The best jobs you can get without a college degree
The real estate profession is attractive to many people because it offers the possibility of high earnings for minimal requirements. Most places don’t require you to have a college degree to get into real estate.
Yes, you can go to college to get a computer science degree to learn web development languages such as JavaScript, Java, Python, and Ruby. But college might be a waste of time and money since employers just want to know that you can code, perhaps looking at your experience or giving you a coding test.
Well, you have to really know your wines, have a developed palate, be a real people person, and be prepared to work later hours in what can often be a chaotic environment. Against that, you can do work that you really love for an average annual salary of US$40,584.
Fighting fires and saving lives—firefighting can be a rewarding, if sometimes dangerous, profession. But if you like excitement and the prospect of doing good, then you can enter a profession where the median income is US$57,120 per year.
Becoming a flight attendant combines the glamour of travel with the grind of real work, serving food and drink in the sky, dealing with unruly passengers, providing direction in case of emergencies, participating in pre-flight briefings, and much more.
Sure, there might be a stigma attached to being a garbage collector and the job can be hard work. Against that, you have steady employment, since society will continue to produce its garbage and need it picked up.
In the wake of the pandemic, community health workers have gotten renewed respect, promoting health and wellness community-wide or to specific groups, whether it is seniors, the homeless, youth or others. The median annual salary for community health workers is about US$48,200.