Least competitive jobs in America (application, applications, find a job, health insurance)
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You are right dub 20hr is not 50k a year its 40k a year but if you read the ENTIRE post I gave you two examples of 50K a year dealing jobs.Here are some more examples.Foxwoods casino in CT blackjack and poker dealers can break 50k+ a year, full time.Mohegan Sun in CT.Alot of the casinos in atlantic city dealers make over 50k.Most of your east cost casinos that are anywhere near the megapolis dealers will surpass 50k.Casino arizona by phoenix dealers are 65k+ a year.Any cardroom or casino in CA where you keep your own tips dealers are 60K to a 100k+, if your freindly and or good looking the sky is the limit.Even pooled tiped joints in CA they still crush 50k.Muckelshoot casino by seattle poker dealers are near 70k year.
Sucks to get in the door you either have to get real lucky like jdmcockatiel or you can go to a two year community college spending 21 months earning a BS degree with the drawback being I know of only three community colleges in the country that offer what is required. These community colleges are in Illinois, Washington State or Delaware (there may be more but if anyone finds another let me know) and most likely you would be faced with out of state tuition rates so it will be a little pricey compared to getting a CNA.
But unlike a CNA starting salary is at least $30,000 and you could easily expect $50,000 with three years experience. 90% of these jobs come with excellent benefits in the way of medical insurance, 401k's and usually a bonus or some sort of profit sharing.
There are lots of jobs available even now.
Some have mentioned out of state tuition and price as a drawback and I don't understand why because it is really a no brainer. Let's say it cost you $40,000 but it is still a lot less than getting a 4 year BA in education but the pay is better and, unlike education, there are plenty of job openings. So you go $40,000 in debt and got to pay off a loan at at $386 a month but that isn't bad when your take home pay is over $2,000 a month for the first three working years then $3,200 or more after three years experience.
What's better, paying $0 per month working as a CNA taking home maybe $1,600 a month (if you are lucky) or paying $386 a month taking home $2,000 for three years followed by $3,200 a month after?
Many courses offering degrees like CNA's are filled right now and you do not want to follow the herd because I see a glut in 3 years.
Nicet4 is right about the fire/sprinkler alarm business being busy. This is my second week on the job and this week alone i already have 40 hours and its only Wednesday. There is so much work it isnt even funny. Im about to go to bed because i have to be up at 5:30 for another busy day.
OTR truck driving, provided your driving record is clean and remains clean.
Gone for weeks at a time and if you have no interest, or desire to remain in one place all your life, then this is it.
Some say truck drivers are all loners too, but I've ran across quite a few who have kids and such.
And then obviously, nursing and paramedic technology, but then you've got to have a heart and a clear head to deal with that.
I considered it a few times, but after seeing the multitude of car-accidents due to sub-par drivers, I would probably be taken away in another type of emergency vehicle.
50k? No way. My buddy looked into this. You will get 50k after 3-5 years. You start off at a crappy casino with crappy blinds / limits. You will work your way up the ladder where you get $5 tips instead of $1.
Call Center is definitely the way to go. Not all of them are in India.
As always, insurance sales agents are hiring especially Farmers.
Tell me about it. I attended a job fair recently, and the only recruiters there were insurance sales agents, banks (for PT teller positions), the U.S. Army, and National Reserve.
My husband is going back to school to become a pharmacist, pay upon graduation between 80k and 100k, and in demand. Appears you have to have some knack for the sciences and get into a pharm school, but you can end up close to primary care doctor salary with a lot less stress and normal hours.
Oops forgot to include that it is 4 years of doctoral school, so patience is involved.
I think there are quite few things that fill the criteria, nothing is easy, nothing is simple! You wantr to make good money in a field where you can easily get a job? Its going to take work and time time time. Unless you are one those types who invents Crocs or some other such novelty and makes a million bucks. You can go get an AA in radiologic technology, medical lab technology, nursing, and a few other allied health and they pay decent, some rad tech subspecialities pay quite well in the 50s and 60s but there will be competition. I hear nursing is hellish anwyay.
My husband is going back to school to become a pharmacist, pay upon graduation between 80k and 100k, and in demand. Appears you have to have some knack for the sciences and get into a pharm school, but you can end up close to primary care doctor salary with a lot less stress and normal hours.
I started school with the intention of getting into Pharmacy School (PharmD). You have to apply to a lot of them, which is a pain in the arse. I didn't know this of course, so I only applied to the local school (UMKC) and didn't get accepted. I had a 3.6 GPA which was above the 3.2 they required, and got a pretty good score on the PCAT. I didn't even get an interview. 80 positions a year are filled from over 400 applicants. Some schools had a greater variance. I decided I didn't want to wait year after year to apply so I went and got my Bachelors. Not sure I'd want to go to school for 4 more years now though. My student loans are already not too far from the 6 figure mark, lol.
Just to toss my two cents in, I think carpentry is one of the "non-competitive" fields out there, due to the extremely low numbers of people going into that field currently. I'm currently enrolled in the carpentry program at the local technical college, and my class only has 13 people in it, which is one of the smallest departments in the entire college (which has almost 7000 students). And this is supposedly the best carpentry program in the state of Georgia.
Sure, the construction bust is driving a lot of people out of the biz, but with so few people coming in, along with large numbers of Baby Boomer carpenters approaching retirement, I don't think they'll be much competition for this kind of work in the future, once things stabilize a bit.
More importantly, it's what I WANT to do, as I'll never, ever go back to being a cubicle slave in an office again. Building something tangible, like a home addition will give me far more pride and satisfaction than those "Employee of the Month" awards they hand out in the office...lol.
Is the carpentry program different than joining a Union as an apprentice?
What was your cubicle job?
My husband is going back to school to become a pharmacist, pay upon graduation between 80k and 100k, and in demand. .
In demand 5 years ago, maybe. They've opened about 40 schools in the last decade and the market is becoming very saturated with pharmacists in major cities. I'm a pharmacist with experience and I can't find a job in Philadelphia...I've submitted about 30 applications...not even a call back.
Go become a dentist or something. Pharmacy is going downhill and fast.
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