Current Events > What's the most you should expect to make without a degree?

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I make $12.95 now, but guaranteed 5 hours OT every week, so it feels more like $14. I'd like to actually make $14/hr.
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$7.25 at mcdonalds
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I had a job pulling 50k installing fiber optic cable with no degree.
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Bout tree fiddy
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I've worked with people who earned $150,000/yr with no college education.
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Will watch videos shortly. Bump. 150k seems like a ton without any kind of investing.

I'm actually only a semester or two away from an associate's degree. But at $700 for one class at a CC, I can't really afford it.
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I'm actually only a semester or two away from an associate's degree. But at $700 for one class at a CC, I can't really afford it.
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lww99 posted...

Will watch videos shortly. Bump. 150k seems like a ton without any kind of investing.

Without any kind of investing? Ah, I see you've fallen into that toxic school of thought that education only comes from a classroom.

The guys I know who make a whole lot of money have a myriad of professional certifications and licenses. Just not a college degree. At the moment I have an OSHA 10 construction, an OSHA 30 general industry, AWS SENSE 1 and an AWS certification in 1" 1G. I make plenty of money with those. My university degree in business administration and information systems management, never earned a penny with it.

My wife has a US customs controller license and makes ridiculous money with it. Her degree in political science... largely worthless.
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Bump
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I was just making about 55k with no degree, just a Department of Transportation ceritficate saying I can drive a 22ft box truck.

Left that job but still, not horrible.
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The college dream is turning into a money maker for the colleges and states and not much else. I know a ton of people with varying degrees who work dead end jobs and do well. I do well myself and the biggest thing I ever got was an emt-b and I already made way more at my current job at the time so Ive never used it.

NoMeLx22x posted...

I was just making about 55k with no degree, just a Department of Transportation ceritficate saying I can drive a 22ft box truck.

Left that job but still, not horrible.

Was that just local? Still going home every night?
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There are a lot of industries where degrees are useless compared to actual experience.

Give me an account manager with 10 years client b2b experience over a recent business/marketing postgrad with a couple years experience working as a barista, any day.

That's not to say that the degree hurts or anything, but for many jobs I tend to think that that person would have been better served cutting their teeth rather than learning academically.
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I do armed security right now, and am pretty much maxed out at $12.95/hr. I'm trying to explore other fields. Ideally something I can complete training/certificates in under 6 months.
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