Career ideas if low IQ but very hard working?

[Anonymous]

What types of jobs can a low IQ person handle who is intellectually not real bright, but willing to put in 200% effort and works very well with people?

[Anonymous]

preferably that pay over 75,000

[Anonymous]

What about sales?

[Anonymous]

Low IQ and not really bright are two different things. If your child is low IQ, they will be offered transition services as they leave HS and can find supported employment. I have seen a lot of people who did not excel in school do well in sales if they have good people skills. My friend from HS who had to repeat senior year ended up doing remarkably well in the air b&b business.

[Anonymous]

Middling real estate agents. Not a good career in a down market and undergoing change as a field right now.

[Anonymous]

President. Except, you don’t have to be hard working either.

[Anonymous]

Armed forces
Emt paramedic firefighter
Plumber carpenter electrician
Nurse

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Armed forces
Emt paramedic firefighter
Plumber carpenter electrician
Nurse

Nurse?

My DD is in college for nursing. She is currently taking Calculus, Anatomy, Chemistry, and Pharmacology…. all in one semester.

It’s a challenging courseload.

[Anonymous]

But you can get Cs and still get a job. It’s not like becoming a doctor where every grade matters.

[Anonymous]

You're going to need to clarify low IQ. I think some of us are imagining a student with an intellectual disability, who may not be able to get a high school diploma, and other people are imagining someone who is taking calculus.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:But you can get Cs and still get a job. It’s not like becoming a doctor where every grade matters.

I’ll let her know that. She was told a 3.3 GPA will kick her out of the program.

She’ll be so relieved to hear that her university advisors and the program itself is wrong!

[Anonymous]

Without a doubt sales. Not that bright but grinds is their model profile.

[Anonymous]

Sales often requires good EQ.
Retail is the answer.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Sales often requires good EQ.
Retail is the answer.

Any sales job netting $75k will only require being able to mimic good eq. The key to sales is being able to pitch 100 people a day so that when 95% of them say “no”, you still hit quota- then doing it again and again and again without letting it grind you down. There’s plenty of scripts to follow and easy to understand goals.

Any retail job earning that much will require an awful lot of “we’re telling you to do x but we really want you to do y only it’s illegal to clearly tell you”.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Armed forces
Emt paramedic firefighter
Plumber carpenter electrician
Nurse

Nurse?

My DD is in college for nursing. She is currently taking Calculus, Anatomy, Chemistry, and Pharmacology…. all in one semester.

It’s a challenging courseload.

There are different categories of nurses. A licensed practical nurse is different from a registered nurse.

But the problem is that there’s a lot of career snobbery floating around, and we don’t all realize how smart and skilled a lot of the people in the trades are.