Career ideas if low IQ but very hard working?

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Lawyer

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

No, not electrician. You don't want to burn down somebody's house with dumb wiring.

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

No, not electrician. You don't want to burn down somebody's house with dumb wiring.

The electrician or the house?

In seriousness, I find it incredibly offensive that people assume that skilled trades are lower intelligence. I’d like to see y’all install a water heater or rewire a circuit breaker.

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Wawa doesn’t require a college degree. Takes forever to be the manager but it will happen if you work hard and have open availability.

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Anonymous wrote:I’ll get flamed for this, but the less intelligent people I know are or were in education. Teachers and principals.

Especially men. My FIL fits this description.

Yep. PP here, and 3/4 people, including the one who became a principal, are men.

+1, but to the general point.

Education is also a good industry if OP’s child is particularly emotionally high maintenance.

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Anonymous wrote:I don't think OP is coming back to tell us what OP means, everyone.

Agreed.

Also, in 10 pages, I’m surprised and no one else has been the most obvious choice: marriage.

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Anonymous wrote:I’ll get flamed for this, but the less intelligent people I know are or were in education. Teachers and principals.

Especially men. My FIL fits this description.

Yep. PP here, and 3/4 people, including the one who became a principal, are men.

+1, but to the general point.

Education is also a good industry if OP’s child is particularly emotionally high maintenance.

I’m trying to imagine a Physics, Trig, Government, or World Literature with a low IQ. I don’t see it.

It’s not just having content knowledge, it’s about knowing how to engage an unwilling audience and delivering it.

Same goes for a 1st grade or 3rd grade teacher. Sure, the concepts may not be particularly complex, but knowing how to deliver them? That’s ridiculously hard and takes skill: organization, communication, the ability to differentiate and immediately pivot without a plan, etc. Not to mention the understanding of theory and child psychology they need for the job.

I have nothing but respect for teachers. I know what they do is extremely demanding, including intellectually. But if people just think they “play with kids,” you wouldn’t think that.

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Anonymous wrote:I’ll get flamed for this, but the less intelligent people I know are or were in education. Teachers and principals.

Especially men. My FIL fits this description.

Yep. PP here, and 3/4 people, including the one who became a principal, are men.

+1, but to the general point.

Education is also a good industry if OP’s child is particularly emotionally high maintenance.

I’m trying to imagine a Physics, Trig, Government, or World Literature with a low IQ. I don’t see it.

It’s not just having content knowledge, it’s about knowing how to engage an unwilling audience and delivering it.

Same goes for a 1st grade or 3rd grade teacher. Sure, the concepts may not be particularly complex, but knowing how to deliver them? That’s ridiculously hard and takes skill: organization, communication, the ability to differentiate and immediately pivot without a plan, etc. Not to mention the understanding of theory and child psychology they need for the job.

I have nothing but respect for teachers. I know what they do is extremely demanding, including intellectually. But if people just think they “play with kids,” you wouldn’t think that.

Not to mention teaching requires lots of education and certifications...a low IQ person would never qualify to be a teacher in most states!

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Anonymous wrote: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?

I would say Secretary of Defense but you also stipulated hard working.

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Work at any big retail establishment and work your way up the ladder. Once you max out you know your limit.

Look at your hobbies and choose a career in that field. Swimming coach, tennis coach etc. in addition to another job.

Gig jobs such as Uber driver or doordash or Amazon delivery part time.

Work at a manufacturing plant and work your way up.

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

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Anonymous wrote:How low are you talking, OP? Like someone else said, there's a big difference between an IQ of 90 which is low-average and an IQ in the 60s or mid-70s.

I want to know this too.

IQ in the 60 to 70 range is considered intellectually disabled and the kind of "career" they could have is not going to pay 75k. In this range, it might be a stretch they even live independently. I have a family member around 65, they live at home and work stocking groceries at Trader Joe's. That was considered a pretty good outcome. 90 looks very different.

A steady job is actually a really good outcome for someone with an IQ of 65. I assume they have a lot of family support? I would also assume that unlike many people with an IQ of 65, they don't have major emotional or physical disabilities?

Lot's of family support and enough money to provide specialized schools/therapists, etc. And...its still kind of rough going at times. The job has been working out generally, but there have been incidences because they're very mouthy and uncensored. So, stocking shelves ok but they will never work the register. Likely was born with FAS (a lot unknown, foreign adoption) and who knows what else. Physical disabilities, nothing obvious but some emotional that I shudder to think how bad they could be without those supports.

Anyway, they're not making 75k or becoming a nurse or electrician anytime soon. I suspect OP is a DCUM 130 to 140+ IQ person or who is freaked their kid tested at 110.

Yep, my friend has a child who actually has a low IQ who is in his 20s. Very similar situation to your family member (likely the mother used heroin during pregnancy, he's not my friend's biological child)--he'll never live independently, and the reason why he is able to live at home and have a high quality of life is because he is an only child and parents could afford a lot of supports. I think he is in a program during the day where the goal is to teach him basic skills so he can do something like stock shelves like your relative (but similarly, a customer-facing job or anything requiring more than basic level reading/writing is out of the question). His parents take him everywhere he needs to go, since he will never be able to safely navigate public transit or drive on his own and he needs them to help make sure he gets places on time.

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

But there's only one job opening per country every 4 years, so you have to be willing to move overseas or wait your turn.

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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!

Settle down weirdo. There are plenty of nurses who don’t go to college at all.

No, lol.

Not since 1968.

CNA, yes. Actual nurses, no.

Problem is, they all call themselves nurses. Some of them are totally incompetent and it makes the profession look bad.

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Anonymous wrote:Work at any big retail establishment and work your way up the ladder. Once you max out you know your limit.

Look at your hobbies and choose a career in that field. Swimming coach, tennis coach etc. in addition to another job.

Gig jobs such as Uber driver or doordash or Amazon delivery part time.

Work at a manufacturing plant and work your way up.

Unfortunately, in modern plants, a low IQ person would never work their way up and would be very limited in the roles they could handle. The main issue is that a low IQ person would be deemed a safety risk for many roles and wouldn't be able to pass the tests/observations/assessments to move into a higher role. And they probably couldn't pass the courses to work in something more technical and better paying like skilled machinist roles.