Looking for a new job
 

What are some decent jobs in the 50-100k range that require no college degree. I've been with the same company for 7 years doing outside sales. Looking to get out of the wireless field.

Avoid independent bookstores.

You can be my bottom bitch.
No health insurance but I'll treat you right and make sure no one hurts you.

No college and 50-100k? Good luck.

Start your own business. The number of educated and experienced unemployed people in this country is fucking insane right now.

Drug dealer?

lol, I'm in that range now and have been since I started 7 years ago. Those jobs are out there.

You can fuck 1000 fat chicks for 50 bux each.
Or 500 really fat chicks for 100 bux each.

do you have any skills?

I'm in a similar boat. I have a BS degree in government bullshit and I'm trying to get something in Houston in the $70k range. I'm probably only looking at account management and the private site of government bullshit. I suspect that at the least Jake and I will have to stay put until we get a Republican Whitehouse to sponsor some real economic growth rather than our current strategy of penalizing anyone turning a profit.

Eventually, when my GF has the PhD, I'll be a glorified house boy and can hopefully get a job at a racecar shop to cover a few track expenses and fund my habit.

Statement untrue. Most of my friends that are doing really well money wise have not gone to college. While everyone else is doing the daily grind for under 50K

My masters will only net me around 100 pretax on my paycheck. But them I work for the gov. as a teacher, Secretary, police officer, counsel, temporary mother~father, older brother, or what ever else they think they can pile on but lets not turn this in to a political discussion.

I would love it if my fiance made enough to be my sugar mama.

I got bike jumping skills
And liger skills
And talon skills
And nunchuck skills

Where have you been dude?? This isn't 7 years ago when the unemployment rate was under 5%. This is 2011, where the rate is into 9%....

Yeah, and I have PhD Friends who are highly motivated and very intelligent making 30k a year. How many of your friends newly acquired these jobs?

The economist-GF claims the real unemployment rate is currently at 14% and predicts 18% by the end of the year...which is perfect to secure votes in the next election of course considering the people on sustenance will vote for sustenance peddling politicians.

Some recently, some not. You forget I'm in TX and rig and oil jobs can pay well.

I also have a lot of underemployed friends as well. Underemployment is the big thing right now. I think that's what Hustlers GF is alluding to in the real unemployment rate. My Fiance is underemployed right now but thankful to have a Job.

move to northern virginia. unemployment in arlington county is 3.9%.

also: what kind of range is 50-100k? Something tells me you need to figure that out first. Your real range is either 45-55k or 90-110k. pick one of thsoe and go find a job.

probably because people move there only after accepting a government job

I believe her numbers are based upon more than the number of people recieving unemployment benefits.

Arlington, VA is an employment destination, the same as Houston and Seattle...some absurd percentage of the population is there for high-paying jobs. The rest of the nation doesn't have centralized technology, government, nor energy to attract workers.

Stay away from construction. Thats for sure.

Right now I'm currently between 3 jobs. My main gig is my eBay service, 2nd would be the concrete business and I work on painting the building when I have time between the other two. eBay is different every week. Sometimes I make just enough and other times I make enough to cover the entire month. Concrete work is up and down as well. Last week I squeezed in just over 30 hours and so far this week I havent worked an hour. Painting the building is just a little side jobber that I'm using to pay off my loan a few years early.

Work is fucking SCARCE right now man. I mean jesus fuck I'd work 60 hours a week pouring concrete if I could, but there just isn't enough work out there. Most places are laying people off rather than hiring, and the ones hiring are the $10hr part time jobs. College education or not (which is overrated anyways).

If you've been at the same place for 7 years and make good money, I'd recommend staying. At least for the time being. You don't have to stay there forever, but NOW isn't exactly the best time to quit a job and look for a new one in the $50k-$100k range. IMHO that is.

Pushy - How long has it been since you quit smoking? I thought you were hardcore? You cant even make it a month before breaking down and whining like a bitch about it? lol

it's been about two months and I feel great, I just don't like dealing with your bullshit all up and down the Internet.

A lot of the jobs in NoVA that are high paying are usually tied to government contracts in some way shape or form also. Which is something that outside of the VA/DC/MD area you don't have.

I would highly suggest that Jacob stays at his current job and sucks it up for a while. Even with my college education it took me 4 months to find a job and that is not even in the range he wants..

Very true, didn't consider. I wouldn't do it, thats for sure.

