Careers without College? (job offer, employment, degrees, non-profit)
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At the moment I am doing freelance event planning (my own business). Prior to this I worked at a few corporations, non-profit, and at hotels. No college degree...
First job was at wal-mart. I started off in Seafood and stayed there for over a year. I later transfered over to Electronics and stay there another year. I left Wal-Mart to go to USAMobility (Metrocall) to work in Major Accounts (accounts with 1000+ pagers) in the call center. Within a few months I was promoted to an Administrative job with the company and I was assigned specific accounts and was taken off the phones. I did conference calls, e-mails, etc. It was great and I really enjoyed it :-) However, USAMobility closed that office and outsourced the call center section to Teleperformance. I accepted a job offer with Teleperformance and stayed for 6 months while I job hunted. I landed a job with a local company that did Fiber to the home. I started off in Tech Support and I learned a lot about IT systems, etc. The company was later bought out by Connexion Technologies and when that happened, they decided to have a IT person on site... I was offered that job and I accepted it. I was moved to Salery and was on-call and also had to travel for the company. It was fun until the company downsized about a year after the buyout :-( I am now out of work.
There could be many areas where you really need street smartness or hardwork only. Without degree profesions like sales, property, car dealer, cab driving can earn you good. I strongly believe that degrees can be helpfull in landing high profile jobs.
I dont have colleger degree, I worked as reception of reception of hotel at airport, later got chance to work in warehouse and then due to refernce got entry in technology sales. I worked hard and withink 3 years I was permoted to asst. mgr sales and then Regional sales manager. Now I hold top most position in region, hires engineers etc. I still get good offers with good packages
I have no complaints...as far as income, I make "enough". I don't see why anyone should be paid more than I'm paid now.
But when I was looking for a job last year, because of working conditions, I couldn't find anyone to even MATCH the wages I was already getting.
You know, I should have read the OP a bit better. My job isn't dependent on my Associate's degree--so it does fit in there. And my degree has not helped me gain employment.
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