I need a career

[Stormspirit]

One that doesn't require college.  I'm 22 and don't have very many if any specific job skills and only a HS diploma.  Any ideas on what in demand careers I can look into?  I was thinking electrician but it seems difficult to gain apprenticeship unless you know someone.  I don't need to make a ton of money, relative enjoyability and job security are my main concerns if at all possible.  Any help appreciated

[Princess L]

One that doesn't require college.  I'm 22 and don't have very many if any specific job skills and only a HS diploma.  Any ideas on what in demand careers I can look into?  I was thinking electrician but it seems difficult to gain apprenticeship unless you know someone.  I don't need to make a ton of money, relative enjoyability and job security are my main concerns if at all possible.  Any help appreciated

Definitely look into a trade.  You'll probably need additional schooling regardless.

[tonymctones]

One that doesn't require college.  I'm 22 and don't have very many if any specific job skills and only a HS diploma.  Any ideas on what in demand careers I can look into?  I was thinking electrician but it seems difficult to gain apprenticeship unless you know someone.  I don't need to make a ton of money, relative enjoyability and job security are my main concerns if at all possible.  Any help appreciated

if im not mistaken you have to pass a test to become an electrician...

my advice would be to get into a industry that is big in the region you want to live and once you find the field you want to get into stick with it. Experience and time can be substitutes for education but you probably need experience in the same field which is why i say stick with it.

in the end like L said additional schooling is probably going to be required in the field you go into whether it be a certification or college

is there a reason you dont want to go to college?

[Brixtonbulldog]

where do you live?

in maryland i know quite a few snow plow operators who made well over $300k last year during the blizzard.  money isn't as easy to come by this year with not as much snow but they still make close to $80k, i believe.  look into it.  gov't operators are the best paying by far.

[225for70]

where do you live?

in maryland i know quite a few snow plow operators who made well over $300k last year during the blizzard.  money isn't as easy to come by this year with not as much snow but they still make close to $80k, i believe.  look into it.  gov't operators are the best paying by far.

bullshit...

[Brixtonbulldog]

bullshit...

that's what i said considering the program i'm in is one of the best gov't jobs ever and we will top out at $160k.  then the guys explained how they made that much.  too long to put here but they basically earn serious bank as gov't employees then moonlight non-stop all season.  some of these guys ended up plowing for 36 hours straight several times in three months.  but last years blizzards were a freak occurrance. 

still, not a bad gig even if someone could make 1/5th that much by plowing, no degree necessary.

[225for70]

that's what i said considering the program i'm in is one of the best gov't jobs ever and we will top out at $160k.  then the guys explained how they made that much.  too long to put here but they basically earn serious bank as gov't employees then moonlight non-stop all season.  some of these guys ended up plowing for 36 hours straight several times in three months.  but last years blizzards were a freak occurrance.  

still, not a bad gig even if someone could make 1/5th that much by plowing, no degree necessary.

I thought this year(2011) was the worst for storms in the north east history?  How was 2010 better?  So they made more money 300k in 2010 when it snowed less?


Get some rest bro..I know having a new baby can be hard.

[Brixtonbulldog]

I thought this year(2011) was the worst for storms in the north east history?  How was 2010 better?  So they made more money 300k in 2010 when it snowed less?


Get some rest bro..I know having a new baby can be hard.

in the NE yes.. but the mid-atlantic was far worse last year.  this year isn't even close to last and i've been here for 15 years.

[benchmstr]

EOD operator....for the love of science..do it!!!

bench

[hrspwr]

Go to an electronics school and learn about communications, either do it that way or get a hitch with the military and let them teach you about coms.
 Either way its a good, growing industry to get into. Cell towers, satellite coms, all kinds of shit to learn.

[ToxicAvenger]

One that doesn't require college.  I'm 22 and don't have very many if any specific job skills and only a HS diploma.  Any ideas on what in demand careers I can look into?  I was thinking electrician but it seems difficult to gain apprenticeship unless you know someone.  I don't need to make a ton of money, relative enjoyability and job security are my main concerns if at all possible.  Any help appreciated

http://www.cisco.com/web/learning/le3/le2/le0/le9/learning_certification_type_home.html
CCNA + secdret clearance = close to 100k/yr....a few of my friends have only their CCNA and make over 100k/yr.

if u dont have a clearance then go ahead also with
http://www.cisco.com/web/learning/le3/le2/le37/le10/learning_certification_type_home.html

i dont have a college degree...   i have a CCNA,CCNP,CCIP,CCDP and am also a Cert cisco systems instructor (CCSI)
the first 2 certs....CCNA and CCNP will set your career. .all u need is basic math skills and an ability for logical reasoning

PM me if u have questions

* remember...the internet is only getting bigger...with the advent of IPv6 pretty soon your friggin toaster oven is gonna have an IP address....this market will only get bigger

[Butterbean]

One that doesn't require college.  I'm 22 and don't have very many if any specific job skills and only a HS diploma.  Any ideas on what in demand careers I can look into?  I was thinking electrician but it seems difficult to gain apprenticeship unless you know someone.  I don't need to make a ton of money, relative enjoyability and job security are my main concerns if at all possible.  Any help appreciated

In demand + job security = Nursing

Not sure if you're the type that is able to do the job though.  I'm not but wish I was.

