Careers without College? (job offer, employment, degrees, non-profit)

[averagejoe76]

Anyone have a good career and never been to college?
If so whats your job?

[Rei]

I heard strippers make $100k w/o college degree... ^^

[averagejoe76]

Originally Posted by Rei

I heard strippers make $100k w/o college degree... ^^

Yes but many are just paying for medical school

[Driller1]

I drill water wells and install water systems.

[TKramar]

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.

[sunny AZ]

Event Planner.

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...

[Flexbaud]

My job history:

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.

[kanwar]

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

[heydade]

Firefighter....start at 50K, top out at 100K and retire after 20 years with 80% of your salary.

[TKramar]

Originally Posted by TKramar

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.