High Paying Careers for non academically inclined students

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:My neighbors' dd went to a regional college. She's starting at 90k/year as a police officer in a beautiful, safe towns. She'll be great as well and exactly who should become a cop.

Ummm... this doesn't ring true. Starting salaries for police officers are not that high.

My DH is a police officer. He makes considerably more than me, a teacher with advanced degrees. He also gets paid overtime while I work all weekend for free.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My neighbors' dd went to a regional college. She's starting at 90k/year as a police officer in a beautiful, safe towns. She'll be great as well and exactly who should become a cop.

Ummm... this doesn't ring true. Starting salaries for police officers are not that high.

My DH is a police officer. He makes considerably more than me, a teacher with advanced degrees. He also gets paid overtime while I work all weekend for free.

I'm presuming he didn't start out at 90K per year?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My neighbors' dd went to a regional college. She's starting at 90k/year as a police officer in a beautiful, safe towns. She'll be great as well and exactly who should become a cop.

Ummm... this doesn't ring true. Starting salaries for police officers are not that high.

My DH is a police officer. He makes considerably more than me, a teacher with advanced degrees. He also gets paid overtime while I work all weekend for free.

I'm presuming he didn't start out at 90K per year?

He started out $10K more than me. (We began our careers together.) He also received a signing bonus. Meanwhile, I spent a lot of my first paycheck buying supplies for my empty classroom.

There’s the potential for a good salary in law enforcement.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My neighbors' dd went to a regional college. She's starting at 90k/year as a police officer in a beautiful, safe towns. She'll be great as well and exactly who should become a cop.

Ummm... this doesn't ring true. Starting salaries for police officers are not that high.

My DH is a police officer. He makes considerably more than me, a teacher with advanced degrees. He also gets paid overtime while I work all weekend for free.

I'm presuming he didn't start out at 90K per year?

He started out $10K more than me. (We began our careers together.) He also received a signing bonus. Meanwhile, I spent a lot of my first paycheck buying supplies for my empty classroom.

There’s the potential for a good salary in law enforcement.

Of course. I'm just saying that it is unlikely for police officers to start at entry level for $90,000 per year. (Obviously the same for starting teachers)

[Anonymous]

Pharma sales.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Apprenticeships. Since OTJ training is high paying and there are benefit incentives and pre-defined terms of growth opportunities for each industry sector of the union, it makes for a very attractive career path for the non-academic individual.

What now?

[Anonymous]

I was not and never became academically inclined, but am smart and got degrees from third-tier schools as a B at best student. I make a ton as a consultant now.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I was not and never became academically inclined, but am smart and got degrees from third-tier schools as a B at best student. I make a ton as a consultant now.

What kind of consulting as consulting is so vague. And what was your career before pivoting to provide consulting advice. \\

[Anonymous]

Luxury car sales - if you are good at sales you work your way up to manager and some make it to corporate. Its a luxe life working for VW or Toyota US headquarters and many of the execs are from humble beginnings Learning to play golf is a huge advantage.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Suggestions for how to get into medical device sales? My son is very interested in this but has no idea how to break in…

There is literally a blog called “breaking into device”. Check it out

[Anonymous]

Tugboat Captain, this runs about 200 K a year on the Chesapeake Bay

[Anonymous]

Camper sales rep, when you make in the $200,000 range per year