[Playboy]

One that doesn't require college.  I'm 22 and don't have very many if any specific job skills and only a HS diploma.  Any ideas on what in demand careers I can look into?  I was thinking electrician but it seems difficult to gain apprenticeship unless you know someone.  I don't need to make a ton of money, relative enjoyability and job security are my main concerns if at all possible.  Any help appreciated

Janitor

[xxxLinda]

I don't need to make a ton of money, relative enjoyability and job security are my main concerns if at all possible.  Any help appreciated

As said ButterBean and Playboy, I'd say be a carer.


You'd need a CRC (Criminal Reference Check) and some Health and Safety training, but if you're fit and strong and able to pick up the person you're caring for, it'd be great.  Hard work, but you'd have enormous job satisfaction?

You'd meet lovely people, and I'm certain that the experience you gain through the years would be in demand and the pay will go up and up in future.


Linda
xxx

there won't be any such thing as job security in years to come, most of us will be lucky to even have a job, so you'll be best getting into something which will always be needed so you may pick and choose...

[Playboy]

As said ButterBean and Playboy, I'd say be a carer.


You'd need a CRC (Criminal Reference Check) and some Health and Safety training, but if you're fit and strong and able to pick up the person you're caring for, it'd be great.  Hard work, but you'd have enormous job satisfaction?

You'd meet lovely people, and I'm certain that the experience you gain through the years would be demand and the pay will go up and up in future.


Linda
xxx


Linda
xxx

Hi Linda, how have you been?

[Montague]

EOD operator....for the love of science..do it!!!

bench

But, you only get to screw up once!

Be a weather reporter instead.

[xxxLinda]

thanks for asking, I had the swine flu for 3 weeks over Christmas and am pretty much now recovered.  I felt like I needed a carer ...


Happy Groundhog Day, I've not checked the news and anyways we're hours ahead of you, it won't be on unless I check a US webite.  Will there be another 2 months of crappy grey horrid winter?  I've not seen any sun for what seems like months on end.



And you?  Are you well?

Linda
xxx


I'd like to see someone do this silly pic below with a flying pig?

[xxxLinda]

Be a weather reporter instead.

Very funny.  You must do years at the Meteorological Office first to get that job, and they're always wrong anyways !


Happy Groundhog Day...



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xL

[Montague]

Very funny.  You must do years at the Meteoroligical Office first to get that job, and they're always wrong anyways !


Happy Groundhog Day


xL

Not neccessarily, although you did capture the essence of my post.
Over here, we have meteorologists who use fancy computers to “compute” and report the weather forecast, but there are also weather reporters, who simply deliver the forecast on air.
The latter also often do traffic reports, etc.

Although, anymore, you’d probably need a degree to even do that.
You almost need a degree to do anything.

Electrician’s union pays well - especially with optional overtime - but is hard to get in because most people hold onto those jobs.

And, the rodent didn’t see his shadow, which I believe means we’re supposed to see an early Spring.

I’m not sure why.
Maybe they teach that in meteorology school.

[Playboy]

thanks for asking, I had the swine flu for 3 weeks over Christmas and am pretty much now recovered.  I felt like I needed a carer ...


Happy Groundhog Day, I've not checked the news and anyways we're hours ahead of you, it won't be on unless I check a US webite.  Will there be another 2 months of crappy grey horrid winter?  I've not seen any sun for what seems like months on end.



And you?  Are you well?

Linda
xxx


I'd like to see someone do this silly pic below with a flying pig?

Ouch, that must have been lousy.

[xxxLinda]

Dire, truly awful.  And I never get sick, so it was a shock.

Good news is I'm now immune and I lost at least 5lbs of the 10lbs I always put on every winter (something I learned in Canada in order to keep warm).  My skinny jeans fit.


I wouldn't wish that flu on my worst enemy though: It was God-awful, I knew I wasn't going to die, but I felt like I wanted to.



Do you not all think that my suggestion that whasthisname (the poster) become a carer is a good idea?  

You might have to mop up shit and vomit whilst in training, wear rubber gloves and lift people in and out of bed and onto the toilet, but after a few years of that, you'd have great references and could look after anyone, accommodation provided in their massive mansions, drive their posh cars and so forth...

Juliya Roberts did a truly awful movie about this, fell in love with the bloke she was hired to care for? Can't remember whether he lived or died or if she inherited all his money.  Dreadful movie !


xxx
Linda

Obviously as a career aspiration, it sucks, but you'd be doing a huge service and would be well paid and feel good about yourself, if you were able to do it well.

There are many thousands of illegal immigrants here in the UK at present working in disgusting care homes, they can't find enough of them.  And we are an aging society, but everyone's living longer.

[xxxLinda]

But if Mr Stormspit is going to post two threads on the same day, this one, then the one about 10 Nazi things, which I'll never click nor read, and noone's answered, how are we supposed to take him seriously?

I'd say he's likely got a rather severe attitude problem, but lovely Princess L nicely answered this thread for him and we all went along with it...


madly
xL


you could be a prison guard, they'll need loads of them in the future and you'd truly love that job.

[Tapeworm]

I'm in construction, am happy, and make good money, but I'm not in the US.  If you plan on staying in the US, don't go into construction trades imo.

[xxxLinda]

If you go into a heavy physical job, you'll be over by 40-45 and be unlikely to have a proper pension.  

Plus by then you'll have a hernia or a bad back or both.



Linda
xxx

[benchmstr]

But, you only get to screw up once!

Be a weather reporter instead.

thats the idea...

bench