I would believe her as well. The published numbers don't count people who have basically retired (I know about a dozen of them) and those who have just quit looking. The hell you do after giving up looking? Drug dealer?

$1300/month post tax welfare not including food subsidies.

true story: I quit my job in silicon valley to move here. I took 6 months to catch up on some playstation and then found a job. I dont work for the government or a government contractor. But I do work for a company that often works for government contractors. And we do sell some stuff directly to the military.

There are people out there making crazy money for having no education at all, but in this time/economy unless you're a crazy hustler/genious I seriously doubt that you'd be able to find a job easily

slang brick.

/thread.

Privet military contractor. You'd have to join the USMC or Army to get experience first though. I think jtothewhat does something like that, I'd ask him if your interested and are willing to burn the calories.

I sold motorcycles for 4 years making over 60k/yr. Right out of HS. The jobs are out there, but I also live in Vancouver which is a housing/job bubble. Want to pour concrete 60 hours a week? Move here.

I'm leaning the same way, but with her as an RN. Its the way to go... Just gotta keep hitting the gym and keeping the fall-backs handy.

Right now she's really pushing to me find something with a massive pay-cut and move down there with her. That's tough for me, there's too much vulnerability if I do that.

Eh, go to the doctors office and pick up a new chick. My dad seems to do that every time he goes in for something.

Always keep a stash of money on the side to keep you sustained for a year or two ;)

Lol @ NoVA.

If you have no skills in anything, get a shitty job for a few months and learn to wait tables. Shadow the best waiter in your shitty restaurant, then in about 3 weeks, quit and go to a better restaurant, shadow that best waiter, rinse and repeat until you really know your shit. THEN move near enough to NoVA that you can commute to any of the areas with $$$$$$$$ restaurants, get a job and work hard. You will rise up the server chain, get good shifts and easily pull 50k + out of that area.

Bad news is that you have to deal with people who know you are living off their scraps, the hell that is traffic, and the drug industry that is food service.

Treat it like a career and you will have a career. Treat it like a job and you will work at Crapplebees in shame.

But you like being vulnerable, doncha boy?

Here in oz unemployment rates at at record lows as well. Its friggin tough. The issue we have here is that as a younger person (Im 21, apprentice mechanic) you dont have many skillsets or great refferences you can barter with, and because minimum wage for me is almost double what a 15 year olds is, you just cant compete with school kids for even the shit part time work between jobs.

My GF has been looking for work for like a year, and time again a school aged kid gets picked over her.

Dann

if you were a hot female, I'd say stripper/call girl. Dont think you are though, tough luck.

you know what I meant, brohambangbangbrothaman

Decided I know too many people from oz who frequent this forum to leave that post there.


Dann

If I have to just work my way up another company then thats what I might have to do. I'm sick and tired of what I do now. Looks like I might need to get rid of some of the toys.

Guess that BAUS 302 was a mistake... eh? I'll give you 10k for it.

Yeah, you need military, police experience to do my line of work. Actually they're several contracts that range from supply stuff, to IT, actually a bunch of overseas contract work. I may be able to point you in the right direction if you tell me what your 7 years experience is and if you're willing to go overseas. $$$$ is to be made over there, keep that in mind.

Is there a good place where I could get some information on the job?

I want a job :cry:

Peasants...lol

I'll probably sell the S2000, Jeep, and my boat.

I guess we can't count spelling as one of your strengths.

The higher paying jobs that do not require specialized education are either entrepeneurial or sales. Unfortunately, a lot of places require degrees just to get in the door for an interview.

One thing I recommend putting together is a "brag book," if you haven't already, and a documented production history. If you can walk in to an interview with concrete evidence that you are a producer and have the sales skills to back it up, it goes a long way.

A more useful statistic than the standard unemployment rate may be the employment/population ratio.

The good news for you guys is that Texas has the strongest economy in the US.

The marcellus shale thing is really blowing up all around here in PA. The work is tough but the pay is pretty good. I think you can take a fairly short school program at many community colleges to get started as a roughneck.

Spell check makes careers...

Quit miataturbo.net. Sell all your miatas and parts. Start your own business. Make double your range the first year.

That's what Paul w/o a college education did but he's smarter than the average bear.

Fortunately Im a very good salesman with very good sales references, so that is a zero degree/education job thats hard to find capable people for.

Dann