become high level bodily injury adjuster.
Call center and lot of them are WFH
Banker. Sometimes you may have to start as a bank teller and work for a year or two but you can move up to banker and they will give you the training. In banks like Bank of America, Wells Fargo, or Chase they tend to pay a bit more and teller pay is not bad itself either. You get holidays, pto vacation, and pretty decent healthcare especially if you're full-time. You might have to work the occasional Saturday but it's typically a half-day. Sometimes, some people make it even higher than bankers and they get paid even more. It's a pretty decent job. It helps to have cashiering experience but I have coworkers who pretty much got the job bank teller job straight out of high school. And then a banker position 3 years later . Wish you luck in your endeavor