10 High-Paying Jobs That Don't Require A Bachelor's Degree

Whoa, look at those pay scales! When I started out after carrying newpapers in grade school until I was on the 9th grade school baseball team, the minimum scage scale was 75 cents per hour! After a year of college and working week-ends at a corner grocery store, at 75 centsc an hour, I worked a summer for $1.38 an hour! Boy, big time with time and a half for overtime and a couple of raises, I was ready to keep working and got married. Then, was drafted into the Army, served my two years in Germany, came back to my utility job at a greater pay scale then when I left. After our fourth son was born, I returned to college, night school, as I had to continue working to support our family. The hitch in the army allowed the G. I. bill to help pay for my schooling, else I could have never made it. My adviced to our first son to take typing in Jr High, as computers were just starting to made their impressions on the work force. He was the only boy in his class, but it paid off as he got his C.P.A. license after his basketball scholarship. Times sure change and it pays to plan for your future, as best you can. I didn't make the, "Big Bucks" working for a utility, but it had other advantages.

pcgorilla is funny. Money can buy you happiness, you must be broke. Always trying to blame your failures on somebody else...get over it. Wake up and smell the dough!

pcgorilla must be broke. Her comments are funny. Money can buy happiness...wake up and smell the dough!

I don't know where these idiots get their stats but I did very well in Social Work, as well of a lot of others in this field that I know of. I retired with more money than half the jobs listed, aerospace engineering??, doesn't sound like an easy job to get. I know business majors do very well.

Nuclear power plants is where the money is at a nuclear mechanic makes 110k to 160k in the midwest, union job with no college degree needed..

Type your comment hereThose going into Nursing program because t pays well will be real disappointed in the career. It pays well but you have to want to do it and love the job otherwise you will hate s\cleaning up blood poop andvomit after others. this is not a career for everyone. I did it for 35 years and loved it but it is not for evryone

I remember Robin Williams' speech when he won the Oscar for Best Actor. When he was starting out he told his dad he was going to become an actor. His dad said "That's great, just be sure you have a good trade to fall back on, like masonry." Hillarious, and still good advice.

Rn info is old and outdatd. In Minnesota, if you don't have a 4 year RN degree, you're chances of getting hired are almost none. Diploma degreed
Rn's have not been in existance for years. Also, a full time Rn in Mn makes more like $80,000 per year.

I remember when only people like Willy Mays and Mickey Mantle made six figure incomes!!

don't know if that is just the nature of my major or the sad state of the economic times we currently find ourselves in. (thanks almost entirely to George W. Bush)

I think it's funny that so many Christians care so much about money when Jesus explicitly spoke out against being rich in the bible --- Matthew 19:24---- Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God."

I think in the end it's better to find a job that you're happy doing than one where you make more money but are unhappy.